Новости за 06.04.2018

Unlike his father, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has never been driven by an end-all passion in the pursuit of racing.

Mick Ruis and his wife, Wendy, were standing near the rail at Santa Anita’s Clocker’s Corner early Friday morning waiting to see their horse, Bolt d’Oro, take one final gallop before Saturday’s $1-million Santa Anita Derby.

Screenwriter and voice actor David Hayter has cut the asking price of his 1950s estate in Sherman Oaks by $91,000. The hillside home is now listed for $2.099 million, records show.

Another increase in trade tensions pushed stocks to sink again Friday as the United States considers an even larger set of tariffs on imports from China and the two countries exchange pointed statements. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped about 570 points.

The creeks, streams and rivers leading snowmelt out of the Sierra Nevada will likely flood this weekend as a powerful storm moves over Northern California and dumps inches of rain from the coast to the Nevada border.

Job growth slowed sharply in March from the pace of recent months as employers in most sectors took a breather in hiring.

Thick, acrid black smoke enveloped the Gaza Strip on Friday as 20,000 demonstrators rallied along the border with Israel, burning tires, the occasional Israeli flag and, for the first time, photographs of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Eight Palestinians, one of them a 16-year-old, were...

As he made a flurry of offseason trades and executed several free-agent signings, Rams general manager Les Snead insisted the Rams would have room under the salary cap to add their new additions.

With rain in the forecast all evening, the game between the Dodgers and Giants scheduled for Friday was postponed. It will be made up as part of a doubleheader on April 28 at AT&T Park.

Helen Molesworth, whose firing as chief curator from the Museum of Contemporary Art last month left many in the arts world shocked, has been chosen to give the June keynote commencement address at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

When something is on people’s minds, publishers notice. In the past year, there has been a surge of books about politics. That means there will be a plethora of conversations about politics at the Festival of Books. Here are a few favorites.

Another increase in trade tensions has stocks falling again Friday as the United States considers an even larger set of tariffs on imports from China and the two countries exchange pointed statements.

The coming auction for the assets of the bankrupt Weinstein Co. has drawn interest from 23 potential bidders, lawyers for the New York-based studio said at a Friday hearing.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma told cheering supporters he was not guilty of corruption after appearing in KwaZulu-Natal High Court on Friday, two months after his party, the African National Congress, forced him from office.

Nicole Scherzinger, the multi-talented entertainer and TV competition judge, has sold a Waianae, Hawaii,home she owned in a trust for $1.35 million.

Another increase in trade tensions has stocks falling again Friday as the United States considers an even larger set of tariffs on imports from China and the two countries exchange pointed statements.

The decision Friday in ousted former South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s year-long trial was delivered slowly, charge by charge, for more than an hour as the nation watched on live television and commented on social media.

When the talent agency formerly known as WME-IMG rebranded itself late last year as Endeavor, it was more than just a simple name change. The Hollywood giant was sending a signal that it was recasting itself into a bigger and more ambitious role — a full-fledged media company.

Tiger Woods shot a 73 on Thursday in his first round at the Masters in three years. He finished the day one over par, tied for 29th place and seven shots behind leader Jordan Spieth.

A man accused of detonating explosive devices inside a Sam’s Club in Ontario on Thursday has no known links to terrorism and has offered no motive, police said.

In 2013, Vladimir Putin sent Donald Trump a gift.

Trump had just flown home to New York from Moscow. He'd traveled to oversee the Miss Universe pageant, which he owned; Trump had tried and failed to meet the Russian leader while there.

Now arrived a consolation prize of sorts. The daughter of Aras...