Новости за 09.05.2018

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Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, May 9, and here’s what’s happening across California:

Kevin McCarthy and Nancy Pelosi may stand political poles apart but, together, the two California lawmakers are on the verge of making history.

President Trump has roiled international politics by pulling the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, which he called “decaying and rotten.” What happens next is less clear.

When a contaminated aquifer in Orange County made U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s list of top-priority sites for “immediate, intense action,” the local water district was quick to highlight the announcement.

The anti-sanctuary movement continues to burn through Southern California, as one city after another bucks Sacramento and sides with the Trump administration on the topic of illegal immigration.

Two Southern California men filed suit against Gilead Sciences on Tuesday, saying they were harmed when the drug company intentionally delayed development of a safer version of a crucial HIV medicine so that it could continue to profit from its lucrative monopoly.

Voters in Southern California’s 29th Senate District will cast ballots in a rare recall election on June 5, and here’s some guidance: Just say no.

Let’s play word association, California edition. The topic is “49ers.” What comes to mind? The gold rush, of course. A football team in San Francisco, for sure. A grizzled prospector with a burro and a pickax, probably. “Oh My Darling, Clementine” for us old-timers.

To the editor: California doesn’t like federal immigration policies, so it became a sanctuary state. California doesn’t like federal laws criminalizing marijuana, so it made recreational use of the drug legal.

To the editor: The article, “At the Israeli-Gaza Strip border, a growing sense of anxiety and fear,” reports anxiety building in an Israeli town as the Palestinians continue to protest the military occupation of what remains of Palestine.

To the editor: Life sometimes imitates art. It sure did in Mary Gabriel’s op-ed article, “A letter to Karl Marx on his 200th birthday.”

To the editor: There’s nothing that demonstrates English is a living language more convincingly than the fact that new expressions are constantly working their way into it. My current favorite is “walking it back.”

Deb Gabor was watching television recently when a Wells Fargo & Co. commercial caught her attention.

For more than 25 years, the Phnom Pehn Post was one of Cambodia’s most important publications, among the few institutions trying to hold an increasingly authoritarian government to account.

They’ve debated the 2016 election, argued gender identity and made fun of both hand-wringing liberals and paranoid conservatives. In its most provocative and perhaps strategic move yet, “Roseanne” on Tuesday tackled the hot-button topic of Islamophobia in its latest episode, “Go Cubs!”

By the time the 90-minute debate between candidates for California governor was over Tuesday night, each of the hopefuls had used all of their best arguments. They talked housing, education, immigration. They threw a few jabs and admitted they missed the old-school primaries where the political...

Mary Nichols, who heads California's Air Resources Board, clears away any confusion about why our fuel economy rules matter so much.

President Trump on Tuesday finally did what wiser heads in his administration have been trying to keep him from doing almost from the time he was sworn in: He announced that he would withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear agreement. In doing so, he rejected the pleas of America’s closest...

After a life in the shadows, Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to run the CIA, will face the bright lights of a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that is expected to hinge on questions about her role in post-Sept. 11 interrogations with waterboarding and other abuses.

The homeless family of seven had been ordered to leave the hillside. The family had erected a tent and hoped to build a home on the site.

The Dodgers dugout was littered with bubblegum in the fourth inning and filled with rage in the fifth. It soared with hope in the ninth. It played host to gnashed teeth in the 10th and the 11th. By the 12th, as another Diamondbacks home run disappeared from sight and another game escaped the grasp...

Clayton Kershaw politely invited the media to his locker Tuesday afternoon for his first interview since being diagnosed with biceps tendinitis. But, his left shoulder hurting, he wasn’t really in the mood.