Новости за 10.05.2018

Armed with a dryly curious delivery and a keen sense of the absurd, comic Wyatt Cenac was one of the breakout stars among the correspondents of “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” alongside future late-night hosts John Oliver and Samantha Bee.

One deal is done, with non-teaching workers, but other labor challenges remain for L.A. Unified. And the deal in place does little to resolve long-term financial issues.

President Trump has scored a diplomatic victory with the return of three U.S. citizens who were imprisoned in North Korea.

Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter.

The next governor of California will inherit a crippling housing crisis, crumbling roads, an ongoing drought that could last forever, a looming pension crisis, failing schools, rampant homelessness and regular ravages by megafires, mudslides and floods. The state is running a budget surplus for...

We may never know precisely why Jennifer Hart drove off a cliff in Northern California, killing herself, her partner and six children they had adopted out of the foster care system. We do know this culminated many years in which the children suffered severe abuse and neglect — and that despite...

What is it about the red Sonoran dust that produces Arizona senators who punch so far above their national weight?

Senate Democrats opened up a new front Wednesday in the fight to preserve the internet from interference by the broadband providers that control its on-ramps. But as good as it was to see them push back against the wrongheaded approach taken by the new Republican majority on the Federal Communications...

It’s official: Coffee sold in California must carry cancer warnings, a Los Angeles judge ruled this week.

Carol Burnett and her Tarzan yodel returned to series TV for the first time in decades with the recent arrival of Netflix’s “A Little Help With Carol Burnett.” The unscripted chat show features Burnett and a rotating cast of pre-K and grade schoolers candidly discussing everything from the meaning...

To the editor: I read that that a bunch of Los Angeles teenagers attended a sex education program where they had to pass around a life-size plastic penis as a way to teach them about sex and condom use. Give me a break. (“STDs in LA County are skyrocketing. Officials think racism and stigma may...

When the director David Lean and his editor Anne V. Coates were first processing the footage from “Lawrence of Arabia,” they had already envisioned a key visual transition early in the film: a stately, dreamlike dissolve from one shot to the next. But when they screened the dailies, they saw the...

To the editor: It seems that this story of gravely inadequate oversight of nursing homes is replayed every few years.

To the editor: I think Robin Abcarian missed an important point in her column, “The idea of an 'incel rebellion' would be laughable if it hadn't already resulted in so many murders.”

For many actors, the ability to say no to a job is something to aspire to. They want to get to a point in their careers where the constant hustle of Hollywood has been replaced by power, influence and the ability to deliver box office dollars and/or high ratings. Melissa McCarthy and Maya Rudolph,...

In the decades since Francisco Franco’s death, the Spanish dictator’s colossal Valley of the Fallen mausoleum has stood untouched in the rolling countryside outside Madrid, guarded by a towering cross.

With its history of clashing with regulators and its autonomous car fleet grounded over a pedestrian death, Uber might seem the least likely candidate to launch a flying taxi service.

One week before the planned May 14 inauguration of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, the city’s mayor, climbed up a ladder and grandly installed a sign reading “U.S. Embassy” in English, Arabic and Hebrew.

Little noticed amid the trade war discussion, tariffs levied by the Trump administration on the Canadian paper used to make newsprint are starting to take a toll on U.S. newspapers and printers.

Am I a Jo, a Beth, an Amy or a Meg?

It’s a question that generations of readers have asked themselves while immersed in “Little Women,” Louisa May Alcott’s cherished coming-of-age tale about four sisters in Civil War-era Massachusetts.

While many admirers of the book see themselves in Jo, the bookish...

In the heated debate over California’s efforts to slash its prison population, the case of Michael Christopher Mejia has become a political rallying cry.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has entered a new destructive period of eruptions, which has happened several times since it resumed producing lava in 1983.

During the winter of 1989-90, anti-immigration protesters started parking their vehicles near the United States-Mexico border and shining headlights into Mexico. Following one large so-called Light Up the Border protest, writer Patrick McDonnell reported in the May 26, 1990, Los Angeles Times:

The six major candidates for California governor believe lots more housing supply is needed to fix the state's affordability crisis.

George Deukmejian was a role model for the type of officeholder we desperately need in today’s hyperventilated, polarized politics.