Новости за 02.03.2017

Snap IPO live updates: Snapchat maker's shares open at $24, then climb even higher March 2, 2017, 9:49 a.m. Snapchat maker Snap Inc. held the biggest initial public offering ever for a Los Angeles company on Wednesday, pricing its shares at $17 apiece. The company is making its debut on the New...

The Kansas Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the state to increase its spending on public schools, but it didn't say by how much. 

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions in a storm over contacts with Russian officials March 2, 2017, 9:32 a.m. Trump administration once again besieged by questions on Russian involvement in the election Rep. Kevin McCarthy says Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions should step aside from the investigation Supreme Court...

Essential Politics: State Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra to open Washington office, cap-and-trade auction revenue results are revealed March 2, 2017, 9:29 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: California Atty....

Oprah Winfrey had the political chattering classes buzzing over Bloomberg Television interviewer David Rubenstein’s recent query on whether she would consider running for president.

No other writer-director has duplicated Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s feat of winning Oscars in both categories two years running — for “A Letter To Three Wives” (1949) and “All About Eve” (1950), which set the standard for most nominations with 14, including five for acting. 

Snap Inc., makers of the popular photo and video-messaging app Snapchat, held the biggest initial public offering for a Los Angeles company on Wednesday, a milestone that places the firm among the heavyweights of the technology world.

The U.S. military conducted airstrikes in the predawn hours against suspected al-Qaida positions Thursday across three provinces in Yemen, marking the first American attacks since an ill-fated Navy SEAL raid in January.

For all the talk of radical rules changes in baseball, the alterations for the 2017 season are relatively minor.

Bloody Marys and mimosas may be typical go-to tipples during boozy breakfasts and brunches, but today’s endless variety of beer styles and flavors are compelling alternatives for morning imbibing. From beers brewed with breakfast-friendly ingredients (oats, coffee and even scrapple) to European...

How well do we really know Joan Didion? A Didion completist might think she has a whole universe of reference materials at her fingertips. There are those last, bestselling memoirs. There is the book about her family’s roots in California. There are the personal tidbits laced through the varied...

This week: A family-friendly adaptation of a children’s literature classic, a rare Eugene O’Neill comedy, and two Edward Albee one-acts combined into a single tale.

Here's a partial list of the people and objects you can catch a glimpse of in "Environmental Communications: Contact High," the terrific new show at LAXART gallery on Santa Monica Boulevard: the British historian and architecture critic Reyner Banham, after he grew his beard long but before it...

Vintage keyboards. Motorized percussion gizmos. A gleaming guitar once played by Glen Campbell.

Snap IPO live updates: Snapchat maker's shares open at $24, then climb even higher March 2, 2017, 9:49 a.m. Snapchat maker Snap Inc. held the biggest initial public offering ever for a Los Angeles company on Wednesday, pricing its shares at $17 apiece. The company is making its debut on the New...

There are few things more terrible than the death of a child, or more frequently exploited by fiction writers for the sake of a cheap cry.

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions, under rapidly mounting pressure from Republican members of Congress, indicated Thursday that he would be open to stepping aside from any role in the investigation of Russian involvement in the presidential election.

Snap IPO live updates: Snapchat maker's shares open at $24, then climb even higher March 2, 2017, 9:49 a.m. Snapchat maker Snap Inc. held the biggest initial public offering ever for a Los Angeles company on Wednesday, pricing its shares at $17 apiece. The company is making its debut on the New...

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions in a storm over contacts with Russian officials March 2, 2017, 9:32 a.m. Trump administration once again besieged by questions on Russian involvement in the election Rep. Kevin McCarthy says Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions should step aside from the investigation Supreme Court...

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions in a storm over contacts with Russian officials March 2, 2017, 9:32 a.m. Trump administration once again besieged by questions on Russian involvement in the election Rep. Kevin McCarthy says Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions should step aside from the investigation Supreme Court...

Essential Education: Financial aid deadline arrives March 2, 2017, 8:33 a.m. Welcome to Essential Education, our daily look at education in California and beyond. Here's the latest: Today is the deadline for applying to California state financial aid for college. Cal State Dominguez Hills is getting...

For more than a decade, California air quality officials have warned against building homes within 500 feet of freeways.

By now, Republicans in Congress thought they would be working closely with the White House on signature items of the GOP agenda — repealing and replacing Obamacare, overhauling the tax code.

As political activists around the nation watched Democrats bicker in Atlanta last weekend over who should take the party’s helm, a less noticed drama got underway in the nearby suburbs, one that ultimately may signal whether the party can emerge from its funk.

“Kaboom!”

That’s the word used by Joe Rohde, the Disney executive overseeing the transformation of the California Adventure ride formerly known as the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror into Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout!

“Kaboom!”

He says it repeatedly — once mixing in the word “kablam!”...