Новости за 16.03.2017

Essential Politics: Gov. Brown's budget chief criticizes Trump spending plan, climate rules would raise California gas prices March 16, 2017, 12:15 p.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: Gov Jerry Brown's...

Today in Entertainment: Trump budget targets the NEA, NEH and CPB; the arts and entertainment world responds March 16, 2017, 1:03 p.m. The South by Southwest Film Festival is now open and already making news with a surprise appearance by elusive director Terrence Malick, and Ridley Scott's reveals...

Come Oct. 1, 19 agencies could get slashed from the federal budget. Among the groups that would be affected by the Trump administration's proposed federal funding cuts is the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency that works with arts programs in every congressional district in the U.S....

NCAA tournament live updates: No upsets yet March 16, 2017, 1:29 p.m. Want to keep up with how you're doing in your office pool? We will post reports here as soon as each game ends, so get a pen and have your bracket handy. March 16, 2017, 1:29 p.m. UCLA vs. Kent State: How they match up Ben Bolch...

A former actor who once played one of the Power Rangers in the children’s superhero television series has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for stabbing his roommate to death with a sword, prosecutors said.

Essential Education: Getting under the Dashboard March 16, 2017, 1:21 p.m. Welcome to Essential Education, our daily look at education in California and beyond. Here's the latest:The California School Dashboard launched yesterday, but a Times analysis shows how the system grades academics on a...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on his first trip to Asia made a firm if vague vow Thursday to find ways to stop North Korea’s steady march to the use of nuclear weapons.

If not for Tracy Anderson’s workout method, “Girls” may have gone in a much different direction.

NCAA tournament live updates: No upsets yet March 16, 2017, 1:29 p.m. Want to keep up with how you're doing in your office pool? We will post reports here as soon as each game ends, so get a pen and have your bracket handy. March 16, 2017, 1:18 p.m. SALT LAKE CITY March Madness: Gonzaga slowly...

Before using pesticides near California public schools, growers would have to notify school and county agricultural officials, under a revised draft regulation released Thursday — but the notification requirements would be less strenuous than what was proposed a few months ago.

Marysville, Calif., farmer Brad Foster stood at the eroded edge of the Feather River recently and contemplated how he was going to pull his water pumps out of the soggy, collapsed river bank.

Trump budget would make big cuts in State Department, EPA March 16, 2017, 1:07 p.m. Here's our look at the Trump administration and the rest of Washington: Trump proposes $1.1 trillion in spendingNo evidence has surfaced to support Trump's accusation that Obama wiretapped him, Senators sayNewly...

A Somali official says pirates who seized a Comoros-flagged oil tanker have released the ship without conditions.

The U.S. hit its debt limit again on Thursday — a whopping $19.9 trillion this time — and the Treasury Department started using accounting maneuvers to buy Congress several months to raise it to avoid a potential federal government default.

Italy now has its own movie superhero, a lonely, porn-and-yogurt-addicted mob goon who learns the value of being a force for good in “They Call Me Jeeg,” Gabriele Mainetti’s fitfully entertaining comics-inspired fare. After an underwater encounter in the Tiber River with toxic chemicals, brooding...

Today in Entertainment: Trump budget targets the NEA, NEH and CPB; the arts and entertainment world responds March 16, 2017, 1:03 p.m. The South by Southwest Film Festival is now open and already making news with a surprise appearance by elusive director Terrence Malick, and Ridley Scott's reveals...

Following a pathetic, self-destructive antihero who lacks redeeming values or emotional growth proves a thoroughly unsatisfying journey in the dismal Greek import “Suntan.” Whatever director Argyris Papadimitropoulos and his co-writer, Syllas Tzoumerkas, had in mind, a full rethink was in order.

Candice Glover won “American Idol” in 2013, but the aspiring R&B artist had plenty of chips stacked against her ahead of the release of her debut.

NCAA tournament live updates: No upsets yet March 16, 2017, 1:29 p.m. Want to keep up with how you're doing in your office pool? We will post reports here as soon as each game ends, so get a pen and have your bracket handy. March 16, 2017, 12:51 p.m. MILWAUKEE March Madness: Butler cruises past...

This four-bedroom house with a detached guest studio sits along the sand in gated Malibu Colony. On the street side, a courtyard garden with a stone water feature leads to the large glass-enclosed entry. A wide deck on the ocean side steps down to the sand.

Intrastate rivalries are everywhere: San Francisco versus Los Angeles, Dallas versus Houston, Portland versus any other city in Oregon. One of my favorites is Phoenix versus Tucson, so my wife and I are always glad when we can partake of the bigger city-derided “outpost down south” with an artsy...

The Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills opens June 1 with this promise: a view with every room. That’s because each of the luxury hotel’s 170 rooms has floor-to-ceiling windows and a private balcony.

The schedule and lineup for the 22nd annual L.A. Times Festival of Books is being unveiled Thursday morning. The Festival of Books will take place April 22-23 on the campus of USC.

A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputy was shot and wounded early Thursday in Hesperia, authorities said.

How much house does $575,000 buy in Ventura County? In Moorpark, about that amount gets you a three-bedroom with an updated kitchen; in Oak View, a geodesic dome home; and in Oxnard, a gated ranch house.