Новости за 24.04.2018

Steve Welch was feeling glum in February. The Sierra snowpack was averaging less than 20%, and the manager of the Groveland, Calif.-based ARTA rafting company saw trouble ahead.

Two women believed to be mother and daughter were found dead Monday evening in their Whittier home, authorities said.

Wander the ancient seaside cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, sites of two of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in European history, on a weeklong tour of Italy that also allows participants to ascend to the volcanic crater of Mt. Vesuvius.

Un tribunal federal de apelaciones decidió el lunes por unanimidad, que los animales no pueden demandar por la protección de los derechos de autor.

Karina Canellakis will not be the next music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. When she made her impressive debut at the beginning of 2015, she seemed a likely candidate. But it was apparently love at first downbeat when Spanish conductor Jaime Martín made his debut with the ensemble...

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, April 24, and here’s what’s happening across California:

On Wednesday evening, the Ventura Police Department received a call about a homeless man “yelling and being disruptive” in the city’s promenade area, a bustling boardwalk flush with restaurants.

The surprising box-office success of “A Quiet Place,” a low-budget movie about a family under attack from creatures who hunt by sound, could hardly have come at a better time for Paramount Pictures and its chief executive, Jim Gianopulos.

Drought. Flood. Repeat. A new study says this California weather cycle will get worse.

Just a couple of months ago, it seemed as if Quentin Tarantino's Hollywood future could be in question. But at a major movie industry event here Monday night, the head of Sony Pictures feted the director as Hollywood royalty, declaring the filmmaker’s new screenplay the best thing he’d read in...

Starbucks is synonymous with the urban good life, an oasis where anyone with a few dollars can get a caramel macchiato and sit for hours writing, reading, talking or contemplating life. It’s cookie-cutter, but that’s the point — its thousands of stores powerfully symbolize the luxury of leisure...

Before launching his campaign for governor last year, Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) was a fairly ordinary legislator. Republican, but not in a rabble-rousing kind of way, and seemingly willing to work across the aisle to get things done. His first attention-getting legislation was...

Proposition 72 is one of the easier questions on the June 5 ballot. Homeowners should be rewarded, not penalized, for collecting the rainwater that falls on their roofs and for using it on their landscaping to save precious tap water. This measure would ensure that adding an expensive rainwater...

A brief conversation with "communicator" Larry King, 84 and Emmy nominated once again.

It is easy to despair of politics — witness the actions of President Trump and the gallery of narrow-minded populists taking power across the globe. In particular, political rhetoric, in these leaders’ hands, is in the dock, accused of fakery, falsity and spin. But political speech can sing, and...

If a person is intoxicated or suffering from a mental health crisis, a crowded hospital emergency room may not be the right place to get treatment. Yet homeless people are often taken there when they may just need a place to sober up or be seen by a mental health professional.

Sometimes forgotten in the spiraling U.S. crisis of opiate abuse is a clinical fact about narcotic pain medications: addiction is basically an unwanted side effect of drugs that are highly effective at blunting pain.

To the editor: It’s nice to be reassured by the politically conservative farmers in the parts of California that voted for President Trump that they no longer require immigrant workers in their fields, thus they will continue to swear fealty to the man in the White House. (“Raids and tariffs? We'll...

To the editor: I’m thrilled that the North Koreans and the South Koreans are engaging in serious peace talks, and I am amazed that President Trump and CIA Director Mike Pompeo are also willing to support this effort. (“North Korea says it will suspend nuclear and missile testing,” April 20)

To the editor: As a medical geneticist who has spent more than 40 years in practice at Kaiser Permanente and UCLA, I can appreciate people’s desire to learn as much as possible about their genetic endowment. (“Decoding your baby’s DNA: It can be done. But should it be?” April 22)

To the editor: Thank you for shining a light on the effort of Bryan Stevenson and his Equal Justice Initiative to memorialize the more than 4,000 victims of lynching in this country. (“New lynching memorial in Alabama offers chance to remember and heal,” April 21)

To the editor: The Wells Fargo & Co. saga continues, with the bank most recently being penalized a whopping $1 billion. President Trump’s appointee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney, boasted to his critics that this huge fine shows that he is indeed intent on enforcing...

Responding to reports that North Korea said it “no longer needs” nuclear tests, Jim Hanson, president of the generally pro-Trump Security Studies Group, credited President Trump.

Senate Republicans have voted to allow car dealers to discriminate against black and Latino customers.

Wells Fargo & Co.’s top brass will gather in Iowa Tuesday for the bank’s annual shareholder meeting — and they’ll be getting an earful from critics and advocacy groups over issues such as continued revelations of consumer abuses and the bank’s dealings with gun makers.