Новости за 24.12.2015

 With many drones expected as Christmas gifts, a San Francisco Bay Area park district is reminding people that flying them on park property could ground the pilot with a hefty fine.

Contra Costa prosecutors charged a 55-year-old Richmond man with making criminal threats against Muslims, but said a suspected pipe bomb in his home was a fake. 

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The U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Thursday morning warned citizens of a Christmastime terrorism threat against Westerners in one of the city’s most popular expat districts.

Hillary Clinton may campaign at times as if the Democratic primaries were but a speed bump to coast over on her way to the general election, but the front-runner still faces an unpredictable and dangerous obstacle that has a history of sideswiping such candidates: the New Hampshire electorate.

In the 11th century, the German historian Adam of Bremen wrote that the Finns "are to this day so superior in the magic arts or incantations that they profess to know what everyone is doing the world over.... All this is easy for them through practice." Their command of words and sorcery is so...

Nissan is getting back into the full-size truck business, and going about it in a sly way.

To grow up in a California family like mine — backpacking and beachcombing, sympathetic to social justice and environmental causes — is to grow up eternally grateful to John Muir, California's secular patron saint of wilderness worship and outdoor adventure.

Among the Angelenos most vulnerable to the ravages of the predicted El Niño storms are the homeless people who sleep outside, especially those camping near dangerous flood zones. Government outreach workers have spent several months combing five riverbed hotspots to talk with many of the 600 to...

The college kids wanted us to rip out the frontyard. I wanted to save my succulents, wildflowers and towering trees. My husband didn’t want any more weekend work.

Practically the first thing the reconstituted Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors did after new members Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl found their footing this year was to dismantle a governance structure that had been carefully assembled over the decades by previous boards. Separate public health...

It's the end of the year, when newspaper columnists are supposed to fill in the blank — “2015 was the year of _______ ” — and decide whether the phenomenon in question falls into the category of “good thing” or “good riddance.”

Farm agencies are not about to be outdone by U.S. air defense officials when it comes to altering policies to aid Santa and his reindeer. Both the state and federal bureaucracies that control cross-border movement of livestock issued their annual waivers Wednesday so that Santa can visit U.S. and...

Sometimes, heartwarming Christmas stories come from unusual corners of the city.

U.S. forces launched two airstrikes in an embattled district where Afghan forces were racing to repel a Taliban offensive, officials said Thursday. 

The three-wheeled power-sports market is growing fast, driven largely by newbie bikers and aging riders attracted to big motorcycles but afraid of their heft and weight.

Eduardo Paes will take the stage as the most important mayor in the world for 17 days next year when the Summer Olympics start in August in his city of Rio de Janeiro. For him, the nine-year adventure officially started Sept. 7, 2007, when Rio was named Brazil's applicant city. At the time, Paes...

Here's the thing about pop music in 2015: It was mostly impressive.

The number of truly great albums made compiling year-end lists feel like "The Hunger Games." Plus, there were enough comebacks, left-field collaborations and other surprises to keep us on our toes. Arena spectacles and music festivals...

To the people around him, Enrique Marquez Jr. seemed like a straightforward guy with a silly streak and a shaky laugh. He was the suggestible type — always eager to fit in.

I'm Davan Maharaj, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.

Louise Sunshine, a former New York lobbyist and real estate executive, has known Donald Trump for more than 40 years. She shared a small office with Trump just as his career as a developer began to take off. She helped him cajole politicians for tax breaks on his first buildings.

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg make for one of oddest on-screen duos around: the former one of Hollywood's silliest comedic performers, the latter an intense, intimidating figure best known for his action roles. Perhaps the only thing they have in common is that they've both appeared on camera...

Imagine making a commitment to do something big and then doing it every year for decades without fail. Not sometimes. Not on odd years. Every year — including the rough ones.

When 2015 began, it seemed unfathomable by the end of the year that Brian Williams would no longer anchor "NBC Nightly News" or that Donald Trump would be leading in the polls for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

The relationship between the United States and Britain is never more "special" than at Christmastime: mince pies and plum pudding, Victorian carolers and Boxing Day sales. Long fueled by seasonally classic films from "A Christmas Carol" to "Love Actually," the electronic hearth now allows Americans...