Новости за 08.03.2018

Iranian police on Thursday arrested several people outside the Labor Ministry building in Tehran, blocking a rally that activists had organized to mark International Women’s Day.

The United States Holocaust Museum is revoking a major human rights award given to Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's civilian leader, saying she has failed to respond adequately to the mass killings of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority.

Evan Metropoulos, son of billionaire investor C. Dean Metropoulos, has listed his penthouse atop the Sierra Towers building in West Hollywood for sale at $58 million.

U.S. stocks opened higher Thursday, with retailers and technology companies making some of the biggest gains.

Many women, doctors and patients alike, say it's about time. But some male doctors lament the trend, saying they have something special to offer their patients, gender differences aside.

Las tres nuevas leyes "santuario" de California, desafiadas en la corte esta semana por la administración Trump, enfrentan diferentes obstáculos y tienen vulnerabilidades variables, dijeron expertos legales el miércoles.

It’s good that award-winning French filmmaker Alain Resnais listened to his mother. If not, Geneviève Bujold’s film career may have taken a different turn.

Luke Walton wanted to make sure that Monday night’s loss to the Portland Trail Blazers didn’t turn into a losing streak.

Some of the cruise industry's top execs got together to talk shop Tuesday at Seatrade Cruise Global, a mega-convention that brings together more than 11,000 participants annually in Southern Florida.

What to do this weekend? How about the Joffrey's "Romeo and Juliet," the Kronos Quartet leading a fact-based concert about a Vietnam massacre, a birthday bash at the Getty and the aptly named play "Cambodian Rock Band" at South Coast Rep.

Arguably the most popular character of Netflix-Marvel’s superhero franchise, Jessica Jones finds the fiercest battle is internal when she returns Thursday for Season 2 of “Marvel’s Jessica Jones.”

Little Hollywood? Movie history in a tiny town in southern Utah? And near Zion National Park, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area? And on our route home from a fishing trip. OK, we were in. Kanab, Utah — Ke-naab, not CANE-ab,...

Given the number of times Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel mentioned “Black Panther” last Sunday, you’d think the wildly successful Marvel movie was among the best picture nominees.

There’s a moment in the early stages of “The Oath” — a frenetic but dim crime series debuting Thursday on Sony’s streaming service Crackle — that makes the unfortunate choice of inviting comparison to “The Wire.”

Sisters-in-law Veronica Miele Beard and Veronica Swanson Beard bring their Veronica Beard label to the West Coast with a new boutique on Melrose Place.

Con el tema de la campaña #PressforProgress, el Día Internacional de la Mujer, que se celebra hoy jueves, se produce en medio de un impulso renovado para el empoderamiento de las mujeres.

Travel into the Andes Mountains and then onto the Caribbean coast on a tour of Colombia, one of three itineraries to the South American country being introduced by Wildland Adventures.

President Trump’s controversial plan to levy hefty tariffs on imported steel and aluminum will initially exempt Canada and Mexico and give other trading partners a short window to seek exclusions from the measure, according to one of the president’s trade advisors.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, March 8, and here’s what’s happening across California:

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California’s three new “sanctuary” laws, challenged in court this week by the Trump administration, face different hurdles and have varying vulnerabilities, legal experts said Wednesday.

The war of words heats up after the federal government sues California over its “sanctuary state” laws.