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How will Mayor-elect Nithya Raman tackle Los Angeles’ climate challenges? — and more UCLA media

Bloomberg spoke with Colleen Callahan, executive director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, and Marta Segura, ...
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What’s behind Melania Trump’s diplomatic role in the Russia-Ukraine war? — and more UCLA media

CBC News spoke with UCLA political science professor Daniel Treisman about Melania Trump’s involvement in a temporary ...
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Stellar collisions may have been common when the universe was young

A UCLA-led study shows that stars merging through collisions may explain how supermassive black holes formed so early in time ...
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A Star Is Reborn: The New Pauley

Legends don’t just live in our memories. Legends live in places. Legacies are not built, nurtured and expanded in a vacuum. They need a space in which to be seen and celebrated. On October 28, UCLA ...
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How will Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shifting climate policies shape California’s future? — and more UCLA media

The Los Angeles Times spoke with Ann Carlson, founding director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment ...
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Neurologist explains Lewy body dementia following actor Patrick Stewart’s death — and more UCLA media

The Los Angeles Times spoke with UCLA’s Dr. Keith Vossel about Lewy body dementia, the condition actor Patrick Stewart ...
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UCLA: L.A. wildfires caused as much as $164 billion in total property and capital losses

A new report from the UCLA Anderson Forecast suggests that the two largest wildfires that recently ravaged L.A. County — the Palisades and Eaton fires — may have caused total property and capital ...
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Revealing the history of genocide against California’s Native Americans

The mid-19th century was a perilous time to be an indigenous person in California. State militia companies, United States Army units, vigilante groups and individuals targeted the state’s American ...
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How Eastern European Jewish immigrants shaped LA’s Yiddish culture — and more UCLA media

LAist 89.3’s “AirTalk” spoke with UCLA historian Caroline Luce about her new book, “Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, ...
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What will the midterms mean for the future of the GOP? — and more UCLA media

The Los Angeles Times spoke with UCLA political science professor Lynn Vavreck about the future of the Republican Party as it approaches the midterms amid shifting voter support and questions about ...
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2026 midterm elections unfold with relatively few disruptions despite earlier concerns — and more UCLA media

The Associated Press spoke with UCLA law professor Rick Hasen about the aftermath of the 2026 midterm elections and whether President Donald Trump might challenge the results following significant ...
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LA’s next mayor faces high expectations, little room for error — and more UCLA media

Homelessness? The Los Angeles Times spoke with Jim Newton LA veteran journalist and editor of UCLA Blueprint magazine, who said that most Angelenos would be happy to spend money if it solved the issue ...