With groups including the Pasadena Community Foundation, Child Care Directors Alliance and the city of Pasadena, it has distributed nearly $2 million to 43 providers with fire-related hardships through grants of up to $45,000. Carina Hu, center, greets the students after they arrive at the B'nai Simcha Jewish Community Preschool in in Pasadena. Advertisement AdvertisementNow, the college aims to create a sustainable future for child care in the region by helping providers establish a shared services model to distribute support among the regional child-care network. Children play inside the B'nai Simcha Jewish Community Preschool on Jan. 26. Now at a permanent site, the center is working on increasing enrollment, focusing on infant care — its goal before the Eaton fire.

Home Depot reported lower fourth-quarter profit as economic uncertainty, high interest rates and a stagnant housing market continue to weigh on home improvement activity. - jeenah moon/ReutersHome Depot reported lower fiscal fourth-quarter profit as economic uncertainty, high interest rates and a stagnant housing market continue to weigh on home-improvement activity. “We continue to see pressure from consumer uncertainty and frozen housing conditions, said Chief Financial Officer Richard McPhail in an interview. High interest rates have also particularly curtailed discretionary upgrades that homeowners typically fund with financing, while a stagnant housing market has limited the home-improvement projects that come with housing turnover. McPhail said the home-improvement market has strong long-term fundamentals given the country’s aging stock of homes and high home-equity values.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year (for Southern California booklovers)! The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books will once again take over the University of Southern California campus on Saturday, April 18, and Sunday, April 19. You’ll find friendly faces at Alta Journal’s centrally located Booth 111, right near that scantily clad Tommy Trojan and the live music stage. Come by to flip through Alta’s new book club–themed issue, take advantage of deals on Alta subscriptions, grab back issues, and meet Alta editors and contributors. (We also tend to have the scoop on the secret location of the cleanest and closest public restroom.)

That’s because consumers paid for tariffs indirectly: They’re mostly not the ones making the actual payment to the government. The Trump administration and the Supreme Court have given little clarity about how they would be processed. What is clear: The vast majority of consumers haven’t paid tariff costs directly, so the Trump administration doesn’t owe them tariff refunds. Democrats ramp up pressureDemocrats are ramping up the pressure on the White House over tariff refunds. “It couldn’t possibly be a one-to-one ratio in terms of giving back (tariff refunds).

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It was one blunder after another for the Atlanta Falcons special teams unit in 2025. That’s what watching this special teams unit felt like for me. The AcesWhen you constantly rob from future drafts, you have to make a flurry of free agent signings to fill special teams holes, and that’s what Fontenot did in 2025 with signings like Mike Ford, Feleipe Franks, Teagan Quitoriano, and Jordan Fuller. Ian Cunningham will have to find a way to balance positional depth with special teams impact, something Terry Fontenot completely missed the mark on in 2025. The new staff did not retain Marquice Williams, and the Falcons hired two special teams coaches with experience running their own units, but both have had tenures riddled with failure.

Felony murder isn’t intentional murder. Felony murder means that if someone dies during a crime, everyone involved can be charged with murder, even if they never touched the victim or wanted anyone to die. But felony murder punishes presence as if it were action. In 2018, California reformed its felony murder rule and freed people likeAdnan Khan, who was 18 when he joined a robbery but never killed anyone. His writing focuses on prison policies and lack thereof, unexplored aspects of felony murder, and mental health.

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With peace negotiations backed by President Trump stalled, Russia has sought to portray its victory in Ukraine as inevitable. At the same time, long-range strikes by Ukraine, Western sanctions and ship seizures are pushing down prices for Russian oil that are critical for Moscow to sustain its military efforts. “That’s the big breakthrough in a war that his military is unable to win,” Jones said of Putin. Russian military bloggers claimed a large-scale counteroffensive, but Ukraine’s military has since described the advances as tactical assaults. Soldiers said they took advantage of Russian communications problems after Elon Musk’s SpaceX disabled Starlink for the Russian military in Ukraine.

Over the next five days, the Americans flipped their Winter Games from a potential bust into its best-ever showing. That haul was still an entire Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo behind the mighty Norwegians , whose 18 golds shattered the Winter Games record they set four years ago. Meanwhile, a few kilometers away, another American took the ice to skate for gold in the signature event of the Winter Games. It was no coincidence that the gold medals that changed an entire team’s fortunes last Thursday went to women. As the men’s hockey team won its first gold medal since 1980, the U.S. said arrivederci to the Games with the one thing that could unite America in 2026: beating Canada.

In March, the US intelligence community assessed that Iran was “not building a nuclear weapon.”In June, the Trump administration nevertheless launched airstrikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program. It had found the strikes did not destroy the core components of Iran’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months. A sampling:“It knocked out their entire potential nuclear capacity.” (July 16)“It’s been obliterated.” (July 31)“We obliterated … the future nuclear capability of Iran.” (August 18)“But I also obliterated Iran’s nuclear hopes, by totally annihilating their enriched uranium.” (September 20)“Well, they don’t have a nuclear program. It was obliterated.” (October 13)“… completely obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability.” (November 11)“It was called Iran and its nuclear capability, and we obliterated that very quickly and strongly and powerfully.” (November 19)“We obliterated their nuclear capability.” (December 11)“We knocked out the Iran nuclear threat, and it was obliterated.” (January 8)“… obliterated Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability.” (January 20)“… achieving total obliteration of the Iran nuclear potential capability — totally obliterated.” (February 13)So to recap: Trump has claimed to have obliterated Iran’s nuclear “capacity,” “capability,” “future … capability,” “potential capability,” “hopes,” “threat” and “enrichment capability.” And as recently as four months ago, he said Iran didn’t even have a nuclear program to speak of. Indeed, Trump was critical of the CNN and Times reports that Iran’s nuclear program was only set back months.

Toya, Fonda and Diane ended up playing for Arizona State, Oregon State and Texas A&M, respectively. pic.twitter.com/gk8n7yZ9GO — eric sondheimer (@latsondheimer) February 23, 2026One of the standouts is Abbigail Gomez, a transfer from Highland who's averaging 15 points. She might be even more excited if the Golden Cougars can win a City title on Friday. This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular.

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Gavin Newsom on Monday sharply criticized “fake MAGA-manufactured outrage” over his comments about his low SAT score in Atlanta Sunday during his national book tour. “Spare me your fake fucking outrage, Sean.”Gardon pointed out that Newsom was speaking to a mixed-race audience during the conversation with Dickens. “Come on, I’m a 960 SAT guy, governor of the fourth largest economy in the world,” Newsom told The Times. “I’m a guy, you know, with sweaty hands as described in the book, you know, who can’t read a speech, and I’m governor. I’m talking to you.

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