They lost their houses in last year’s Eaton fire. “Those are the days I’m down just because there’s insurance, there’s loans, there’s contractors, there’s permits, there’s inspections,” she said. It looks like countryside and a few houses here and a few houses there and it really seemed very magical and hopeful,” Huneven said. “And those mountain views we have now, without all the houses in the way,” Zack said. Once again, Zack wrote, Altadena’s future will be determined by “who stays, who leaves, and who moves here.

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And the contest will not only choose a mayor; it will also illuminate what kind of Democratic city Los Angeles is. Similarly, former LA schools superintendent Austin Beutner looked to fill the narrow lane for rich, white guys in Los Angeles races. Her challenge to Mayor Bass is from the mayor’s left, not her right. Los Angeles Councilmember Nithya Raman speaks at the National Coming Out Day 2024 event in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 2024. In Los Angeles, even voters who don’t approve of Karen Bass’ work as mayor like her.

Jesse Jackson this week has sparked a flurry of remembrances about his decades-long career as a civil rights champion and political figure. It’s timely, therefore, to recall an episode from his up-and-down relationship with Jerry Brown, whose celebrity was comparable during the heyday of the 1970s and 1980s — particularly one day in 1979. Listening to Jackson and Brown bantering about politics and philosophy was worth the trip. When Brown made his third White House bid in 1992, his relationship with Jackson became an issue. Like Brown and Jackson, he, too, made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency.

Kevin Stitt arrived in Washington this week with invitations to two White House meetings from an angry President Donald Trump. Days later, Stitt told governors the White House had reversed course and invited all governors to the Friday morning meeting. Trump and Stitt have a history of disputesThe unraveling of the governors’ White House visits was the latest example of Trump battling with Democratic state leaders. After Stitt informed governors that the White House wasn’t inviting Democrats to the Friday morning business meeting, Trump called the Oklahoma governor. Two days later, Stitt told governors that all governors were being invited.

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An employee fills an ice cream cone at the Häagen-Dazs shop opening in Sylt, Germany in 2015. - Franziska Krug/Getty ImagesNestlé has thawed on ice cream. The world’s biggest food and drinks maker said Thursday that it was in “advanced negotiations” to sell its remaining ice cream business to its joint venture partner, Froneri. “We cannot drive (growth) the same way that Froneri can.”Froneri was created a decade ago by Nestlé and UK ice cream maker R&R. Unilever spun off its ice cream unit in December, creating the largest ice cream business in the world — The Magnum Ice Cream Company — because it wanted to focus on fewer products.

As America’s energy demands grow exponentially, the country won’t be able to keep up without more nuclear power. It’s also flirting with relaxing radiation standards and eliminating some over-the-top security requirements at nuclear plants. Take, for example, the government’s overly stringent radiation standards. That has forced operators to incorporate concrete shields into their reactor designs, which raise costs and limit how long employees can work at a given time. The science underpinning the radiation rule is mushy, at best.

Tennessee whiskey is one of America’s most tightly defined styles. At the World Whiskies Awards America 2026, the Tennessee category belonged to one name. The two winning expressions show how broad the Tennessee style can be, from bonded structure to extended maturation. Category Champion – Best Tennessee Whiskey (No Age Statement)Jack Daniel’s Bonded Tennessee WhiskeyTasting Notes: Seared corn, caramel, vanilla, butterscotch, toasted marshmallow, maple, oak, herbsFind Your Next Bottle: $27Jack Daniel’s Bonded Tennessee Whiskey forms part of the distillery’s Bonded Series, a line built around the Bottled-in-Bond Act. Category Winner – Best Tennessee Whiskey (13 To 20 Years)Jack Daniel’s 14 Years Old Tennessee Whiskey Batch 1Tasting Notes: Sweet, creamy pipe tobacco, seasoned oak, butterscotchFind Your Next Bottle: $845Jack Daniel’s 14 Years Old Tennessee Whiskey Batch 1 represents a very different side of the distillery’s portfolio.

The Department of Homeland Security is broadening federal immigration authorities’ ability to detain legal refugees who have not yet obtained green cards, citing national security concerns and the need to ensure refugees undergo additional screening, according to a DHS memo obtained by CNN. “Refugees may be considered to have voluntarily returned to custody” by submitting application paperwork and appearing at scheduled appointments with immigration services, according to the new memo. “This memo was done in secret, with zero coordination with the organizations that serve refugees,” said Beth Oppenheim, CEO of refugee agency HIAS. The International Refugee Assistance Project, one of the plaintiffs in the federal Minnesota case, says it is challenging the new refugee policy. Last fall, the Trump administration set the number of annual refugee admissions at 7,500 – a fraction of what the US has historically allowed.

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In a 50-page ruling, California State Bar Court Judge Yvette D. Roland found that Jim Clark, former chief deputy attorney under then-City Atty. With the city facing multiple lawsuits over the billing debacle, Clark helped oversee a friendly class-action lawsuit against the city, the judge found. After the sham lawsuit was revealed, Clark and others in the city attorney’s office blamed other attorneys. The city attorney’s office also spent tens of millions of dollars on outside attorneys in a related case, with Clark and others repeatedly denying wrongdoing. Clark casually informed Nagle about an upcoming class-action lawsuit that was going to be filed against the city that would be beneficial for the city.

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There are about a dozen fewer brick-and-mortar abortion clinics in the US than there were two years ago, according to a new report. There were 753 brick-and-mortar abortion clinics in the US at the end of 2025, according to a new report by the Guttmacher Institute — ​54 fewer than in ​2020, including a net loss of 12 abortion clinics since March 2024. In New York, abortion is legal and protected; voters enshrined the right to abortion in the state’s constitution in 2024. The closure was “a big blow,” said Chelsea Williams-Diggs, executive director of the New York Abortion Access Fund. “That has direct impacts on abortion access and on abortion funds,” Williams-Diggs said.

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