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Abuse claims law gets changes

Legislation would require more proof from some who say they were victimized.

BY REBECCA ELLIS AND DAKOTA SMITH

SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers said Thursday that they plan to make “modest” changes to a controversial law that gave victims of childhood sexual abuse a new window in which to sue, but will stop short of a damage cap.

The proposed legislation, offered in the final days of the legislative session, would require older victims to provide additional proof that they were abused as children, but does not limit the amount they could receive in payouts — a demand made by local governments and school districts that have shelled out billions of dollars in recent settlements.

The proposal follows years of heated debate over a 2019 state law that removed the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse claims. The law paved the way for thousands of victims to sue their abusers but has been criticized for draining the coffers of local governments.

Since the law was enacted, Los Angeles County has agreed to pay more than \$5 billion to settle more than 12,000 claims stemming from alleged sexual abuse committed by government employees in foster homes and juvenile halls.

Santa Monica last year declared a financial crisis after officials revealed that the city faces more than \$229 million in sexual abuse allegation claims from a former city employee. California school districts have paid nearly a half-billion dollars to settle older claims of sexual abuse.

The new bill, known as Senate Bill 577, tweaks a proposal put forward last year by Sen. John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), who tried unsuccessfully to shepherd through a compromise between local government entities, survivors groups and plaintiffs attorneys.

Laird and Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in interviews Thursday that they tried to thread the needle in protecting both survivors and municipalities.

Laird said he's heard reaction from various groups since the new bill proposal was posted online. The [See Law, A7]

Asia flood toll approaches 600 Survivors are pulled from the mud and the number saved tops 3,700. More than 2,000 are missing. WORLD, A3

Street vendors in political fray How city and LAPD treat such businesses becomes a pressure point in the race for mayor. CALIFORNIA, B1

Riley leans into pressure at USC Coach is ready for a breakthrough in fifth season while knowing his time to deliver is shrinking. SPORTS, B12

Weather Sunny and very warm. L.A. Basin: 94/71. B8

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SOME OF the hundreds of encampments without addresses scattered across north Los Angeles County.

Off grid, off on the count

The spiderweb of dirt roads etched into the desert north of Pear-blossom Highway encompasses some of the trashiest scenes in Los Angeles County: piles of tires, bags of used diapers, car parts, whole burned-out cars, couches, office chairs, dining chairs, dressers, motor oil containers, dump-truck-sized mounds of unidentifiable rubble and, oddest of all, giant sheets of plastic draped over Joshua trees.

Navigating his red pickup over the rutted roads, Christopher Minsal, council president in the unincorporated community of Pearblossom, pointed out a source of the plastic: a

In the Antelope Valley, RVs make a mess of the desert — and the homeless numbers

By Doug Smith

distant white dome protruding from the carpet-like canopy of gray-green desert flora.

“You see the plastic in the distance?” he said. “That’s a marijuana grow.”

This downtrodden expanse of the Antelope Valley unexpectedly achieved a remarkable turnaround last year, reducing by more than half the number of recreational vehicles squatting on its back roads. At least it did so on paper.

According to the annual homeless count, only 671 recreational vehicles remained in the 400 square miles of [See RVs, A6]

A changing landscape for college degrees

A searchable database reveals graduates' pay four years after they finish their program.

BY ANDREW KHOURI

A new analysis of California data shows that four years after college graduation, students who obtain among the most competitive and in-demand bachelor degrees, mostly tied to fields in STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — are the highest-earning graduates, with salaries over \$100,000 a year.

Also among the top tier is an ultracompetitive nursing degree, which translates to an annual income of about \$125,000, according to an analysis released Friday by the HEA Group, a national education research firm. The highest-earning degree is a combination mathematics and computer science program with an average income of nearly \$140,000.

Many humanities and social science majors — pursued by students with a passion for sociology, history, art, music and English — tend to earn far less, around \$40,000 to \$60,000, the data show.

And there is the middle rung, including business administration, urban studies and chemistry, whose graduates take home around \$70,000 on average.

The analysis comes amid a changing landscape in higher education as parents and prospective students are increasingly questioning the value of postsecondary education, evaluating how a tuition investment on a future degree will translate into a job and salary years later. Also, when it comes to borrowing money to attend [See Degrees, A7]

Educational value

Average salaries, four years after graduation, for the top three, middle three and bottom three bachelor's degrees

Mathematics and computer science Computer engineering Nursing*

Near the average Human biology

Environmental/natural resources management and policy

Lowest earnings Arts, entertainment, and media management Music Drama/theater arts and stagecraft

*Registered nursing, nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing Data compiled using federal student loan and tax records for 180,258 bachelor's degree graduates. Figures are a weighted average derived from median earnings. Only fields with at least 100 graduates are shown above. The HEA Group

HAILEY WANG Los Angeles Times

A deal to trade away a piece of Yosemite

Trump administration considers swapping a parcel of the park to a private developer.

BY KEVIN RECTOR

The Trump administration is considering trading a parcel of Yosemite National Park to a private commercial developer, according to administration officials, members of Congress and documents reviewed by The Times.

The proposed deal would allow the developer to build a road connecting adjacent property it already owns in Stanislaus National Forest to a service road within Yosemite, providing any future development on that property with unique access to the famed public wilderness, documents show.

According to a Friday report by the news outlet NOTUS, Trump administration officials have been quietly pressuring the National Park Service to approve the deal for the land despite such pressure being highly unusual and previous proposals for the land being repeatedly denied under the George W. Bush and Obama administrations and in court.

The Department of the Interior, which includes the National Park Service, acknowledged in a statement to The Times on Friday that a land deal is under consideration but denied any inappropriate influence from the White House.

It said negotiations for the land will comply with all federal rules for federal lands, and that “no final decisions have been made.”

An attorney for the private developer said the deal has nothing to do with politics and is in fact an “environmentally friendly” solution because it would significantly reduce the amount of driving the development’s residents would have to do to access the park.

Congressional Democrats — including Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff of California — are trying to block the deal after being informed of it earlier this year by the Land and Water Conservation Fund. The fund was created by Congress in 1964 to safeguard natural areas and public lands, and often works to acquire lands to add to national parks.

A fact sheet on the project reviewed by The Times identified the parcel by a former name, the “Hazel Green Ranch,” and said the land-[See Yosemite, A6]

An East Coast summer in L.A.

BY ALEX WIGGLESWORTH AND HANNAH FRY

Southern California's swampy summer is setting new records, with humidity levels creating conditions that feel more like Florida than the West Coast.

Forecasters attributed the punishing humidity to the remnants of Tropical Storm Iselle moving over the state, as well as unusually warm ocean temperatures due to a combination of a months-long marine heat wave, a powerful El Niño and climate change.

It's made an intense summer of heat particularly miserable. This week saw new heat records set in some areas, but it's the humidity that has many at their wit's end.

Dew points in the Los Angeles Basin have been “really high,” hovering around 70 degrees in many places, with [See Humidity, A?]

Record-breaking humidity is blanketing and bewildering the Southland. What gives?

[See Humidity, A7]

IN DOWNTOWN L.A., a man rides his bike while shading himself from intense sun and heat Tuesday.
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Inflation fight takes center stage at Fed

Warsh says central bank may need to raise interest rates in the near future.

meaningfully improved."

BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said Friday that inflation is still too high and suggested the central bank may have to raise interest rates in the coming months to bring it down, a clearer signal than he had sent previously about his economic outlook.

In his first high-profile speech at the Fed's annual conference at Jackson Hole, Wyo., Warsh acknowledged that recent U.S. data show inflation has cooled a bit, but "they do not tell me that underlying trends have

“We must be confident that underlying inflation is moving to our objective, clearly and at sufficient speed,” Warsh said. “Otherwise, we have work to do.”

The comments from the Fed chair appeared to reassure Wall Street that fighting inflation remains the priority for the central bank. Warsh did not imply that a rate increase is imminent, but he appeared to dismiss perceptions that inflation is no longer a threat.

He pointed to data showing that inflation remains stubbornly above the central bank's $2\%$ target. Warsh replaced Jerome H. Powell in late May after his predecessor's term ended.

The U.S. stock market held steady after the speech, but expectations are building in the bond market for [See Inflation, A12]

RADIVOJE PAVICIC Associated Press ed of genocide in 2017.

THE WORLD

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Mladic dies in prison at 84

GEN. Ratko Mladic with soldiers in 1994. He was convicted of genocide in 2017.

BY JOVANA GEC AND DUSAN STOJANOVIC

BELGRADE, Serbia — Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces rained shells and snipers' bullets on Sarajevo and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, has died while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84.

U.N. court officials said that Mladic died in a U.N. prison hospital in The Hague. A family member of Mladic, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, confirmed the reports for the Associated Press and said Mladic's son, Darko Mladic, was on the way to The Hague.

The U.N. tribunal for war crimes committed during the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s sentenced Mladic to life in prison in 2017 in what was considered a key step toward bringing justice to the victims. He had been in custody since 2011 after many years on the run.

The ruthless, blue-eyed former communist officer-turned nationalist warlord was one of the most notorious figures of the conflict that left more than 100,000 people dead and over 1 million homeless. He commanded his troops to “scorch the brains” of the Bosnian Muslims and boasted of being a “Serbian god.”

When the ethnic war in Bosnia started in 1992, Mladic became the commander of the Bosnian Serb troops and took control of large swaths of the country to form a Serbian mini-state.

fighting for the first pan-Serbian state. Defiant, Mladic acted bullishly during his trial and yelled at the judges when sentenced to life in prison.

Munira Subasic, from the Mothers of Srebrenica group, said she had mixed feelings about Mladic's death and deplored that Mladic's crimes are still being denied among many Bosnian Serbs.

“Today, a major war criminal died, the criminal of the Balkans,” Subasic said. But while mothers of victims “are still carrying the pain in our souls” 31 years later, “we are still listening to denials, we are still listening to how Ratko Mladic was a hero for the Serbs,” she said.

Serbs under Mladic's control laid siege to the capital, Sarajevo, and other cities and villages, established concentration camps for detained non-Serbian civilians and enemy soldiers, and systematically killed prisoners.

“I am sorry that he died and that he did not suffer for a little while longer, that he didn’t wait for more and dream about the eyes of our children,” she said.

Residents of Pale, a Bos- nian Serb stronghold just outside Sarajevo, mourned Mladic.

"He was murdered there, in those dungeons," said Janko Seslija, a former Bosnian Serb soldier. "I feel sorry for Gen. Mladic, he was an honorable man, honorable soldier and commander."

Mladic was born March 12, 1942, in the tiny Bosnian village of Bozinovici, in the hills 25 miles south of Sarajevo. Like other protagonists in the Yugoslav conflict, he imbibed nationalism from his family's fate in World War II — his own father was killed by Croats.

international ignorance, Mladic was convinced of his final victory.

A communist-era officer, Mladic sided with the Serbs as Yugoslavia disintegrated in the war. Mladic first led a Serbian insurgency in Croatia before taking over the Bosnian Serb army that was backed by Serbia and then-President Slobodan Milosevic, who also died in the custody of the Hague court in 2006 while on trial for genocide.

"The time has come ... for revenge against Turks in these regions," Mladic said after taking over Srebrenica.

A U.N. “safe haven” for Muslims, Srebrenica ended up overrun by Serbs who separated the men and boys, forced them to strip, killed them and bulldozed their bodies into mass graves in a brutal rampage that lasted for over a week.

The Srebrenica survivors said one image forever will be imprinted in their minds: Mladic handing out candy to Muslim children who had been rounded up on the town's square and reassuring them that everything would be all right — even patting one child on the head.

Convinced of the power of his army, he used to tell his soldiers: "When I give you guarantees, it's as if they are given by God." To clear the way for his helicopter to land, he would tell air traffic controllers: “Here speaks Ratko Mladic — the Serbian god.”

Sarajevans still remember his commands to the Serbian gunmen pounding the Bosnian capital in early 1992. He issued his orders through a military radio system, not bothering to scramble the signal, which was picked up and taped by the Sarajevo police.

"Turn toward Velesici, there are no Serbs there," Sarajevans could hear Mladic, ordering his artillery to pound the Sarajevo suburb.

“Scorch their brains,” he told his gunmen.

Faced with the U.N. tribunal's genocide indictment, Mladic in 1996 began his fugitive years in Han Pijesak, a military compound in eastern Bosnia built for former Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito and designed to withstand a nuclear attack.

With his wife, Bosa, Mladic settled down to imposed domesticity, passing the time caring for bees and goats. His 23 goats reputedly bore the names of foreign dignitaries he despised, such as Madeleine Albright, the former U.S. secretary of State.

Surrounded by security guards, he occasionally ventured out of the dense pine forest to mark events such as the anniversary of the Bosnian Serb army and St. Vitus Day, a religious festival marking the 1389 Serb defeat by the Turks at Kosovo.

When in the late 1990s his trail grew too hot in Bosnia, Mladic moved with family into a suburban villa in the Serbian capital, Belgrade.

In Belgrade, he was seen attending his son's wedding. He showed up at soccer games, dined in plush restaurants and frequented elite cafes, refusing to give interviews and smiling quizzically when photographed.

When Milosevic was ousted from power in October 2000, and Yugoslavia's new pro-democracy authorities signaled they might hand Mladic over to the tribunal, tabloids reported that he had left Belgrade for Bosnia.

But true to his style, Mladic countered those rumors and others that said he was terminally ill in Belgrade. Before going underground in 2002, he was repeatedly seen in public, sometimes with his guards and sometimes alone, driving a boxy Yugo car on the streets of the capital.

He completely disappeared from public view in 2008 and was finally arrested in May 2011 in a village near Belgrade where he was hiding in a relative's modest house.

In court in The Hague, a frail-looking old man was far from an image of Mladic from the war days. But his unrepentant nature and defiance were intact.

“Everything you said is pure lies. Shame on you!” he yelled at the U.N. judges when they handed down the conviction.

Already in poor health upon arrest in 2011, Mladic is believed to have suffered multiple strokes during his years on the run and was hospitalized on several occasions while in custody.

Elizabeth Evenson, international justice director at Human Rights Watch, said Mladic's death was “a reminder of the ongoing need for justice, truth, and reparations in the Western Balkans.”

“Full accountability for such terrible crimes, in Bosnia and elsewhere, demands commitment by governments to justice, even decades after the events themselves,” she said in a statement.

Gec and Stojanovic write for the Associated Press.

In Sarajevo, Serbian troops kept the city isolated while killing civilians with snipers. In 1995, Mladic's troops slaughtered more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica — the only post-World War II case of genocide in Europe.

But Mladic and his admirers among the Serbs have never repented. He was seen by many as a patriot

Mladic was known for his obsession with his nation's history. He saw Bosnia's war as a chance for revenge against the onetime 500-year-long Ottoman occupation of Serbia. He often referred to Bosnia's Muslims as Turks and boasted of revenge when his troops overran the protected U.N. enclave of Srebrenica in 1995.

Carried away by Serbian dominance in firepower and

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Norway has a new king: Haakon VIII

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BY JAN M. OLSEN AND STEFANIE DAZIO

Haakon knows the ropes. As his father aged and his health began to fail in recent years, the prince stepped in as the country's regent on several occasions.

COPENHAGEN — Norway has a new king, whose tasks will include stabilizing the Scandinavian country's monarchy and boosting the royal family's popularity after his wife's past contacts with deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his stepson's rape conviction.

Crown Prince Haakon, 53, became King Haakon VIII when his father, Harald V, died Friday at 89. Haakon adopted the motto, "All for Norway," that dates back to his great-grandfather. His wife became Queen Mette-Marit, while his oldest child became Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra and the heir to the throne.

Norway's monarchy has old roots, tracing its origins to King Harald Fairhair in the ninth century. When Norway regained its independence from Sweden in 1905, three-quarters of voters in a national plebiscite approved restoring the monarchy. Today, the role is largely symbolic as the power lies with an elected parliament, but the country's royal family retains celebrity and a role in promoting the wealthy nation around the world.

Haakon is the younger child of Harald, born two years after his sister, Princess Märtha Louise. As the oldest male, however, he became heir to the throne when his grandfather, King Olav, died in 1991. The Norwegian Constitution was altered in 1990 to allow future firstborns — regardless of gender — to take precedence in the line of succession. However, it was not applied retroactively.

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Haakon said in a 1998 book that as a child he dreamed of owning a toy shop, but he soon realized that his path was already paved and one day he would

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KING HAAKON VIII had been heir to the throne since his grandfather died 35 years ago.

become king.

An avid surfer, skier and sportsman, he told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that if he hadn't been a royal, he would have been a surfer. A music lover — he likes rock and rap — he attended festivals across Europe as a youth.

Haakon knew his relationship would face an uphill battle for acceptance when he met Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby at a popular music festival in Norway in 1999. She was a single mother whose son's father had been sentenced to prison for cocaine possession, and she had been seen at parties where illegal drugs were used.

He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, with a specialization in international trade and Africa. In 1995, he graduated from the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, and he also completed the Foreign Ministry's trainee program for diplomats.

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They have two children, Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus. Haakon also became the stepfather of Mette-Marit's son, Marius Borg Høiby, who has no royal title.

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They wed in August 2001 at the Oslo Cathedral. The couple's popularity soared thanks to a carefully cultivated blend of the common touch and the glamour and grace demanded of royalty. They were constantly on the covers of gossip magazines, yet tried to live relatively normal and private family lives.

One task for the new king will be to shore up popular support for the royal family. Although a majority of people still support it, the proportion has declined in recent years and took a battering this year as Høiby's trial played out. Critics of Haakon's sister, Märtha Louise, who has written books in which she claimed to have contact with angels, also blame her for the family's reputational troubles.

The country was divided. Some cheered for love, others were skeptical. The Norwegian newspaper VG wrote in 2000 that Haakon “lives closer to the people than any other heir to the throne before him.”

In June, Høiby was sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of rape. He was found guilty of two of the four rape charges he was facing and acquitted of the other two. He was also convicted of assault and abuse in a close relationship. Høiby's lawyers said he will appeal the convictions.

In a May 2000 interview with NRK, Haakon said that in the early 1990s, “a youth culture emerged in Oslo” and he acknowledged that

In connection with the couple's 50th birthdays in 2023, NRK interviewed Haakon and aired an old video of him playing guitar, with Ingrid Alexandra and Mette-Marit singing, and another one where he and his children mimic the moves of a Norwegian rapper. He watched the clips and burst into laughter, saying that they showed that "I am all in."

Märtha Louise, who was previously married for 14 years, in 2024 wed Durek Verrett, an American who describes himself as a shaman and a healer on his website. In 2022, she announced that she would no longer officially represent the Norwegian royal house, following “many questions relating to me and my fiancé’s role.”

Mette-Marit was “an active part of this environment at the time.”

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Nevertheless, he won permission from his father, who had also married a commoner, to wed Mette-Marit. And despite her background, the Norwegian people found much to like about this statuesque blond woman with striking eyes and a ready smile, a down-to-earth manner and an undisguised love for Haakon.

The trial unfolded amid renewed scrutiny of the royal family following disclosures about Mette-Marit's past contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender. She has publicly apologized for the association and said she exercised poor judgment in maintaining contact with him. She isn't accused of any wrongdoing.

“It is clear that there is relatively extravagant partying there,” Haakon said.

In 2018, the royal palace announced that Mette-

In a television interview in March, she said she was manipulated and deceived by Epstein and felt unsafe during a 2013 encounter with him at his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion.

A poll published by Norway's Dagbladet newspaper in late 2022 showed $68\%$ of respondents saying they wanted to keep the monarchy. When NRK asked the same question in 2017, support for the royal house stood at $81\%$ .

Marit had been diagnosed with a rare form of chronic pulmonary fibrosis, meaning she sometimes must take a break from her official duties. The incurable condition made breathing increasingly difficult, and she had a dry cough and fatigue, weight loss and loss of appetite. She received a lung transplant in June.

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‘I don’t call it a flood. It was a tsunami’

A WOMAN salvages materials from her house deluged in sludge after flooding in Nepal's Nuwakot district.

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AN AERIAL view shows the aftermath of flooding along the Bhotekoshi River in Nuwakot, Nepal.

BY NIRANJAN SHRESTHA AND SHRISTI KAFLE

PEOPLE look at photographs of individuals reported dead outside a teaching hospital in Kathmandu.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety, as Nepal and China raced to respond to catastrophic flash floods that killed nearly 600 people and left almost 2,500 missing.

The rescue efforts included a team that rappelled into a severely damaged checkpoint area on the Chinese side of the border between the two countries. Rescuers were on high alert for more flooding from a new lake that formed high up in the Himalayan mountains after the initial floods Wednesday. Experts warned that the lake, created after a glacier collapse that triggered the floods, was starting to overflow.

Nepal's army was deployed to help rescue more than 100 people believed trapped inside a tunnel at a hydropower plant in the country's worst-hit district. Like elsewhere in the disaster zone, their work was complicated by thick layers of mud that covered the site.

The rappelling rescue team descended into the once-bustling border-crossing area from wooded mountain slopes, the state broadcaster China Central Television said.

"As far as I can see, it's nothing but debris," rescue official Zou Mingqi told state media. The area where travelers went through border control to enter or leave China has been flattened to a muddy area, according to satellite images.

The floods have killed 579 in Nepal, the country's disaster-management authority said Friday. Nepali police later put the number of deaths at 553. There was little information on survivors on the Chinese side, where the death toll rose to seven Friday as state media showed evacuations of villages and leaders' efforts to direct the relief response.

More than 3,700 people have been rescued in Nepal so far. Meanwhile, the number of people who were unaccounted for in the country nearly doubled to 1,924 as more local residents were added to the tally. China's state media said 554 people were missing on the Chinese side. Hundreds of the missing are foreigners in the area to work, trek or make a pilgrimage to a sacred peak.

In other developments, Nepal on Friday reversed an earlier decision and said it would allow foreign teams and experts to help with rescue efforts, apparently under pressure from other countries, especially those whose citizens are unaccounted for, a leading English-language newspaper, the Kathmandu Post, reported.

Nepali police issued a fresh alert Friday after receiving information that a dam on the Tibet side had burst. Security personnel and rescue and relief workers were told to stay on high alert and move to a safe location if necessary.

It was unclear if the dam bursting was related to flooding concerns over the lake that formed after the initial flash floods. Chinese broadcaster CCTV said the newly formed lake, more than 6 miles from Gyirong Port, the hard-hit border crossing with Nepal, sits at an elevation of 9,680 feet.

Nepali and Chinese authorities earlier warned of more flooding from the lake, which was already overflowing. Rescue workers heading to the disaster zone were ordered to stop temporarily Friday due to concern the lake would release more water and debris, and people in potentially affected areas were urged to move to safer ground.

Monitoring data from the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources later showed that the lake had dwindled in size. The water level dropped by 32 feet from the high point on Thursday morning, the state broadcaster said.

Some 680 rescuers eventually reached the Gyirong area by foot and via rafts. Some were dropped down from drones flown to the area, CCTV footage showed. "Anyone, anyone?" rescuers yelled, according to footage by the broadcaster.

It was not immediately known how many people were at the border checkpoint building when the floods hit.

In Nepal's Rasuwa district, Nepali army rescuers struggled to help more than 100 people believed to be trapped by thick mud in a tunnel that's part of the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project. The army said it had rescued 350 people from the tunnel so far. Video from the scene showed rescuers helping a man covered in mud out of the tunnel by pulling and pushing.

"It is complicated to find the entry and exit points of the tunnel because everything has been covered by mud," Army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Raja Ram Basnet said.

Nepal's disaster-management authority said 3,253 people had been airlifted by helicopter from the disaster area.

The search-and-rescue efforts have been supported by an outpouring of financial support from neighboring countries, including small, poorer countries such as Sri Lanka, said Kanni Wignaraja, the United Nations development agency's regional director for Asia and the Pacific.

“Sri Lanka has its own huge fiscal problems, but it has just sent \$1 million immediately to the Nepal government,” Wignaraja said.

Scientists who studied

satellite images said bedrock underneath a glacier high in the Himalayan region had collapsed, taking part of the glacier with it. The rockfall was so extreme that it registered as magnitude 5.2. The rocks and melted water then swelled the rivers in the valleys below, causing a torrent of water that swept buildings, bridges and earth downstream in Tibet and Nepal.

Customs officer Karbir Gaire was among some of the survivors in Timure, the closest Nepalese village to the border with China, where some 1,500 people had lived.

Gaire reached his office around 8 a.m. Wednesday and was working on his computer when he first felt the ground shake.

“Right after the shake, I noticed a black storm coming towards us,” he recalled from Kathmandu, where he is back with family. “We all immediately started running out, and within a few seconds, we were climbing uphill on the opposite side of our office building. I think those 10 or so seconds saved some of us.”

Fifteen of Gaire's colleagues are missing. "It was like a Hollywood movie scene. I don't call it a flood. It was a tsunami."

Nepal's tourism board has said that among the missing are more than 500 foreigners.

Although the Nepal government shared a public list of people they rescued, there was little information about victims on the Chinese side of the border.

Chinese government officials stuck to tight media controls. Information about major disasters is typically released with a delay and without personal stories of victims. State media has focused on stories of rescuers working to reach the disaster site or reporting on instructions from top leaders.

About 90 Americans were unaccounted for.

Some of the missing may have been on a pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash in Tibet, a sacred site for Hindus, Buddhists and others.

Indian spiritual guru Jaggi Vasudev, also known as Sadhguru, said in a post on X that 77 people returning from Mt. Kailash with groups organized by his Isha Foundation were at the immigration center in Gyirong when the flooding struck.

Vishnuram Ramaswamy, who works at a private company in the southern Indian city of Puducherry, said that he spoke to his mother and two sisters who were on that pilgrimage Wednesday.

“This was the last we spoke to them,” he said. “They have been unreachable since.”

Shrestha and Kafle write for the Associated Press. AP journalists Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Sibi Arasu in Bengaluru, India; Huizhong Wu in Bangkok; Upendra Mansingh in Nuwakot district, Nepal; Aijaz Hussain in Srinagar, India; Rod McGuirk in Melbourne; Farnoush Amiri in New York; Matthew Lee and Didi Tang in Washington; and Hannah Schoenbaum in Utah contributed to this report.

Glacier risks are growing as Himalayan mountains warm

flood.

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AFTERMATH of deadly floods in Nuwakot, Nepal. The disaster followed part of a glacier breaking off.

By SIBI ARASU

BENGALURU, India — The deadly flash flood in Nepal on Wednesday was probably caused by a huge chunk of a glacier that broke off and temporarily dammed a river, according to preliminary investigations by scientists. That may have led to the backed-up water surging downstream with enormous force a few hours later, they suggested.

Scientists are still piecing together information from satellite and ground-level data to figure out exactly what happened to cause the flood, which killed at least 353 people and left more than 1,300 missing, including foreigners and pilgrims.

The U.S. Geological Survey on Wednesday reported a magnitude 5.2 glacier collapse that sent debris flowing downstream with catastrophic impact on communities. It said its determination was based on data from nearby seismic stations, long period seismic waves and satellite imagery.

"A lower part of a glacier has really come off," said Jakob Steiner, a geoscientist at the University of Graz in Austria who is currently based in Bangladesh. "If you look at the imagery, it's like someone cut with a huge knife through the whole lower part and it fell off."

Steiner said a mass of glacial ice dropping from a great height could have felt like a bomb exploding, resulting in the chaos that followed.

Scientists said it is too early to draw a direct connection between global warming and Wednesday's catastrophe. However, they said that as Earth's temperature rises because of human activities such as burning oil, gas and coal, the chances of such disasters increase, especially in the Himalayan mountains, which are warming considerably faster than many other parts of the world.

“We have to be cautious and not draw a connection yet. However, rising temperatures are changing the Hindu Kush Himalaya region and melting glaciers,” said Saswat Sanyal, a disaster risk reduction specialist at the Kathmandu-based climate research group International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.

Hundreds have lost their homes across the Himalayan region, and officials reported large-scale damage to critical infrastructure including hydropower dams, roads, buildings and bridges

in the region.

No chance to escape

Water levels in rivers across the flood-affected region rose by as much as 29.5 feet in 30 minutes as a result of the surge from the glacial detachment upstream, researchers at the Kathmandu-based climate research group said.

"It was a huge rise, a huge surge of water that happened suddenly," said Sanyal.

Preliminary evidence suggests a large volume of ice and rock may have plunged into the Lhende Khola, a tributary of the Bhotekoshi River. Researchers said the collapse could have displaced water and picked up loose sediment and boulders, producing a powerful surge downstream. Researchers are also examining whether debris temporarily dammed the river before the impounded water burst through, magnifying the

Steiner said the area has a history of destructive mountain hazards. Floods originating from a glacial lake struck the same valley in 2025, while an ice and rock avalanche occurred elsewhere in the area in 2024. The broader Langtang region was also hit by devastating avalanches during Nepal's 2015 earthquake.

Increasing risks

The Hindu Kush Himalaya is warming rapidly, driving major changes in glaciers, snow cover, permafrost and mountain slopes, according to climate scientists.

The mountains contain the largest volume of snow and ice outside the polar regions. More than 63,000 glaciers in the area feed at least 10 major Asian river systems and support the food, water, energy and livelihood security of billions of people.

However, around 78% of the glacier area, located between 4,500 and 6,000 meters above sea level, is highly exposed to warming.

“What happened yesterday is unfortunately the new normal. It’s going to get worse from here onwards,” Steiner said.

The last decade was the hottest multiyear period globally since records began, and 2024 was the warmest year ever recorded. United Nations reports have found that between 2000 and 2019, glaciers lost 267 gigatons of ice per year, roughly equivalent to the mass of 46,500 Great Pyramids of Giza.

In a warming world, the reports project the loss of up to 50% of all glaciers — excluding those in Greenland and Antarctica — by 2100, even if global warming can be limited to 2.7 degrees.

Current global policies put Earth on a trajectory to warm by about 5 degrees above preindustrial levels by the end of the century.

Research by the Kathmandu-based group has found that glaciers across these mountains are melting at an accelerating rate, with ice-loss rates doubling since 2000.

Melting glaciers can feed and enlarge glacial lakes, increasing the potential for sudden floods.

As glaciers retreat, mountain rock that was previously insulated and supported by ice becomes exposed to warmer temperatures, rain and repeated freezing and thawing. Permafrost — ground that has remained frozen for years — can also thaw, weakening rock faces and slopes.

"The chances that material starts to move down from mountains increase," Steiner said.

Sanyal said that may be the kind of cascading hazard behind what happened Wednesday in Nepal: An avalanche or glacier collapse that turns into a debris flow, river blockage and devastating flash flood.

Lack of warnings

Steiner said about 10% of Nepal's power production was located in the valley affected by the latest disaster. He said the repeated losses raise questions about whether enough has been done to install warning systems for residents and visitors alike after previous floods and avalanches.

The country's landscape has long been a draw for tourists, with more than a million people visiting the country annually in recent years.

Scientists say stronger early warning systems, better monitoring and faster cross-border information sharing will be increasingly important as temperatures rise and mountain landscapes become less stable.

But monitoring thousands of glaciers, steep slopes and river valleys across the Himalayan arc is extremely difficult.

And when cascading disasters begin, there may be only minutes to act.

“We don’t have hours,” Sanyal said. “We have sometimes a few minutes to actually prepare.”

Steiner said a “red line” has already been reached where some regions of Nepal are just too risky to live in now.

“We expected previous similar disasters to be a wake-up call for governments in the Himalayan region, but it’s a bit frustrating that the damages never seem to be horrible enough,” Steiner said.

"I'm not super optimistic that from tomorrow onwards there will be clear solutions," he added. "We know what can be done, but various stakeholders need to coordinate and make things happen."

Arasu writes for the Associated Press.

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'Moral red line' on killer robots already crossed, arms experts say

Autonomous systems have reportedly killed humans in recent conflicts.

By Corinne Purtill

The heads of the United Nations and the Red Cross called for greater controls on autonomous weapons systems — so-called killer robots — this week, warning that the technology's advancement is outpacing regulation at a deadly rate.

"We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the autonomous targeting of humans by machines," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and International Committee of the Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger said in a joint statement released Tuesday.

But experts on the use of artificial intelligence in combat say that line already has been crossed. A Russian drone that killed three civilians in southeastern Ukraine in July appeared to have been guided to its final target solely by artificial intelligence, according to news reports.

Though the drone was programmed to travel to a particular gas station by human operators, its final target probably was selected by the weapon's own internal system.

"The weapons had no antenna for human piloting and had a powerful onboard computer with pretrained target categories," said Stuart Russell, a UC Berkeley professor of computer sciences and president of the International Assn. for Safe & Ethical AI.

Although the three sheltering civilians killed when the drone crashed into a wall appear to be the first non-combatant deaths by autonomous weapons, they may not be the first human casualties.

Ukraine conducted a one-off experimental test of fully autonomous drones two years ago that killed Russian soldiers, according to an official quoted in New Scientist magazine.

“If we need to put a date on it, [that experiment] strikes me as the Rubicon moment,” said Ryan Jenkins, a Cal Poly associate professor of philosophy and senior fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group who studies the ethics of automated war. “I believe, unfortunately, that the line has been crossed."

Military technology has been moving steadily toward greater automation for decades, Jenkins said. The crucial distinction of the most recent class of AI weaponry is that it removes humans from the “kill chain” entirely, instead of relying on automation only for individual functions such as detecting or tracking targets.

The U.N. and Red Cross called for a ban on autonomous weapons that target humans, as opposed to incoming missiles or infrastructure targets, or that are “unpredictable,” meaning that a human operator can’t predict the outcome once the weapon is deployed.

It's the second such appeal the organizations have made in three years. Yet meaningful, comprehensive control of AI both on the battlefield and off has languished, largely because trust between governments and understanding of the technology and its risks are lacking, Russell said.

In the meantime, autonomous weapons have only gotten cheaper and more sophisticated, making them even more attractive to states and harder to keep off the battlefield.

“Once a weapon is used in battle, and once it shows itself to confer an advantage, it becomes much more difficult for countries to give that up,” Jenkins said. “In the last decade or so since I’ve been studying killer robots, it’s often seemed to me that activists were racing to ban these weapons before they were shown to be useful on the battlefield. Now, I think those looking for a ban have basically lost that race.”

International calls for greater restrictions on autonomous weapons systems come as negotiators prepare to meet in Geneva in November to strengthen the existing Convention on Conventional Weapons. The U.N. and Red Cross say the conference “offers the clearest path available” toward binding legal rules on the use of such weaponry.

The years-long effort to rein in the use of autonomous weapons systems has struggled to produce limits. The new push comes against the backdrop of drones and other technologies used in the Russia-Ukraine war and the conflicts in the Middle East, Sudan and other places.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A FIREFIGHTER scans the sky for drones while waiting to return to a warehouse blaze in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Russia continues aerial attack on Kyiv for second consecutive day

BY HANNA ARHIROVA AND BARRY HATTON

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces on Friday resumed their drone barrage of Ukraine's Kyiv region, hitting more than a dozen apartment buildings and storage depots in a second straight day of aerial attacks, officials said.

Prolonged air raids in Kyiv on Thursday essentially locked down the Ukrainian capital for 15 hours, the Foreign Ministry said, choking the economy and severely disrupting civilian life more than $4 \frac{1}{2}$ years after Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbor. Even longer alerts are a daily reality in regions closer to the front line, the ministry said.

Russian drone and missile attacks are also taking aim at the power grid in what Ukrainian officials say is an annual campaign to “weaponize winter.” In Ukraine’s southern Kherson region on the Black Sea, where glide bombs a day earlier forced a combined heat and power plant to shut down, officials predicted a winter of extended outages and told people to move elsewhere if they could.

Russian strikes in the Kyiv region damaged 14 warehouses, 16 private houses, three apartment buildings and 16 vehicles, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional military administration, said Friday.

A second drone hit one location after emergency crews were deployed, the State Emergency Service said, in what is termed by the military as a “double tap” that targets first responders.

The attacks killed one person and wounded two others, according to officials.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces overnight struck a warehouse in the Kyiv region that stores Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missiles and fuel for rocket boosters.

Ukrainian officials didn't immediately confirm the Russian claim, and the Associated Press couldn't verify it. Recent strikes have damaged numerous warehouses across Kyiv and the wider region, including facilities storing books, food and other consumer goods.

The attacks stretched into daylight hours, and Tkachenko urged residents to stay in safe locations and heed air raid alerts.

Russia is launching small numbers of fast-moving jet-powered drones in waves in an attempt to paralyze the capital, according to Andrii Kovalenko, head of Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council.

"The goal is to exhaust air defenses and the population," he said on social media on Friday.

Kyiv region authorities said that air quality worsened because of the attacks and warned people in some areas to keep their windows closed and limit their time outdoors.

Four Russian glide bombs destroyed a sorting center belonging to the postal service Nova Poshta in the northern Sumy region, and a drone smashed one of its depots in the Kyiv region, the company said.

In the southern Kherson region, which is about 70% under Russian control, officials urged tens of thousands of residents to move to safer regions because of the possibility of prolonged power and heating outages this winter.

“Kherson may be without electricity and heat not for hours or days, but for a long time. And we need to prepare for this now,” said Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson regional military administration, in a social media post late Thursday.

Russia has intensified attacks on critical infrastructure in the region, with 170 glide bombs dropped on the Kherson region since July 1 — more than in the first six months of the year, Prokudin said.

Russia has also launched more than 1,700 attack drones over the last two months, increasingly using jet-powered Shahed and Gerbera drones against critical infrastructure, he said, and attacks by smaller drones rose to 6,500 in the last week alone.

Authorities will offer help with evacuation, transportation, resettlement and social support for those who decide to leave, he said.

Russia fired 164 drones at Ukraine overnight, Ukraine's air force said. It didn't mention missiles, which usually are part of Russia's aerial attacks.

A 61-year-old man was killed and seven other people were wounded Friday in a Russian glide bomb attack on the northern Sumy region, said Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy regional military administration.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that its air defenses overnight shot down 512 Ukrainian drones over 18 Russian regions, as well as over the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula and the waters of the Black Sea.

Ukrainian forces struck the Slavneft-YANOS refinery in Russia's Yaroslavl region overnight, causing a fire, Ukraine's General Staff said, as Ukraine continued its campaign against the Russian oil sector.

A fire broke out at the site, which is about 600 miles from the border with Ukraine, the General Staff said. The plant produces gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel, fuel oil, lubricants and other petroleum products, it added.

A Ukrainian drone attack on Friday morning in the Yaroslavl region killed one person and wounded 27 other people, Gov. Mikhail Yevrayev said. Ten of those were wounded when drone debris fell on a bus, he said.

He said that unspecified “industrial infrastructure,” residential areas and unidentified retail facilities were hit.

In the Moscow region that surrounds but doesn't include the Russian capital, a drone hit a supermarket, damaging it and shattering windows in a nearby outpatient clinic, Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said on Telegram.

In the port city of Sevastopol in Crimea, a five-story residential building suffered significant damage from a drone, according to the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev. Four people were wounded, he said. He posted images of a charred building with windows and balconies knocked out.

Arhirova and Hatton write for the Associated Press. Hatton reported from Lisbon, Portugal.

Was forced contraception in Greenland genocide?

NAAJA H. Nathanielsen, center, Greenlandic MP of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, in Copenhagen on Thursday.

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NUUK, Greenland — Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were split over whether the practice constituted genocide.

The Greenlandic government, which commissioned the inquiry, released the reports Friday but, when pressed by journalists during a news conference, would not say whether its leaders had concluded whether a genocide had occurred. The government told the authors to use the definition under the United Nations' 1948 genocide convention, which includes “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.”

The reports come as President Trump pushes to control the Arctic island, which is a self-governing territory of Denmark. The leaders of Greenland and Denmark say the island is not for sale and only Greenlanders can decide their fate.

Known as the “spiral case,” the revelations have rocked both Denmark and Greenland. More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, previously came forward to investigators and reported that they were forcibly given contraception by

Danish health authorities.

The Inuit victims, many of them teenagers at the time, said they were either fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices, known as IUDs or coils, or given a hormonal birth control injection. They were not told details about the procedure, nor did they give their consent.

Denmark says more than 4,000 women and girls — reportedly half the fertile women in Greenland at the time — received IUDs between the 1960s and mid-1970s.

The alleged purpose was to limit population growth in Greenland by preventing pregnancies. The population on the Arctic island was rapidly increasing at the time due to better living conditions and better healthcare.

The cases occurred between the 1960s and early 1990s. Greenland took over its own healthcare programs on Jan. 1, 1992.

The Danish government on Thursday approved pay- outs of about \$46,500 to each victim. Danish Prime Min- ister Mette Frederiksen offi- cially apologized last year.

Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said a reconciliation commission would be set up, a move that Frederiksen endorsed in a statement Friday.

On Friday, the Greenlandic government accepted the findings of only one of the reports, saying an expert found that the second — the one that definitively said a genocide had not taken place — did not meet recognized scientific standards.

"There is no empirical evidence to assume that any Danish or Greenlandic authority, or any individual healthcare professional, at any time had any intention of destroying the Greenlandic population or a significant proportion of it," the authors of the rejected report wrote. "There was no genocide."

The accepted report, however, did not conclude whether there was a genocide. The authors wrote that they were not able to determine if any intent to destroy the population existed solely through the forcible contraception cases, and suggested further study that encompassed other Danish practices at the time that affected Greenlandic children and families.

The authors did not, unlike those of the other report, conclusively say a genocide did not occur.

"It is difficult to imagine circumstances in which an attempt to substantially reduce the population of a single ethnic group could not constitute an intent to destroy, in part, that ethnicity," the report said.

The reports were originally supposed to be a single publication, but two of the four members of the group broke away several months ago and wrote their own report. Theirs was the one rejected by the island's government; one of the authors is a former director of the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

"The reason given was professional disagreements amongst the members and, to some extent, concerns about the geopolitical situation," the Greenlandic government said Friday in a news release.

The news release did not elaborate on what the two authors considered to be the geopolitical situation.

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A STATUE of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. towers over participants in Friday's event, which recalled the slain leader's march in 1963.

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Civil rights groups rally in D.C. as midterms near

Many in March on Washington view high court's April ruling as threat to Black voters.

BY MATT BROWN AND MATTHEW JUNKROSKI

WASHINGTON — Voting rights, the work of the civil rights movement and racial justice took center stage on the National Mall on Friday, with protesters gathering ahead of midterm elections and following a wave of changes to voting laws and redistricting that some have condemned as detrimental to Black Americans.

Hundreds of people gathered near the Lincoln Memorial for the 2026 “Defend the Vote” March on Washington, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, echoing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 march. The event follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark April decision in Louisiana vs. Callais that reinterpreted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, allowing Southern states to redraw their congressional maps in a way that erodes equal representation in Black communities.

“We’ve been doing these marches for years, but this is probably the most important because this is the first year we are marching that the voting rights bill has been nullified by the Supreme Court,” said Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network.

United States is at a 'dangerous moment'

Friday's event recalled King Jr.'s historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, when more than 200,000 people gathered at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial. That march, an inflection point in the civil rights movement, came at a fraught moment, when economic headwinds, civil unrest and political division bitterly divided Americans.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), one of dozens of speakers at the event, said that now is a “very dangerous moment in American history” and that the “dream of a more just and equitable society has never been under greater threat than it is right now.”

He placed blame on Republican President Trump and the Supreme Court's conservative majority, listing attempts to purge voter rolls, obtain sensitive voter data, restrict mail-in and early voting, and redraw congressional districts as part of threats to voting rights.

“Today, we have a president along with the Supreme Court members he appointed carrying out the most significant assault on voting rights since segregation, targeting virtually every aspect of the electoral system,” Sanders said.

Martin Luther King III told the AP the civil rights movement's work "is further eroding" in the wake of the April ruling.

He said his father would be disappointed with the state of the country, but current civil rights advocates should be undaunted.

“Had he lived, we’d be on a totally different trajectory,” King said. “These would not be issues; they would have been resolved. I don't think he would be surprised because he understands our history and understands those who are trying to retain power. But the challenge is challenging our communities to engage even more."

King's Drum Major Institute, a progressive think tank and community action group, co-hosted the march with Sharpton's group.

Ray Turner, a 65-year-old Maryland retiree, sat Friday on the steps in front of the Lincoln Memorial. He came independently, carrying a sign that read “(Puny) Hands off our elections.”

"The lies about the 2020 election being stolen continue to be sounded, even though they've been disproved," Turner said, adding, "Now they're trying to use this to prevent people who are legal citizens, legal voters, from voting."

Sharpton said the Trump administration's immigration policy for Haitians and white South Africans, as well as cuts to social programs, are unifying concerns for this year's march attendees. But redistricting efforts by Republican-led states set to reduce the number of Black lawmakers in Congress loom large.

“This march is about people who refuse to be counted out. When the courts and the legislature broke apart District 6, they did not just redraw lines,” Rep. Cleo Fields (D-La.) said in a texted statement. “They told hundreds of thousands of Black families from Baton Rouge up through the Delta that their voice could be taken away at any moment.”

Fields' district was central in the Supreme Court decision that hollowed out the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The court ruled that his district, created just one term ago to permit a second majority-Black district in a state where Blacks make up $33\%$ of the population, was unconstitutional because it relied too heavily on race.

The court has held that maps can be redrawn for partisan reasons.

Louisiana's legislature rushed to redraw the district after the decision, reshaping it to cluster around predominantly white communities in the Baton Rouge area and southern Louisiana.

Fields has opted not to seek reelection to Congress and instead is pursuing a seat in the state Senate.

Continuing the push for voting rights

Rep. Shomari Figures, an Alabama Democrat whose majority-Black district was targeted by the state's Republican-led redistricting effort, said the original voting rights fight required local movements, national figures, lots of coordination and strategy. He sees this year's march as a continuation of that legacy.

"My district includes Montgomery, which was the birthplace of it all. It started with a bus boycott in 1955 and that, ultimately, morphed into a broader struggle for civil rights and led to a more broad civil rights movement," Figures told the AP.

Ahead of Friday, organizations participating in the march filed new claims in their federal lawsuit against President Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting. The Supreme Court cleared a path Monday for possible implementation of the order, though it remains unclear how much can be put in place before the midterms.

Late Thursday, a federal judge in Boston who is hearing some of the lawsuits against that executive order put a temporary halt on the administration from moving forward with it. Time is running short to make any significant changes to voting in the midterms, with the first mail ballots scheduled to be sent out next week.

Brown and Junkroski write for the Associated Press. AP writers Gary Fields in Washington and Kimberly Chandler in Montgomery, Ala., contributed to this report.

Blanche defends record as political pressure mounts

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U.S. ATTY. GEN. Todd Blanche faces tests over his loyalty to President Trump.

BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche's fidelity to President Trump nearly cost him his confirmation. Now comes Blanche's real test.

Trump's former personal attorney has stepped into the commanding role facing a challenge that other leaders of the Republican president's Department of Justice could not overcome: threading the needle between Trump's boundary-busting demands and a prosecutor's duty to uphold the rule of law. At the same time, Blanche must try to stabilize a workforce shaken by an exodus of experienced lawyers and an erosion of trust in the judicial branch.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Associated Press during a trip to Puerto Rico this week, Blanche promised to lead the department with integrity, dismissing concerns from critics who say his actions so far — including an indictment against longtime Trump foe and former FBI Director James Comey — call into question whether Blanche is still functioning as Trump's personal lawyer.

A slew of ongoing politically charged investigations under Blanche's watch could force him to choose between his long-standing loyalty to the president and the foundational principles of the Cabinet agency he leads. At stake is the fate of a department already reeling under a president who has made clear his desire for retribution over the criminal scrutiny he faced.

"My integrity, my commitment to the rule of law is the same today that it was the day I graduated," Blanche told the AP when asked where he would draw the line on requests from the White House. "I would never do anything unethical or improper or violate my oath, no matter the circumstances."

Critics disagree.

As acting attorney general, Blanche came under fire from lawmakers, including many Republicans, for signing off on a \$1.8-billion fund meant to compensate Trump's allies who believed they were politically prosecuted. He also greenlighted a deal that granted Trump, the Trump Organization, and two of his sons immunity from tax audits. Those moves, unusual steps aimed at granting the president and his allies far-reaching benefits, put Blanche's confirmation at risk, prompting key senators to express concern.

In the AP interview, Blanche addressed criticism of the department under his leadership, his priorities as attorney general and losses the administration has had in high-profile cases. He also depicted the Justice Department as an institution whose independence had eroded long ago — a characterization at odds with decades of fierce autonomy that challenged the highest echelons of power in Washington and beyond.

Blanche, a former federal prosecutor in New York, is walking the same tightrope as Trump's three other Senate-confirmed attorneys general. They found their pledges to uphold the rule of law and the department's ethical norms at odds with the president's demands to bend the institution to his will. During Trump's first term, one attorney general infuriated Trump over his withdrawal from an investigation into Trump's winning White House campaign and was forced out. Another submitted his resignation weeks after breaking with Trump over Trump's false claims of election fraud. Blanche's immediate predecessor, Pam Bondi, was ousted in April after failing to deliver successful prosecutions against the president's political enemies.

Blanche's narrow confirmation this month over opposition from two Republican senators underscored growing concerns about the dismantling of the Justice Department's long-standing tradition of independence from the White House, which is meant to protect the impartiality of politically sensitive investigations and prosecutions.

Blanche bristles at the suggestion that the Justice Department should be independent of the president and he has made clear his view that the executive has both the power and the right to shape and control the law enforcement agency.

He has staunchly defended the integrity of cases the administration has brought against the president's perceived political opponents, often pointing to his own experience representing Trump in criminal cases brought by Democratic President Biden's Justice Department. Blanche and the president have characterized those cases as politically motivated.

"I think attorneys general and others have said, ‘Oh, we’re independent.’ I don’t think that’s actually true," Blanche told the AP.

Blanche claimed the Justice Department was not truly independent when he was a federal prosecutor or during the Biden administration. But that characterization ignores the fact that under Biden, the Justice Department investigated Biden himself over his handling of classified documents and secured felony charges in two separate cases against his son Hunter before Biden pardoned him.

The two criminal cases filed by special counsel Jack Smith against Trump were based on allegations, supported by long-running investigations, that Trump had classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and obstructed government efforts to get them back, and conspired to overturn the 2020 election.

Blanche has sought to highlight the administration's focus on tackling illegal immigration, violent crime and drug-trafficking cartels, spotlighting cases such as the takedown of a Puerto Rican gang that he announced during his visit to the U.S. island territory.

But Blanche's policy priorities are often overshadowed by a growing number of investigations that have drawn criticism that the department is being used as a weapon in the president's campaign of retribution.

Blanche's supporters have argued that the close relationship he developed with Trump while serving as his criminal defense lawyer can make him more effective at pushing back on or explaining the legal constraints of the president's demands. Others wonder whether he will fare any better than Bondi up against the same skeptical court system, and factual and legal hurdles, that impeded efforts to deliver the sought-after results.

Blanche is also confronting growing distrust of the Justice Department among judges, who in multiple cases have accused government lawyers of withholding information or misleading courts. Courts in some cases have quashed subpoenas or ordered the review of grand jury transcripts, and the criminal cases against Comey and New York Atty. Gen. Letitia James were dismissed after a judge found the prosecutor who brought them was illegally appointed.

But Blanche played down concerns that the erosion of judicial trust could impede his efforts to advance his agenda.

"The isolated incidents that make the news are not reflective of the way the bench feels in my view, or the way prosecutors are doing their job around the country," Blanche said.

A possible miscount of recreational vehicles

CHRISTOPHER Minsal, president of the Pearblossom Town Council, drives past trash littering the terrain.
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desert beyond the incorporated cities of Palmdale and Lancaster. That was down from 1,432 the previous year. The reduction accounted for three-fourths of a 21% countywide decrease in RVs that kept the countywide 1.2% increase in homelessness from being worse.

If only it were true.

Minsal and other locals interviewed by The Times wonder where nearly 800 RVs disappeared to. They didn't see them being towed away, they say.

"The numbers are definitely wrong," said Jose Centeno, another Pearblossom Town Council member. "The number hasn't gone down. If anything, it's increased."

The record suggests a miscount, possibly several miscounts among Pearblossom and its neighboring desert hamlets stretching east to the San Bernardino County line: Littlerock, Llano, Lake Los Angeles and Sun Village. Tallies for Littlerock/Pearblossom, for example, jumped last year to 349 from only four the year before, then dropped to 253; in Llano, they more than tripled to 631 last year, then more than halved this year to 298.

These wild swings in the numbers came while residents here didn't notice any change to the slow but steady arrival of newcomers in dilapidated coaches.

A three-year average points to a likely overcount in 2025, compounded by an undercount in 2024. Skipping last year, the two-year increase of 164 reflects a change locals find believable. The effect on this year's overall increase for the county is impossible to calculate, but it probably would have pushed it up.

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority did not dispute that assessment but defended its method for counting an area “unique because of the vast, often desolate terrain.”

“Over the last few years, a combination of outreach teams, the Palmdale Police Department’s drone, and a consistent group of local volunteers with unique knowledge of the areas they cover has conducted the region’s count,” the agency said in a statement.

Minsal, who led the teams that canvassed three large census tracts with the greatest variation, said he recalls their 2025 count being lower and thinks a digital glitch doubled it.

The apparently illusory swings show the difficulty of accurately counting homeless people in the expanse of north Los Angeles County. At a deeper level, it challenges the accepted meaning of homelessness.

Minsal, a desert-loving, kilt-wearing muralist of Mexican and Scottish descent, painted a layered picture of social pressure and government neglect that have turned his childhood paradise into what he calls an ecological disaster.

“I used to be able to walk barefoot from here to my house,” he said, his truck kicking up dust on a road a few miles from his home. “Never step on a piece of trash.”

Today, he says, the trash is just one element of a collage of homelessness, lawlessness and the pursuit of the American dream coexisting, or clashing, off the grid in a vast space far from the attention of anyone but the locals who know its back roads intimately.

Minsal befriends some RV dwellers. Even while acknowledging they can't legally live where they do — no permits, no addresses, no hookups — he sees them as productive members of his community of just under 2,500.

"These people here are trying to live the American dream," he said, driving by a cluster of RVs in a fenced yard landscaped with young trees. "There are kids who live there that go to my kids' school. See how they're planting trees? People don't put trees on their property if they don't care about it. But guess what? Those six trailers over there, they're all homeless people. They don't have an address."

Minsal pointed out other vehicles so wretched that he had no qualms about classifying their inhabitants as homeless squatters and likely heavy drug users. Others, with flapping doors and broken windows, were surely abandoned, he said.

He looks for telltale signs of habitation. "Is there a small generator? Are all the windows intact? Is there fresh trash? Is there plastic on the roof?"

He passed several forks in the road blocked by hand-made plywood signs warning, some in English and some in Spanish, that the roads were closed.

“They’ll go to take over a spot,” he said. “They’ll close the road. A lot of them huddle up. The reason they huddle up is because it’s dangerous.”

Deeper into the desert he drove by several blocklong compounds carved into the creosote and Joshua trees and hidden behind walls of found objects — one surrounded by maybe a hundred castoff garage doors and another with a twostory plywood structure rising above its perimeter fence.

“This is a pure 100% illegal compound,” Minsal said of one. “This is people squatting on someone’s land.”

He suspected some of the larger compounds are probably connected to Mexican cartels operating in the Antelope Valley, although there is no way to know. He pointed out one compound as the infamous spot where chopped-up bodies were found last year.

All of them — RVs, make-shift shelters, a few shipping containers and one compound of discarded school bungalows — fall within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's definition of homelessness as living in “a public or private place not meant for human habitation.”

Charles Bostwick, Antelope Valley field deputy for L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, sees them in a liminal space between homelessness and housed.

"The vast majority are not classic homeless people," he said. "Most own property or are paying a real estate company with the intention of buying. It's not squatters. It's people who own or buy the land. Sometimes they let their friends move in. You have a motor home or trailer and four cars."

Bostwick finds it hard to generalize about them.

“I agree that some people are just trying to find a place to live they can afford,” he said. “Others are methamphetamine users. They steal copper, tear down the phone line, accept payments for dumping construction waste, organic waste on their property.”

Minsal believes it's possible to balance tougher code enforcement against the criminal element with legalization of those who are "surviving, just trying to do their best."

He proposes a quick, low-cost process for people to establish an address.

“We’re going to have to allow hauled water,” he said. “We’re going to have to allow off-grid living. All of them live off grid. They’re not criminals. They’re not bad. There should be a formula for that.”

That formula, he contends, should include trash collection.

"There's no trash service out here," he said. "You can't get trash service unless you have an address."

Bostwick sees little hope for that plan.

"You couldn't give them an address," he said. "They're not really on a road. They're just on a path that twists through the desert. They violate all sorts of fire codes, health laws, state laws. They don't have power. They have unpermitted solar panels that catch fire and burn the place up. The RVs are old and the systems in them don't work. Nothing there is fit or approved for human habitation."

The intractable source of the problem, Bostwick said, is that the desert is for sale and real estate operations, some out-of-state, buy and then resell online. He described a conversation with a constituent who asked for help getting an address for an RV. She found the property on Google and was making payments by getting prepaid debit cards and transferring the code by phone. To access a legitimate road, she'd have to bulldoze a driveway across two other parcels.

He told her she couldn't live legally in an RV.

“She said the real estate guy told her she could,” Bostwick said.

Besides the painful consequences for deceived buyers, code enforcement has the limitation of due process, Bostwick said.

“You've got people who own that land,” he said. “They get orders to remove themselves from that land. They won't obey. We could try to charge them criminally. I don't know how easy it would be to convince a Lancaster jury to convict somebody of living in their RV.”

A spokeswoman from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works said the agency has authority to order inoperable or unoccupied vehicles removed from private property but uses it only in response to complaints. It took no actions against any RVs in unincorporated Antelope Valley in 2025, she said.

Public Works addresses waste left in the public rightof-way on county-maintained roads but can't work on private property or off road except in conjunction with a code violation and enforcement action, the spokeswoman said.

Bostwick said the most recent county cleanups ejected a handful of RVs from Pearblossom in 2022 and Sun Valley in 2023. Most of those dislodged from the town centers probably relocated elsewhere in the desert, he said.

Lancaster and Palmdale, the two incorporated cities of Antelope Valley, about 15 miles west of Pearblossom, also attract unauthorized RVs. But there they get more attention.

Pathway Home, Los Angeles County's encampment removal program, has conducted 10 operations in the two cities and their immediate unincorporated islands, bringing a total of 303 people off the streets. RVs weren't distinguished in the numbers, but at least two major operations removed RV encampments. Each action involves months of preparation, developing a by-name list of people in the encampment and offering shelter at a county-purchased motel in Lancaster.

One recent morning, four county cars pulled out of that motel on Sierra Highway.

In an undeveloped eastern part of the city, the caravan turned off the pavement and bumped along a dirt road to an opening in the Joshua trees where a broken-down recreational vehicle came into view.

“Anyone here?” Letre Kelly, an outreach worker, called out. No one replied.

Through a cloud of dust, the caravan moved on another quarter of a mile to an RV showing clear signs of habitation: two lines of clothes hung to dry and a child's broken pedal car in the dirt.

A young man with bobbed hair and an ankle monitor emerged. Outreach workers in green shirts handed him bottled water and hygiene kits.

He told them his partner inside the van was pregnant. Standing in 100-degree-plus heat, outreach worker Dawn Hollins talked on her cellphone searching for a place to take her in.

“This is no place for a pregnant woman,” Kelly said.

They said they'd have to return that afternoon to confirm her condition before anyone would take her. The team submitted a referral to Valley Oasis, a provider of trauma and homeless services and housing, a spokesman for the county Department of Homeless Services and Housing said.

The outreach team and Valley Oasis tried several times to contact the couple but were unsuccessful.

Administration considers trading a piece of Yosemite

WILLIAM HALE IRWIN For The Times
THE BACKSIDE of Half Dome as seen from Olmsted Point in Yosemite National Park in June.

[Yosemite, from A1] owner is seeking to acquire an “interest” in land within the park to build a new road connecting “a planned commercial development” to Big Oak Flat Road, an existing federally owned road that “provides access to the park and is a major route to Yosemite Valley.”

The fact sheet said the National Park Service does not have the authority to grant that interest but has been working with the landowner to facilitate an “exchange” of the land for some other, unidentified parcel that is beneficial to the U.S., as allowed under law for federal land swaps.

The project has been identified to lawmakers, without explanation, as a “priority.” Both Padilla and Schiff have objected to it, and staffers in Padilla’s office said they are working with Senate Appropriations Committee staffers to block the deal.

"The Land and Water Conservation Fund exists to acquire land and interests in land in order to safeguard natural areas, water resources, and cultural heritage — and to provide recreation opportunities for all Americans," Padilla said in a statement to The Times. "Projects should be chosen on merit, not on an applicant's connections to high-ranking Trump administration officials."

Schiff, in his own statement, said that Yosemite is “one of California’s natural wonders, and must be protected from further development.”

He said the Trump administration “appears hell-bent on moving forward in the face of opposition from the public, Congress and the courts,” and that “the only thing the administration cares about is whether there is money involved.”

The company behind the private development is Nevada-based real estate developer and investment firm Kingsbarn Realty Capital. According to Federal Election Commission records, Kingsbarn Chief Executive Jeff Pori is a donor to Trump, the Republican National Committee and other Republican groups.

Lanny Davis, a former special counsel to President Clinton, represents Kingsbarn, and said the notion that the project is moving forward because of Trump administration pressure and Pori's political contributions despite being environmentally detrimental is false.

He said Kingsbarn wants to build “upscale, single-family houses” on its property but hasn’t so far because residents would have to drive 28 miles using current roads to reach the park.

To cut that distance and make the development more feasible, it asked the National Park Service to purchase an 11-mile strip of land within Yosemite to build a shorter, more direct access road, Davis said.

The Park Service responded by saying the company could not purchase park land directly but could purchase other nearby land of equal or greater value, and then swap it for the park land, Davis said.

It is now working with the Interior Department to identify such land, and is “very close” to doing so, Davis said — calling it a “pro-environmental solution” that follows federal law and has “nothing to do” with Pori’s politics.

The White House referred questions about the proposed deal to the Interior Department.

In its statement to The Times, the Interior Department said the NOTUS story "relies on anonymous allegations to manufacture a political narrative that simply is not true. There has been no political pressure to reach a predetermined outcome, and claims suggesting the Department is secretly working to hand over National Park Service land to a private developer are false."

If a proposal does advance, the statement said, the department will follow established procedures with “transparency and public involvement consistent with federal law. Anonymous speculation does not change those facts.”

The department did not respond to a request for more details about the pro-

posal.

The land in question represents a tiny portion of sprawling Yosemite National Park, which is nearly 750,000 acres in total — or roughly the size of Rhode Island. Still, slicing off any piece of the California wilderness — considered a crown jewel in the national park system — runs counter to promises from Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.

"My Administration is committed to protecting every acre of our lands and preserving the cleanest air and water in the world," Trump said in a presidential message Monday.

Ceding federal lands is also anathema to land preservation groups, which expressed dismay at the idea that any piece of Yosemite might be lost, no matter how small.

Aaron Weiss, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, said the NOTUS reporting was “consistent” with what his organization has been hearing “for several months”—and would be inconsistent with public desires for national park lands.

"The American people have consistently said that our public lands, especially our national parks, are not for sale," he said.

"If Secretary Burgum spent more time listening to Americans instead of indulging President Trump's whims on the National

Mall, he'd understand what a terrible idea this is."

Jayson O'Neill, a spokesman for the group Save Our Parks, said the proposed deal as described by NOTUS represented the latest attempt by the Trump administration and Burgum to gut the Park Service and "then quietly cede treasured park land to private developers, thinking nobody's watching."

“National parks belong to the American people, not monied developers who are part of Trump’s donor class,” O’Neill said.

Mark Rose, senior Sierra Nevada program manager for the National Parks Conservation Assn., slammed the proposed land swap as a “secretive, backroom deal” and “an attack on the American people that own this national park.”

He said Yosemite is already facing overcrowding due to “run-away lodging” development outside its borders and the Trump administration’s decision to do away with the park’s reservation system, and a new development would “exacerbate the chaos.”

"The National Park Service needs to get back to prioritizing conservation, not helping bulldoze land, cut down towering trees and construct a luxury development that will harm Yosemite's wildlife and increase wildfire risks," Rose said.

Warming ocean boosts humidity off the charts

A SURFER surveys Oceanside Beach on Wednesday. El Niño is causing rising sea levels and coastal erosion.
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a few coastal areas such as Redondo Beach and Torrance reaching 73 to 75 degrees on Friday, said Ryan Kittell, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. The metric measures the moisture content in the air.

The Orlando International Airport, by comparison, recorded a dew point of 72 degrees Friday afternoon, although that was expected to rise to 75, said meteorologist Melissa Watson of the National Weather Service in Melbourne, Fla.

Dew points above 65 degrees are considered to be muggy and somewhat uncomfortable, those above 70 feel very humid and uncomfortable, and those above 75 are oppressive, according to the weather service.

Farther south in Imperial County, a weather station along the western shore of the Salton Sea recorded a dew point of 81 degrees Thursday afternoon, according to Gabriel Lojero, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix. That's "probably one of the higher values" recorded there, but meteorologists don't have a long period of registered climate data for that area, so it's hard to say, he added. The National Weather Service does not typically keep records of dew points.

While this year's dew point values aren't the most extreme ever recorded in Los Angeles, there were multiple days in July and August that made the top 50, according to state climatologist Michael Anderson, who looked at daily and monthly data from the PRISM Group at Oregon State University dating to 2000.

Anderson found that Los Angeles recorded its monthly average dew point last month at 63.9 degrees, second only to a record 64.4 degrees for July 2003, according to Jason Ince, a spokesman with the California Department of Water Resources. No such data are yet available for August.

At Imperial County Air-

A BOUT of rain showers a pedestrian along Hoover Avenue in L.A. on Thursday.

GENARO MOLINA Los Angeles Times port, October 2003 holds the record for highest dew point at 86 degrees, according to Applied Climate Information System data analyzed by Anderson.

The humidity has driven record-high overnight temperatures, with Burbank, Camarillo, Long Beach, Los Angeles International Airport, Oxnard, Paso Robles, Santa Barbara, Woodland Hills, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Riverside, Big Bear and Idyllwild, among at least a dozen other places, all breaking daily minimum temperature records for the 24-hour period stretching from midnight Thursday to Friday, according to preliminary weather service data.

In Palm Springs, the overnight low was 90 degrees, beating a record of 89 set in 2011.

“That’s because water content in the air acts like a blanket that keeps the heat close to the ground, preventing conditions from cooling off at night," Kittell said. "Believe it or not, water vapor is actually the most potent and efficient greenhouse gas."

The same is true when it comes to people: Since muggy air can hold less moisture, the sweat on a person's body doesn't evaporate as swiftly, making it harder to cool off.

The abnormally high overnight temperatures have been exacerbating the risk of heat stress and heat-related illness, said Sam Zuber, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego.

“We're not looking at record-breaking high temperatures,” she said. “It's the overnight lows not cooling off like they should and not giving us a reprieve from the heat in the daytime that are driving heat impacts across Southern California right now.”

The sea surface temperature at the Scripps Pier in La Jolla hit 76.8 degrees Thursday, approaching a daily record of 77 degrees set in 2015.

“Ocean heat waves, just like terrestrial heat waves, have been getting more frequent, more intense and longer-lasting” as a result of global climate change, said Alexander Gershunov, a research meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

“And when we look at El Niño, it’s a natural pattern, but it’s happening in an unnaturally warming world,” Gershunov said.

The rate at which water evaporates from a wet surface such as the ocean is controlled by the temperature of the surface, so when the ocean is hotter, more water is evaporated from it, resulting in higher humidity levels.

“That vapor in the coastal zone is going to make conditions more humid,” Gershunov said. “That’s what’s making our heat waves more humid and that’s what’s keeping temperatures much hotter at night.”

Lawmakers agree to tweak law but rebuff damage caps

[Law, from A1] [Law, from 19] groups are “not totally happy,” Laird said.

"My goal here was to get a situation where [the reaction] was sullen but not mutinous," Umberg said.

L.A. County, which faces more than 5,000 new claims of sexual abuse, lobbied hard to change the law, arguing it opened the door for fraud as records to vet the cases were long gone. Chief Executive Joseph M. Nicchitta praised the bill Thursday as a “thoughtful and balanced package of reforms.”

“This is a responsible step forward and moves us toward a more stable and sustainable framework, and we urge all public entities seeking reform to accept this solution now,” Nicchitta said in a statement.

The Consumer Attorneys of California, a trial lawyer trade group, backed the fact that the bill wouldn't limit how much victims could receive from these cases.

“Damage caps would place an arbitrary limit on the harm a survivor has suffered and leave survivors bearing more of the lifelong costs of abuse — including trauma, disability, and treatment,” said Doug Saeltzer, president of the association. “Those costs should not be shifted onto the very people the system failed to protect.”

According to the most recent version of the bill, victims older than 40 must now provide “clear and convincing evidence” that the public entity “knew of misconduct” that resulted in the assault and failed to take reasonable steps to avoid it.

The bill also states attorneys who file fraudulent sex abuse lawsuits can be fined \$25,000 per violation, a penalty that could be enforced by the state attorney general or attorneys for local governments. The Times reported last year on nine plaintiffs who said they were paid to sue the county over sex abuse, some of whom said they were told to fabricate their claims.

The bill also requires the attorney general to open a two-part investigation into alleged abuse within L.A. County's juvenile detention centers, probing both the cause of fraudulent lawsuits as well as legitimate claims of abuse. And it would also require local governments and school districts to adopt a “sexual assault prevention

California's highest- and lowest-earning college degrees

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A NEW analysis gauges college grads' earning potential. Above, UC Berkeley.

plan" that details to the attorney general "how grooming and sexual abuse concerns and risks will be reported."

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John Manly, an attorney who represents victims in the \$4-billion sex abuse settlement, said he believed the bill would make it impossible to represent victims over 40 years old. The burden of proof, he said, was too high and the language in the bill too vague.

college, the Trump administration is addressing the student loan default crisis by cracking down on colleges whose graduates routinely make low incomes by restricting their ability to accept federal student loans.

The analysis, which includes a searchable database, covers nearly 3,000 certificate, associate and bachelor programs at private, nonprofit and public universities across California.

It does not break down income by graduates at specific universities, nor does it take into account how degrees can provide an enriching education that sets students up for graduate degrees — and higher-paying jobs years down the line as attorneys, business executives and corporate managers, for instance.

The difference in earnings potential in large part reflects today's modern economy and America's tech and healthcare needs. But in general, even a degree in the humanities and other non-STEM fields tends to result in higher incomes compared with those who never finished college.

Graduates of English bachelor programs, for example, earned an average of about \$55,000 four years after completion compared with an average of \$36,082 for people who only graduated high school, HEA's analysis shows.

Across all programs, those who graduate with professional certificates — such as HVAC maintenance and precision metal working — earn nearly \$6,000 more annually than someone with only a high school education. Students who earn associate degrees, largely granted by California community colleges, earn \$24,000 more than someone who only graduated high school. Bachelor degree holders earn \$35,000 more.

"This report shouldn't be viewed as a comparison of good and bad majors — a social work degree and a computer science degree exist for very different reasons and both have different kinds of values beyond a paycheck," said Michael Itzkowitz, president of the HEA Group. "This is about being better informed."

Itzkowitz said one way potential students could use the database, which draws from federal data, is to find how much they probably would make in their field of choice and then pick a college that offers the education at a cost they can afford.

less than expected," Itzkowitz said.

"It's just critical that folks have this information up front, because historically sometimes we've seen people who are spending large sums of money, without an understanding that they would actually be earning

Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, cautioned against picking a less expensive college solely based on the HEA data, because such statewide data doesn't break down average earnings by individual institutions, which can vary.

Still, he called the tool a "good contribution."

“You are much less likely to be surprised and disappointed at the end,” Mitchell said. “You know what you are signing up for.”

The top earning certificate program and associate degree programs with at

‘This report shouldn’t be viewed as a comparison of good and bad majors — a social work degree and a computer science degree exist for very different reasons.’

— MICHAEL ITZKOWITZ, president of the HEA Group

least 100 graduates were registered nursing, nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing, with earnings over \$100,000.

Nursing schools are hard to get into because there are not enough spots to fill demand. But for students who do get a spot, they can expect to make more than some of the most popular bachelor's degrees — at least within four years.

Graduates of the state's most popular major — business administration, management and operations — earned an average of just over \$74,000.

The second-most-popular bachelor's degree was psychology, whose graduates earned nearly \$54,000 four years after completion.

"It's sad, because it tells me that all the stuff about, 'We care about children, and we care about survivors, and we believe survivors,' it's all political window dressing for many of the members of the Legislature," he said.

The compromise bill follows multiple attempts to change the law in recent years. Sen. Benjamin Allen (D-Santa Monica) tried last year to increase the burden of proof for sex abuse cases, but pulled the bill after outrage from victims rights groups.

The new version seems unlikely to have the same problem, with some groups immediately praising the lack of fee caps.

"It's a step in the right direction," said Chantel Johnson, directing advocate at Youth Law Center, which advocates for youth in foster homes and juvenile detention centers. "The bill was more balanced than we thought it would be."

Senate Bill 577 is expected to come up for a vote in both the Assembly and the Senate by early next week and, if it passes, will be sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his consideration. Leaders in both houses praised the proposal Thursday.

“Today, we are grateful to have been able to come to an agreement on a legislative path to protect justice, prioritize prevention for the millions in our care, and acknowledge the impacts to our communities,” said Senate President Pro Tem Monique Limón.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) said the state would be “safeguarding schools and public services, while investing in prevention and protecting against future abuse.”

Border project begins over objections of tribe

BY MIKELLA SCHUETTLER

CONTRACTORS are engaged in preconstruction drilling on tribal land for an Arizona section of President Trump's border wall Tuesday.
Tohono O'odham Nation

PHOENIX—The Trump administration has begun work on a project to build a stretch of border wall in southern Arizona along part of a Native American tribe's reservation, pushing ahead with one of its signature projects despite protests from the tribe.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says that the area is a dangerous smuggling route and that building the wall will close a longstanding security gap. But members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, whose membership spans both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, have accused the administration of trespassing and say the construction will damage land sacred to the tribe.

The wall segment is part of a \$46-billion effort by the Trump administration to fill the border with 30-foot steel bollard walls, vehicle barriers, and technology designed to stop undocumented immigration and smuggling.

But as building efforts have ramped up, the administration has run into opposition from landowners, environmental groups and Native American tribes who say construction is violating property rights and desecrating sacred Indigenous sites.

The Tohono O'odham Nation said in a statement Tuesday that about 20 Customs and Border Protection officers, working with contractors, went onto the tribe's land early that morning to begin construction.

Drone videos published by nation officials show roughly 14 vehicles and an industrial drill at one of the sites.

A federal judge permitted the government to move forward with construction earlier this month, but the tribe says the contractors are violating tribal codes and trespassing to access the border wall site.

The Tohono O'odham Nation, which has 37,000 members including thousands who live in Mexico, sued the federal government in June in an attempt to block construction of the border wall. The tribe argued that the wall would cause “significant devastation" on the reservation, including the destruction of mountain peaks sacred to the tribe, and would alter boundaries of their nation.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington ruled in favor of the government, noting that the border wall would be built on a 60-foot wide buffer zone of federally owned land called the Roosevelt Reservation.

“Defendants have not yet articulated plans to construct outside the Roosevelt Reservation,” the judge wrote in his opinion.

The Tohono O'odham Nation said that even if construction were contained to the Roosevelt Reservation, driving onto tribal land to access the area still constitutes trespassing.

"The contractors, who are on the Nation illegally, were accompanied by agents as they worked on three separate locations near the border with drill trucks to conduct soil sampling and other activities," tribal officials said in a statement.

The CBP agents were masked and armed, and set up a vehicle blockade to stop tribal police from removing the contractors, according to Tohono O'odham officials. The nation had set up "No Trespassing" signs before Tuesday.

So far, no physical confrontations between police or members of the Tohono O'odham Nation have been reported.

CBP defended the need for the wall in a statement Tuesday, saying the desert spanning the Tohono O'odham Nation is a corridor for drug smuggling.

"The project will close one of the most dangerous smuggling and trafficking corridors on the Southwest border: remote desert that has facilitated decades of drug loads, migrant deaths, and cartel activity," said CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott.

Tribal officials said they're exploring further legal actions in an effort to remove contractors.

SLSCO Ltd., the Texas-based construction company building the section in Arizona, has secured over \$390 million in funding from the Department of Homeland Security to build the border wall since 2023.

Schuettler writes for the Associated Press.

Parton invoked as 'drag ban' voided

BY HANNAH FRY

Dolly Parton may be gone, but her spirit of self-expression is still making waves — this time in a Texas federal court.

U.S. District Judge David Hittner on Tuesday cited the late artist in his decision to strike down Senate Bill 12, a 2023 law that sought to restrict drag shows. His decision, which blocks the Texas attorney general from enforcing the law, noted that the prohibition was “an unconstitutional restriction on speech.”

Just as many people “chastised Dolly Parton as a voluptuous sex symbol because of her big hair, flamboyant clothes and breast exposure ... there are erotic elements in countless popular performances that could be subject to both civil and criminal penalties under S.B. 12," Hittner wrote in his decision.

And because the law doesn't specify who determines whether a performance “appeals to the prurient interest” or that the work be considered as a whole, a single sexual or erotic moment in a performance could result in penalties, he wrote. Those penalties include civil fines of up to \$10,000 for businesses and a misdemeanor charge that carries up to a year in jail for participating individuals.

Hittner's decision came down on the same day Parton, the legendary 80-year-old songwriter, actor and businesswoman, died after a brief battle with cancer.

Parton was referred to several times in court records associated with the case. One of the plaintiffs, Brigitte Bandit, a drag queen and longtime activist, frequently performs as the Grammy-winning artist.

A VISITOR photographs a mural of the late singer Dolly Parton in Costa Mesa.
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In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Bandit wrote that Parton had been a “huge influence" on her life and her drag performances. She even brought a children's book about Parton to testify at the Texas Capitol, which eventually got back to the country music star, who then gave Bandit a signed rhinestone-covered guitar.

"Dolly has shaped much of my life as a drag artist," Bandit wrote on Instagram, calling her a "queen who has changed the world with her love, artistry, and GLAM! my diva forever."

After the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Parton called herself a "patron saint" of the gay community in an interview with Billboard.

"All those drag queens, sometimes I see some of them look more like me than I do," said the star, who famously lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.

Tuesday's ruling wasn't the first time the law, widely touted as a “drag ban,” has been deemed unconstitutional by the courts.

Hittner initially struck down the law in September 2023, just a few months after the Texas Legislature passed it. In November 2025, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the lower court's injunction and returned the case to district court with instructions on how to reconsider it.

In the end, the high court's directions did not change Hittner's determination that the law violates the 1st and 14th amendments.

Hittner wrapped up his decision with a suggestion for those who oppose or are offended by the performances: “The solution is relatively simple ... just don’t go.”

President loses again in his bid to erase his 2024 hush money conviction

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TRUMP was convicted of concealing a \$130,000 hush money payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels.

Judge says the reasons Trump cited for his request were not ‘legally sufficient.’

BY MICHAEL R. SISAK AND LARRY NEUMEISTER

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Friday once again spurned President Trump's effort to erase his hush money conviction, rejecting the president's bid to move the state court case to federal court and have it dismissed on presidential immunity grounds.

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein reiterated his earlier finding against Trump, saying that the reasons Trump cited for renewing his request were “neither new nor legally sufficient.”

The judge added: "He has failed to show good cause and diligence."

It is the third time Hellerstein has blocked Trump from having the U.S. District Court in Manhattan seize control of the case from the New York court where he was tried and convicted.

And, like before, Trump will appeal, according to a spokesperson for his legal team who called Hellerstein's ruling "baseless and lawless."

"The Supreme Court's historic decision on Immunity, the Federal and New York State Constitutions, and other established legal precedent mandate that the Witch Hunt perpetrated by the Manhattan DA be removed to federal court, and immediately overturned and dismissed," a statement issued on behalf of the legal team said. "President Trump will be filing a powerful appeal, and will continue defeating Democrat weaponization at every turn."

The guilty verdict, reached in May 2024 while Trump was between terms, made him the first former — and now current — U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. Trump is also challenging his conviction through the state court appellate process, which is

pending.

Hellerstein's decision came after a federal appeals court last year ordered him to reconsider his prior denial. The judge previewed his ruling during oral arguments in February, slamming Trump's lawyers for legal maneuvers that amounted to taking "two bites at the apple."

State prosecutors did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump was convicted in May 2024 of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a \$130,000 hush money payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels, whose claim of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier had threatened to upend his 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump was sentenced to an unconditional discharge, which left his conviction intact but spared him any punishment. He had long denied Daniels' claim and said he did nothing wrong. He has sought to get the conviction overturned both by attempting to move the case to federal court and through the appeals process in state court, which is pending.

Hellerstein rejected Trump's requests to move the case twice before. The first was after Trump's March 2023 indictment. The second was after Trump's trial, as his lawyers sought to nix his conviction in the wake of the Supreme Court's July 2024 ruling that presidents and ex-presidents can't be prosecuted for official acts and prosecutors can't use official acts as evidence that unofficial actions were illegal.

Trump appealed Hellerstein's post-trial ruling and, last November, the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the judge to reconsider his decision, finding that he had failed to consider "important issues relevant" to the president's request to move the case.

A three-judge appellate panel said it expressed no view on how he should rule but instructed Hellerstein to closely review evidence that

Trump claimed was related to official acts and whether Trump could argue those actions were taken as part of his White House duties.

The judges also instructed Hellerstein to determine if Trump had “diligently sought” to have the case moved to federal court and whether the case can even be moved to federal court now that Trump has been convicted and sentenced in state court.

During oral arguments in February, Hellerstein took issue with the Trump legal team's decision-making after the Supreme Court ruling.

Instead of immediately seeking to move the case to federal court, he noted, Trump's lawyers first asked the trial judge in state court, Juan Merchan, to throw out the verdict on immunity grounds. Normally, such a request must be made within 30 days of an arraignment, but a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled that exceptions can be made if "good cause" is shown.

Trump did not attend the arguments.

Trump lawyer Jeffrey Wall argued that prosecutors rushed to trial instead of waiting for the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision and that Trump's legal team was crunched for time after the high court's ruling because his sentencing was scheduled for just 10 days later.

Trump's lawyers did not ask Hellerstein to intervene until nearly two months later, while their request to Merchan was still pending. The judge called that a “strategic decision” and suggested that by going to the state court first, Trump's lawyers cost him the right to pursue remedies in federal court.

“No, your honor,” Wall replied. “It is what any sensible litigant would do” in that situation.

"Not so," Hellerstein replied.

“That is a decision on your part,” the judge added. “You didn’t have to do that. You could have come right to the federal court. Just by filing a notice of removal, there would be no sentencing.”

Trump's lawyers "made a choice," Hellerstein said, "and you sought two bites at the apple."

In his written ruling Friday, Hellerstein said Trump was asking for a “second bite at the apple,’ a result the law disfavors.”

The judge added that "Trump's delay in filing for removal constitutes a 'quintessential strategic decision,' and the fact that he later came to view that decision as a poor one is not sufficient, by itself, to establish cause."

Sisak and Neumeister write for the Associated Press.

In May, a southwestern Idaho probation officer emailed immigration authorities about a man she would meet the next day for his regular check-in.

“His meeting has not changed and he is expected to be here tomorrow morning at 7:30 am,” Norma Naranjo, a senior probation officer for Canyon County’s misdemeanor probation department, wrote in a May 13 email to six Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

The following day, the man arrived a few minutes early to his appointment, and Naranjo sent another email to the agents.

"He is here are you guys on your way?" she wrote.

It is unclear from the emails, which are heavily redacted, if ICE agents detained the man at his probation appointment.

PEOPLE march at a “No Kings” event in Boise, Idaho, in 2025 to protest ICE raids and mass deportations.
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Making a ‘foreign born list’ for ICE

Naranjo's messages are among more than 140 emails between Canyon County probation officers and ICE agents, obtained by InvestigateWest, from May to July 2026. They show how the probation department has recently coordinated with ICE's Boise office, including by combing through its case files to compile a list for ICE of foreign-born people on probation, apparently without validating that those people are in the country illegally. People born outside the U.S. include individuals with green cards or pending asylum applications and naturalized U.S. citizens.

Although Idaho law enforcement agencies have long worked with federal immigration agents to detain undocumented immigrants who are in jail or serving their sentence on probation, immigration attorneys and advocates are concerned that Canyon County's "foreign born list" could lead to probationers with legal status being detained, at a time when ICE agents have arrested U.S. citizens, people with pending green card applications and people with pending asylum claims.

Jeff Breach, the director of the county's Misdemeanor Probation Department, declined to be interviewed for this article. In an email response to a list of questions, he said the list includes “individuals whose place of birth is a foreign country — and can also include individuals that have been previously flagged with an immigration hold.”

“Verifying and determining legal presence/status, along with any related enforcement, is within the purview of federal authorities,” Breach added.

ICE has requested a list of people who could be in the country without authorization “typically on an annual basis and across administrations,” Breach said. Steve Cushman, director of constituent services for Canyon County, said he didn’t know exactly when “those lists were first requested and provided, but it is my understanding that it goes back as far as the Obama administration.”

Breach said the probation department, which supervises misdemeanor offenders within the county, cooperates with ICE the same as it would any local or state law enforcement agency, by providing them “information to carry out their lawful duties.”

The county has faced criticism before for its efforts to help ICE detain people. In 2019, the Idaho Press, a newspaper that covers the Boise area, reported the Canyon County Sheriff's Office had a policy in which staffers were instructed to notify immigration officials of "all foreign born inmates" who were booked into the jail. Some of the people they flagged were U.S. citizens, according to the Idaho Press. The sheriff's office is also facing a lawsuit from the ACLU of Idaho alleging the county and other agencies that participated in an October 2025 ICE raid racially profiled Latinos at a horse racetrack for immigration enforcement when they detained them, regardless of their immigration status.

Nikki Ramirez-Smith, an immigration attorney with Ramirez-Smith Law in Nampa, Idaho, said the county's decision to compile and send ICE a list of foreign-born people on probation is “an invasion of privacy.”

"It's one thing to know that someone is undocumented, it's another thing to just start targeting every single person who was born in another country," she said.

'ICE has requested a list of offenders'

On June 3, Naranjo emailed five ICE officers that she would speak to Breach about “the foreign born list.”

“We are working on a procedure to keep a list current for your agency,” Naranjo wrote. “I will get back to you on this as soon as we figure something out.”

Two days later, Breach sent an email to his staff:

“ICE has requested a list of offenders who are in the country illegally,” he wrote. “I need you to go through your caseload this month and send me a list of names of offenders who you believe are in the country illegally. I’ll review the names and put together a list that can be sent to ICE so that they can look into if the person is in the country illegally and if they want to take any action."

By Rachel Spacek

Although most of the more than 400 pages of emails obtained by InvestigateWest from May 1 to July 10 are heavily redacted — emails from immigration authorities appear to be redacted entirely — they show how probation officers used information in their case files to compile the list.

“That’s everyone in my cabinet that filled out [an] intake form and stated not born in US,” Brandon Black, a Canyon County probation officer, wrote in an email back to Breach on June 8.

Another officer, Justin Donovan, told Breach that he identified only one person under his supervision who “may be here illegally.” That man “only had an ID from Mexico during his last arrest,” Donovan said.

Naranjo, Black and Donovan did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Canyon County released to InvestigateWest a redacted version of the list, which contains information for 82 people on probation in Canyon County. It identifies the charges that people were placed on probation for, but blacks out names, addresses and dates of birth. Over half, or 54%, of the people on the list were on probation because of driving under the influence. Five people were on probation for drug-related crimes and nine people for disturbing the peace. Only seven people were identified as having an ICE hold, meaning ICE had already identified them for potential deportation.

Between May and July, the emails show probation officers were regularly notifying ICE agents about the dates and times that certain probationers would be at their office. In some instances, probation officers asked ICE if a person who had missed check-ins was in their custody. On two occasions, officers emailed agents right before and during the appointments to verify they were coming to apprehend a probationer. One probation officer also gave ICE agents the home address and make, model and license plate of a probationer's car.

Breach estimated that in the last three months, ICE agents have “been present” at one or two probation appointments a month.

"All the law enforcement agencies we work with prefer to meet with offenders up in the office due to it being a controlled environment, which means it is safer for the offender, the officer, and the public," he wrote. "There is an expectation from law enforcement agencies and the public that probation officers work cooperatively with law enforcement to ensure the safety of all parties involved."

Asked whether the department is concerned that citizens or others with legal status might be included in the list, Breach referred to a previous statement that verifying a person's status "is within the purview of federal authorities."

Alycia Moss, an immigration attorney with Fennemore Law in Coeur d'Alene, said ICE agents should know if someone on the list is deportable or not, but she is still concerned they could mistarget someone on the probation department's list.

“ICE may still target someone if they think the conviction is a deportable or removal offense even if they [have legal] status,” she said. “Sometimes, ICE doesn’t get that right.”

In Oregon, ICE agents arrested Juanita Avila, a 47-year-old legal permanent resident, last November. Last July, ICE agents also arrested and detained Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, a 38-year-old father who was married to a U.S. citizen and had a pending green card application, while he was dropping his child off at preschool in the Portland area.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently formed a new unit dedicated to reexamining immigrants who have green cards, according to the New York Times.

Ramirez-Smith, whose law firm is in Nampa, Canyon County's largest city, wasn't surprised by how closely the Canyon County probation department was working with ICE. In previous years, Ramirez-Smith said she could often negotiate and get her client out of detention. But now ICE is quickly moving detainees out of state, leaving her little time to get clients out of detention.

"I'm getting a lot of people picked up from probation to the point now where if they have probation, I just prepare a habeas [petition] just to get ready," Ramirez-Smith said, referring to the process to challenge the legality of someone's detention.

A recent target for authorities

Canyon County is Idaho's second-largest county by population, where Latinos make up about 27%. The county is an agricultural hub and one of the world's top five seed-producing regions. Farms there rely heavily on an immigrant workforce.

The county was also the location of a high-profile immigration raid in Wilder last October, where more than 100 people were detained at a horse racetrack, a popular gathering spot for Latino families in the area. According to witnesses of the raid, police and Canyon County sheriff's deputies assisted ICE agents by zip-tying children and detaining people without asking about their immigration status.

The raid shocked the community, leading to low attendance at the Wilder School District the day after the raid, according to reporting from the Idaho Statesman. The ACLU of Idaho also filed a lawsuit on behalf of three Latino families and their children, U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, who were detained for four hours, alleging federal and local law enforcement racially profiled them during the operation.

Beyond the raid, Canyon County law enforcement has for years helped ICE by agreeing to hold people in jail for up to 48 hours past their release date. In 2019, the Idaho Press reported that Canyon County jail staff emailed ICE agents when they had booked someone into jail who they suspected was undocumented — in several cases flagging people who were U.S. citizens and holding them after they had posted bond. If inmates served jail time and posted bond, staff were instructed to contact immigration officials, the newspaper reported.

That year, Canyon County faced three lawsuits from people who alleged they were illegally held in jail, despite posting bond, because the county refused to release them because of their undocumented immigration status. The county settled with at least one man for \$13,000.

In an email, Breach said the probation department does not have a written policy addressing how to interact with ICE, but instead follows a “long-standing practice” of cooperating with federal law enforcement agencies. He said the department has worked with immigration authorities since at least 2008.

ICE has relied on county and state probation departments across the country to coordinate arrests of undocumented people, according to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. Many states have passed laws barring this type of cooperation between probation departments and ICE, including Colorado and New Mexico, after probation departments were found to be flagging ICE agents about the appointment times for undocumented people.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little encouraged state and local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration agents in an executive order last year. Eleven Idaho law enforcement agencies have signed up to participate in a program to help with immigration enforcement, known as the 287(g) program, with some agencies receiving tens of thousands of dollars in incentive payments for their cooperation.

In neighboring Washington and Oregon, immigration lawyers say the level of coordination happening in Canyon County would never fly, because of the states' sanctuary laws barring local and state law enforcement from working with federal immigration agents to detain and deport people.

“In Washington, this would never be allowed because the state has protections in place to prevent this kind of information sharing,” Aaron Korthuis, an attorney with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, said in an email. “In Idaho, it’s permitted (and likely even encouraged). I think it is simply another tactic ICE has developed to identify easy and low-risk environments for the agency to detain people.”

Spacek writes for InvestigateWest. This article was originally published by InvestigateWest and distributed through a partnership with the Associated Press.

Artemis II crew receives highest space honor

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ASTRONAUT Victor Glover receives a Congressional Space Medal of Honor from President Trump.

BY MARCIA DUNN

The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year received the nation's highest space honor on Friday.

President Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the three Americans and one Canadian whose April lunar flyby set a distance record for humanity.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and other dignitaries took part in the packed ceremony at Houston's Johnson Space Center, home to Mission Control. Trump used the occasion to announce the creation of a U.S. Space Academy for the Space Force as well as NASA and the commercial space community.

"Space is the hot thing," the president told the crowd, adding that the academy's location has yet to be determined.

Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canada's Jeremy Hansen became the first astronauts to travel to the moon in more than half a century, coming within 4,067 miles while test-driving NASA's new Orion capsule. They were the first to launch aboard NASA's new moon rocket, a 30-story behemoth that had soared only once before from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

Although they didn't stop at the moon, the four set the stage for next year's Artemis III docking rehearsal in orbit around Earth. Artemis IV's moon landing by two astronauts, near the lunar south pole, could follow as soon as 2028.

Trump said Americans will land back on the moon before his term ends. Mars is next — “very shortly,” he said.

The president called the newest recipients “four intrepid space heroes.” He pointed out that they did not do it alone, thanking all who contributed to the Artemis II mission.

"There are no finer hu-"

mans we could have sent as our ambassadors to the stars," Isaacman added.

Wiseman and his crew are in good company, with only 30 astronauts receiving the prestigious honor before them. Many of the recipients were honored posthumously following their tragic spaceflight-related deaths.

Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong — whose phrase “That’s one step for man, one giant leap for mankind" gripped the world on July 20, 1969 — was the first to receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

President Carter awarded six of these medals in 1978, which also went to Alan Shepard, the first American in space; John Glenn, the first American in orbit; and Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman, whose 1968 mission marked humanity's first lunar voyage.

The most recent recipients were Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, the first astronauts to launch aboard a SpaceX rocket. Coming nine years after the space shuttle program's close, their 2020 test flight to the International Space Station restored America's ability to launch crews from home soil. President Biden awarded them the medals in 2023.

Dozens of astronauts participated in the ceremony, including Apollo 17 moonwalker Harrison Schmitt, who is now 91, and the four men assigned to NASA's upcoming Artemis III mission.

Schmitt noted that his mission — Apollo's last moonshot — was the most productive lunar exploration yet.

“Soon to be surpassed by Artemis,” he said of active astronauts standing behind him.

NASA plans a sustainable moon base staffed by astronauts and robots near the lunar south pole, where permanently shadowed craters are thought to hold tons of frozen water that could be turned into rocket fuel and drinking water. China is eyeing the same region.

"The second space race has begun," said NASA Deputy Administrator Matthew Anderson.

As the two-hour ceremony came to a close, the Artemis II astronauts presented Trump with his own blue flight jacket complete with space patches, a promise they made while visiting him in the Oval Office following their mission.

The president then went to Mission Control to call the three U.S. astronauts aboard the International Space Station. He informed them of the new U.S. Space Academy, then briefly handed the phone to two of their spouses for a quick hello.

Dunn writes for the Associated Press.

Apple TV+

APPLE TV is known for the soccer comedy “Ted Lasso,” with Jason Sudeikis, above, and “Severance.”

Apple TV raises its prices without offering an ad tier

The streaming service is the latest in the U.S. to react to rising programming costs.

BY CERYS DAVIES

Apple TV, the streaming service known for series such as “Ted Lasso” and “Severance,” is raising its prices, effective immediately.

A monthly subscription will cost \$14.99, up \$2. The annual plan climbs by \$20 to \$119.99. This marks the tech giant's fourth price bump in the last four years.

Other Apple bundle plans are seeing price increases as well. Apple One's individual plan, which includes access to Apple Music, Apple Arcade, cloud storage and other features, is going up \$2 to \$21.95 per month.

The Cupertino-based tech giant does not offer an ad tier, unlike some of its competitors that use ad-supported subscriptions as a lower-cost option for consumers.

Apple TV is the latest streamer to increase prices. The industry has sought to bolster bottom lines against the rising cost of programming. Earlier this month, Peacock bumped its pricing ahead of the new NBA and NFL season.

The NBCUniversal-owned streaming service's ad tier will now cost \$12.99 monthly, up from \$10.99, while its most expansive plan will be \$19.99 per month, up \$3.

ESPN is also raising its streaming prices in September. The Disney-owned sports giant's unlimited plan will rise from \$29.99 to \$31.99 a month. The annual cost is also rising — from \$299.99 to \$319.99.

"THE VIEW" host Sunny Hostin hopes to adapt her novels for TV and film.

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Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and YouTube Premium also hiked prices earlier this year.

Apple TV+ launched in 2019 at \$4.99 a month and was a low-cost perk for Apple users. The tech company still offers a free three-month trial to customers who purchase a new Apple device.

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Over the last several years, Apple TV has sought to distinguish itself from competitors by offering premium, original series. It's home to over 300 original movies and TV shows, including "Ted Lasso," which returned for its fourth season this month. Many of its shows have attracted award show attention. Last year, Seth Rogen's "The Studio" took home 13 Emmys. This year, the streamer's shows "Widow's Bay" and "Pluribus" are up for 19 and 18 awards, respectively.

Hostin licenses image for AI use

Apple TV also recently secured the rights to Formula One races in the U.S., and offers Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer games.

By Nilesh Christopher

Hollywood A-listers are more comfortable than ever with cloning their voice and likeness to create a new stream of income, despite the threat of viewer backlash to artificial intelligence.

Sunny Hostin of the popular daily talk show "The View" has licensed her image and likeness to AI production studio Fountain 0, which will make film adaptations of her novels.

"To be able to bring my novels to life in movie and TV form, and actually have my image inserted in the productions, so that audiences can relate to me through my stories beyond my role as an author, is incredibly exciting to me," Hostin said in a statement.

“AI can give me a way to both more fully develop, and more fully immerse myself in, IP I have developed,” she said.

The Overton window for acceptable AI use in Hollywood continues to widen as Hollywood actors, television hosts, and influencers embrace cloning with protections and compensation. As high-quality synthetic re-creations become cheap and accessible, cloning has become a more desirable option for studios struggling with runaway production costs.

Audiences will be subject to more AI content on the big screen that's indistinguishable from real human performances.

Fountain 0 is the producer behind “Dreams of Violets,” a fully AI-generated film inspired by anti-government protests in Tehran. The 75-minute drama was made with a budget of \$2,000 without a cast or a crew, and was the first fully AI-generated film accepted at the Tribeca Film Festival.

“We are incredibly gratified that Sunny is willing to be the talent pioneer willing to step out and take advantage of this new form of creative expression,” Ash Koosha, co-founder and CEO of Fountain 0, said in a release.

The production company will be releasing its second fully AI-generated film, “Odysseus: The Fall,” later this year. The film uses the likeness of many people, including the film’s creator Koosha, who stars as Odysseus.

The film's executive producer told CNBC that the film is designed to ride the buzz around Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" and give people the opportunity to compare the height of human filmmaking with AI filmmaking.

Proponents of AI argue that it allows writers and creators to take on blockbuster-scale films without financial constraints. Many creators oppose AI because it could replace humans and was built using the unauthorized scraping of creative works used to train generative AI video and image models.

Online reactions to news of Hostin's cloning were fierce.

“Basically, no film studio wants to give her the budget to turn her books into a movie with real actors, so she’s resorting to AI studios,” wrote one person on Reddit.

Hollywood has fought hard for protections from AI in the prolonged writers' and actors' strikes of 2023. SAG-AFTRA, the union representing about 160,000 actors and other performers, has been demanding informed consent, fair compensation, more control and transparency over the use of digital replicas.

The latest agreement, signed in June, introduced limits on studios' use of digital replicas. The contract requires studios to notify actors before using their voices to create a replica. After a project is complete, actors must sign off and be paid the equivalent of an in-person performance if their replica is used.

Additionally, studios need to pay residuals to digital replicas used in reruns, and replicas cannot be used during a strike.

Hiring fully AI-generated characters such as Tilly Norwood, created without hiring a human performer, is not impossible but comes with a very high threshold for use under the 2026 union contract. Producers must notify the union in advance and prove the AI character brings “significant additional value” to the role.

Still, a fissure remains between those actors who stay morally opposed to cloning, and those who embrace this new reality.

ElevenLabs' voice marketplace features clones of dozens of personalities — including actress Judy Garland, physicist Richard Feynman and popular characters such as Mr. Potato Head for creators to legally license and get compensated for their use.

This has created a contentious ecosystem in which A-listers are gaining millions from cloning with safeguards and building a new stream of passive income from their intellectual property, while early-career actors complain that their likenesses are being misappropriated and opportunities are being driven away.

A massive lobbying effort is underway to institute a uniform standard for protecting an individual's voice and likeness as property rights.

Teamsters California suing DMV over decision on driverless trucks

than 130,000 drivers.

UNION OFFICIALS note prior incidents with autonomous vehicles in San Francisco, above, and elsewhere.
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BY CAROLINE PETROW-Cohen

As self-driving vehicles spread across the country, a major California labor union is taking a stand against state regulators who say autonomous trucks are ready for the road.

Teamsters California sued the California Department of Motor Vehicles earlier this month over the DMV's decision to lift a ban on autonomous vehicles weighing more than 10,001 pounds.

The DMV announced the new regulations in April, along with certification requirements that mandate testing with a safety driver and 500,000 miles driven at each stage of certification.

The Teamsters, which represent 250,000 workers across dozens of industries in California, said they have concerns about how this will affect drivers' work and safety. The union said the DMV approved heavy-duty driverless vehicles without considering impact or public input.

“We're not going to sit by idly while they put jobs and the safety of our streets and roads at risk,” Teamsters California co-chair Peter Finn said in an interview. “It's clear from experience with Waymo that these autonomous vehicles can't deal with unanticipated circumstances, so we are certainly cautioning about the dangers of 26,000 pounds barreling down the highways at 65 miles per hour.”

Finn pointed to instances of autonomous vehicles blocking first responders and a blackout in San Francisco last year that caused

Waymo taxis to stall and get stuck in the road.

“Any time anything goes wrong at all, the system completely fails,” Finn said.

The California DMV said it could not comment on ongoing litigation. In a statement in April, DMV director Steve Gordon said the updated regulations “further demonstrate the state’s commitment to public safety” and “support the growth of the AV industry by enhancing public safety and transparency while adding additional accountability for

AV manufacturers."

William Riggs, director of the Autonomous Vehicles and the City Initiative at the University of San Francisco, said the DMV went through more than a year of proposals, public hearings and revisions before the new regulations were adopted.

"To say that the decision was too fast is a bit of a revisionist history," he said. "It's a long, protracted process. We're not going to see companies flood the road with thousands of autonomous trucks tomorrow."

The core of the Teamsters' petition against the DMV is the claim that regulators violated the California Administrative Procedure Act by failing to complete an extensive study of the economic and practical impact of the policy change.

Under the act, agencies have to conduct what's called a standardized regulatory impact assessment for any policy changes estimated to have an economic cost or benefit to the state that exceeds \$50 million in one year, said Julie Dickinson, a partner at the law firm Bush Gottlieb, which is representing the Teamsters.

Dickinson said the true cost of the DMV's new regulations is predicted to exceed \$280 million in the first year.

“Californians had a right to know the economic impact,” Dickinson said in an interview. “The DMV acted irresponsibly, carelessly and unlawfully by keeping the public in the dark.”

California is among the largest markets for freight trucking, employing more

A handful of companies in California and other states are working to deploy autonomous trucks to haul freight, including Mountain View-based Kodiak AI and San Francisco-based Humble Robotics.

Humble Robotics founder and Chief Executive Eyal Cohen said he doesn't believe self-driving trucks will replace human drivers anytime soon.

The Teamsters disagree.

“Autonomous vehicles and particularly autonomous heavy trucks are an existential threat to driving jobs,” Finn said. “It’s very important to not just our membership, but also to the economy here in California and our local communities.”

Dickinson said the Teamsters' legal petition aims to have the court rescind the DMV's revised regulations until after an economic study is completed and the public is consulted.

"The loss of jobs is tremendous, but the safety of millions of Californians is at stake," she said.

Riggs said the Teamsters' safety argument is weakened by the inconsistent safety record of human truck drivers, who have fallen asleep at the wheel or driven while distracted or otherwise impaired. He added that autonomous freight has the potential to create new jobs.

"There's plenty of research out there that shows there are ample pathways as more trucks and vehicles become automated to conduct fleet operations, to look at maintenance and logistics," he said.

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RECENT technological advances enable employers to create extensive data sets, or “dossiers,” on workers.

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The hidden ways that employers are watching

Companies are increasingly using technology to monitor workers.

By Cathy Bussewitz

College administrators read an adjunct professor's comments to students on personal essays. Managers told a pharmacist to spend less time with patients after tracking the number and length of her appointments. Scanners on a warehouse conveyor belt monitored the pace of workers to ensure they inspected hundreds of items per hour.

Thousands of employers are keeping tabs on the whereabouts, productivity and communications of workers with technology that was adopted widely during the pandemic. A vast array of digital tools still are being used to track locations, collect data on task completion rates, and access work-issued smartphone and laptop cameras, raising concerns about how much privacy employees have relinquished, even in their own homes.

Employers have always monitored workers, but recent advances in artificial intelligence and data science enable them to create extensive data sets, or “dossiers,” that can be used to punish workers or attempt to predict employee behavior, said Wilneida Negrón, director of research and policy at Co-worker, a nonprofit that helps workers organize to improve working conditions.

“Oftentimes, the workers with the least amount of power in the labor markets tend to be testing grounds for some of the more intrusive forms of data collection,” Negrón said.

Some of the most common workplace monitoring programs have shared names, email addresses and other personal worker data with hundreds of outside data brokers and technology companies without clearly disclosing the practice, according to an investigation by Vanderbilt University, Northeastern University and UC Berkeley.

Data privacy experts and workers who say they've been closely monitored spoke with the Associated Press about what they see as the risks of employer surveillance and the steps employees can take to protect their personal information.

Worker advocacy

Pharmacist Lannie Duong's job at a medical clinic involved meeting with patients who had chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. She reviewed their medical histories, blood work and symptoms, and adjusted their medications. She frequently enlisted interpreters to help her communicate with patients who had limited English-language skills.

Duong said her employer tracked the length of her phone calls and appointments, and in performance evaluations questioned why she took so long with each patient.

“Everything was counted. How many minutes you're on the phone. The minutiae of it was ridiculous,” Duong said. “We're just tasked to do what feels like the impossible.”

Under what she described as unrelenting pressure, Duong felt “not trusted, not appreciated, almost completely hopeless. It was so depressing." She eventually went on medical leave and began volunteering with other pharmacists to organize a union.

"I spoke up, hoping others would voice their concerns as well, but that didn't really pan out," Duong said. She said her employment was terminated after the medical leave.

Many of the employers using surveillance tools do so transparently and engage employee boards in reviewing how the tools are used, Negrón said. But there are also employers tracking, ranking and scoring employees in ways that are not transparent to workers, she said.

“Workers are going to have to come together because the forces of centralizing this kind of tracking and monitoring are moving too fast,” Negrón said.

Ask about the data

As awareness about surveillance tools grows, some workers are pushing back on tools that track how long it takes to fulfill tasks, saying such monitoring contributes to injuries, and questioning what personal information is being collected and how it's being used, said Hayley Tsukayama, director of state affairs at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on digital privacy.

“Unfortunately, if you are on a machine that’s been issued by your workplace, you should expect that there’s some type of monitoring,” Tsukayama said.

Researching data collection and surveillance trends in your industry is a good idea, according to Negrón. Without that knowledge, workers may find themselves unprepared when confronted with information unearthed during surveillance.

While teaching a college writing class, Arianna Anaya discovered that an administrator was reading the papers her students uploaded to the school's learning management software and the comments Anaya made on the work. The students often wrote about intimate topics, including abuse, eating disorders and family trauma.

"The school essentially used the online learning system to allow administrators and staff to read student work that was often im-"

mensely private and personal, something we were specifically told students should not know about," Anaya said.

A colleague who printed out the comments criticized the casual tone Anaya used with students and accused her of not sticking to the course syllabus. A few months later, Anaya's teaching contract wasn't renewed, although she doesn't know the exact reason.

"It made me quite paranoid," Anaya said. "It made me feel less safe in the world."

Check state laws

Some states, including New York, Connecticut, Delaware and Maine, require employers to notify workers if they're being monitored. Maine's law goes further, prohibiting visual monitoring in employees' homes or personal vehicles unless that kind of observation is required for the duties of the job, said Edward Halle, a privacy and AI compliance manager.

"The question becomes, what does the law mean by 'the duties of the job'?" Halle said. "A telehealth nurse needs a camera; the camera is the job. A productivity web-cam bolted onto ordinary desk work almost certainly isn't. Where that line falls is the first thing the Department of Labor will be asked to sort out."

If you work in a state without a notification requirement, it's difficult to find out if an employer is using technology to monitor your performance.

To raise the issue with managers, Tsukayama suggests coordinating with a union. If that's not an option and you're asking managers individually, approach the topic cautiously and take a curious tone, she advised. You could say you've noticed something on the computer and have questions, such as "How is this information being used within the company? How might it get out of the company?" Tsukayama said.

One place to start is asking what specific employee data your organization collects, said Aiha Nguyen, director of the Labor Futures Initiative at Data & Society, a nonprofit institute studying the effects of technology. If your manager doesn't know, the information technology department may have answers, since the people working there often are the ones turning on the features, Nguyen said.

Some common software programs such as Microsoft Office and Zoom have tools that can be used for tracking worker productivity, but the tracking features aren't always activated. Knowing whether those tracking features are turned on can be difficult, because they're built into the programs, Nguyen said.

"It's automatic. It's considered something that employers have been able to say, 'This is necessary for work. You have to use these tools,' " she said.

To help safeguard personal information, don't use work devices to handle family matters or sensitive personal information such as medical conditions, experts advise.

“I think most people know that,” Nguyen said. “But it can become tedious to switch between phones, or people don’t really think it’s that harmful.... You don’t want to potentially put yourself at risk.”

Bussewitz writes for the Associated Press.

Judge rules in favor of Anthropic in battle against Pentagon

U.S. SECRETARY of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks in Wisconsin on Monday.

U.S. measures taken against AI company were ‘illegal and baseless,’ Lin says.

BY KAITLYN HUAMANI

A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year.

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a written order Thursday night that the Pentagon acted illegally by punishing the AI company for its criticism of the Department of Defense's views on AI use. The government is expected to fight the ruling.

The dispute between the AI company and the government broke out in February when President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Anthropic of endangering national security and designated the company a supply chain risk. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to back down over concerns the company's products could be used for mass surveillance or autonomous armed drones.

Lin wrote that the government's actions “were based on a desire to make a public example out of Anthropic for its ‘arrogance’ in criticizing the government, not based on any articulable basis to believe that Anthropic would actually sabotage its model.”

An Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement that they welcome the judge's ruling: "We remain focused on working productively with the government to harness AI for our national security so all Americans benefit from this technology.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In the 59-page ruling, Lin, an appointee of former President Biden, wrote that neither the Constitution nor the federal statute the government invoked allows

‘We remain focused on working productively with the government to harness AI ... so all Americans benefit from this technology.’

—Anthropic spokesperson

them to “impose sweeping penalties based principally on Anthropic’s critique of the Administration’s views.”

Anthropic sued the Pentagon over the supply chain risk designation in March for what it called an “unlawful campaign of retaliation” over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology.

The legal challenge intensified an unusually public dispute over how AI can be used in warfare and mass surveillance. Anthropic's primary tech industry rival, ChatGPT maker OpenAI, made its own deal to work with the Pentagon just hours after the government punished Anthropic for its stance.

ANTHROPIC CEO Dario Amodei refused to back down against the government.
JASON HENRY Bloomberg

Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up for buzzy initial public offerings.

Anthropic has also filed a separate and narrower case that is still pending in the federal appeals court in Washington. That case involves a different rule the Pentagon is using to try to declare Anthropic a supply chain risk.

Earlier in the legal proceedings, Lin had temporarily blocked the Pentagon from labeling the company as a supply chain risk and blocked enforcement of Trump's social media directive ordering all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic and its chatbot Claude.

In a hearing July 30, Lin had said that the government's position was "really troubling" to her and that it seemed "at odds to me with the First Amendment." She also said she believed the record had "gotten worse for the government" over time.

In that same hearing, Department of Justice lawyers argued that the nature of AI models is “so staggeringly enormous and opaque” that the Defense Department cannot evaluate it in the same way it would a physical piece of hardware.

Anthropic lawyer Michael Mongan said in that hearing that the government's actions “profoundly harm Anthropic” and that they “threaten more broadly to chill speech and debate on a very important issue.”

BUSINESS

Expectations grow for Fed to hike interest rates

AMBER BAESLER Associated Press
FED Chair Kevin Warsh, center, talks to banking leaders at the Jackson Hole symposium in Wyoming.

[Inflation, from A1] [Inflation, from AI] the Fed to increase interest rates. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which closely tracks expectations for what the Fed will do with its federal funds rate, moved from $4.22\%$ to $4.30\%$ , a sign that investors expect short-term yields to move higher.

Longer-term yields on 10-year and 30-year Treasuries were mostly flat, suggesting investors aren't worried that higher rates will be needed for a long stretch of time to fight inflation.

Jon Faust, an economist at Johns Hopkins and a former advisor to Powell, said Warsh succeeded in conveying a tougher approach on inflation while avoiding the kind of detailed guidance from the Fed that he has disparaged.

"He found a way to convey that if necessary he would support raising rates, which is one thing people were concerned about," Faust said.

Yet Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, said the

Fed chair has talked tough on inflation before without hiking the Fed's key rate. His Friday remarks don't provide any clearer guidance on the timing of any Fed moves, he added.

The Fed chair faces high stakes with his speech as questions swirl around Wall Street about his focus on fighting inflation. At a July 29 news conference, he sowed confusion about whether he would back up his previous tough talk on rising prices with any action, such as lifting the Fed's short-term rate, which is currently about 3.6%.

Those concerns may have contributed to rising bond yields, which can increase the cost of borrowing for the government and everyone else.

say more about his views on Fed policy without tipping his hand about future actions.

Warsh on Friday reiterated his skepticism about providing such guidance or even outlining his broad approach to interest-rate policy.

But he did suggest that interest rates currently are not restricting economic activity, pointing to robust business investment in artificial intelligence equipment and infrastructure and strong consumer spending. As a rule of thumb, interest rates often need to be high enough to limit borrowing and spending to cool inflation.

The Fed next meets Sept. 15-16, and Warsh's remarks don't necessarily signal the central bank will raise rates then. Wall Street investors now see the chances of a rate increase at the Fed's meeting as basically a coin flip, according to futures pricing tracked by CME FedWatch, up from about one-third before Warsh spoke.

pandemic peak, it is “well above” the 32% that saw such increases in the two decades before the pandemic.

Inflation cooled in June and July after spiking in May from soaring gas prices, yet it remains above the central bank's target. According to the Fed's preferred measure, it was 3.7% in July.

Warsh also sought to clear up some areas of confusion that arose after his remarks at the July 29 news conference, when he made vague remarks about what metric the Fed would use to track inflation and whether short-term interest rates were the Fed's main tool to combat higher prices.

On Friday, he specified that short-term interest rates are the Fed's “predominant tool,” and added that the central bank is using the same gauge it has long followed to measure inflation.

Dejected economic outlook drags down consumer sentiment

Previous Fed chairs have often used speeches at Jackson Hole to address broad questions about interest-rate policy and the economy, or to signal upcoming changes in their approach.

Most analysts expect the Fed to keep rates unchanged at its mid-September meeting. Wall Street investors, however, are betting the central bank will increase rates by December, according to futures pricing tracked by CME FedWatch.

Many worry inflation and pocketbook issues will remain dubious for the near future.

BY JULIA FANZERES

Questions about Warsh's approach have intensified amid President Trump's continued calls for lower interest rates. While Trump has continued to defend Warsh, whom he appointed, the president has criticized other Fed officials for supporting higher rates.

Trump has also renewed his efforts to remove Fed governor Lisa Cook, who was appointed by former President Biden. Replacing Cook would enable Trump to appoint a majority of the seven-member board. Trump tried to fire her last year but was temporarily blocked by the Supreme Court.

Consumer sentiment fell in August for the first time in three months on a worsening economic outlook, even as expectations for inflation in the year ahead eased.

The University of Michigan's sentiment index decreased to 51.7 in August, according to data released Friday.

The final reading was slightly improved from the preliminary reading and above the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists.

The report also showed that consumers expect prices to rise at an annual rate of 4% over the next year, the lowest reading since March but still historically elevated.

Consumers continue to worry that “inflation will remain elevated for the foreseeable future,” Joanne Hsu, director of the survey, said in a statement.

Yet Warsh has said he doesn't want to provide what analysts call "forward guidance" about whether the Fed will increase or cut rates or stay on hold at upcoming meetings. He argues that it limits the Fed's flexibility by committing it to a specific policy.

"In addition to the pocketbook issues that have been central to consumers' views of the economy, they are increasingly worried that prospects elsewhere in the economy could be weakening," she added.

Consumers' views about the economy in the year ahead and five years ahead both deteriorated in August.

Yet some economists have argued that he could

Measures of current economic conditions and consumer expectations also declined from a month earlier. Sentiment among Republicans slumped to the lowest since November 2024.

Warsh said inflation data “are more concerning” than trends on the job market, where the unemployment rate is low. He also argued that inflation is unlikely to move back to the target on its own.

The drop in sentiment shows households continue to face pressure from elevated costs as the conflict in the Middle East drags on.

National average gasoline prices held above \$4 a gallon across August, and broader inflation has eroded incomes.

Hsu said consumers expect higher prices at the pump in the future.

In the longer term, consumers see overall prices climbing at an annual rate of 3.3% over the next five to 10 years.

The survey period includes responses from July 28 to Aug. 24.

Warsh noted that in the past year, 54% of goods and services tracked by the government have seen price increases of 3% or higher. While that is down from the

Fanzeres writes for Bloomberg.

In 2022, with pandemic-era inflation having soared to 9.1%, Powell signaled the Fed would continue to sharply raise interest rates in a fight against runaway prices, and he acknowledged that such maneuvers would bring “pain” to consumers and businesses.

Longer-term interest rates have steadily risen in recent weeks because of a range of factors, including burgeoning U.S. government deficits and outsize borrowing by tech firms building AI infrastructure.

The rate on the 30-year Treasury bond reached the highest level in 19 years last week, prompting an unusual effort by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to buy back bonds and push the yields lower.

Rugaber writes for the Associated Press.

General Mills ditching artificial dyes

GENE J. PUSKAR Associated Press
THE MINNEAPOLIS company says it has switched to natural ingredients to keep bright colors in cereals.

gested it caused cancer in lab rats.

BY DEE-ANN DURBIN

General Mills said Wednesday that it has removed artificial colors from all its U.S. cereals, including Lucky Charms and Trix.

The Minneapolis company has shifted to fruit-and vegetable-based dyes as well as colors derived from spices like turmeric and paprika to give its cereals their customary bright colors.

“This achievement reflects how we are evolving with consumer needs while continuing to offer food that tastes great, delivers quality and provides value,” Bethany Quam, General Mills’ president of cereal, said in a statement.

General Mills said 90% of its U.S. retail products are now free of artificial dyes. Products that still contain artificial colors, like some Betty Crocker cake mixes and Fruit Roll-Ups, will transition to natural dyes by the end of 2027, the company said.

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General Mills is the second big cereal maker to announce a transition to natural dyes. WK Kellogg, which makes Froot Loops and Apple Jacks, said this month that it will remove artificial colors from all its U.S. cereals by the end of this year.

Health advocates have long called for the removal of artificial dyes from foods, citing studies indicating they can cause neurobehavioral problems, including hyperactivity and attention issues, in some children, though the findings have been mixed.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says approved dyes are safe and that “most children have no adverse effects” from them. But the agency says some children may be sensitive to artificial dyes. Last year, the FDA banned one petroleum-based dye, Red 3, because some studies sug-

General Mills removed artificial dyes from Trix in 2015 but brought them back two years later, saying U.S. customers missed the bright colors.

But pressure from consumers and politicians has grown since then. President Trump's health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has urged food companies to phase out petroleum-based artificial dyes. Last summer, General Mills signed an agreement with Texas Atty. Gen Ken Paxton saying it would remove synthetic dyes from all its products by the end of 2027.

Retailers are also forcing companies to act. Earlier this year, Target said it would stop selling cereals that contain artificial colors by the end of May. Walmart has also said it will remove artificial colors from its store brands by January 2027.

Durbin writes for the Associated Press.

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Investors prep for interest rate hike

BY STAN CHOE

The bond market swung Friday as investors built bets that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates soon to get the nation's high inflation under control. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, dipped but not by much after economists said a speech by Chairman Kevin Warsh helped strengthen faith that the Fed will do what's needed to bring inflation down, even if it causes pain for the economy in the short term.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell $0.2\%$ after flipping between modest gains and losses. The Dow Jones industrial average dipped less than $0.1\%$ , and the Nasdaq composite lost $0.5\%$ .

The reaction was stronger in the bond market after Warsh's first speech as Fed chairman at an economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Worries had grown that his tough talk about getting inflation down to the Fed's 2% target may be just that, unless the Fed backs it up with action. The Fed could hike short-term interest rates to get inflation under control, but it could also feel deterred from doing so because that would slow the economy and hurt prices for investments. President Trump has been vocal about wanting lower interest rates.

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Warsh was adamant again Friday that he wants to give financial markets fewer clues about what the Fed plans to do with rates for its two jobs of keeping inflation low and the job market strong. But Warsh also said “short-term interest rates are the predominant tool” for the Fed to do its job, and implied that short-term interest rates may not be high enough to tamp down the economy and inflation.

The yield on the two-year Treasury, which closely tracks expectations for what the Fed will do with its federal funds rate, jumped to 4.35% from 4.22% just before

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the speech.

That's a big move for the bond market, and it was because traders upped their forecasts that the Fed will hike its federal funds rate as soon as next month. They're betting on a nearly $58\%$ probability of that, according to data from CME Group.

Longer-term yields also rose following some initial zigzags, but not by as much as shorter-term yields. All the moves, including the modest ones for stocks even though higher interest rates tend to hurt them, indicate investors “pricing a more credible Fed,” according to economists at Bank of America led by Aditya Bhave.

"The positive market reaction highlights that investors place a premium on policy clarity, even when that clarity carries" a message implying higher interest rates, according to Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management.

All told, the S&P 500 fell 19.23 points to 7,711.76. The Dow dipped 9.45 to 53,559.99 and the Nasdaq composite sank 138.93 to 26,402.42.

Choe writes for the Associated Press.

Voices SONA MOVSESIAN GUEST CONTRIBUTOR

All I wanted was an empty house. Now I want my kids back.

By the time my boys were ready for kindergarten, I was ready for some peace. I felt guilty at how ready I was.

M Y 5-YEAR-OLD twin boys, Mikey and Charlie, started kindergarten a couple of weeks ago.

A couple of weeks ago, marking the end of their preschool careers. They walked into class wearing backpacks full of back-to-school supplies, like markers and glue. With their summers in the rearview mirror, they stepped into a world not with circle time or naps, but with desks, textbooks and a more mature curriculum of ABCs, rhymes and yes, even simple addition. They're in the big leagues now.

By the time school was about to start, I was ready. I felt guilty at how ready I was. I was ready to drop them off at school and have other people spend time with them and feed them and keep them occupied. I was ready to have my time back. I was ready to sit in silence and answer emails in a timely manner instead of prefacing every response with a meek "sorry for the delay."

I had put them in daytime camps throughout the summer, but once those camps ended, with my husband at work, it was just the two of them and me. Surely, I could hang out with my own little tornadoes and get things done, right? In my mind, they would be preoccupied with Lego bricks or Magna-Tiles or Zoobs while I

would be tidying things up around the house and getting a few work-related tasks done.

No. That did not happen. None of that happened. Nothing of the sort happened.

My kids wanted me as close to them as humanly possible. They wanted to play but only if I was playing too. If I had the audacity to hop on the computer, they interpreted my stagnant position as an invitation for them to climb me like a jungle gym. My head and shoulders became leverage for them to get as much height as possible. Elbows were liberally used, heads collided and personal boundaries ceased to exist. I wasn't a human being to my children — I was a play apparatus. I went to bed bruised, beaten, with 10,000 unread emails and gleefully happy.

Of course, the chaos of the day would be more digestible if our sleep at night was guaranteed, but sleep hasn't been guaranteed since July 1, 2021. Coincidentally, that's also the day my boys were born.

My son Mikey normally strolls into our bed in the middle of the night. Mikey likes to sleep perpendicular to my husband and me, in the middle of the bed, so my husband will eventually leave to sleep in Mikey's bed. Sometimes, Charlie will come to our bed in the

middle of the night too, meaning I also get pushed out. Some mornings we wake up with the two adults crammed in their toddler beds and the two sleep terrorists comfy as can be in our California king.

And so this summer, I would wake up every morning and think of activities that would center on tiring my kids out. We live in Pasadena, and our favorite summer day trips are to Kidspace, or to the Huntington Library in San Marino, or to watch a movie at Paseo or go to the Shops at Santa Anita. We'd sometimes drive to the beach or have a pool day. I brought them into the office on the one day I had to commute in.

I work on a popular podcast with comedy sweetheart and my real-life tormentor Conan O'Brien. I'm in the process of rebuilding the home we lost in the Eaton fire. I'm finishing my second book before its September release date. I have THINGS TO DO. I have a career and responsibilities and deadlines. But my children don't care. In their world, Mom is just their best friend and my only job is to hang out with them.

But something unexpected happened when I dropped them off for that first day of school — I missed them. Terribly. I came back to an empty house and I didn't know what to do with myself. When I was with them, the list of items I had to check off my list was vast. But now, standing in an empty house each day with time and opportunity, I don't want to do anything.

I want to hang out with my besties. I've managed to tidy everything up, but I miss the mess. I miss the chaos. I even miss them fighting and ignoring me while I ask them to do something 45 times. I miss them climbing on me while I try to work. I even miss feigning astonishment when they would do something mundane like spin on one foot after yelling "Mom, look!"

I realize now that I miss the things we did together more than I miss what I used to do before we had them. Who needs day-drinking, or concerts, or movies rated higher than PG when you have Legoland? Mikey and Charlie look at everything in awe, forcing my jaded eyes not to take it all for granted. Their perspective and enthusiasm bring back a dormant wonder in me. They took their 5-year-old astonishment with them when they went back to school.

Illustration by JIM COOKE Los Angeles Times

I know it's not novel to realize how much you as a parent enjoy being around your kids. Parents should always want to spend as much time with them as possible. Parents should always appreciate the years they have with them before phones, friends and hormones take over. And I try to. But there were moments when I felt overwhelmed and tired and anxious and guilty about ignoring everything else in my life.

One day the balance will come, but until then, I'll just patiently wait until 3 p.m. when my two besties are done with school. And because I'm human, I'll go right back to awaiting another school day as soon as they start fighting with each other.

Being a parent is hard, but I've learned that two things can be true — you can love being a parent and also acknowledge how difficult it is. You can poke fun at your children while also knowing that they are the most perfect humans to have ever existed.

SONA MOVSESIAN is cohost of the podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” and author of the New York Times bestseller “The World’s Worst Assistant” and “The World’s Worst Mom.”

GARY FRIEDMAN Los Angeles Times
THE WORLD has been mourning Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at 80.

A legacy of talent and kindness

Re “Dolly Parton, 1946 - 2026,” Aug. 26

T he force of nature that was Dolly Parton will always be remembered for her enormous talent. But her greatest gift to the world was her endearing and sweet nature, her generosity of spirit and her down-to-earth ways of making people feel included and welcomed. Kindness these days seems to be a rare commodity, sorely lacking and in short supply.

Parton was there to remind us just how simple it is to connect on a human level, with her genuine smile and her authentic love for everyone. She taught by example how to treat people with respect and dignity. Pass it on — we need it now more than ever. That is her most enduring legacy and it must not be squandered. We can only celebrate that she graced this world with love.

In 1989, I walked down the aisle to my seat on a flight from Los Angeles to New York City. Arriving at my row, much to my surprise, I spotted Dolly Parton sitting in the window seat next to my aisle seat. She gave me a massive smile and sweet greeting. We spoke at length on the flight.

At the time, I was between boyfriends. When I told her this, she said, "Oh, sweetie, we gotta get you a man!" What a kind-hearted woman. The world is less with her passing.

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LAURIE S. ADAMI Los Angeles

FRANCES TERRELL LIPPMAN Sherman Oaks

I loved Parton's music, her personality and her empathy for many causes. I agree with the Los Angeles Times obituary's conclusion that her music appealed to a wide cross-section of listeners, of which I am one. The coverage of her musical

biography is admirable and well deserved.

However, I am also surprised that there is no mention of her literacy program providing books to millions of children. It is important to show all sides of her amazing legacy.

ESTHER FRIEDBERG Studio City

: :

Re “Shelley Fabares, 1944 - 2026,” Aug. 25

LETTERS

Two great lady singers (and actresses) passed away over the past week. The first one was Shelley Fabares. I remember going to my eighth-grade dance and slow-dancing to her song "Johnny Angel." It's a classic.

The second one was Dolly Parton. Her song "Coat of Many Colors" gets me every time. Although my circumstances weren't nearly as dire as Parton's, I still remember my mother ironing patches onto my jeans so that they would last longer. Thanks, ladies, for reminding me what is important in life.

MARK WALKER Yorba Linda

Film exodus is a real emergency

Re “Lights, camera, inaction: L.A.’s movie exodus,” Aug. 24

The continuing loss of film and television production from California — and Los Angeles County in particular — should be treated as a five-alarm fire.

California has expanded tax incentives, but eligibility restrictions and funding limits still leave us competing at a disadvantage with other states and countries. Meanwhile, production, jobs and supporting businesses continue to leave.

Policymakers should not view incentives simply as lost tax revenue. If the industry continues to shrink, those revenues will disappear anyway. A robust entertainment industry generates enormous economic activity and tax revenue through wages, businesses, property, sales and the thousands of companies and workers that support production.

California needs incentives that are robust, long-term, predictable and aggressively competitive, with the goal not merely of slowing the decline but bringing production back.

The entertainment industry is fundamental to Los Angeles County's economy and identity. We are past the point of making marginal changes around the edges. We need decisive action now.

JEFF PRANG Los Angeles

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The Los Angeles Times seems to think this article is a critique of the L.A. government. But if The Times reporters would just read the newspaper's own past articles on the subject of tax incentives for film production, they would see that this policy has been a loser for decades.

Tax write-offs for film companies were first based on the idea that if we give tax breaks to the likes of Steven Spielberg, the state will get that money back in jobs generated. But over the years, the tax breaks increased dramatically, as every state in the country wanted the work. Now, these tax incentives have become incredibly lucrative. In tax terms, that's called subsidized wealth.

I hate to see movie production leaving, but taxpayers providing production costs so the wealthy Hollywood elite can make a movie is ridiculous.

MICHAEL HAROLD West L.A.

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There's a whole other reason “Hollywood” is no longer the center of motion picture production. Today, movies can be shot on phones, with editing, visual effects, color timing and sound mixing completed on a laptop. The vast and expensive infrastructure that was essential for more than a century has become superfluous. It's no longer a benefit to studios, which have become little more

than banks and distributors; it's a burden.

THOMAS BLISS Los Angeles

This writer is a film producer.

Trump knows what he's doing

Re “Freefall’ revisits Boeing’s ongoing issues,” Aug. 21

The author does an excellent job of fleshing out “Freefall’s” warning of the dangers of unfettered capitalism. He notes that President Biden’s Department of Justice pursued criminal investigations against Boeing’s executives for “misleading” the public about the true design defects possibly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent passengers. But when the Trump administration took over, that criminal investigation was dropped.

The writer says the film “seems to paint a broader portrait of just how dangerous unregulated, unfettered capitalism is, especially under a tentative or disinterested federal government.” There is nothing about the Trump regime that is “tentative” or “disinterested.” Trump knew exactly what he was doing when he allowed corporate negligence and possible criminal acts causing mass deaths to go unpunished. Sadly, it fits a pattern of this administration, one that we have the power to bring to a crashing halt in this year’s midterm elections.

Director Rory Kennedy is to be commended for this important film.

CHRISTOPHER T. ARMEN Woodland Hills

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A COOK grills meat at a taco stand in L.A. Police enforcement against such businesses has become a pressure point in the mayoral race.

Street vendors in political fray

Mayor asks LAPD to rescind citations after challenger criticizes her recent comments.

BY SANDRA MCDONALD

The newest battleground in the Los Angeles mayoral race is at your favorite taco stand, as Mayor Karen Bass and her opponent, Councilmember Nithya Raman, spar over how they plan to run the city and treat its street vendors.

The Los Angeles Police Department told Bass' office that it had erroneously issued criminal citations to vendors around MacArthur Park, Bass spokesperson Paige Sterling told The Times on Thursday.

Bass has ordered the LAPD to stop issuing criminal citations to vendors and is working to remove any charges issued in error, Sterling said.

The mayor's office also asked the LAPD to make sure the citations aren't happening citywide.

"The Mayor and her team will continue meeting with street vendors to implement policies and programs based on their needs. Street vending is a quintessential part of L.A.'s world-class food scene and a livelihood for thousands of hard-working Angelenos," Sterling said in a statement. Bass' action came after the Los Angeles Public Press reported the LAPD had been issuing written warnings and citations to street vendors in the MacArthur Park area.

The sudden focus on street food comes after Bass [See Vendors, B5]

A VENDOR chops fruit at a sidewalk stand outside the Broad on a hot day in July.

Trading barbs over state election integrity

Bonta and Essayli, two of California's top law enforcement officials, engage in online spat.

BY KEVIN RECTOR

Two of the highest-ranking law enforcement officials in California are publicly sparring over the integrity of state elections, trading barbs on social media that highlight the fierce partisan divide on the issue heading into the November midterms.

In a post on X on Wednesday, First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, accused California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, the state's highest-ranking law enforcement official, of fighting to "preserve noncitizens' access to mail ballots" and "shield fraudsters and illegals from accountability."

On Thursday, Bonta fired back, accusing Essayli of being “more interested in currying favor with a desperate wannabe dictator” — a reference to President Trump — “than upholding the law himself.”

Bonta and Essayli's back-and-forth followed an announcement from Bonta that California and 24 other Democratic-led states were suing to block the U.S. Postal Service from implementing new nationwide rules on mail ballots that were developed at Trump's behest.

Late Thursday, a federal judge sided with the states, issuing a temporary restraining order halting the implementation of those rules as the litigation continues. An appeal is likely.

Such a public and personal rift between Bonta and Essayli is highly unusual and has broader implica-[See Spat, B5]

Olivia Rodrigo's festival fights for women's rights

Pop star's event will donate \$10 million to causes, including reproductive freedom.

By August Brown and Eloise Rollins-Fife

Just after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in 2022, ending the nationwide right to legal abortion, Olivia Rodrigo walked onstage at the Glastonbury festival in the United Kingdom, sad and furious but also galvanized. "I'm heartbroken over what happened in America yesterday," Rodrigo said onstage then. "I'm devastated and terrified that so many women and so many girls are going to die because of this."

Four years later, Rodrigo has a new festival of her own this weekend, Daisy Chain Fields in Irvine's Great Park, that's entirely in service to the causes of women's rights and reproductive autonomy.

"I remember being at Glastonbury that day with the most exciting opportunity to perform on that stage, but at the same time, being shaken to my core knowing that women's rights were being stripped away," Rodrigo told The Times via email just before the festival. "I want people to walk away from here feeling hopeful and feeling like they can effect change. That was the entire thesis of this festival. I do think we can. We've seen it happen before, and we're seeing some change now."

Daisy Chain Fields is an ambitious escalation of Rodrigo's activism, which has paralleled her chart-topping success after she debuted as a teenager with her LP "Sour" in 2021. The festival — with similarly aligned acts, including Chappell Roan, Doechii, Bikini Kill and others — will be a globally prominent cultural event, underlining the urgency for reproductive and women's rights work amid the current right-wing backlash. It raises funds to benefit 10 like-minded advocacy groups, and intertwines her music career and women's rights advocacy in ways few pop artists at her scale are attempting.

"We are ecstatic to have Olivia supporting our work, not only financially, but using her voice and reach to shine a light on these urgent issues," said Nancy Northup, president and [See Rodrigo, B4]

Farmworker wage cuts ruled illegal

By BRITTNY MEJIA

ROBERT GAUTHIER Los Angeles Times
PLAINTIFFS include farmworkers from several states, including California.

A Labor Department rule that cut wages for foreign guest workers is unlawful, a California federal judge ruled this week.

U.S. District Judge Kirk E. Sherriff in Fresno concluded that the Labor Department failed to reasonably consider whether it could satisfy its legal obligation “to ensure that the hiring of H-2A workers will not ‘adversely affect’ U.S. farmworkers’ wages.”

But he allowed the Department of Labor rule to remain temporarily in effect while the agency develops a replacement.

Sherriff on Wednesday ordered the Labor Department to "promptly produce"

[See Farmworkers, B4]

‘I will never understand why,’ Jake Reiner says

BY RICHARD WINTON

Eight months have passed since Rob and Michele Reiner were killed and their younger son was arrested and charged with murder, but the couple's older son still feels he "will never understand why this happened."

The children of film director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Reiner mostly have kept mum despite extensive coverage of the brutal stabbings on Dec. 14, 2025.

In a television interview with KABC-TV's Marc Cota-Robles, Jake Reiner, the older son, described the aftermath of the slayings and the arrest of his brother, Nick, as a "living nightmare."

“Nobody really understands what it's like to go through something like that until you're living it,” said

Jake, 35. “It’s been eight months. It feels like eight years at the same time. And it also feels like eight minutes because every moment that I wake up, I’m reminded of my reality.”

Jake said he learned the night of their deaths that the Los Angeles Police Department was looking at Nick as a prime suspect. A grand jury indicted Nick last month on murder charges with special allegations of committing multiple murders and lying in wait, making him subject to life without parole or the death penalty if convicted.

"He's in jail," Jake said. "It's like, I physically lost my parents, and then Nick was arrested. Now it's just me and Romy, and we have to navigate this by ourselves essentially," he said, referring to his sister.

Asked whether he was [See Reiner, B3]

CITY & STATE

ROBERT GAUTHIER Los Angeles Times
RANCHER Bill Fales at one of his pastures near Carbondale, Colo. He recalls that, decades ago, Mt. Sopris would be snow-covered in June.

Water woes trace to fossil fuels, study finds

Scientists say that the largest polluters have significantly worsened crisis in Western U.S.

BY IAN JAMES

In the last few years, multiple studies have shown that global warming is intensifying drought and worsening water scarcity in California and the Western United States.

Now, scientists have found that a group of polluters is responsible for a large share of this drying.

In their study, published this week in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, the researchers estimated that climate change shrank the peak annual snowpack in 11 Western states by 36% between 2014 and 2024, and reduced the flow of rivers and streams in spring and summer by 13% compared to a world without human-caused warming.

They found that nearly half of those declines were caused by the planet-heating gases released into the atmosphere by 122 of the world's largest fossil fuel and cement companies.

This group, which researchers refer to as the “carbon majors,” includes big producers of oil, gas and coal, both private corporations and state-owned enterprises in countries such as Russia, China and Saudi Arabia.

“Collectively, they constitute a really big source of human-caused climate change,” said Emily Williams, the lead author and a climate scientist at UC Merced.

The researchers used climate models to examine the effects of the companies' carbon dioxide emissions since 1950.

They also found that global warming, by drying out soil and making crops soak up more water, has increased irrigation water demand by 4%, and that this group of companies is responsible for about half of that.

The remainder of planet-warming gases are released by smaller fossil fuel companies, livestock agriculture, deforestation, landfills and other activities, according to the study.

Even without rising temperatures caused by the use of fossil fuels, heavy water use is putting major strain on the West's rivers, streams and groundwater aquifers, Williams said.

“Climate change is taking what has been a precarious situation already and turning it into a crisis,” she said.

Agriculture uses much of the water throughout the West. In California's Central Valley, chronic overpumping of water from wells has caused major declines in groundwater levels. The scientists estimated in the study that at least $20\%$ of the groundwater loss can be attributed to global warming.

A spokesperson for the American Petroleum Institute, the largest oil and gas trade association in the country, did not respond Wednesday to a request for comment about the study.

The research is based on sound scientific principles and methods, said Rob Jackson, a climate scientist at Stanford University's Doerr School of Sustainability, who was not involved in the study.

“Climate change is making our water problems systematically more challenging,” Jackson said. “We can no longer manage our water resources without thinking about how the atmosphere is changing, and how snowpack is changing.”

It's also important to consider, he said, that “a relatively small number of companies and sources have been responsible for most of the pollution in the air, and that some of those companies are still fighting the consensus on climate change and fighting climate action.”

At the federal level, there is a heated political debate over climate lawsuits against oil and gas companies. Republican members of Congress are proposing to grant the fossil fuel industry immunity from lawsuits based on studies such as this one, while Democrats oppose such legislation.

In recent years, a growing body of research has focused on analyzing the role of climate change in worsening droughts, floods, heat waves and wildfires. Some studies have also examined the role of large oil and gas companies.

For example, a 2023 study estimated that nearly $40\%$ of the forest area burned by wildfires in the Western U.S. and southwestern Canada in the last 40 years can be attributed to the carbon emissions of the world's largest fossil fuel producers and cement makers.

In other research, scientists found that the last quarter-century has probably been the driest in 1,200

A 2025 study found that the carbon dioxide released by such companies and their products has substantially worsened heat waves since 2000.

years in Western North America, and that global warming is responsible for about $40\%$ of the drought's severity.

Researchers have estimated that climate change is linked to about half of the decline in the flow of the Colorado River, which provides water for seven states and Mexico. This year, the river's largest reservoirs have fallen lower than ever before.

Record-breaking heat this winter and spring left mountains across the West with very little snow, and scientists recently determined in other research that climate change made such a snow drought four times more likely than before the rise of industry started releasing more carbon dioxide and driving global warming.

In the latest study, the researchers said they focused on emissions since the 1950s because during that decade, some companies began to have access to research indicating the use of oil, gas and coal could lead to dangerous climatic changes.

Carly Phillips, a co-author and senior scientist at the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists, said that's why research focusing on the role these companies play in the climate crisis is important.

“Despite recognizing this science internally, they poured resources into a campaign of deception and obstruction to protect their profits,” she said.

Driver in fatal car crash is charged

BY FEDOR ZARKHIN

The drivers of a pair of muscle cars that killed two teenage girls in a crash have been identified as two Southern California men, ages 49 and 50, authorities said.

Terry Lamar Easter, 50, of Apple Valley, has been charged with two counts of murder in the girls' deaths, the San Bernardino County district attorney's office said in a statement.

He was driving a yellow Chevrolet Camaro on Aug. 14 at speeds of up to 117 mph when he hit a car driven by Maddalyn Dailey, 17, who was giving her friend Isabel Hill, 16, a ride home, the office said. Both died.

Easter has been charged with murder in both of their deaths, as well as a misdemeanor racing charge and a felony charge of child abuse likely to cause serious injury or death. Easter's 8-year-old son was in his car at the time of the crash, and Easter allegedly fled the scene, leaving his son in the car.

Police took Easter into custody Wednesday morning, the California Highway Patrol said in a statement.

"This was not an accident. Street racing at 117 mph is a deliberate and extraordinarily dangerous choice that ended the lives of two young best friends, exposing his own 8-year-old child to that danger, and abandoning his child after the crash to flee the scene," Dist. Atty. Jason Anderson said in a statement. "We intend to hold him responsible for every life devastated by his alleged actions."

Another driver was arrested soon after the crash. George Gary Sanchez, 49, of Riverside, was driving a Dodge Charger and was allegedly the second driver to hit Maddalyn's car. He has not been charged yet, the district attorney said.

The men were booked on suspicion of murder and gross vehicular manslaughter with negligence.

The CHP said both men were driving at “extremely high speeds” as they approached the intersection of Ridgecrest Road and Elmwood Drive, where Dailey was exiting her neighborhood.

In connection with their search for Easter, authorities also arrested three other people — Ryan James Lewis, 45, of Victorville; Lukevy Shawntell Yates, 49, of Apple Valley; and Madge Wells, 74, of Apple Valley — on suspicion of being accessories after the fact, the CHP said. The three cooperated with authorities and were later released from custody.

Southern California has developed a deadly culture of street racing that has claimed numerous lives.

California sues over abandoning of Morro Bay wind power lease

State contends Trump administration's deal with Golden State Wind is not legal.

BY BLANCA BEGERT

After the Trump administration paid California offshore wind developers to abandon their leases and pursue oil and gas development instead, the state is fighting back.

In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the California Northern District, state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission allege that one of the deals violates federal law and constitutes an illegal payout.

"The Trump Administration's backroom buyout with Golden State Wind to stop offshore wind development in favor of gas and oil drilling is, unfortunately, a classic playbook for them to line the pocket of their Big Oil donors," Bonta said in a statement.

Offshore wind is central to California's clean energy plans. The state has a goal to develop 25 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2045, enough to provide about $13\%$ of its electricity supply.

Golden State Wind, off Morro Bay, was expected to generate up to 2 gigawatts of clean energy, enough to power about 1.1 million homes, according to the developer. The U.S. Department of the Interior said in April that it would pay the developer \$120 million, the amount Golden State Wind had paid for its offshore lease, if the company invested in oil and gas projects along the Gulf Coast instead.

The move followed similar deals with other U.S. offshore wind projects, and this summer the administration announced agreements with two other companies seeking to develop offshore wind in California. Invenergy will get \$765 million to abandon four leases, including one off Morro Bay, and RWE struck a deal for \$1.22 billion to cancel leases, including one near Humboldt. The agreements left California with just two offshore wind leases intact.

The state says it has invested more than \$100 million already to prepare ports, transmission systems and industries to support the offshore wind and the buyouts are a waste of taxpayer money. Environmental groups decried the lost clean power and jobs, which

Bonta said would number over 170,000.

In May, the California Energy Commissions served Golden State Wind with a subpoena seeking information on the buyout. It also filed a notice of intent to sue over the Invenergy agreement.

In the lawsuit Friday over Golden State Wind, California argues the deal violates the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which gives California input into offshore leasing decisions. It also argues that the buyout illegally takes money from a federal fund meant to settle lawsuits.

So far, the Trump administration has paid out nearly \$4 billion for the cancellation of at least a dozen federal wind leases across the country. All of the companies have agreed to invest in U.S. fossil fuel projects.

A group of seven states is also suing over a deal with energy developer TotalEnergies on the East Coast.

Golden State Wind did not respond immediately to a request for comment. The Department of the Interior said it would not comment due to pending litigation.

Times staff writer Hayley Smith contributed to this report.

Masked man who terrorized civilians arrested, police say

BY FEDOR ZARKHIN

A man who allegedly terrorized Philadelphia residents while wearing a creepy Halloween mask has been arrested in Las Vegas.

Zymire Hughes, 22, is being held in Clark County jail. He is wanted in Pennsylvania on multiple charges, including aggravated assault and making terroristic threats.

Hughes agreed at a Thursday court hearing before a judge in Las Vegas to return to Pennsylvania to face charges. Authorities in that state have 30 days to pick him up.

In just one of multiple incidents that the Philadelphia district attorney's office said have been reported, Hughes allegedly approached a woman Aug. 12 while wearing the mask and, holding one arm behind his back, asked her if she was "ready to die." The woman ran, and he chased after her.

Her spine and hamstring were injured during the chase, the district attorney's office said.

"We take it very seriously any time someone thinks it is funny or entertaining to terrorize and harass individuals in any neighborhood," Dist. Atty. Larry Krasner said.

"He will be caught and held accountable for his crimes."

At one point, there were concerns that Hughes could be headed to Los Angeles, with Philadelphia police Capt. Jason Smith telling a local outlet last week that Hughes “has a tendency to travel back and forth to the West Coast, California, the L.A. area, but also Las Vegas.”

Officers with the Nevada Violent Offender Task Force arrested Hughes after tracking him down to a southeast Las Vegas apartment, Robert Clark, a U.S. Marshals Service supervisory deputy, said at a news conference Tuesday.

“Tonight, the fear that one man brought to the Philadelphia community comes to an end,” Clark said.

The Marshals Service determined Hughes had been a Las Vegas resident since February.

He fled Pennsylvania on Aug. 19, Clark said, flying to Orlando and then to Las Vegas.

The next day, when the story of him terrorizing residents hit the news, Hughes moved to an apartment in southeast Las Vegas, where he “hunkered down” for five days, Clark said. Marshals started to surveil the apartment building Tuesday and, around 8 p.m., knocked on the apartment door, Clark said.

Hughes came out and gave himself up, though he later tried to get out of his handcuffs and had to be subdued, Clark said.

"He was not a happy man being brought into custody," Clark said.

New details emerge in 49ers owner's prostitution arrest

Jed York pleaded no contest after response to online ad that was a law enforcement sting.

BY GRACE TOOHEY

San Francisco 49ers owner and Chief Executive John “Jed” York was arrested after responding to an online ad advertising a prostitute that ended up being a ploy set up by local officers, according to a recently released arrest report.

York, 45, was arrested Sunday in the prostitution sting, initially facing misdemeanor charges of engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools. But on Monday, he pleaded no contest to only the former charge and a new misdemeanor — disorderly conduct.

He was arrested by the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force, which is a regional collaboration of law enforcement that includes support from the Ohio attorney general's office.

Officers from that task force had posted an ad “on a known prostitution website,” to which York had responded with his interest in meeting up with the supposed woman, though he used the pseudonym “Joe,” according to the partially redacted arrest report.

He messaged the number from the ad three times before an officer overseeing the sting responded, the report said. York asked how much the woman charged for one hour, and was told it would cost him \$160 for “full service sexual activity,” and \$20 additionally for unprotected sex, the report said. York allegedly replied that \$160 “worked for him.”

He was given the address of a mobile home park to meet the woman and responded that he was on his way, the report said.

Law enforcement officers were instead waiting for him at the mobile home park, the report said. After stopping York in a rental car, officers found him in possession of \$160 in cash, the report said. They also sent another text message to the phone used in the prostitution sting, and that message showed up on York's phone, the report said.

York had filed for divorce from his wife in May due to irreconcilable differences, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The outlet said the proceedings in the case were still ongoing at the time of York's arrest.

York grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, just north of East Palestine, where he was arrested.

After entering a plea in the case, York had requested records from the case be sealed, but his request was denied by an administrative judge, court records show.

The Times attempted to contact the attorney listed in York's court records, but did not receive a response. A spokesperson for the 49ers has declined to comment on the case.

‘My parents ... never stopped helping him,’ Jake Reiner recalls

[Reiner, from B1]

loosely based on Nick's life.

[12] (Hill, From 51) surprised that Nick was suspected in the crime, Jake declined to answer. He also declined to discuss his brother's attempt to use family trust money to fund his legal defense. Instead he discussed the anger he is feeling.

"It manifests into rage, into how unfair this was, how I didn't get a say in what happened. I didn't get to stop it from happening. I had no choice in the matter," Jake said. "I just have to accept the reality of it. And to me, that is just one of the most infuriating parts of all of this."

He said he learned of his parents' deaths while attending a celebration of life event for a high school friend at Union Station. His sister tried to call him.

“I screened it because I thought, at the time, I’m in the middle of something, you know, I’ll call her back,” he recalled, “and then she called immediately again, and I knew at that point that something was wrong.

“Romy told me our dad was dead, and then she said, ‘I can’t find Mom.’ I immediately went into shock.”

Investigators found the body of Rob Reiner in the couple's bedroom. Michele Reiner subsequently was found in the bedroom area as well.

Romy, 28, has not publicly commented.

Nick's struggles with addiction and mental health were public knowledge. In 2015, he partnered with his father on the film "Being Charlie," about a drug-addicted son, which Nick wrote and Rob directed. It was

Jake was no stranger to crime scenes — as a long-time television news reporter, he said he had witnessed plenty, but nothing could have prepared him for his parents' home that night.

"As a reporter, I did it for 10 years; I came up on crime scenes all the time," he said. "But when it's your crime scene, a crime scene at your childhood home, it's like the most surreal thing I've ever seen."

Nick has pleaded not guilty. A pretrial hearing is slated for Sept. 15, a day after his 33rd birthday.

"I'll never understand. I don't care how it's explained to me. I don't care what facts come out," Jake said. "My parents had unconditional love for all three of us. I can tell you they never stopped wanting to help him. They never stopped helping him."

Jake and Romy made their first public appearance together since the tragedy on Aug. 2 at Dodger Stadium, where they took part in the ceremonial first pitch. Dodger Stadium meant a great deal to their father.

"One of the great pleasures I have is walking into Dodger Stadium. It's like I feel at peace," Rob Reiner once said.

"He had season tickets for the Dodgers," Jake said, "and we would go anywhere from three to four games a week, and it was just the greatest time with him.

“It was an emotional thing that we did. I don’t know if I really could take in the moment, because everything happened kind of fast, but I was really happy that we got to do that.”

ROB REINER with wife Michele and son Jake in 2014. Their son Nick is accused of killing the couple.
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Jules M. Arnson August 1939 - April 2025

Jules Arnson (85) passed at his home. Jules, an epic storyteller with a fantastic laugh, loved the City of Los Angeles. From Hollywood's Golden Age to The Dodgers, to In-and-Out, Philippe's, The Dresden, Johnny's Pastrami, and Tommies, Jules loved being in the company of the people who made industries run. A manager in the early years of professional world wrestling, he combined his love for story-telling with his interest in connecting people, while simultaneously parlaying these skills into his 50+ years in the car business; where he met, entertained, and became the confidant of stars like Barbara Stanwyck, Howard Hughes, and Elvis Presley. Jules is survived by his children, Heather and Andrew, their mother Annette, grandchildren Devan and Odin, d-i-l Aki, s-i-l Chris, and best friend Neal. I love you Daddy with all of my heart.

Shirley Jane Dorn

It is with deep sadness that we announce the peaceful passing of Shirley Dorn (née Dyer), born in Lincoln, Nebraska.

A devoted mother of quiet strength and lasting love, Shirley gave generously of her heart throughout her life. She will be deeply missed and forever loved by all who knew her.

She is survived by her two sons, three grandchildren, a sister, and a brother.

Gale Hughes Layman

Gale was born on March 10, 1931, in Santa Monica, California to Hal Durham Hughes and Gale Antoinette Murphy Hughes.

Gale grew up in the West LA community of Cheviot Hills. She graduated from Hamilton High School in 1949, and from UCLA, with Honors, in 1952.

Gale met Will Layman while singing around a piano at an apartment party in Sunset Beach (San Diego), California. Eight weeks later, they were married. Gale and Will started life as married-military in La Jolla. Shortly after, Gale stayed in California to teach grade school while Will cruised the Western Pacific aboard the USS Boxer for seven months.

Gale was an avid Bridge player, a wonderful hostess, and an artist: Christmas stockings needlepointed for every family member, yearly silkscreened Christmas cards, copious amounts of gold jewelry designed and created (when gold was only \$35/oz.), and a delightful eye for home decor.

During her 71 year marriage to Will, Gale became the leader of four generations spread across California. They have three children: Anne Gale Layman Hatton (Greg), Tina Lynne Adams (Tom), and John Hughes Layman (Teri). In addition, Gale's descendants include five grandchildren: Holly, William, Cole, Wade, and Katherine Gale, and three great grandchildren: Penelope Gale, Wilbur and Wells.

James Raymond Nielsen

September 23, 1944 – August 19, 2026

Gale passed away peacefully on July 24, 2026, surrounded by her family.

James Raymond Nielsen (Jim) passed away peacefully at home in Glendale, CA, at the age of 81, with his wife, Anne, by his side. Jim, the son of James and Dorothy Nielsen, was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He graduated from Notre Dame High School in 1962 and started college at Cal State Northridge University, but his academic studies were interrupted by 3 years in the U S Army. While in the service, Jim graduated from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA becoming fluent in Turkish, after which he served as an interpreter at NATO Headquarters in Izmir, Turkey. Upon his return to civilian life, Jim graduated from Cal State University Los Angeles with a degree in Criminology.

He didn't pursue a career in his major, instead spending 42 years as a commercial banker. Jim specialized in real estate lending for over 35 years. He spent 14 years with Bank of America, but his most rewarding and challenging assignments were with Banque Paribas, Key Bank and the last institution he worked for, City National Bank. He retired in 2011 and spent his time planning trips for himself and Anne and continually trying to master his golf game.

October 12, 1928 – July 20, 2026

Jim was an avid, albeit a somewhat frustrated, golfer. He was a member of Wilshire Country Club for 38 years, serving as Treasurer and Vice President on the Board of Directors for 6 years, and played over 260 different courses throughout the world with two framed collections of ball markers to prove it.

A celebration of her life will be held at Pasadena Presbyterian Church on Saturday, September 5th 2026 at 11:00am.

Ruth Katherine Turner, 97, of Pasadena, California, passed away peacefully on July 20, 2026. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. They moved their family to California in 1960 and made Pasadena their home in 1963. She is survived by her six children, ten grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

Jim is survived by his beloved wife, Anne (Bagley), sisters Patricia Kytlica and Katherine Nielsen, his nephew, Ladio Kytlica and many other nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews and one great-great-niece. Anne was the love of his life and after being introduced to each other by Jim's sister, Kathy, they were married for almost 39 years. In addition to playing golf together, they enjoyed traveling, especially cruising through Europe, and traveled to 70 countries where Jim acquired a vast collection of mementos to Anne's continued dismay.

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David J Swartz August 15, 1947 - April 13, 2026

Dave was the eldest of 3 children born to Leonard and Phyllis Swartz.

He lived an active life and made many wonderful memories with his friends and family.

We shall remember him as kind, loving, larger than life, with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

Dave is survived by his partner Linda; children Jennifer and Jeff; and his granddaughter Noelle.

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The year that was 1935

Although a primitive, two-color process was first used in 1922, audiences weren't impressed by Technicolor until a three-color system appeared in "Becky Sharp."

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H. Kenneth Norian April 15, 1933 - August 25, 2026

H. Kenneth Norian was born in 1933 in New Jersey and passed away peacefully at home in Beverly Hills. Born to Siran and Harry Norian, Armenian immigrants whose families came from Aintab, Turkey, Ken was the third of four brothers, and grew up in a close-knit family that remained an important part of his life.

Ken attended Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey, where he distinguished himself as a natural leader, serving as Student Body President.

He went on to Yale University, where his most significant achievement was serving as Business Manager of the Yale Daily News, a role that reflected both his leadership abilities and his keen interest in business and communications.

Following Yale, Ken served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army Artillery. After completing his military service, Ken partnered with his brother to establish a real estate development company, where they built custom homes in northern New Jersey.

In 1963, Ken married Cynthia Dickranian, whom he had met at a party in New Jersey. Two years later, the couple moved west to California, where Ken became deeply involved in the business, civic, legal, and Armenian-American communities.

For nineteen years, Ken served as President of Premier Market of Beverly Hills. Under his leadership, he expanded the company's home-delivery service and wine business in ways that were decades ahead of their time.

Ken served as Treasurer of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and was a Founding Director of the Beverly Hills Education Foundation. For eleven years, he served as an Administrative Appellate Law Judge through the California State Bar Court, which handles attorney discipline matters under the jurisdiction of the California Supreme Court. He continued his service to the legal community as a volunteer lay arbitrator, helping resolve attorney-client fee disputes for the State Bar of California.

Ken's Armenian heritage remained a lifelong, foundational part of his identity. He served as a Fellow Trustee of the Armenian Assembly of America since its inception. He was also a devoted benefactor of the Armenian Church of North America, Western Diocese, and a forty-year Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International. Ken strongly supported the election campaigns of Governor George Deukmejian. His civic involvement reflected his belief that citizenship was not passive, but something to be actively lived. Ken remained deeply committed to preserving and strengthening the Armenian-American community for future generations.

For all of Ken's professional accomplishments, public service, interests, and lifelong pursuits, his greatest source of pride was his family. He and Cindy built a marriage and family that spanned more than six decades. They were the proud parents of four children: Thomas Archer; Timothy Katcher and his wife, PJ; John Mathew and his wife, Gia; and their daughter, Cathleen Caroun. They were also blessed with eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild, who brought immense joy and pride to their lives.

Ken will be remembered not only for what he accomplished, but for the way he approached life. He was an avid reader, a music lover, and had a genuine curiosity about new technology. His generosity, work ethic, humor, and enthusiasm for life will live on in the generations that follow him.

A memorial service will be held on Thursday, September 3rd at St. James Armenian Apostolic Church at 11am. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations be made to The Armenian Assembly of America, The Western Diocese Camp Endowment Fund, or The St. James Armenian Apostolic Church of Los Angeles Memorial Fund.

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Festival raises funds for women's rights

[Rodrigo, from B1] [Rodrigo, from BI] chief executive of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which challenged abortion bans in 11 states, and filed the first lawsuit on behalf of women denied abortions in 50 years. “Women are continuing to suffer under these bans, and that won’t stop until abortion is federally protected once again. Her support will help us continue filing lawsuits and advocating for laws that expand reproductive rights, both in the U.S. and globally.”

Rodrigo's public work in activism began in earnest on the tour for “Guts” in February 2024. That tour coincided with the launch of Rodrigo's Fund 4 Good, a nonprofit (under the fiscal sponsorship of the 501(c)(3) group Entertainment Industry Foundation) that steered \$2.5 million in profits and donations from that tour to a range of global groups working in women's rights, health and reproductive care. These included Jhipiego — a Johns Hopkins-affiliated global women's health NGO — along with Women's Shelters Canada, Women Against Violence Europe, and the Korea Foundation for Women.

“She did something. She could have played it safe, but she acknowledged that she has the power to make stuff happen, and she’s going to use it for good,” said Kathleen Hanna, founder of the legendarily activist punk group Bikini Kill, who will play Daisy Chain Fields on Saturday. While Hanna recalled feeling initially skeptical about the all-women Lilith Fair in the '90s, she respects how Rodrigo learned about that fest’s communal, radical goals from a recent documentary, and sought to update it for her fans’ generation.

“What’s awesome about that is that it’s not that rare” for artists to be outspoken on these issues now, Hanna said. “Look at Megan Thee Stallion, Hayley Williams — all I see is women who are like ‘This is bull—’. In a fascist era, we need to be meeting each other and opening friendship circles instead of isolating ourselves.”

Rodrigo's advocacy hasn't always gone smoothly. While on tour for "Guts" in 2024, Rodrigo brought abortion rights groups under the National Network of Abortion Funds to canvass at shows, and some groups handed out free condoms and emergency contraceptives to fans. Those efforts upset conservatives in states such as Missouri, which had enacted a near-total abortion ban, and where state legislators sought to ban the morning-after pill. Fearing political backlash, Rodrigo's management team at the time reportedly asked the groups to refrain from passing out contraceptives, but still encouraged them to canvass on-site.

“I don’t think demanding that women and girls be safe and have ownership over their own bodies is a radical idea,” Rodrigo said. “I was raised by parents who encouraged that belief in me.”

At Daisy Chain Fields, Rodrigo will likely face little resistance — but the show arrives in an ever more challenging time for women's health and rights.

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The return of President Trump to office has resulted in legislation such as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that slashed funding for healthcare; decimated funding for groups such as US-AID; and saw controversial, conspiracy-pushing figures such as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought into government. Crucial issues in women's health risked being ignored or exacerbated.

"It is a fraught moment" said Angela Aina, co-founder and executive director of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, one of the groups supported by Daisy Chain Fields. Aina said that American Black women die in childbirth at three times the rate for white women, and $87\%$ of these deaths were preventable.

“What matters most to us is that the festival is showing people the organizations that are doing this work and pushing solutions,” Aina added. “Black maternal health has too often been treated as a niche concern, something discussed among public health professionals and then set aside.” But when these topics underpin a massive, sold-out festival of music with an audience of young women, it becomes “part of ordinary civic life,” she said.

These organizations said Rodrigo made a real effort to connect personally with their teams and more closely learn about their issues and strategies. Some, such as the National Institute for Reproductive Health and Planned Parenthood, focus on reproductive justice. Baby2Baby supports mothers in poverty, while Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health focuses on Native and First Nations community healthcare. FreeFrom responds to the epidemic of gender-based violence, while the National Domestic Workers Alliance advocates for care workers, the vast majority of whom are women.

“It’s really extraordinary,” said National Domestic Workers Alliance President Ai-Jen Poo. “[She’s] making the time to come to meetings and learn about each organization directly from us, offering to think through different ways that she can lift up our work even beyond the festival.”

Part of the domestic workers alliance's mission is to change the cultural conversation around domestic labor — “We as a culture often refer to it as ‘help,’ as opposed to the profession that it is for millions of workers,” Poo said — an undertaking Poo said Rodrigo understands well.

“I think that she is a great storyteller herself through her music, and she knows that great storytelling is at the heart of what moves people and what creates change for people,” she said.

The National Women's Law Center works across virtually every issue affecting women and girls in the United States. “One of the things I like to say is that our fingerprints are on the lives of women in this country in ways that they’re probably not even aware of,” said Uma

Iyer, the organization's chief external affairs officer.

Iyer said that the “constant conversation” between law, policy and culture change is at the heart of the group’s work, and Rodrigo’s advocacy keeps that conversation urgent.

“We've seen that in how #MeToo played out. That spawned litigation, but it was also a big global cultural moment,” Iyer said. “You're talking about it at kitchen tables and movie theaters and on talk shows, and that discourse really matters when you're trying to effect change.”

Each of the nonprofits will have a physical presence at the festival in Irvine's Great Park. For their station, Poo said the domestic workers alliance will set up a space for visitors to learn about care work and pay tribute to the caregivers in their own lives through artwork, which will all knit together "in a big chain of care" by the festival's end.

“We're really excited about all the people who will come to our tent and have a conversation with us and stay involved in our movement long afterwards,” she said. “We feel like Daisy Chain is almost like a catalyst for really growing this movement for care in our country.”

At a news conference Friday, Rodrigo said the festival would donate \$10 million to its partner organizations, describing the occasion as “a real honor.”

Several organizers said the recognition and opportunities for connection that the festival brings are just as meaningful as whatever financial support it generates.

Rodrigo has said that all artists on the lineup are performing for free, though production and staffing costs for a fest of this size will be substantial.

The money the nonprofit groups do receive will go right back into “continuing the work,” Iyer said. “The work of gender justice in whatever form it shows up for any of these 10 organizations is really the work of protecting our democracy.”

Beyond the impact for populations the organization serves, Iyer said the promise of Daisy Chain Fields has boosted morale among National Women's Law Center staff during an extremely difficult time in America.

"When you have this big festival with people you love to hear, who bring you joy and bring you comfort and peace and entertainment and laughs and love, and they're all banding together because this one incredible person asked them to, because she believes it's the right thing to do — it makes the work a little less hard," Iyer said.

The work seems to be catching on. Roan, long outspoken on LGBTQ+ rights issues, will throw the Super Graphic Spectacular concert at the Shrine in Los Angeles on Oct. 21-22, benefiting trans youths through Roan's Midwest Princess Project. Last year, Doechii told the audience at the GLAAD Media Awards in

L.A. that as “hard-won cultural change and rights for transgender people and the LGBTQ+ community have been threatened,” the superstar rapper was “disgusted” by the revanchism.

“Olivia’s involvement is such a gift, because she is reaching and educating young people who may feel checked out or hopeless on these issues,” Northup, of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said. “Olivia is giving us a chance to meet young people where they’re at, and she’s approaching it with positivity. Her message is not about what we’ve lost, it’s about what we can accomplish if we channel our collective power as women and girls.”

Rodrigo just followed up her acclaimed LP “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love” with a new single, “Serena Joy,” titled after a character in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” who complies with an oppressive theocracy.

"If they do it to them, they're gonna do it to you," Rodrigo sang, with a fury that brooks no room for despair.

"There's a growing sentiment among young people and women that we have to create change, and hopefully people are inspired, whether it's by engaging with some of our [nonprofit] partners or simply finding whatever way feels right to them," Rodrigo said. "There is no doubt in my mind that protecting women and girls, and ensuring they have ownership over their own bodies, has to be a priority for all of us."

Federal judge rules wage cuts for seasonal farmworkers are unlawful

[Farmworkers, from B1] a new methodology for calculating H-2A wage rates consistent with his decision.

He directed the agency to notify employers back pay may be owed to H-2A workers and U.S. farmworkers if the new applicable rates exceed what they were paid.

The ruling is a win for farmworker advocates who sued the Trump administration last year, arguing that the rule would undercut wages paid to U.S. workers.

More than a dozen farm-workers across the nation, along with the United Farm Workers of America and the UFW Foundation, sought to overturn the rule.

The plaintiffs alleged that the rule — which they said cut wages of H-2A workers between \$3 and \$7 per hour — was “unlawful” and would “put downward pressure on the wages of U.S. workers” who are in similar jobs, often on the same contracts as those with visas.

According to the UFW Foundation, after the rule went into effect, wages in California fell from \$19.97 to \$16.90 an hour — a 15% cut for H-2A workers and U.S. farmworkers working beside them.

"This decision recognizes the important and essential work of the men and women who put food on our tables and that farm workers should get paid fairly," Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers, said in a statement.

"The government must move quickly to issue new, legal, wage rates that protect the jobs and wages of local farm workers, and employers must be held accountable for paying back any difference between the new legal wage and the illegal wage rates still in effect," Romero added.

The Department of Labor referred The Times to the Department of Justice, which did not respond to a request for comment on whether the government plans to appeal.

The Department of Labor previously estimated that the rule, which went into effect Oct. 2, would save employers \$2.46 billion yearly.

The union argued in the lawsuit that it constituted “a transfer of wealth from the workers to their employers.”

In 2020, the Trump administration attempted to implement a similar rule but was blocked by a UFW and UFW Foundation lawsuit.

At a March hearing, Alexandra McTague Schulte, an attorney representing the U.S. Department of Labor, argued that the lower H-2A wage rates would not affect U.S. workers because growers already faced a labor shortage, with demand for farm labor exceeding the available supply, CalMatters reported.

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, include farmworkers from Michigan, Georgia, California, Washington, Texas and Missouri.

Among the plaintiffs is Crisanto Serrano, a farmworker in Sunnyside, Wash., who said more growers “just want to hire H-2A workers, who they can keep trapped on their property, instead of us local workers, who live here and who pay taxes here and have decades of experience.”

“We don’t matter to the growers and to this President,” Serrano said in a statement.

"They are happy to hire a new worker for less pay. But I am very happy that the court did take us into account," Serrano added. "I hope this court decision will protect our wages and our jobs here in the Yakima Valley for a long time."

Erica Lomeli Corcoran, chief executive of the UFW Foundation, hailed Sherriff's ruling as "a much-needed victory for farm workers all over the country."

“Farm workers deserve to be paid a fair day's wage for a fair day's work,” she said in a statement. “Now that the court has spoken, the Trump administration should do the right thing and work to protect farm worker wages.”

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Bonta, Essayli spar over voting integrity

INDEPENDENT election experts say there is zero evidence of voter fraud existing in significant numbers.

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tions, given the California Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles coordinate on statewide law enforcement initiatives and traditionally maintain a cordial relationship.

They have worked together in recent years to target Los Angeles street gangs trafficking guns and drugs statewide, as well as international drug syndicates trafficking fentanyl and other narcotics through L.A.

The U.S. Justice Department at times finds itself on the opposing side of litigation involving local or state law enforcement partners, including in cases in which it investigates local police departments for civil rights violations and forces them into consent decrees, as it has done with the Los Angeles Police Department.

However, it is extremely rare for U.S. attorneys and top state law enforcement officials to engage in direct attacks on each other's integrity — or the integrity of state voting processes, which both are tasked with defending. Federal prosecutors in particular have historically sought to avoid the appearance of political partisanship and rarely taken aim at elected officials over policy matters.

That tradition certainly has faltered under Trump, who has filled the Justice Department with outspoken loyalists who make no secret of their allegiance to him. And Essayli, the administration's embattled appointee to lead one of the largest federal prosecutor's offices in the country, has been no exception.

Essayli did not respond to a request for comment on the public exchange Thursday.

A spokesperson for Bonta's office, which has sued this Trump administration more than 85 times, said in a statement that office staff regularly work with the U.S. Justice Department and federal prosecutors to keep Californians safe, and that work won't stop "just because some are dead set on politicizing our work and theirs."

At a news conference this week touting major crime declines in the state, Bonta said partnerships with both local and federal law enforcement remain a vital part of public safety in the state.

“That remains the secret sauce — the magic — when it comes to making our communities more safe. Working together, collaborating, sharing intel and resources and teaming up," he said.

Still, the new Postal Service rules sparked a clash. The rules require states to submit lists of eligible voters to the Postal Service and to use new ballot envelopes with digital bar codes that would allow the Postal Service to identify and reject ballots that don't match those lists.

Trump requested the changes as part of a broader executive order in March to combat what he claims is widespread voter fraud across the country and particularly in big blue states such as California.

Independent election experts say there is zero evidence of such problems existing in significant numbers. The Trump administration has said that is because states are keeping voter rolls secret and refusing to cooperate with federal efforts to vet them for non-citizens and other ineligible voters.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a separate lower court ruling blocking the Postal Service changes, on the grounds that they had yet to be implemented and had not yet caused any harm to the states challenging them. The high court made clear, however, that it was not weighing in on the substance or merits of the rules themselves.

Essayli has long made allegations of voter fraud in California, and lawyers in his office were involved in an unsuccessful lawsuit in which the Justice Department sought California's unredacted voter rolls. After the Supreme Court issued its ruling, and Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged the state would sue again, Essayli responded to defend the administration's efforts.

"These measures wouldn't be necessary if states like California didn't allow noncitizens to easily register to vote and get mail ballots," he wrote. "We are actively identifying ineligible citizens on California's dirty voter rolls and will soon announce criminal arrests related to our election fraud investigation."

Essayli's office did not respond to a request for information on those alleged arrests or its broader investigation.

Then, on Wednesday, Bonta, who is seeking reelection in November, announced the latest lawsuit challenging the merits of the Postal Service rules, which he noted had been formally issued last week. He called the rules “an unlawful overreach that shows just how far President Trump will go to control elections,” and the state’s lawsuit an effort to “protect election integrity.”

Essayli soon replied, writing, “What election integrity? You’re fighting to preserve noncitizens’ access to mail ballots. I’ve never seen a state AG fight this hard to shield fraudsters and illegals from accountability. Imagine if he used his efforts to protect citizens."

On Thursday morning, Bonta replied. “Simply untrue. We’re fighting to uphold the Constitution and protect California’s right to administer our own elections,” he wrote.

"If you're really concerned with election integrity, might I suggest starting with Donald Trump who: asked for 10,000+ votes from election officials in Georgia, fueled January 6, seized ballots, and issued two blatantly unlawful elections executive orders," Bonta said.

After he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and asked him to “find 11,780 votes” for Trump to swing the state from Biden to him.

A later congressional investigation found that Trump provoked his supporters into attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to prevent the certification of Biden's win. This January, the FBI raided and seized ballots from an election center in Fulton County, Ga. — a focus of Trump's 2020 election denial.

“Trump has repeatedly shown he’ll stop at nothing to interfere in our elections. He’s repeatedly broken the law, so we’ve repeatedly taken him to court," Bonta continued in his post. "Unfortunately, it appears that the First Assistant is more interested in currying favor with a desperate wannabe dictator than upholding the law himself."

In agreeing late Thursday to halt the Postal Service rules, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani wrote that the court did not have “any evidence regarding fraudulent absentee or mail-in voting” before it, and that the Postal Service’s “interest in correcting an unsubstantiated problem through likely unconstitutional means is dwarfed by the overwhelming risk of pervasive disenfranchisement of citizens who need access to mail ballots in order to vote.”

Bonta, back on X, praised the ruling, writing, "President Trump must keep his hands off our elections."

On Friday, Essayli made his own announcement — of the arrest of a 30-year-old Honduran national and lawful permanent resident from Winnetka on two felony charges of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and fraudulently registering to vote.

“Today’s arrest is the first of many to come,” Essayli said. “Unfortunately, because states like California allow noncitizens to easily register to vote and receive a ballot by mail, there’s no telling how many noncitizens are currently registered to vote.”

Man, 41, dies after lifeguards pull him from surf

BY SALVADOR HERNANDEZ

A 41-year-old man died after he was pulled out of the surf by lifeguards in Laguna Beach, officials said.

The man had been seen Wednesday bodysurfing in South Crescent Bay, and was later spotted in trouble by Marine Safety staff, according to a statement released by the city.

Lifeguards carried the unconscious man to the shore and found him to be in cardiac arrest, according to the statement. Firefighters and Marine Safety personnel performed CPR before he was taken to Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo.

He was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to the city statement.

He was identified Thursday afternoon as Justin Anand Shahani of Laguna Beach by the Orange County Sheriff's Department's coroner division.

It marked the second death this summer at Crescent Bay, a popular quarter-mile cove in Laguna Beach that draws bodysurfers and divers.

On Aug. 3, a 24-year-old swimmer who was with a friend went missing after he was spotted struggling in the water. He was found by lifeguards and pronounced dead.

In June, a 5-year-old girl from San Bernardino drowned at Laguna Beach after she was pulled into the ocean. Her disappearance sparked a 24-hour search until her body was discovered during an aerial coastline survey.

KAYLA BARTKOWSKI L.A. Times A SURFER at Laguna Beach on Wednesday.

Street vendors now a political pressure point

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faced scrutiny for saying during a recent mayoral debate organized by the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Assn. that street vendors should not be allowed to set up in front of brick-and-mortar restaurants.

"Just like you shouldn't have encampments in front of restaurants or in front of schools, you just should not do that," Bass said.

Critics, including Raman, said Bass was directly comparing homeless encampments to street vendors.

Raman followed up on negative interpretations of the mayor's Sherman Oaks statement with a one-two punch: On Wednesday night, she showed up with supporters and television cameras at the famous Brothers Cousins Tacos stand on Sawtelle Boulevard to highlight the release of a pro-street-vendor policy plan.

"When you come for our street vendors, you're coming for the heart of L.A.," Raman said of Bass.

In the plan, Raman hopes to create an Immigrant Economic Opportunity Hub, which would offer permitting support, microloans and legal help. Wednesday night, after a vegetarian quesadilla dinner, she said the city should provide pathways for food stands that make fresh food to get permits and grow their businesses, including potentially working toward a brick-and-mortar location.

Also included is a proposal to create special zones in L.A.'s vending corridors, although the plan doesn't outline where such opt-in zones could be.

These zones would include infrastructure such as shared sinks, power, lighting, shade and restrooms.

“What we have in our plan is a plan for street vendor districts that can ensure that vendors and brick-and-mortar businesses are not in conflict with one another, that they’re actually able to share streets," Raman said.

When asked the same question she faced at the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Assn., whether she would allow food stands to sit in front of a brick-and-mortar restaurant, Raman said Wednesday that she believed there were ways to keep food stands and restaurants from intruding upon each other, but didn't say whether that would be enforced by distance requirements, ticketing or otherwise.

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HOROSCOPE

By Holiday Mathis

Aries (March 21-April 19): Even when you're not getting precisely what you want at the time you want it, you know that you have enough.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): Of course your energy is heightened around people you like a lot. You're more enthusiastic than intended, or much less in an attempt to play it cool.

Gemini (May 21-June 21): There's no need to compare your timeline with someone else's. The power move is to accept that there are some things you simply don't have power over.

Cancer (June 22-July 22): This is no time to explain yourself. Those who get it are on your level and will make good team members. Let the rest go for now.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Assume that people are doing their best at the time, even when it doesn't impress

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you much.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Enjoy the habit of mind you've cultivated, especially the one where you find something to like in those less-than-ideal situations.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Someone shows up who's already done what you want to do. They can show you how.

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Marketers are experts at making you want something you didn't know about two minutes ago. That's when you know you're dealing with a want, not a need.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You feel stuck, but you won't stay stuck. There's someone strong and gentle who would love to step in.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Multiple bids from multiple people is today's theme, and a little competition for your attention will drive up the value of your time.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You don't know the answer, and it's a relief not to have to.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Since being cranky and tired can put bad vibes into the atmosphere, you owe it to all in the general vicinity to relax, have some fun and take good care of yourself.

Today's birthday (Aug. 29): Welcome to your Year of Endless Sky. It's as though the universe is expanding just for you with a view the color of awe and optimism. There are new things to want. You lock in and somehow work hard even as you go easy. More highlights: The dream project comes together under your leadership. This one benefits all who touch it. Love fills days with purpose and evenings with carefree fun. Aries and Gemini adore you. Lucky numbers: 1, 12, 20, 16 and 40.

Mathis writes her column for Creators Syndicate Inc. The horoscope should be read for entertainment.

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By Geoffrey Schorkopf & Rafael Musa

ACROSS 1 Chance to refuel after a run 9 Cruelty-free target of poaching 13 Contributes to 14 Ncuti who plays the Fifteenth Doctor 15 Mobile vendor? 16 Extravagant 17 Chiang Mai residents 18 Bath bomb component 20 Place that's all abuzz 21 The Refined Feline purchase, perhaps 22 Did brunch, say 23 Like crosswords, hopefully 24 Vicuña kin 28 Folks who are so last yr. 29 Spanish for "the gilded one" 30 Pilots on the air 34 Conflict involving customs 35 Y as in Yucatan? 36 Japanese leader 37 On point 38 Deg. from Goizueta 41 Causes a scene? 43 Snippy 44 Physical procedure? 47 Husk-steamed fare 48 Freshens, in a way 49 New York university 51 Swears 52 Cutesy name for the squishy parts of a paw 53 Trash 54 High-minded one

1 Name on a literary award
2 Chart-topper
3 Fix a lot, say
4 Polish brand
5 Takes a load off
6 _Cat
7 Like gochujang and jjimjilbang
8 Bumbling
9 With a crispy crust, say

10 Piedmont blues guitarist Baker 11 Unaccounted for, for short 12 Tirade 14 Important part of a set 16 Country homes? 19 Played out 21 Swears 23 Full scholarships, informally 25 Mercury or Saturn 26 Gator tail? 27 Short cry for help 28 Means of indirect access 29 Stray 30 Femme canonisée: Abbr. 31 Hesitant sound 32 Art form that originated in the Bronx 33 Knife block insert 37 "Oryx and Crake" novelist 38 Capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra 39 Processing centers?

40 "About dang time!" 42 Sustainable landscaping options 43 _ Up: board game with a desert motif 44 Slender fastener 45 Stubbs of the Four Tops 46 Some Olds works 47 Polka horn 50 Suni honored with the Best Comeback Athlete ESPY Award in 2025 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

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Simple Saturday columns focus on basic technique and logical thinking.

"I took time to explain the word 'bargain' to my daughter, and she said it meant a great deal to her." — graffiti

Beware of bargains at the bridge table. In today's deal, West led the deuce of spades against 3NT, dummy followed with the three, East played the four and declarer bought the first trick for the bargain price of a seven. South next led the queen of hearts, winning, and a heart to dummy's jack. East took the king and led a club.

South won and had to reach dummy twice to set up and then cash the long hearts. He led the nine of

ASKING ERIC

Dear Eric: After working 50 years, I recently retired. At the same time, the house next door to us was sold to a family with six children, ranging in age from newborn to 10 years old.

We do not have large lots. What was once my backyard oasis (I garden, read, and swim) is now a nightmare. Children literally screaming. I don't know what to do.

The father actually told me to enjoy my quiet summer because it's over. We have worked our entire lives for what we have accomplished, and I feel like it's been ruined. Other than moving, what can we do?

TROUBLE IN THE SUBURBS

Dear Suburbs: This is a tough pill to swallow because it's made up of one part acceptance and one part conversation. Most of the time, we don't have much control over who lives near us. This can turn out great; this can turn out badly; and everything in between.

But frustrating though it may be to have noise coming from next door, it may be helpful to acknowledge that an oasis was never really something that was fully within your power. There was always going to be somebody next door, building toward their own paradise.

Acceptance moves you out of frustration and into a spades, planning to play dummy's jack, but West alertly put up the queen. Then dummy's second entry vanished, and South couldn't use the hearts and won only eight tricks.

South needed to pay a fair price for the first trick: He must win with the king. He can finesse with the jack later to get a necessary second entry to dummy and finish with an overtrick.

You hold: ♠ 6 5 4 ♥ A K 7 4 ♦ 9 8 ♣ Q 10 8 2. Your partner opens one diamond. The next player bids one spade. What do you say?

Answer: Without the overcall, you would have responded one heart, but you have too few hearts and too few points to bid two hearts. Your best call is a negative double, which by agreement shows enough strength to

place of proactivity. What can you do to bring more peace into the space you're in now? Fences, hedges, noise machines and relaxing music can all help.

Conversation will help, as well. Are the neighbors open to a schedule of some sort? If you like to swim and enjoy quiet in the morning, can they agree to a more peaceful backyard until a certain time? There's no guarantee that they'll be amenable to it, but it's worth asking.

Dear Eric: I am 63, my husband is 65. We consider ourselves “young” for our ages.

I am self-employed and lost a big client a few months ago that made up over half of my income. I have always been able to find substitute work to replace lost income when necessary. This time it is admittedly taking me longer, I suspect ageism has something to do with it, but I haven't lost confidence in my ability to get it done and it hurts me that he has.

The other day I took a quiz that was supposed to determine “biological age” versus chronological age. One question was, “Do you expect more good things to happen to you than bad?” I was surprised and disappointed when he said “No.” I asked him why and he said because he was worried about money.

I tried to tell him that this question wasn't just about respond, with a heart suit plus diamond tolerance or clubs. If your partner bids two hearts next, pass.

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money, it was about an outlook of optimism and a belief that good things will happen. He simply said he couldn't help it.

I don't want to invalidate his feelings or his worries. But the only other time that I've felt we were viewing things differently was very early on when we had small children and he felt trapped in a job he hated and honestly, his life. Am I making too much of this? My worry is that it doesn't really address what I see as the problem, or does it?

ALWAYS THE OPTIMIST

Dear Optimist: I think you're correct that the money question and the outlook question may be different. It may be helpful to say directly, "the way our conversation about money is hitting my ear has me feeling concern that echoes the time when you felt trapped. I don't think it's the same, but it would help me to hear you say that and to talk through ways we can stay connected even through stress."

Separately, you can talk about your finances. You can't control his worries or his outlook. But looking together at the numbers and making contingency plans can help reduce anxiety and allow you both to have clearer conversations.

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Today in Southern California

Not as hot Sunday: The heat dome over the Rockies will shift east over the weekend, resulting in a stronger onshore flow and, eventually, a break from the heat. Although most locations will remain hot Saturday, temperatures across many parts of the L.A. Basin will fall short of 90 degrees. The weekend will be sunny, with early low clouds confined to the coast.

5-day forecasts

High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone.

Air quality

	L.A. Basin		Valleys		Beaches		Mountains		Deserts
Today	94|71		97|69		84|70		81|49		110|83
	Sunny and very warm		Hot with sunshine		Mostly sunny		Sunny		Mostly sunny; hot
Sunday	Sunny	87/68	Lots of sun	91/64	Humid	80/66	Lots of sun	77/43	Very warm	107/77
Monday	Mostly sunny	86/65	Sunny	86/63	Mostly sunny	77/65	Sunny	74/44	Breezy	103/78
Tuesday	Partly sunny	84/66	Sunny	85/64	Partly sunny	75/64	Sunny	73/45	Some sun	102/79
Wednesday	Partly sunny	85/68	Partly sunny	90/65	Partly sunny	77/64	Clouds, sun	75/51	Some sun	101/79

Surf and sea

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO Inner waters: Wind west at 10-20 knots. Seas 3-5 feet. Swell west 4 feet at 9 seconds and south 2-3 feet at around 14 seconds.

Surf zone: The risk of strong rip currents is moderate at Santa Barbara County beaches and high elsewhere.

County	Height	Period	Direction	Temp
Santa Barbara	2-4'	9 sec	SW	70
Ventura	3-5'	14 sec	SW	71
Los Angeles	3-5'	14 sec	SW	76
Orange	3-6'	15 sec	SW	76
San Diego	3-5'	15 sec	SSW	76

Sun and moon

L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet.
Today	10:47a	5.1 Hi	4:33a	0.1 Lo
	10:37p	5.4 Hi	4:36p	1.2 Lo
Sun.	11:13a	5.3 Hi	4:56a	0.5 Lo
	11:18p	4.8 Hi	5:19p	1.0 Lo

UV index

Minutes to burn for sensitive people Las Vegas, 25 Phoenix, 25 Los Angeles, 25 San Francisco, 30

California cities*

City	Fri.*			Today			Sun.
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Hi	Lo
Anaheim	96	73	--	95	70	89	67
Avalon/Catalina	92	79	--	87	65	77	61
Bakersfield	95	72	--	95	68	93	67
Barstow	107	80	--	104	75	100	70
Big Bear Lake	83	54	--	81	49	77	43
Bishop	88	60	--	93	55	91	51
Burbank	101	74	--	96	70	91	66
Camarillo	89	68	--	87	64	82	61
Chatsworth	103	74	--	97	69	91	64
Chino	105	71	--	103	68	97	62
Compton	95	74	--	93	71	86	67
Dana Point	84	72	--	83	70	79	67
Death Valley	116	95	Tr	116	90	112	83
Del Mar	82	73	--	85	72	79	70
Escondido	101	68	--	97	67	90	61
Eureka	63	56	.01	66	52	64	53
Fallbrook	96	67	--	94	66	86	62
Fresno	92	69	Tr	96	63	93	62
Fullerton	98	74	--	94	71	87	67
Hemet	105	70	--	101	64	95	58
Hesperia	97	71	--	96	65	90	62
Huntington Beach	85	74	--	84	71	79	68
Idyllwild	89	71	Tr	86	65	83	63
Irvine	93	73	--	92	70	86	68

Almanac

Temperature	Los Angeles	Fullerton	Ventura*
High/low	95/74	94/74	85/69
Normal high/low	85/65	87/66	76/58
High/low a year ago	89/67	86/70	82/61
Record high/date	99/1995	100/2015	89/2015
Record low/date	52/1902	62/2010	50/1955

City	Fri.*			Today			Sun.
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Hi	Lo
L.A. D'ntown/USC	98	74	--	94	71	87	68
L.A. Int'l. Airport	86	72	--	84	70	81	67
Laguna Beach	83	73	--	83	70	77	70
Lancaster	100	74	--	98	70	93	64
Long Beach	92	74	--	91	71	85	67
Mammoth Lakes	64	53	.09	72	43	72	43
Mission Viejo	98	71	--	93	68	87	63
Monrovia	102	74	--	99	70	91	65
Monterey	69	56	Tr	66	58	66	57
Mt. Wilson	83	67	--	71	61	65	59
Needles	113	88	--	112	88	107	85
Newport Beach	86	75	--	85	72	79	71
Northridge	104	73	--	99	69	93	65
Oakland	68	58	--	70	58	69	58
Oceanside	93	68	--	91	67	85	65
Ojai	101	68	.01	94	62	88	56
Ontario	104	77	--	101	71	95	67
Palm Springs	111	88	--	110	83	107	77
Pasadena	101	74	--	96	70	89	64
Paso Robles	93	61	Tr	95	51	88	52
Redding	93	60	--	92	59	94	58
Riverside	104	72	--	101	66	96	62
Sacramento	84	59	--	86	56	86	56
San Bernardino	106	75	--	102	71	96	65

Precipitation	Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura
24-hour total (as of 2 p.m.)	0.00	0.00	0.00
Season total (since Oct. 1)	18.87	15.62	20.39
Last season (Oct. 1 to date)	7.96	3.93	6.50
Season norm (Oct. 1 to date)	14.15	11.75	16.01
Humidity (high/low)	81/58	81/39	89/56

City	Fri.*			Today			Sun.
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Hi	Lo
San Diego	83	73	--	86	72	80	71
San Francisco	65	57	Tr	70	58	70	57
San Gabriel	102	74	--	98	71	91	67
San Jose	78	58	Tr	77	57	78	57
San Luis Obispo	83	61	--	79	54	75	57
Santa Ana	92	74	--	88	72	83	69
Santa Barbara	82	67	--	84	61	80	59
Santa Clarita	104	70	--	100	65	95	60
Santa Monica Pier	85	73	--	84	70	80	66
Santa Paula	96	67	--	92	62	85	58
Santa Rosa	73	51	--	82	49	84	52
Simi Valley	98	69	--	96	64	90	58
Tahoe Valley	62	44	.23	73	38	75	41
Temecula	101	67	--	99	64	93	58
Thousand Oaks	97	69	--	92	65	88	61
Torrance	90	73	--	86	70	82	68
UCLA	88	73	--	88	69	82	66
Van Nuys	105	74	--	98	69	94	64
Ventura	79	67	Tr	78	64	77	61
Whittier Hills	97	74	--	97	71	89	68
Woodland Hills	105	73	--	99	70	92	65
Wrightwood	84	70	--	85	64	81	57
Yorba Linda	99	71	--	97	69	92	66
Yosemite Valley	79	62	Tr	84	56	83	55

City	Friday*			Today
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Sky
Seattle	71	57	--	67	53	Pc
Tampa	88	76	1.99	92	77	Ts
Tucson	107	84	.08	104	79	Ts
Tulsa	97	62	--	100	76	Su
Washington, D.C.	90	74	.05	85	70	Pc
Wichita	97	67	.01	100	74	Pc
World
Acapulco	92	78	.15	92	78	Ts
Amsterdam	73	64	.25	72	63	Sh
Athens	93	77	--	89	73	Su
Bangkok	91	81	.40	91	81	R
Barcelona	90	78	--	85	69	Su
Berlin	75	66	.07	78	64	Sh
Cabo San Lucas	98	81	.06	95	81	Ts
Cairo	99	79	--	96	74	Su
Dubai	109	95	--	108	91	Hz
Dublin	73	59	.24	65	54	Sh
Havana	93	72	.01	92	75	R
Ho Chi Minh City	90	79	.02	89	78	R
Hong Kong	90	83	.44	92	81	R
Istanbul	79	66	.02	80	68	Sh
Jerusalem	87	70	--	88	70	W
Johannesburg	69	44	--	70	45	Hz
Kuala Lumpur	93	77	.01	94	79	Pc
Lima	76	67	--	77	69	Pc
London	77	59	Tr	68	59	Sh
Madrid	79	50	--	87	58	Su
Mecca	108	83	--	107	90	Hz
Mexico City	77	57	.21	74	57	R
Montreal	72	64	.01	75	63	Pc
Moscow	68	50	--	69	52	Pc
Mumbai	88	82	.08	88	81	R
New Delhi	95	84	--	98	82	Hz
Paris	73	63	.05	72	61	R
Prague	81	59	.23	75	60	Sh
Rome	100	77	--	90	70	Pc
Seoul	90	77	.12	86	73	Ts
Singapore	90	80	--	92	80	Pc
Taipei City	94	82	--	94	80	R
Tokyo	90	77	.10	79	71	R
Vancouver	72	55	.07	67	55	Sh
Vienna	90	68	--	82	62	Sh

Judge grants hearing to explore recantations in Sandusky case

City	Friday*			Today
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Sky
Albany	80	62	.12	78	58	Su
Albuquerque	96	69	Tr	95	68	Ts
Anchorage	61	50	.27	64	47	Pc
Aspen	84	56	.03	81	51	Ts
Atlanta	91	73	.53	86	73	Ts
Austin	99	77	.04	100	74	Su
Baltimore	85	70	.01	82	66	Pc
Boise	87	67	--	84	51	Su
Boston	83	70	--	75	64	Su
Buffalo	72	60	--	78	63	Pc
Burlington, Vt.	78	66	.02	79	61	Su
Charleston, S.C.	84	73	.19	81	74	Ts
Charlotte	90	71	.08	83	71	Ts
Chicago	83	66	--	81	70	Pc
Cincinnati	83	66	--	85	64	Pc
Cleveland	74	62	.10	81	64	Pc
Columbia, S.C.	86	71	.15	83	72	Ts
Columbus	81	63	.02	84	64	Pc
Dallas/FLWorth	101	79	--	102	80	Su
Denver	95	60	.04	92	64	Ts
Detroit	79	60	--	82	67	Pc
El Paso	100	76	--	99	75	Su
Eugene	79	48	--	75	47	Su
Fort Myers	94	76	.10	94	76	Ts
Hartford	84	68	--	79	56	Su
Honolulu	88	77	.04	88	77	R
Houston	98	73	.35	98	77	Ts
Indianapolis	83	65	--	84	65	Pc
Jacksonville, Fla.	90	74	.07	88	74	Ts
Kansas City	85	63	--	93	75	Pc
Knoxville	89	71	.04	89	69	Pc
Las Vegas	106	90	--	104	84	Su
Louisville	87	68	--	89	68	Su
Medford	87	55	Tr	80	48	Su
Memphis	91	73	--	94	74	Su
Miami	93	80	--	91	81	Ts
Milwaukee	81	60	--	78	69	Ts
Minneapolis	82	59	--	83	69	Ts
Nashville	92	69	--	94	73	Su
New Orleans	92	76	.05	93	79	Ts
New York	83	68	.02	79	65	Su
Norfolk	87	76	.05	82	73	Ts
Oklahoma City	98	73	--	101	73	Su
Omaha	86	64	--	94	76	W
Orlando	90	73	.21	92	76	Ts
Philadelphia	86	71	.02	83	66	Pc
Phoenix	111	95	--	110	85	Ts
Pittsburgh	79	61	--	81	63	Su
Portland, Ore.	78	59	--	71	54	Sh
Providence	83	69	--	78	59	Pc
Raleigh/Durham	88	70	.24	82	70	Ts
Reno	72	67	.14	86	52	Su
Richmond	90	70	.02	84	68	Ts
St. Louis	86	65	--	88	72	Pc
Salt Lake City	91	73	.18	80	63	Ts

FRIDAY'S EXTREMES AS OF 2 P.M. FOR THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES High 113 in El Centro, Calif. Low 37 in Leadville, Colo.

THE DAY IN SPORTS

WIRE REPORTS

Two days after the Southeastern Conference passed a rule barring players from returning to the league from the pros, a Texas judge put that rule on hold in a case involving more than 40 players. The rule does not apply to college players who exhausted their fourth year of eligibility last spring; many are suing across the country for that fifth year. "As long as they would have been eligible to continue playing college sports in the following semester if they had a fifth year of eligibility, they are eligible today," Dallas County Judge Martin Hoffman wrote in the temporary restraining order. ... Florida men's basketball coach Todd Golden signed a one-year extension this month that increased the total value of his deal to \$49.5 million. It averages \$8.25 million annually and keeps him under contract through 2031-32.

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A judge granted a hearing to explore claims that a man wants to recant allegations of sexual abuse years ago by Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Sandusky, 82, has been serving a decades-long prison sentence since he was convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse in 2012. Eight young men testified about what happened to them as boys. He repeatedly has lost efforts to get a new trial, but Sandusky's lawyers are trying again.

Rays' new stadium receives approval

A man identified in court documents as R.R. said he was coached extensively by authorities.

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City officials on Thursday night approved a \$2.3-billion deal for a new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark funded by public and private money.

A court hearing in Centre County has been set for Sept. 8.

The 4-3 vote by the Tampa City Council came three months after a tentative agreement was reached for a stadium, which would include \$967 million in tax money.

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George Lombard Jr. made history this month when he became the first New York Yankees shortstop to homer in his major league debut. Three weeks into his career, however, the rookie set a dubious mark by committing an error for the sixth straight game in Thursday night's 5-1 loss to the Houston Astros. ... The Toronto Blue Jays signed veteran right-hander Michael Lorenzen to a one-year contract to help shore up a bullpen that has been used heavily in recent weeks. Lorenzen was released by the Colorado Rockies this month. ... Aaron Judge is hoping to skip a minor league rehabilitation assignment before returning to the Yankees as he nears the three-month mark in his recovery from a stress fracture in his right rib. ... Max Fried will come off the injured list to pitch for the Yankees in Saturday's day-night doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox. ... Five years after leaving the Astros, longtime pitching coach Brent Strom is returning as a consultant to help the team's struggling staff. Strom was expected to join the club for Friday's game against the New York Mets. ... Atlanta Braves right-handers Spencer Schwellenbach and Hurston Waldrep will have season-ending surgeries following setbacks in their rehabilitations from right elbow procedures before the season. The Braves said Wal

Hillsborough County Commissioners approved the project Friday morning by a vote of 5-2.

drep will require Tommy John surgery, which could sideline him next season. Schwellenbach had surgery to remove bone spurs from his right elbow in February, and his season-ending procedure will address more bone spurs. ... Minnesota Twins top prospect Walker Jenkins was called up.

Star defenseman Cale Makar and the Colorado Avalanche agreed to a \$163.2-million, eight-year extension that will make him the highest-paid player in NHL history. The terms were confirmed by his agency, Bartlett Hockey. Makar's extension would surpass the eight-year, \$136-million extension signed by Minnesota forward Kirill Kaprizov last September. Makar's deal runs through the 2034-35 season.

Ross Chastain took the pole for NASCAR's regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway. Chastain covered the $2^{1/2}$ -mile superspeedway in 48.808 seconds.

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CALE MAKAR and the Avalanche agreed to a record eight-year, \$163.2-million deal.

LAFC announced that its Nov. 1 home match against Minnesota United, originally scheduled for a 1:30 p.m. kickoff, will begin at 5:30.

Viktor Hovland birdied the 18th hole to cap a four-under 66 and pull into a tie for the lead at 10 under with Ryan Gerard after two rounds of the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta. La Cañada High graduate Collin Morikawa and Chris Gotterup are tied for third, one stroke behind. ... Miyu Yamashita, the diminutive Japanese star, shot a two-under 70 at TPC Boston to share the lead in the FM Championship with Hyo Joo Kim and U.S. Solheim Cup qualifier Allisen Corpuz. Kim and Corpuz each shot 67 to join the 4-foot-11 Yamashita at nine-under 135. ... Vaughn Taylor had 10 birdies in a nine-under 63 to open with a one-stroke lead in the PGA Tour Champions' Ally Challenge in Grand Blanc, Mich.

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An emotional Andreas Leknessund broke down in tears after claiming Stage 7 of the Vuelta a España. The victory carried deep significance just hours after the death of Norway's King Harald V. Tadej Pogecar retained the red jersey as the overall leader.

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SHOHEI OHTANI throws during a practice session in the outfield Thursday in Atlanta. He threw a bullpen Friday in Detroit.

Ohtani throws bullpen session, but whether he'll pitch Sunday is unclear

monitor Ohtani's recovery from a knee ailment.

BY MADDIE LEE

DETROIT — Shohei Ohtani threw a bullpen session Friday at Comerica Park before the Dodgers opened a three-game series against the Detroit Tigers. But it was not immediately clear if it put him in line to pitch Sunday.

“I really don’t know what to make of it because I didn’t put eyes on it,” manager Dave Roberts said before the game. “Obviously I’ve got to talk to Shohei, talk to [pitching coach Mark Prior] and then we’ll make a decision for Sunday.”

Ohtani threw about 20 pitches, which Roberts noted was “short,” but he said he had no expectations for the pitch count.

Ohtani's between-start sessions usually are closer to 30 pitches, but that isn't necessarily a cause for alarm, especially without a clearer picture of the plan for Friday's session.

The Dodgers will continue to

Ohtani had last thrown off the mound six days prior, in a live batting practice session last Saturday.

If he starts Sunday, it likely will be one inning in front of right-hander Tyler Glasnow, Roberts said.

Ohtani hasn't pitched since July 3 against the San Diego Padres, managing swelling and discomfort in his left knee. Barring a setback, the schedule allows for Ohtani to make five starts on at least five days' rest before the end of the regular season.

Glasnow, who threw five innings and 89 pitches on Tuesday in his first start back from the injured list, is scheduled to start on regular rest Sunday.

“Glas felt good going on regular,” Roberts said when asked why the Dodgers didn’t push his start to Tuesday, “and also looking at the calendar and where other guys line up.”

STANDINGS Through Thursday

NATIONAL LEAGUE

West	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
DODGERS	80	54	.597	—	6-4
San Diego	72	62	.537	8	6-4
Arizona	71	64	.526	$9\frac{1}{2}$	5-5
San Francisco	55	79	.410	25	4-6
Colorado	52	82	.388	28	2-8
Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Milwaukee	83	51	.619	—	7-3
Chicago	76	58	.567	7	4-6
St. Louis	67	68	.496	$16\frac{1}{2}$	3-7
Pittsburgh	65	70	.481	$18\frac{1}{2}$	5-5
Cincinnati	63	71	.470	20	4-6
East	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Atlanta	79	55	.590	—	5-5
Philadelphia	74	60	.552	5	8-2
Miami	68	66	.507	11	5-5
Washington	63	73	.463	17	3-7
New York	60	74	.448	19	5-5

AMERICAN LEAGUE

West	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Houston	67	67	.500	-	4-6
Texas	66	68	.493	1	5-5
Seattle	64	70	.478	3	6-4
Athletics	53	81	.396	14	4-6
ANGELS	52	82	.388	15	3-7
Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Chicago	70	63	.526	-	5-5
Cleveland	68	66	.507	$2\frac{1}{2}$	8-2
Minnesota	64	70	.478	$6\frac{1}{2}$	4-6
Detroit	62	71	.466	8	2-8
Kansas City	60	75	.444	11	9-1
East	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Tampa Bay	79	54	.594	-	5-5
New York	75	58	.564	4	7-3
Boston	73	60	.549	6	7-3
Baltimore	65	69	.485	$14\frac{1}{2}$	4-6
Toronto	65	70	.481	15	4-6

Today's games

Dodgers at Detroit 10:10 a.m.
Philadelphia vs. Angels 7:07 p.m.
Boston at New York (AL) (Game 1) 10:05 a.m.
Boston at New York (AL) (Game 2) 4:15 p.m.
Chicago (AL) at Minnesota 11:10 a.m.
Pittsburgh at St. Louis 11:15 a.m.
Cincinnati at Chicago (NL) 11:20 a.m.
Seattle at Toronto 12:07 p.m.
Miami at Washington 1:05 p.m.
Arizona at San Francisco (Game 1) 1:05 p.m.
Arizona at San Francisco (Game 2) 7:05 p.m.
Kansas City at Cleveland 1:10 p.m.
Houston at New York (NL) 1:10 p.m.
Colorado at Atlanta 1:10 p.m.
San Diego at Tampa Bay 1:10 p.m.
Texas at Milwaukee 4:15 p.m.
Baltimore at Athletics 7:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON 7, COLORADO 1

Colorado	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Washington	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
McCarthy dh	5	0	0	0	.290	Abrams dh	4	1	1	0	.274
Carrigg cf	4	0	0	0	.265	Crews rf	5	1	2	1	.220
Castro 3b	4	1	1	0	.262	Chaparro 1b	5	0	1	0	.250
Rumfield 1b	1	0	1	0	.289	Lile lf	4	2	3	2	.251
Nortby 2b	4	0	1	0	.224	House 3b	3	1	1	2	.233
Johnston rf-lll	3	0	1	0	.285	Ruiz c	5	1	2	2	.281
William c	2	0	1	0	.231	Young cf	4	1	2	0	.249
b-Goodman c	1	0	0	0	.252	Vives 2b	2	0	0	0	.235
Veen lf	1	0	0	0	.200	Nuñez ss	3	0	1	0	.216
a-Beck rf	2	0	0	0	.200	Totals	35	7	13	7
Tovar ss	4	0	0	0	.210
Totals	31	1	5	1

Colorado	001	000	000 - 1	5	0
Washington	200	110	03x - 7	13	0

a-pinch hit for Veen in the 5th. b-pinch hit for Sullivan in the 7th. Walks—Colorado 9: Carrigg 1, Rumfield 4, Norby 1, Johnston 1, Sullivan 1, Veen 1. Washington 6: Abrams 1, Lile 1, House 1, Young 1, Vivas 2. Strikeouts—Colorado 10: McCarthy 1, Carrigg 2, Castro 1, Norby 2, Johnston 1, Beck 1, Tovar 2. Washington 6: Abrams 2, Crews 2, Vivas 1, Nuez 1. LOB—Colorado 13, Washington 12. 2B—Young (19), Ruiz (22), House (12). HR—Lile (18), off Hughes; Ruiz (9), off Herbet. RBIs—Sullivan (29), Lile 2 (74), House 2 (33), Crews (21), Ruiz 4 (45). SB—Carrigg 2 (8), Veen (1), Castro (10), Young 2 (17), Nuez (43). SF—House. S—Nuez. Runners left in scoring position—Colorado 8 (Norby, Veen 2, Beck 2, Johnston 2, McCarthy); Washington 9 (House 2, Abrams 2, Ruiz 2, Vivas, Chaparro 2). RISP—Colorado

Inherited runners-scored—Cosgrove 2-0, Beeter 2-0. IBB—off Hughes (Abrams), off Mejia (Lile). HBP—Irvin (Castro). WP—Hughes. T—3:01. Tickets sold—14,768 (41,376).

HOUSTON 5, N.Y. YANKEES 1

Houston	001	002	110 - 5	9	0
New York	000	001	000 - 1	5	2

Washington	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Irvin	$4\frac{1}{3}$	3	1	1	6	6	94	5.62
Cosgrove, W, 1-2	$1\frac{1}{3}$	0	0	0	1	2	19	4.80
Tolman, H, 1	$\frac{3}{2}$	1	0	0	1	1	20	0.00
Beeter, H, 7	$1\frac{1}{3}$	0	0	0	0	0	16	3.61
Ribalta	1	1	0	0	1	1	24	3.95

Dodgers shut out by Sale, swept by Braves

Houston	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	New York	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Peña ss	4	2	1	1	.282	Grisham cf	4	0	0	0	.217
Alvarez dh	4	0	0	0	.319	Rice dh	4	1	2	0	.253
Paredes 3b	4	0	2	1	.261	Garcia 1b	4	0	0	0	.284
Altuve 2b	4	0	0	0	.245	Bellinger lf	2	0	0	1	.256
Allen 2b	1	0	1	0	.264	Lombard ss	4	0	1	0	.264
Varsho cf	4	0	0	0	.234	Jones rf	3	0	0	0	.229
Walker 1b	4	2	3	2	.233	a-Ramos	1	0	0	0	.240
Diaz c	4	0	1	0	.261	Chisholm 2b	2	0	1	0	.227
Trammell lf	4	0	1	0	.209	b-Rosario	1	0	0	0	.225
Smith rf	4	0	0	0	.214	Wells c	3	0	0	0	.180
Totals	37	5	9	4		Caballero 3b	3	0	1	0	.234
						Totals	31	1	5	1
Houston						001	.002	110	-5	8	0

Houston	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Wesneski, W, 4-1	5	3	1	1	2	6	91	3.86
Okert, H, 19	1	1	0	0	0	0	12	2.17
Blubaugh, H, 8	2	1	0	0	0	3	32	3.17
Hader	1	0	0	0	0	2	8	0.79
New York	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Cole, L, 7-7	6	6	3	3	1	5	79	3.19
De los Santos	1	1	1	1	0	1	14	1.45
Topa	2	2	1	0	1	2	34	7.29

a-stuck out for Jones in the 9th. b-flied out for Chisholm in the 9th. Walks—Houston 2: Paredes 1, Varsho 1, New York 2: Bellinger 1, Chisholm 1. Strikeouts—Houston 8: Peña 2, Alvarez 3, Paredes 1, Varsho 2, New York 11: Grisham 1, Garcia 2, Lombard 2, Jones 1, Ramos 1, Chisholm 1, Wells 3. E—Lombard (7), Caballero (9). LOB—Houston 9, New York 6. 2B—Walker (25), Rice (21). 3B—Lombard (1). HR—Walker (24), off Cole; Peña (16), off De los Santos. RBIs—Paredes (73), Walker 2 (75), Peña (44), Bellinger (59). SB—Chisholm 2 (38). SF—Bellinger. Runners left in scoring position—Houston 2 (Varsho 2); New York 4 (Jones 2, Grisham 2). RISP—Houston 1 for 3; New York 0 for 9. Runners moved up—Caballero, Garcia
Inherited runners-scored—Okert 1-1. HBP_Cole (Peña), Topa (Alvarez). T-2:37. Tickets sold—41,203 (47,309).

Colorado	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Hughes, L, 0-6	5	7	4	4	4	3	95	6.61
Mejia	1	2	0	0	1	1	21	5.66
Frasso	1	1	0	0	1	1	18	5.00
Herget	1	3	3	3	0	1	19	6.20
Washington	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA

SAN FRANCISCO 6, ARIZONA 1

Arizona	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	San Francisco	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Nootbaar dh	4	0	1	0	.218	Gilbert rf	3	1	1	2	.243
Carroll rf	4	0	1	0	.247	Devers 1b	4	1	2	3	.249
Moreno c	3	1	1	1	.303	Eldridge dh	4	1	1	2	.262
Perdomo ss	3	0	2	0	.254	Cox c	3	1	2	1	.278
Kepler lf	4	0	1	0	.213	Hill lf	4	0	1	1	.308
Tawa 1b	3	0	0	0	.242	Whitcomb 3b	3	0	0	1	.135
Fernandez 3b	4	0	1	0	.265	Cavanaugh c	4	0	0	0	.240
Vargas 2b	4	0	0	0	.254	Koss ss	2	1	0	0	.207
Waldschmidt cf	3	0	0	0	.271	Furman 2b	1	0	0	0	.077
Totals	32	1	6	1		a-Lee	0	1	0	0	.289
						Basabe 2b	0	0	0	0	.222
						Totals	32	1	6	1

Arizona	000	100	000 - 1	6	0
San Francisco	100	010	04x - 6	7	0

Walks—Arizona 3: Moreno 1, Perdomo 1, Tawa 1. San Francisco 2: Cox 1, Lee 1. Strikeouts—Arizona 6: Carroll 1, Perdomo 1, Tawa 2, Vargas 1, Waldschmidt 1. San Francisco 6: Eldridge 2, Whitcomb 1, Cavanaugh 1, Koss 2. LOB—Arizona 7, San Francisco 4. 2B—Eldridge (16). HR—Moreno (11), off Roupp; Gilbert (8), off Cabrera. RBIs—Moreno (66), Gilbert 2 (36), Eldridge (36), Cox (7), Hill (4), Whitcomb (8). SB—Perdomo (18), Cox (5). CS—Moreno (2). SF—Gilbert. S—Furman, Whitcomb. Runners left in scoring position—Arizona 4 (Vargas, Fernandez, Waldschmidt 2); San Francisco 3 (Whitcomb, Cavanaugh 2). RISP—Arizona 1 for 8; San Francisco 3 for 8. Runners moved up—Kenler
Inherited runners-scored—Clarke 1-1, Burgos 2-1. HBP—Cabrera (Koss). U— Alex MacKay, Alan Porter, Jim Wolf, Roberto Ortiz. T—2:33. Tickets sold—40,120 (41,915).

Runners moved up-Kepier.
Arizona	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Cabrera, L, 0-3	$\frac{4}{3}$	3	2	2	1	4	70	5.32
Clarke	$\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	0	1	18	2.54
Lodásiga	1	0	0	0	0	1	9	2.53
Ginkel	$\frac{1}{2}$	4	4	4	1	0	25	4.39
Burgos	$\frac{3}{2}$	0	0	0	0	0	3	2.08
San Francisco	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Roupp, W, 8-13	5	4	1	1	2	3	95	4.25
Harris, H, 2	2	0	0	0	0	2	23	4.50
Seymour, H, 4	1	0	0	0	1	0	19	4.91
Walker	1	2	0	0	0	1	19	6.60

[Dodgers, from B12]

YOSHINOBU Yamamoto reacts to giving up a leadoff homer to Atlanta's Drake Baldwin Thursday.
Photographs by ERIK S. LESSER Associated Press

against an even crisper version of Sale. His velocity was up, and the 100.1-mph fastball he threw to Shohei Ohtani the second time through the order was his hardest-thrown pitch since 2018, according to MLB.com.

CHRIS SALE celebrates with Baldwin after shutting out the Dodgers 1-0. It's the third time they've been swept this month.

“That guy, he’s doing things no one’s ever seen,” Sale told reporters after striking out Ohtani and holding him hitless in four at-bats. “Tit for tat, he’s probably the best I’ve ever seen. When you’re facing the best, you gotta bring your best. Tonight it worked out.

"You can't hang your hat on that kind of stuff. You never anticipate or expect that because of who he is and his talent and what he brings to the table. This is a game of small battles. He's going to win some, I'm gonna win some. When you've got a guy like that, you gotta step on the gas a little bit."

Sale got a standing ovation when he walked out for the ninth inning. And Braves fans booed when a safe call at first base withstood replay review instead of ending the game on a double play. But Sale remained and had an even bigger final moment of the game: one more strikeout.

“Sale had it, and we didn't have much of an answer,” said Mookie Betts, the only Dodger with two hits. “We've been able to score runs [the last couple of months]. We might not score 10 a night, but we're scoring runs and giving ourselves a chance to win games. We just got to figure out other ways to win and be able to push a couple more runs across.”

Thursday marked the 13th one-run game the Dodgers have played this month. And the small margins seem to be taking a toll, as the bullpen and defense have wavered.

The solution would seem to be getting back to scoring in bunches. But that's not a simple button the Dodgers can press, especially against pitchers of Sale's caliber.

The Dodgers lost all three games in Atlanta by one run.

"It seemed like we were always chasing," Roberts said. "It's hard to play from behind. Your margins are much thinner, smaller. And when you don't capitalize on opportunities, then you come up on the short end. But like I said,

ST. LOUIS 7, BALTIMORE 5

Baltimore	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	St. Louis	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Holliday 2b	4	1	2	0	.235	Fermin ss	4	1	1	0	.240
Alonso dh	4	0	0	0	.274	Herrera dh	3	0	0	0	.245
Henderson ss	4	0	1	1	.219	Jor.Walker rf	4	0	2	0	.286
Basallo c	4	0	0	0	.233	Burleson 1b	4	2	1	0	.292
Encar.-Strand 3b	4	2	2	0	.273	Báez lf	4	1	1	0	.156
Beavers lf	2	1	0	0	.248	Jordan 3b	3	1	1	3	.247
Mayo 1b	4	1	1	3	.213	Gorman 3b	1	0	0	0	.191
Cowser cf	3	0	1	1	.225	Urías 2b	3	2	1	2	.159
Taveras rf	4	0	0	0	.226	Church cf	3	0	1	1	.243
Totals	33	5	7	5		Pagés c	4	0	0	0	.209
						Totals	33	7	9	7

Baltimore	000	010	310-5	7	0
St. Louis	030	210	01x-7	9	0

Walks—Baltimore 2: Beavers 2. St. Louis 3: Herrera 1, Urías 1, Church 1. Strikeouts—Baltimore 11: Holliday 1, Alonso 4, Basallo 1, Encarnacion-Strand 1, Beavers 1, Cowser 1, Taveras 2. St. Louis 13: Fermin 1, Herrera 2, Jor.Walker 2, Báez 3, Jordan 2, Gorman 1, Pagés 2. LOB—Baltimore 4, St. Louis 5. 2B—Holliday (1), Encarnacion-Strand (7), Henderson (24), Báez (1). HR—Mayo (18), off Ferguson; Jordan (3), off Rogers; Urías (3), off Rogers. RBIs—Cowser (35), Mayo 3 (51), Henderson (52), Jordan 3 (28), Urías 2 (7), Burleson (99), Church (45). SB—Fermín (7), Holliday (8). SF—Cowser. Runners left in scoring position—Baltimore 2 (Taveras, Basallo); St. Louis 2 (Báez 2). RISP—Baltimore 2 for 8; St. Louis 3 for 5. Runners moved up, Burleson
U— Mark Wegner, Jacob Metz, Carlos Torres, Nate Tomlinson. T—2:44. Tickets sold—42,621 (39,150).

Toronto	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Arrighetti, L, 7-7	4	5	4	3	2	4	79	4.81
Fisher	1	0	0	0	1	2	23	3.36
Woods Richardson	1	5	6	6	2	1	39	6.68
Lorenzen	2	3	1	1	1	2	42	7.04
Straw	1	3	2	2	0	0	9	18.00

Kansas City	220	006	012 – 13	16	0
Toronto	000	002	000 – 2	8	1

MILWAUKEE 8, N.Y. METS 2

Milwaukee	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	New York	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Chourlo lf	5	4	4	4	.283	Ewing cf	4	0	0	0	.240
Lara cf	4	1	1	0	.267	Lindor ss	4	0	0	0	.233
Contreras dh	4	0	0	1	.266	Benge rf	4	0	0	0	.279
Vaughn 1b	4	0	2	1	.310	Robert lf	3	1	1	0	.234
Sánchez c	5	0	0	1	.205	Young 1b	4	1	1	1	.268
Ortiz 3b	5	1	2	0	.250	Semien 2b	3	0	0	0	.212
Frelick rf	5	0	0	0	.239	Baty 3b	3	0	0	0	.221
Pratt ss	2	1	1	1	.268	Morel dh	2	0	1	1	.167
Hamilton 2b	4	1	2	0	.241	Alvarez c	3	0	0	0	.233
Totals	38	8	12	8		Totals	30	2	3	2

In the interim, the Dodgers have gone 1-12 against teams in a playoff spot.

Milwaukee	220	011	020 -8	12	1
New York	000	020	000 -2	3	1

they're a good ballclub. They do things the right way. And we'll look forward to seeing them in October."

The Dodgers entered the series riding a six-game winning streak built against the Colorado Rockies and Pittsburgh Pirates. But it's been a long time since they've beat- en a good team. In fact, they haven't won a series against any team that entered Thursday in playoff position since taking two of three from the Philadelphia Phillies from July 20-22.

Kansas City	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
N.Cameron, W, 9-8	6	6	2	2	2	3	81	3.98
Lange	1	1	0	0	1	0	15	5.75
Cuas	1	1	0	0	0	0	9	1.93
Gose	1	0	0	0	0	0	12	0.00

Walks—Milwaukee 2: Lara 1, Contreras 1. New York 3: Robert 1, Semien 1, Morel 1. Strikeouts—Milwaukee 7: Lara 2, Contreras 2, Felick 2, Pratt 1. New York 9: Ewing 1, Lindor 3, Benge 2, Robert 1, Baty 1, Alvarez 1. E.—Ortiz (9), Warren (1). LOB—Milwaukee 8, New York 4. 2B—Hamilton (11), Young (15). 3B—Ortiz (3). HR—Chourio (18), off Manaea; Chourio (19), off Curry. RBIs—Vaughn (38), Sánchez (32), Chourio 4 (54), Contreras (66), Pratt (19), Young (32); Morel (2). SB—Chourio (14), Pratt (12). SF—Pratt. Runners left in scoring position—Milwaukee 4 (Chourio, Ortiz, Felick, Sánchez); New York 1 (Morel). RISP—Milwaukee 3 for 14; New York 1 for 5. Runners moved up—Contreras, Young. GIDP—Alvarez. DP—Milwaukee 1 (Pratt, Hamilton,

Tucker takes a day off

Vaughn).Milwaukee
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Misiorowski, W, 14-5	6	2	2	2	2	6	89	1.73
Senzatela	1	0	0	0	1	1	27	3.75
Hall	1	0	0	0	0	2	12	2.25
Patrick	1	1	0	0	0	0	9	3.30
New York
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Manaea, L, 4-6	$5\frac{1}{2}$	8	6	6	1	3	95	4.55
Curry	$2\frac{1}{2}$	2	2	2	1	2	46	3.44
Warren	1	2	0	0	0	2	26	4.38

Walks—Kansas City 6: Jensen 3, Pasquantino 10, Rojas 1, Isbel 1. Toronto 3: Guerrero 1, Springer 1. Straw 1. Strikeouts—Kansas City 9: Jensen 1, Cagllanone 1, Pasquantino 1, Perez 2, Collins 2, Rojas 1, Isbel 1. Toronto 3: Guerrero 1, D Cameron 1. Straw 1. E—Arighetti (I). LOB—Kansas City 9, Toronto 6. 2B—Isbel (9), Witt (27), Cagllanone (24), Collins (21), Straw (17), Okamoto (21). HR—Jensen (18), off Arighetti; Pasquantino (9), off Woods Richardson; Cagllanone (23), off Straw; Springer (13), off N.Cameron. RBIS—Jensen (59), Cagllanone 6 (66), Isbel (24), Witt (40), Passquantino 3 (41), Springer 2 (43). SD—Witt (38). Runners left in scoring position—Kansas City 4 (Rojas 2; Rave 2); Toronto 4. D.Cameron, Lukes, Okamoto, Guerrero). RISP—Kansas City 4 for 13, Toronto 1 for 6. Runners moved up—Mckdoo. DP—Kirk. GIDP—Malie, McKdoo, Okamoto. DP—Kansas City 3 (Collins; Pasquantino, Collins; Rojas, Collins; Pasquantino; Rojas, Collins; Pasquantino); Toronto 1 (Okamoto,

But Roberts said that wasn't a

Roberts sat slumping right fielder Kyle Tucker against Sale.

"I didn't want to feel like I'm piling on against a really tough starter," Roberts said. "Get him ready for the weekend."

Inherited runners-scored—Curry 1-0. HBP—Manaea (Pratt), Curry (Vaughn). U—Nic Lentz, Edwin Moscoso, Hunter Wendelstedt, Vic Carapazza. T-2:50. Tickets sold—26,611 (42,136).

"I was thinking about it tonight: The game tests you," Roberts said. "August is that third leg of a mile, and it's the hardest leg, and you know we've got to get through it and grind. And there's a new series, a new team. We've got [Tarik] Skubal going [Friday against the Tigers]. We've just got to flush it."

Kansas City	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Toronto	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Jensen c	2	2	1	1	.224	McAdoo 2b	4	0	1	0	.250
a-Maile c	1	0	0	0	.172	Guerrero 1b	3	0	0	0	.260
Witt ss	5	3	2	1	.289	Valenzuela 1b	0	0	0	0	.227
Tolbert ss	1	1	1	0	.300	Kirk c	4	1	1	0	.274
Caglianone rf	6	3	5	6	.282	Springer dh	3	1	2	2	.243
Pasqntno 1b	5	1	2	3	.245	Sánchez lf	0	0	0	0	.267
Perez dh	5	0	1	0	.220	Okamoto 3b	4	0	1	0	.228
Collins 2b	5	0	1	0	.229	Clement ss	4	0	1	0	.281
Rave lf-cf	5	0	0	0	.218	D.Cameron lf-cf	4	0	0	0	.238
Rojas 3b	4	2	1	0	.225	Straw cf-p	3	0	1	0	.218
Isbel cf	3	1	1	1	.239	Lukes rf	3	0	1	0	.265
M.Lugo lf	1	0	1	0	1.000	Totals	32	2	8	2
Totals	43	13	16	12

Baltimore	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Rogers, L, 9-9	5	7	6	6	1	7	86	4.38
Sanders	2	1	0	0	1	4	37	5.48
Nunez	1	1	1	1	1	2	21	4.41
St. Louis	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA

1-ran for Freeman in the 9th. 2-ran for Rojas in the 9th. Walks—Atlanta 1: L.Thomas 1. Strikeouts—Dodgers 11: Ohtani 2, Edman 3, T.Hernández 2, Call 1, E.Hernández 1, Rortvedt 2. Atlanta 11: Baldwin 2, Albies 1, Olson 1, Harris 2, Yastrzemski 1, Riley 2, Kim 2. LOB—Dodgers 7, Atlanta 3. 2B—Betts (15). HR—Baldwin (22), off Yamamoto. RBIs—Baldwin (66). SB—Kim (2), Harris (9). CS—Harris (3). Runners left in scoring position—Dodgers 1 (Rojas); Atlanta 1 (Albies). RISP—Dodgers 0 for 3; Atlanta 0 for 3. DP—Yastrzemski. DP—Dodgers 1 (Betts).

Dodgers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Yamamoto, L, 12-8......6 $\frac{1}{2}$	4	1	1	1	8	105	2.56
Dreyer...... $\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	0	0	4	2.83
Henriquez......1	0	0	0	0	3	13	2.82
Atlanta	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Sale, W, 13-9......9	5	0	0	0	11	109	2.06

St. Louis	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Graceffo....	3	0	0	0	0	4	38	2.98
Bruihl....	$1\frac{1}{2}$	2	1	1	1	2	41	3.39
Gastelum, W, 4-3....	$1\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	0	2	18	4.88
Ferguson....	1	2	3	3	1	1	18	5.23
Soriano, H, 20....	1	2	1	1	0	1	20	4.12
O'Brien, S, 34-39....	1	1	0	0	0	1	11	3.95

Inherited runners-scored—Gastelum 1-0. WP—Nunez. U— Alex Tosi, Andy Fletcher, Cory Blaser, Jansen Visconti. T—2:37. Tickets sold—20,723 (44,494).

reflection of how he'd approach the postseason. If the Dodgers face the Braves in the playoffs, Roberts would expect to start Tucker in right field against Sale.

“He’s probably our most rested reliever, and it’s going to come in hot,” Roberts said. “So I’m going to run him out there if the situation calls for it.”

As expected, the Dodgers put right-hander Roki Sasaki on the 15-day injured list because of a blister on the middle finger of his right hand and recalled hard-throwing reliever Seth Halvorsen.

Sasaki on IL

KANSAS CITY 13, TORONTO 2
ATLANTA 1, DODGERS 0

Dodgers	000	000	000 - 0	5	0
Atlanta	100	000	00x - 1	4	0

Dodgers	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Atlanta	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Ohtani dh	4	0	0	0	.285	Baldwin c	4	1	1	1	.274
Edman cf	3	0	0	0	.267	Albies 2b	3	0	1	0	.256
Betts ss	4	0	2	0	.239	Olson 1b	3	0	0	0	.259
Freeman 1b	4	0	1	0	.300	Dubón lf	3	0	0	0	.268
1-A.Thomas	0	0	0	0	.183	Harris cf	3	0	1	0	.292
T.Hemández lf	4	0	0	0	.245	L.Thomas dh	2	0	0	0	.230
Rojas 2b	4	0	1	0	.274	Yastrzemski rf	3	0	0	0	.227
2-Tucker	0	0	0	0	.228	Riley 3b	3	0	0	0	.221
Call rf	3	0	0	0	.255	Kim ss	3	0	1	0	.088
E.Hemández 3b	3	0	0	0	.216	Totals	27	14	1
Rortvedt cf	3	0	1	0	.174
Totals	32	0	5	0

Inherited runners-scored—Dreyer 2-0. HBP—Sale 2 (Call, Edman). U—Chris Segal, Laz Diaz, Edwin Jimenez, Erich Bacchus. T—2:18. Tickets sold—39,650 (41,149).

What the ‘Anaheim Angels’ bill Newsom signed means for team

By Bill Shaikin

JAYNE KAMIN-ONCEA Associated Press
A FUTURE deal to develop the land around Angel Stadium could require the team to return to the Anaheim Angels name.

The words “Anaheim Angels” now are enshrined in California law.

Whether the baseball team that calls Angel Stadium home reverts to its hometown name remains to be seen. On Thursday, however, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the Home Run for Anaheim Act, which elected officials in Orange County consider a significant step in that direction.

The new law, introduced by Assemblyman Avelino Valencia (D-Anaheim), cleared the state legislature without a single vote against it.

The law does not mandate the Angels — playing under a Los Angeles name in Anaheim's city-owned stadium — revert to the Anaheim Angels name.

For now, in fact, the law does absolutely nothing. On Friday, the Los Angeles Angels play at Angel Stadium.

Instead, the law provides the city with an incentive to dangle before the team. If the Angels — whether under owner Arte Moreno or a future owner — wish to develop the 150-acre Angel Stadium property, state law would prioritize affordable housing within the site.

In an era when team owners covet the profits from development around stadiums and arenas — including places for fans to eat, drink and shop 365 days a year, not just on game days — Anaheim could seek an exemption from the affordable housing law. That wouldn't rule out housing on the site, but it would give a team more flexibility to build whatever project might be considered most profitable.

If the city obtains the exemption, the new law says, “then any materials, including, but not limited to, a lease, deed of sale, and promotional or marketing materials, shall refer to that team as the Anaheim Angels.”

"The Anaheim Angels are the only team to ever win a World Series in this city," Anaheim mayor Ashleigh Aitken said. "I want to keep the Angels here and work with their owner to win another one."

Moreno has twice reached deals with the city to develop the land, only to see the city walk away both times. In the last deal, he rejected the city's request to rename the team the Anaheim Angels.

"We are proud to call Angel Stadium of Anaheim our home," Angels spokeswoman Marie Garvey said, "and any other comment about the future would be premature."

Moreno, 80, has shown no public interest in a third negotiation with the city. The Angels' stadium lease extends through 2032, and the team has options to extend it through 2038.

By year's end, the city has said it anticipates the release of a long-awaited property assessment, which is expected to show Angel Stadium needs hundreds of millions of dollars in upgrades to remain viable for the long term. The city and team may not agree on who should pay for them, and real estate development around the stadium could be part of the solution for funding a new or renovated stadium.

The city could use the exemption as leverage in discussions with Moreno or a new owner, although leverage could work both ways.

When Anaheim sued the Angels over the 2005 name change, city-commissioned experts testified in court that the Anaheim name was worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the city over the life of the lease.

That could compel an owner to ask the city to contribute to the cost of building a new stadium in exchange for the return of the Anaheim name.

An almost vacant large urban site — an aging stadium surrounded by 130 acres of parking lots, sitting between three freeways and a train station — is rare in Southern California and surely would attract development interest among potential bidders for the Angels.

But any new owner would have one more bit of leverage: Once the Angel Stadium lease expires, the owner would be free to move out of Anaheim.

CHARGERS running back Greg Desrosiers Jr. (31) tries to escape the grasp of Rams cornerback Cam Lampkin in Thursday's game.

McVay still mulls No. 2 quarterback

[Rams, from B12]

"Not pigeonholing myself into any sort of decision other than I feel really good about Stetson Bennett, feel really good about Ty Simpson."

Simpson, the 13th pick in this year's draft, completed 18 of 23 passes for 119 yards, including a second-quarter touchdown.

He faced Chargers starters during his first series, which ended with a punt.

“I was excited because it was my first time to where I was going against real guys in a real game,” Simpson said. “And it felt like I expected it to feel. Fast.”

It was Simpson's second no-turnover performance. In the preseason opener against the Kansas City Chiefs, Simpson played all but the first two series and completed 21 of 25 passes for 190 yards and two touchdowns.

On Thursday, his most impressive play came early in the second quarter on third and seven from the Chargers' 11-yard line. Simpson escaped pressure and rolled out to his left before firing a pass to diving receiver Brennan Presley for a touchdown.

Matthew Caldwell, an un-drafted free agent from Texas, started the second half and played into the fourth quarter before suffering a knee injury. He completed five of 10 passes for 31 yards, including an eight-yard touchdown to running back Dean Connors.

Bennett, a fourth-year pro, took the vast majority of second-team snaps during training camp and preseason practices and took first-team reps on days Stafford was held out. Bennett played the first half against the New Orleans Saints and rushed for two touchdowns.

NFL teams must trim their rosters to 53 players by Sunday.

“We’ve got some tough decisions over the next couple days,” McVay said.

Other noteworthy items following the Rams' victory:

Atwell is not a Nacua fill-in

Running back Jarquez Hunter did not play — and was not in the building — but not because he was assured a roster spot with the Rams.

On Thursday, the Rams traded Hunter, a 2025 fourth-round draft pick, to the Miami Dolphins for receiver Tutu Atwell, who played five seasons for the Rams before signing with the Dolphins last March.

Atwell rejoins a receiver corps that includes Puka Nacua, Davante Adams, Jordan Whittington, Konata Mumpfield, Xavier Smith and rookie CJ Daniels.

Nacua is the defendant in a civil lawsuit that alleges he made an antisemitic statement and bit a woman while riding in a vehicle. If the NFL determines that Nacua violated the league's personal-conduct policy, he could be suspended.

Did the Rams acquire Atwell as a preemptive move in case Nacua is suspended?

“No,” McVay said. “It had nothing to do with that. It was exclusively a guy we were really familiar with that you could really get at what we felt like was good for us and good for Jarquez.”

"Tutu's an alumni," Rams general manager Les Snead said during an in-game television interview. "He should come back. He's someone who knows Sean's offense. He can come in and play all three [receiver] positions."

Connors, who played at Murrieta Valley High and Riverside City College before finishing his college career at Rice and Houston, rushed for 69 yards in 18 carries. Jordan Waters rushed for 53 yards in 15 carries.

Still waiting on Donald's decision

McVay reiterated that the Rams will continue to move forward until Aaron Donald decides whether he will end a two-year retirement and rejoin the team.

"It's really one of those deals that, what we're doing is we're focusing on this football team," McVay said. "Aaron knows that, hey, if he wants to be able to do that, that's something that we absolutely want to entertain and be able to figure out, and that's really kind of all there is to it right now."

In a television interview during the game, Snead said Donald, a three-time NFL defensive player of the year, still was going through his process.

“Obviously, the timeline's getting a little closer to make a decision, but the timeline's the timeline,” Snead said. “Time will tell.”

If Donald returns, he will join a front that includes two-time defensive player of the year Myles Garrett, acquired by the Rams in a blockbuster trade.

Snead said in the interview that dealing for Garrett was not part of the Rams' plan heading into the off-season.

"Never was Myles Garrett penciled into that intent," Snead said, "and I'll be honest with you: Never was Aaron Donald penciled into that intent.

“Sometimes luck goes your way, and we’re jacked to have Myles and we’re waiting on to see what happens with Aaron.”

Defensive standouts

Outside linebacker Dar-ryl Peterson III had two sacks, including one that resulted in a fumble in the final minute to preserve the victory.

Safety Nick Andersen recovered a fumble by Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert.

Cornerback Cam Lamp-kin also had a sack.

Edge rusher Wesley Bailey, who made a big impression in the first two preseason games, started against the Chargers but played only two snaps and had one quarterback pressure.

Kicker wraps up perfect preseason

Harrison Mevis kicked two 27-yard field goals, making him six for six in three games.

Mevis kicked two field goals against the Chiefs and two against the Saints.

Defense brings ‘energy’ as preseason closes

DJ UIAGALELEI (7) made a solid bid Thursday to be the backup quarterback.
ALLEN J. SCHABEN Los Angeles Times

[Chargers, from B12] age to three points.

"I just felt the energy," outside linebacker Tuli Tuipulotu said. "That's what I felt from [our] defense."

Mike McDaniel's offense, meanwhile, started on the wrong foot. Quarterback Justin Herbert fumbled a handoff to running back Omarion Hampton on the Chargers' second play from scrimmage, leading to a Rams field goal.

However, Herbert and the starting offense made sure they left something pleasing on film. On the second play of the Chargers' second possession, Herbert connected with wide receiver Quentin Johnston over the middle on a sensational 65-yard touchdown pass.

"I knew it was a touchdown," wideout Ladd McConkey said. "I looked up [and] saw Q running free, so I knew he was going to make a play."

Herbert's pass traveled 57.6 yards in the air, according to NFL Next Gen Stats.

“Double wow,” Harbaugh said.

Uiagalelei outduels incumbent Lance

Trey Lance, the incumbent backup quarterback, used his legs well and earned 22 yards on four rushes. DJ Uiagalelei, however, looked like he could become the Chargers' backup signal-caller.

Uiagalelei made nice, quick reads and completed 11 of 18 passes for 141 yards. He lost a fumble to seal the loss, though, after being strip-sacked by Rams outside linebacker Darryl Peterson.

"I felt solid out there,"

Uiagalelei said. “I mean, I wish we would’ve won, man. ... I’m pretty frustrated, pretty upset. ... Just tough to go out like that on a fumble.”

Lance, who's more familiar with McDaniel's system from their time in San Francisco, looked rushed on most of his snaps and didn't connect on his two throws, one of which was a drop by Derius Davis.

There hasn't been much separation between Lance and Uiagalelei throughout training camp, but the St. John Bosco product Uiagalelei was better Thursday.

Rookies make their roster cases

Rodney Shelley, an undrafted cornerback, and Greg Desrosiers Jr., an undrafted running back, are on the bubble of making the Chargers' 53-man roster.

Even with an unnecessary roughness penalty in the fourth quarter, Shelley made his reps count, making five tackles and breaking up a deep pass from Rams quarterback Ty Simpson intended for Tyler Scott.

Desrosiers erupted for 118 yards on nine rushes, including a 34-yard touchdown in the fourth. “I kind of just put in my heart to go out there and ball,” he said. “I feel like I did everything I needed to do to kind of put all the teams on notice [and] put the front office here on notice. And hopefully I’ve made it hard for them to make the decision.”

Left guard race still going?

Kayode Awosika is the favorite to win the Chargers' left guard job, and he played there during the first two series.

But when Lance and the second-stringers replaced the starters, Awosika moved to right guard, and Trevor Penning replaced him at left guard.

"The entire preseason, with the offensive line, we like the way it's coming together," Harbaugh said.

Maybe Trey Pipkins III, who McDaniel said remained in the left guard competition, still has a shot. He played left tackle with the starters Thursday. Another candidate, Logan Taylor, started at right tackle.

Special teams still looking shaky

Cameron Dicker missed an extra point in the Chargers' preseason win over the Houston Texans. JK Scott made unfavorable headlines against the 49ers after an abysmal tackling effort during Jacob Cowing's 83-yard punt return for a touchdown.

On Thursday, Dicker missed a 49-yard field goal to end the first half, a distance he's usually sharp from. And Scott, although he didn't have to make any tackles, shanked a punt 20 yards down the right sideline from the Chargers' nine-yard line, setting up a 29-yard Rams touchdown drive.

Dicker was spotted going into the sideline medical tent early in the game for an undisclosed reason. But Harbaugh said it's nothing to worry about. "He's the most accurate kicker in NFL history," Harbaugh said. "That's not something I'm worried about."

THURSDAY'S LATE PRESEASON BOX RAMS 20, CHARGERS 18

RAMS....	3	10	0	7-	20
CHARGERS....	7	0	3	8-	18
First Quarter
RAMS-FG Mevis 27,9:55.CHARGERS-Johnston 65 pass from Herbert (Dicker kick).9:41.
Second Quarter
RAMS-Presley 11 pass from Simpson (Mevis kick), 10:48,RAMS-FG Mevis 27.:22.
Third Quarter
CHARGERS-FG Dicker 34.2:46.
Fourth Quarter
RAMS-Connors 8 pass from M.Caldwell (Mevis kick),14:14.CHARGERS-Desrosiers 34 run (Svoboda pass from Ulgalele)12:52.

TEAM STATISTICS	LAR	LAC
First downs....22	17
Total Net Yards....298	394
Rushes-yards....39-148	26-204
Passing....150	190
Punt Returns....1-0	0-0
Kickoff Returns....2-55	2-42
Interceptions Ret....0-0	0-0
Comp-Att-Int....23-33-0	13-23-0
Sacked-Yards Lost....0-0	4-25
Punts....4-38.5	3-33.667
Fumbles-Lost....0-0	2-2
Penalties-Yards....4-23	11-88
Time of Possession....36:21	23:39
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

RUSHING: RAMS, Connors 18-69, Waters 15-53, Caldwell 3-16, Simpson 3-10. CHARGERS, Desrosiers 9-118, A.Johnson 7-37, Lance 4-22, Davis 1-15, Vidal 3-9, Uiagalelei 1-3, Herbert 1-0.

PASSING: RAMS, Simpson 18-23-0-119, Caldwell 5-10-0-31. CHARGERS, Uiagalelei 11-18-0-141, Herbert 2-3-0-74, Lance 0-2-0-0.

RECEIVING: RAMS, Presley 6-32, Daniels 5-42, Connors 3-24, Edwards 3-21, Redman 3-16, Bachman 2-9, Klare 1-6. CHARGERS, Jennings 3-44, Svoboda 2-9, Johnston 1-65, Clifford 1-24, Lambert-Smith 1-21, Davis 1-20, Kolar 1-9, Ross 1-9, Desrosiers 1-8, Bradley 1-6.

FIELD GOALS MISSED: CHARGERS, Dicker 49.

NFL REPORT

All signs point to Raiders' Cousins to start

WIRE REPORTS

Las Vegas Raiders coach Klint Kubiak still hasn't announced a starting quarterback with the season opener two weeks away.

However all indications are Kirk Cousins likely will be behind center when the Raiders open their season Sept. 13 against the Miami Dolphins. Cousins received the lion's share of first-team snaps in training camp and was the starter in the two Las Vegas preseason games he played.

He carries the experience of what will be his 15th NFL season as the Raiders bring along rookie and No. 1 overall draft pick Fernando Mendoza. All three drives Cousins quarterbacked this preseason ended in points—a touchdown and two field goals.

"I just think he's taking practice to the field," Kubiak said Friday.

Kubiak and general manager John Spytek have to decide whether to keep three quarterbacks when they cut the roster to 53 players on Sunday.

Aidan O'Connell is in his fourth season, all with the Raiders, and he could be the first one onto the field should Cousins get injured or struggle.

It was a rough night for Mendoza as he completed just seven of 14 passes for 57 yards in an 18-12 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas. He was sacked twice and threw an interception.

“It’s the NFL, there are monsters on the other side of the ball and you need to get the ball out quick,” Mendoza said. “It teaches you, you need to play on time, and there’s less margin for error. So I think it’s a great experience having that heat and duress because diamonds are built under pressure.”

Romo faces three more citations

Tony Romo is facing three more citations in connection with his arrest last month that got him placed on leave from his role as CBS' lead analyst on NFL games.

Romo was arrested July 23 in Wisconsin on suspicion of operating a vehicle while under the influence.

The case against the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback was amended Thursday to add citations for possessing open intoxicants in a motor vehicle, unsafe passing on the right and first-offense operating while intoxicated. He already had received a citation for refusal to take a test for intoxication after arrest.

McCarthy could carry four QBs

Ian Wheeler scored on a two-yard run with 1:06 left, Shane Buechele completed an off-balance pass to Dante Pettis for a two-point conversion, and the Buffalo Bills beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 28-27 in the preseason finale for both teams Thursday.

After the game, new Steelers coach Mike McCarthy said he was confident in all four of his quarterbacks' futures with the organization.

When he was asked by ESPN if he believed all four quarterbacks — Aaron Rodgers, backup Mason Randolph, rookie Drew Allar and Will Howard — had earned a roster spot, McCarthy described it as “a very accurate evaluation.”

"I feel good about the quarterback room," he said.

On Thursday, Howard completed nine of 15 passes for 69 yards with two touchdowns while Allar completed nine of 18 for 88 yards with no touchdowns or interceptions.

Etc.

Tennessee Titans receiver Wan'Dale Robinson is being evaluated for a concussion after taking a big hit from Chicago Bears safety Xavier Woods during a joint practice Thursday, ESPN reported.

'He's like LeBron': 8-year-old horse chases history at Del Mar

By Jay Posner

GOLD PHOENIX, left, will go for his fifth straight win in the Del Mar Handicap.
Benoit Photo

Gary Fenton and Billy Koch have been sports fans long enough to know the cliche about Father Time being undefeated.

“I can say that about me for sure,” joked Koch, who is 56.

But the two men also know some individuals can delay the inevitable for years far beyond the norm. Someone like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Or Tom Brady. Or LeBron James. Or Gold Phoenix.

Wait, who?

Gold Phoenix is an 8-year-old gelding Fenton and Koch, managing partners of the Little Red Feather Racing Stable, purchased five years ago in his native Ireland. Since making his U.S. debut in January 2022, Gold Phoenix has won a dozen races, all but one in a graded stakes, and earned more than \$2.5 million. All of which puts him in great, though not exclusive company.

At about 6:40 p.m. Saturday at Del Mar, however, Gold Phoenix has a chance to separate himself from all but one other thoroughbred who has competed in North America. Should he win the \$300,000 Del Mar Handicap, Gold Phoenix will join the legendary Kelso as the only horses to win the same major stakes race on this continent in five straight years. (Kelso, a five-time horse of the year, won the Jockey Club Gold Cup from 1960-64 at Aqueduct in New York.)

“I got the chills when you said it,” Koch said. “To be even mentioned in the same breath as a horse like Kelso … that’s something that only happens once in a lifetime.”

Gold Phoenix is the 5-2 morning-line favorite, but the Grade 2 race is hardly a walkover. There are multiple stakes winners in the field, led by Test Score, the early second choice at 3-1. The 4-year-old is trained by Graham Motion, who has his own impressive streak: seven straight summer stakes wins at Del Mar dating to 2022 — which is also the year

Gold Phoenix won this $1^{3}/_{8}$ -mile race for the first time.

Another victory would be the gelding's seventh stakes win here, extending the record he set last month in the Eddie Read Stakes, which Koch and Fenton, in separate interviews, ranked among their favorite performances. At $1^{1/8}$ miles, the race was shorter than Gold Phoenix prefers, and he had to beat a field that included another Del Mar specialist, Formidable Man.

"To see him come charging home just brought out all the emotions of what we've seen, not just from him [anywhere], but on this racetrack here at Del Mar that he absolutely loves," Fenton said.

The victory was a close one, but that's typical for Gold Phoenix, who has seven wins by a nose, head or neck and only one by more than $1^{1/4}$ lengths. His competitiveness is apparent at any distance and under any jockey: He's won races as short as 7 furlongs and as long as $1^{3/4}$ miles, and all seven men to ride him earned at least one victory (his current rider, Hector Berrios, is four for five).

"He's just such a cool horse," Koch said, noting the gelding is known around the barn as "Clifford the Big Red Dog" because of his chestnut coat and a temperament Fenton describes as "sweet."

But other horses like that — or those that are completely the opposite — don't have Gold Phoenix's success rate or longevity. That's where Fenton made a human comparison.

"I'm going to say he's like LeBron," Fenton said, "in that as he's been able to age, his body, his athleticism have maintained at a very, very top level with very [few] issues. He's been relatively sound all this time."

Fenton and Koch are quick to credit trainer Phil D'Amato and his barn staff for their overall management, spacing out his races and giving Gold Phoenix time off each year after the Breeders' Cup. He had a shorter break last winter — just three months until his first start of the year — because, Fenton said, "I think [D'Amato] just thought being at that age, to give him a break and then try to ramp him up might be a little bit too much. So I think he rolled the dice and kept him in training for as long as he could. And, I mean, here we

still are."

For how much longer? There's no reason to stop yet. Gold Phoenix already has three victories, matching his high for any year. And he hasn't even run in the race he always wins.

"I just want to watch him and see him thrive at this level," Fenton said, "and the moment he's not at this level is where it'll probably be time to wrap it up. But he's showing no signs of it."

Said Koch: “People always say, ‘Why are you still running? He’s 8.’ I’m like, what are we supposed to do? The horse might be better now than he was at 7 or he was at 6.”

Koch noted that in his role as board president for CARMA, a nonprofit that provides funding and care of retired California racehorses, he hears from many facilities offering to house Gold Phoenix.

“I tell them he’s not ready,” Koch said. “He’ll tell us. They keep asking, [but] somehow he’s managed to dodge Father Time. I don’t know how, but he has. We’ll figure it out. He’s going to go to a very special home. I promise you that he is going to have a great life. He deserves it.”

Riley appreciating pressure of job

[USC, from B12]

to understand how it works and how to harness it and how to use it, and I think that has probably been the biggest thing."

"I know what direction we're heading now. I know so much more about this place and how it works, and that's been more helpful than just starting over at kind of your normal run-of-the-mill job in college football. ... This one is just so unique and different. That's what attracted me to it. And that's what's going to help make it great again."

Riley certainly knows USC well enough to understand his time to deliver on that promise is running out. The Trojans are 35-18 through four seasons under Riley, precisely the same record they were under his predecessor, Clay Helton, through 53 games. In that time, USC has yet to reach the College Football Playoff and only once played for a conference title, in Riley's first season. And it hasn't beaten a ranked team in a true road game outside of L.A.

Meanwhile, the school has gone to great lengths to close the gap that existed between USC and its blue-blood counterparts, revamping the whole front-office operation, hiring a Hall of Famer in Gary Patterson to coordinate the defense and investing millions in name, image and likeness deals in the nation's top recruiting class.

Riley said several times this summer he's more "equipped" to win. And around USC, everyone seems to agree. Meaning any excuse for the Trojans failing to break through no longer will suffice.

"It's black and white," USC general manager Chad Bowden said after last season. "You're either in the playoff or you're not. You either win a championship or you don't. ... I'm sick to my stomach, you know, for people that might be unhappy with winning nine games. They should be unhappy, right?"

Whether nine wins this year would be enough to ensure Riley spends a sixth season at USC remains to be seen. Though, just getting back to that mark, with a schedule that includes Oregon and Ohio State at home and Indiana and Penn State on the road, might be more of an uphill climb than it was a season ago.

It also probably would mean falling short of the playoff. When asked if Riley needed a playoff berth this season, athletic director Jennifer Cohen told The Times in May she “tries not to think in hypotheticals” but added:

"The expectation has always been the same. I mean, that's the thing, that's the reason why I came here, is that the standard is high, that we do expect to make the playoff. We do expect to have a championship run. We do expect to be competing for championships every single year.

"The expectation, I mean, we haven't been shy about that. We expect to win, and I feel confident that we're going to."

So confident, in fact, that USC pasted its season mantra on billboards across the Southland, each of them not-so-subtly declaring that the “THE TIME IS: NOW.”

The message feels in many ways meant for Riley. And he isn't shying away from it.

“Hell, that’s why I came here,” Riley told The Times this summer. “It’s progressively gotten better and better, I think to a point where everybody should be excited and the expectations should be through the roof."

ALLEN SCHABEN Los Angeles Times
LINCOLN RILEY'S Trojans have yet to reach the College Football Playoff and are 35-18 in four seasons.

It's hard to argue with the positive signs. The No. 1 recruiting class already is making a major impression, with five freshmen earning starting spots and more than a dozen appearing on the initial two-deep depth chart. With a top returning quarterback in Jayden Maiava, real depth along the offensive line and one of the Big Ten's best backfield tandems in Waymond Jordan and King Miller, USC once again should have one of the nation's top offenses.

The questions, as always, are on the other side of the ball. But in Patterson, Riley appears to have found someone whose defense he considers an equal to his offense, the yin to his yang.

“You feel his presence in terms of the mentality of the group and how he pushes and pushes and pushes,” Riley said. “He’s very aggressive, and you never have to wonder about how he’s feeling or where he stands. For a little bit, I think it took our players some getting used to. It was a little different of an approach than what they had out of that position. But I think they’ve come to understand and respect the intensity that he brings every day and the demand for greatness. There’s no question on the practice field that you feel that from him.”

Riley, meanwhile, has not seemed like a coach who's feeling the heat heading into a make-or-break season at USC. In fact, with everything hanging on this season, he seems more at ease than ever.

“It’s taken a lot to come from where it was four years ago to now, a lot of people,” Riley said. “And so, I don’t want us to be bashful about it now. We’ve gotta go do it. And that’s the fun part of this. And it’s fun feeling like that you got the opportunity to do anything and everything that you want to do.

"I think this year will be the start of a run where USC football, we're gonna feel like that for a while. That's what we came here to do."

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9:30 a.m.	Indy NXT, Milwaukee Mile, qualifying	FS1
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4:30 p.m.	NASCAR Cup, Coke Zero Sugar 400	NBC
BASEBALL
10 a.m.	Dodgers at Detroit	SNLA; 570, 1020
10 a.m.	Boston at New York Yankees (Game 1)	MLB
1 p.m.	Houston at New York Mets	ESPN Unlimited
4 p.m.	Boston at New York Yankees (Game 2)	Fox, FoxD
7 p.m.	Philadelphia at Angels	ABTV; 830
7 p.m.	Arizona at San Francisco	MLB
BASKETBALL: WNBA
10 a.m.	Chicago at New York	CBS, Paramount+
BOXING
8 a.m.	Welterweights, Mayer vs. Cameron	ESPN2
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
9 a.m.	North Carolina at Texas Christian	ESPN, Disney+
Noon	San José State at USC	NBC, Peacock; 710
Noon	Southern at Alabama State	ESPNU
12:30 p.m.	North Carolina State at Virginia	ESPN
2:30 p.m.	Jacksonville State at North Dakota State	CBSSN
3:30 p.m.	Sacramento State at Eastern Michigan	ESPN+
4 p.m.	New Mexico State at Florida State	CW
4 p.m.	Hawaii at Stanford	ACC
4 p.m.	East Texas A&M at Mercer	ESPN
4:30 p.m.	Alabama A&M at Howard	ABC
6 p.m.	Prairie View A&M at Tarleton State	ESPN2
7 p.m.	Memphis at Nevada Las Vegas	Fox
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL: WOMEN
11 a.m.	Miami at Michigan	Big Ten
Noon	Arizona State vs. USC	FS1
1 p.m.	Connecticut at Penn State	Big Ten
2 p.m.	Creighton vs. Minnesota	FS1
5 p.m.	Long Beach State at UCLA	Big Ten+
5 p.m.	Nebraska vs. Nevada Las Vegas	FS1
7 p.m.	Texas Christian vs. Texas	FS1
CYCLING
3 a.m. (Sun.)	Vuelta a España, Stage 9	Peacock
GOLF
10 a.m.	PGA, Tour Championship, third round	Golf
Noon	PGA, Tour Championship, third round	CBS, Paramount+
Noon	LPGA Tour, FM Championship, third round	Golf
4 a.m. (Sun.)	World Tour, British Masters, final round	Golf
HORSE RACING
8 a.m.	Saratoga Live	FS2
10:30 a.m.	Saratoga Live	FS1
Noon	Saratoga Live	FS2
2 p.m.	Saratoga, Grade 1 Travers	Fox
LITTLE LEAGUE: BASEBALL WORLD SERIES
9:30 a.m.	International championship, Curacao vs. Japan	ABC
12:30 p.m.	U.S. championship, Nevada vs. Ohio	ABC
MOTORCYCLE RACING
4:30 a.m. (Sun.)	MotoGP, Grand Prix of Aragon	FS2
PREP FOOTBALL
11 a.m.	Las Vegas Bishop Gorman at Columbus (Fla.)	ESPN2
3 p.m.	DeSoto (Texas) at St. Thomas Aquinas (Fla.)	ESPN2
7:30 p.m.	Chandler (Ariz.) at Basha (Ariz.)	ESPN
PRO FOOTBALL: NFL PRESEASON
10 a.m.	Detroit at Indianapolis	NFLN
3 p.m.	Chicago at Tennessee	NFLN
SOCCER
8 a.m.	Spain, Levante vs. Real Betis	ESPN+, ESPND
8:15 a.m.	France, Strasbourg vs. Lens	belN
9:30 a.m.	England, Tottenham Hotspur vs. Newcastle United	NBC, Universo
9:30 a.m.	Germany, Borussia Dortmund vs. Hamburger	USA, Telemundo
9:30 a.m.	Italy, Fiorentina vs. Frosinone	CBSSN, Paramount+
10 a.m.	Spain, Real Sociedad vs. Espanyol	ESPN+, ESPND
11:45 a.m.	France, Olympique Lyonnais vs. Le Havre	belN
12:30 p.m.	Spain, Sevilla vs. Atlético Madrid	ESPN+, ESPND
3:30 p.m.	NWSL, Kansas City vs. North Carolina	Ion, Tubi
4 p.m.	Mexico, men, Pachuca vs. Guadalajara	Univision
4:30 p.m.	MLS, LAFC vs. D.C.	Apple TV
5:45 p.m.	NWSL, Denver vs. Chicago	Ion, Tubi
6 p.m.	Mexico, men, América vs. Puebla	Univision
6 p.m.	Mexico, women, Tigres UANL vs. Pachuca	KRCA
7:30 p.m.	MLS, San Diego vs. Galaxy	Apple TV
8 p.m.	Mexico, men, Santos Laguna vs. Tigres UANL	CBSSN, Univision
8 p.m.	Mexico, women, Juárez vs. Cruz Azul	FoxD, KRCA
6 a.m. (Sun.)	England, Chelsea vs. Brighton & Hove Albion	NBCSN, Peacock
6 a.m. (Sun.)	England, Leeds United vs. Brentford	USA, Telemundo
6 a.m. (Sun.)	England, Sunderland vs. Fulham	NBCSN, Peacock
6 a.m. (Sun.)	France, Paris vs. Nice	belN
SOFTBALL: ATHLETES UNLIMITED
5 p.m.	All-Star Cup, Team Flippen vs. Team Kilfoyl	MLB
TENNIS
1 p.m.	ATP, Winston-Salem, final	Tennis
4:30 p.m.	WTA, Monterrey, final	Tennis

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Deflated Dodgers can't hit Sale's sweeper

They drop all three in Atlanta as Yamamoto outdueled 1-0, perhaps a preview of playoffs.

By Maddie Lee

ATLANTA — The Dodgers' recent offensive woes were punctuated Thursday by a shutout by Atlanta Braves left-hander Chris Sale.

"We ran into a buzz saw," manager Dave Roberts said after the 1-0 loss.

The Dodgers, who were swept for the third time this month, headed to Detroit clinging to a one-game lead over the Braves for the second-best record in the National League. They were three games behind the first-place Milwaukee Brewers.

"I wish we'd played better," Roberts said. "I wish we'd have won the game. I wish we'd won the series. It didn't happen. But right now, there's nothing we can do but just go out there and keep trying to get better and win a baseball game [Friday]."

What was expected to be a pitchers' duel between Dodgers rotation leader Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Sale lived up to the hype.

Yamamoto gave up a home run to Drake Baldwin on his first pitch, but he quickly settled in and gave up just three more hits while striking out eight over $6^{1/3}$ innings.

Sale was even better. He mowed down the Dodgers with 11 strikeouts, limiting them to five hits in nine innings.

The Dodgers went up [See Dodgers, B9]

COLLEGE FOOTBALL :: SEASON OPENER NO. 14 USC VS. SAN JOSÉ STATE TODAY AT THE COLISEUM, NOON TV: NBC

ROBERT GAUTHIER Los Angeles Times
ENTERING his fifth season, USC coach Lincoln Riley embraces the demands of his job. "There's no other job like this," he says.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

From behind his new desk, on the top floor of USC's shining, new Bloom Football Performance Center, Lincoln Riley can gaze out upon a stunning view of the downtown L.A. skyline. It's a nice perk when rounding out a \$200-million facility.

And especially welcomed given that three-quarters of USC's previous football home, the John McKay Center, could be classified as "subterranean." But as Riley considers how far he's come these last five years and how far USC has come in the same time, the metaphor is just as meaningful to USC's coach as the cityscape.

This view, this office, this program, really

Given more resources, Riley leaning into pressure to deliver

By Ryan Kartje

— it was all just a hypothetical when Riley accepted the USC job in November 2021. The wunderkind coach knew he was inheriting a football program in a years-long slump. What he couldn't grasp was how far it actually fell. And what it would take to drag it back. He'd never even been on USC's campus.

He acknowledges he didn't understand quite what USC needed then, in the beginning. Not like he does now, on the doorstep of his fifth season as the Trojans coach.

"There's no other job like this, not in our sport," Riley said Thursday. "There are some unique things that make this place really special, but also you have [See USC, B11]

NFL PRESEASON TAKEAWAYS

Chargers, Rams next tackle roster decisions

Starters improve for Harbaugh as Uiagalelei makes case as backup

BY JOAQUIN RUIZ

After an ugly loss to the San Francisco 49ers last week, Jim Harbaugh wanted to see a better showing from his team in its final preseason test.

The third-year coach had his wish somewhat granted, as the Chargers presented several encouraging performances in a 20-18 loss to the Rams at SoFi Stadium on Thursday.

“It was important football being played,” Harbaugh said. “Many good things. Lot of good. ... I liked the response from the entire team from Week 2 to Week 3 of the preseason.”

Here are five takeaways from the Chargers' final tuneup before 53-man rosters must be finalized Sunday:

Starters show up

The Chargers' starters on defense, without safety Derwin James Jr. and outside linebacker Khalil Mack, did their part against the Rams' second-stringers.

Chris O'Leary's unit forced a punt on its first drive. And despite the Rams' second drive starting at the Chargers' 14-yard line, the defense limited the dam-[See Chargers, B10]

TOP: Safety Nick Andersen celebrates his fumble recovery. Left: Chargers quarterback DJ Uiagalelei (7) and tight end Evan Svoboda (49) revel after a two-point pass play. Right: The Rams' Ty Simpson throws downfield.
Photographs by ALLEN J. SCHABEN Los Angeles Times

McVay remains noncommittal on his backup quarterback

BY GARY KLEIN

Don't read too much into it.

That's what Rams coach Sean McVay said after rookie quarterback Ty Simpson played and Stetson Bennett did not in the Rams' 20-18 preseason victory over the Chargers on Thursday night at SoFi Stadium.

McVay does not play starters or players expected to be significant backups or contributors during the preseason, especially in the final game.

Based on that, it appears Bennett's on track to be the No. 2 quarterback behind Matthew Stafford when the Rams play the San Francisco 49ers on Sept. 10 in Melbourne, Australia.

Or does it?

"I wouldn't look too far into what that was," McVay said of playing Simpson. "It was just continuing to get him experience.

“We’ve got three quarterbacks on our roster. Obviously, we’ve got the reigning MVP of the league and we’ve got two guys that we feel really good about. And if you say, ‘Hey, what does that really mean?’ That’s what it means, that we feel really good about those two guys.

[See Rams, B10]

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A TIMES E-NEWSPAPER EXCLUSIVE :: SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2026

PAUL SANCYA Associated Press

TARIK SKUBAL held the Tigers to one run in six innings Friday in his first game back in Detroit since being traded to the Dodgers at the beginning of the month.

Skubal tames Tigers in return to Detroit

BY MADDIE LEE

DETROIT — As Tarik Skubal crossed the field from the bullpen, he had to crane his neck to catch part of the tribute video playing on the massive screen behind him.

By the time he reached the Dodgers dugout, the crowd rose to give him an ovation. Skubal controlled his expression and wiped his face with the towel draped over his neck.

"There were definitely tears," Skubal said after the Dodgers' 2-1 win over the Detroit Tigers on Friday. "Luckily enough, I was able to make it to the tunnel before more happened. But yeah, it's tough. This is a place I've known my entire career, since 2018."

Less than four weeks ago, he said goodbye to the only team he'd known — the Tigers drafted him in 2018 out of Seattle University. Now, he was back in the ballpark he'd called home for six years.

Clad in road grays, Skubal showed why he was widely considered the best player available at the trade deadline, holding the Tigers to one run and four hits over six innings. The Dodgers' offense continued to scuffle but did just enough to bounce back from a three-game sweep in Atlanta — the 14th time this month they played a game decided by a single run.

“I think he embraced it,” first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “He left everything he had for this organization, multiple Cy Youngs, he left it all for them. I think that’s why he got so many cheers. I’m sure during the game they weren’t too thrilled with all the strikeouts he was racking up, but it’s hard to boo a man who gave you everything he had every five days.”

Skubal's reception included some boos (and "Scuuuub"s) as he took the mound.

"With the last name Skub, you don't know if they are boos or if they're cheering for you," Skubal said. "So I'm going to assume they were cheering for me."

Even if that wasn't true in every case, the mutual affection between the player and Detroit took center stage Friday, even as Skubal tamed the Tigers' offense, recording seven strikeouts.

"I said I wasn't going to be [emotional], but I've come to figure out I don't really know myself that well," Skubal said of the video tribute. "The timing kind of threw me for a loop a little bit. But I think the emotions would've been the same regardless of the time."

He quickly reined in his emotions. Skubal gave up a leadoff double to Gleyber Torres on a fastball down the middle. But then the left-hander retired the next 12 batters.

Skubal struck out the side in the third inning, getting Max Clark to swing through a changeup, Javier Báez to chase a high fastball and Torres to watch an off-speed pitch clip the bottom of the zone.

“From the get-go, his fastball command set up a lot of his pitches,” catcher Hunter Feduccia said. “Establishing inside to righties and running the sinker in to lefties kind of opens up a lot. So that was kind of the game plan coming in; he executed it to a T.”

That streak ended with a double up the left-field line from Eduardo Valencia, who turned on an inside slider to lead off the fifth. Then with two outs, Clark stayed back on an outside fastball and sent it the other way for a triple that drove in the game's first run.

Skubal, who induced Báez to fly out to center to escape the inning, punched the palm of his glove on his way off the field.

The Dodgers (81-54) missed a chance to tie with one out in the sixth, when Kyle Tucker was thrown out at home trying to score on a pinch-hit single by Kiké

Hernández. But they salvaged the inning when Teoscar Hernández drew a walk and Miguel Rojas, also pinch-hitting, lined a single through the infield to tie the score.

After Skubal navigated some hard contact in the sixth, the Dodgers loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh but failed to score.

Skubal's night was over after only 83 pitches. With Skubal coming off back-to-back 100-pitch starts, manager Dave Roberts didn't want to push him.

The Dodgers finally took the lead in the eighth, manufacturing a run with singles from Teoscar Hernández and Freeman around a sacrifice bunt from Ben Rortvedt.

The Dodgers' bullpen held steady, with closer Tanner Scott earning his 20th save.

After the game, Skubal returned to the field to catch up with his former teammates.

“I did a good job of keeping baseball baseball,” Skubal said.

Ogwumike scores 24 points as Sparks beat sloppy Mystics

ASSOCIATED PRESS finished with nine points on three-for-eight shooting.

Nneka Ogwumike had 24 points, Rae Burrell scored 12 of her 15 points in the fourth quarter, and the Sparks beat the Washington Mystics 88-82 on Friday night at Crypto.com Arena.

MLB

The Sparks went on a 13-2 run late in the fourth quarter to pull away. Burrell made a three-pointer with 2:54 left and added a transition layup on her team's next possession — following a block by Cameron Brink — to cap the run and go ahead 85-78.

Brink finished with 13 points and two blocks off the bench for the Sparks (14-25). Monique Akoa Makani had 10 points.

Washington (24-16) was playing on consecutive nights for the first time this season after beating Phoenix 80-73 on Thursday.

The Mystics turned the ball over 17 times, leading to 31 points for the Sparks.

Sonia Citron made four three-pointers and scored 22 points for Washington, which had won three straight on the road.

Shakira Austin had 19 points and 10 rebounds, and former USC star Kiki Iriafen added 12 points and 10 rebounds for her 20th double-double this season.

LUKE HALES Getty Images
RAE BURRELL, left, puts up a shot over the Mystics' Sonia Citron during the third quarter of the Sparks' 88-82 win. Burrell scored 12 of her 15 points in the fourth quarter, including a key three.

Georgia Amoore, coming off a career-high 25 points on Thursday,

Washington led 51-40 at the break before the Sparks countered with a 16-6 run to start the third quarter to get within 57-56.

Sosa's pinch-hit slam in ninth foils Angels

Pinch-hitter Edmundo Sosa hit his first career grand slam with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Philadelphia Phillies roared back for a 5-3 victory over the host Angels on Friday night.

Sosa connected just two batters after Wade Meckler reached deep into the right-field stands to rob Bryson Stott of a three-run homer.

After J.T. Realmuto drew a walk that loaded the bases and chased shaky closer Ben Joyce (0-2), Sosa crushed a low changeup from Sammy Peralta 404 feet to center, far beyond Mike Trout's reach.

Alex McFarlane (4-1) pitched the eighth for Philadelphia.

Jonathan Bowlan got the ninth inning instead of closer Jhoan Duran, and he put two Angels on base before he struck out Adam Frazier to finish his second save.

Bryce Harper extended his on-base streak to a career-high 30 games with a bunt single in the fourth for Philadelphia, which improved to 2-2 on its nine-game West Coast trip.

The Phillies also moved one game behind the Chicago Cubs for the top National League wild card.

Reid Detmers yielded one run and eight hits over six resilient innings, but the AL-worst Angels lost their fifth straight with yet another bullpen implosion.

After Alec Bohm and Justin

Crawford reached base without a hit off Joyce, Meckler appeared to save the game for the Angels with his spectacular running catch on Stott's sinking fly, putting his body onto the waist-high wall of the short porch and sticking his glove in among the fans.

Instead, Sosa connected for Philadelphia's first go-ahead grand slam with two outs in the ninth inning since Shane Victorino did it in 2009.

Meckler drove in a run on the first pitch he saw in his return from the concussion injured list during a three-run first inning for the Angels, who managed just three singles — one after the first.

Philadelphia's Andrew Painter recovered nicely from that 28-pitch inning in which he threw two wild pitches that brought home Trout and Meckler, facing the minimum 15 batters during five hitless innings afterward.

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18 Swimmers Point - William Vreeland, Brian Lane (Carolwood Estates) / Kiana Gao (Balboa Real Estate)

Cultivated Coastal Living - The Kogevinas Group / Sotheby's International Realty

Luxe Modern Wine Country Home - Grace Lucero / Vanguard Properties

Open Saturday & Sunday, 2-5 pm

9131 Olin Street, Los Angeles - Joel + Dorit Cooper / Sotheby's International Realty

The Details

Location: 18 Swimmers Point, Crystal Cove 92657 Asking Price: \$59,950,000

Year Built: 2025 Living Area: 11,500 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms

The Details

Location: 4488 Foothill Road Carpinteria 93013 Asking Price: \$4,600,000

Year Built: 1985 Living Area: 2,637 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms

18 SWIMMERS POINT Carolwood Estates

Guard gated Crystal Cove brand new construction with unobstructed ocean views. Set on a large, privately gated lot along a quiet cul-de-sac, 18 Swimmers Point looks straight out over Abalone Point and the open Pacific, a view mirrored in a saltwater infinity pool and spa finished in Pebble Sheen. Inside, five spacious bedroom suites are joined by an oversized bonus room ready to serve as a sixth, eleven exquisitely finished bathrooms, dual offices anchored by a formal main-level study and two laundry rooms, one upstairs and one subterranean, with a private elevator linking every floor.

William Vreeland, DRE: #02191460 (424) 410-1314 / wvreeland@carolwoodre.com carolwoodre.com

Brian Lane, DRE: #02038343 (424) 202-9949 / brian@brianlanere.com carolwoodre.com

Kiana Gao, DRE: #02021712 (949) 306-5585 / kianaglobalrealtor@gmail.com Balboa Real Estate

Features: Generous gym with bathroom; temperature-controlled wine room; subterranean eight-car garage; fully equipped 12-seat theater featuring a Barco Cinema 4K laser projector, 170-inch Filmscreen with surround sound and Crestron automation

CULTIVATED COASTAL LIVING Sotheby's International Realty

Let nature lead. Where the mountains meet the sea, a new kind of California story unfolds - rooted in intention, regeneration and a deep connection to the land. Set across 6+ organic acres in the Carpinteria foothills, this ocean-view ranch lives in harmony with its surroundings. A single-level 4-bed, 3-bath main residence and sleek New Zealand-designed 1-bed, 1-bath guest retreat embrace coastal minimalism, natural textures and an effortless indoor-outdoor lifestyle. At the heart of the property, Root2Rise Farms brings the land to life. A place where life grows from the ground up.

The Kogevinas Group (805) 895-7706 team@kogevinas.com montecitoproperties.com/4488-foothill-road DRE: #01209514

Features: Panoramic ocean, island, mountain and coastline views; 6.13 acres; single-level 4BD/3BA main residence; 1BD/1BA guest retreat; Root2Rise regenerative farm; 465+ avocado trees; 50+ coffee trees; mature orchard; greenhouse; open-air pavilion with bar, kitchen & fire pit

Location: 5366 Linda Lane, Santa Rosa 95404 Asking Price: \$4,495,000

The Details

Year Built: 2020 Living Area: 6,400 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4 full/2 half baths

LUXE MODERN WINE COUNTRY HOME Vanguard Properties

Completed in 2020 by luxury builder Vierra Fine Homes as a personal showcase residence, this approximately 6,400-square-foot contemporary estate offers elevated Wine Country living on a private acre just minutes from acclaimed wineries, restaurants, markets and cafés. Designed for effortless entertaining, the home features dramatic walls of glass, a spectacular chef's kitchen, four luxurious en-suite bedrooms, resort-inspired indoor-outdoor living, a pool terrace and exceptional spaces for gathering. Luxury, privacy and unforgettable hospitality come together in one extraordinary home.

Grace Lucero (707) 888-2649 grace@thelucerogroup.com thelucerogroup.com DRE: #01233007

Features: Four en-suite bedrooms; chef's kitchen + catering pantry; resort-style pool; great room with walls of glass; Dolby Atmos theater; smart home technology; single-level living with upper entertaining space

9131 OLIN STREET, LOS ANGELES Sotheby's International Realty

Offering nearly 2,000 square feet of living space, this spacious single-level home is ideally located west of Robertson Boulevard in the highly desirable Beverlywood area. This 3 bedroom, 2-bath residence offers a rare combination of generous living spaces and an exceptional central Westside location in the award-winning Castle Heights Elementary School district. Features formal living room, open kitchen with abundant cabinets & countertop workspace, pantry closet. Dining and family room off kitchen create a comfortable setting for everyday living. Convertible den opens to the backyard (possible fourth bedroom or home office).

Joel Cooper, DRE: #01380726 (310) 968-2401 / joel.cooper@sothebys.realty joelanddoritcooper.com

Dorit Cooper, DRE: #01929924 (310) 990-4655 / dorit.cooper@sothebys.realty

The Details

Location: 9131 Olin Street, Los Angeles 90034 Asking Price: \$1,849,000

Year Built: 1952 Living Area: 1,987 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms

Features: Three spacious bedrooms, including a primary bedroom overlooking the private backyard. Attached garage. Minutes from Beverly Hills, Century City, Culver City, the home also enjoys easy access to Robertson Boulevard's popular cafes, restaurants, and boutiques, Downtown Culver City's vibrant dining and arts district, nearby Metro access, and the 10 Freeway.

28824 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE \$90,000,000 | 9 Bed | 15 Bath

31134 BROAD BEACH ROAD \$38,500,000 | 5 Bed | 7 Bath

28980 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE \$28,500,000 | 6 Bed | 7 Bath
26848 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$88,000,000 | 7 Bed | 11 Bath

29020 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE \$22,500,000 | \$65,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath

5819 FILAREE HEIGHTS \$16,995,000 | \$55,000/month | 5 Bed | 8 Bath

29000 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE \$34,999,000 | 5 Bed | 6 Bath

717 MORENO AVE | LOS ANGELES \$27,000,000 | 6 Bed | 6 Bath

28837 SELFRIDGE DRIVE \$19,495,000 | 5 Bed | 8 Bath

6708 WILDLIFE ROAD \$16,890,000 | 6 Bed | 7 Bath

27715 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$48,000,000 | 6 Bed | 8 Bath
1900 OLD RANCH ROAD | BRENTWOOD \$39,500,000 | 8 Bed | 12 Bath

28827 GRAYFOX STREET \$32,500,000 | 6 Bed | 7 Bath

6625 ZUMIREZ DRIVE \$26,500,000 | 6 Bed | 6 Bath
6825 ZUMIREZ DRIVE \$30,000,000 | \$75,000/month | 7 Bed | 6 Bath

6734 ZUMIREZ DRIVE \$19,450,000 | 2 Bed | 1 Bath

30760 BROAD BEACH ROAD \$16,850,000 | 7 Bed | 8 Bath

29754 BADEN PLACE \$26,450,000 | 6 Bed | 8 Bath

6701 PORTSHEAD ROAD \$18,850,000 | 4 Bed | 6 Bath

6201 MURPHY WAY \$15,200,000 | 6 Bed | 8 Bath

28867 GRAYFOX STREET \$14,995,000 | Approx. 1.05 Acres

25252 MALIBU ROAD \$13,850,000 | 7 Bed | 8 Bath

28953 BONIFACE DRIVE \$11,925,000 | 3 Bed | 4 Bath
32804 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$10,950,000 | 4 Bed | 5 Bath
17000 W. SUNSET BLVD | PACIFIC PALISADES \$14,900,000 | Approx. 2.75 Acres | Rendering

23351 MALIBU COLONY ROAD 108A \$9,495,000 | \$22,500/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath

2900 CORRAL CANYON ROAD \$13,450,000 | 4 Bed | 5 Bath

23449 MALIBU COLONY ROAD 91A \$11,750,000 | 5 Bed | 6 Bath

27044 MALIBU COVE COLONY DRIVE \$10,200,000 | \$50,000/month | 3 Bed | 2 Bath

7046 GRASSWOOD AVENUE \$8,995,000 | 6 Bed | 8 Bath

5601 KANAN DUME ROAD \$14,500,000 | 5 Bed | 6 Bath

4310 ENCINAL CANYON ROAD \$12,995,000 | 6 Bed | 6 Bath
\$14,495,000 | \$50,000/month | 7 Bed | 9 Bath

27445 WINDING WAY \$11,450,000 | 6 Bed | 8 Bath

27078 MALIBU COVE COLONY DRIVE \$9,995,000 | 3 Bed | 3 Bath

6738 WILDLIFE ROAD \$8,995,000 | 5 Bed | 6 Bath

CHRIS CORTAZZO

26814 MALIBU COVE COLONY DRIVE \$12,450,000 | 5 Bed | 6 Bath

5811 MURPHY WAY \$11,000,000 | \$55,000/month | 5 Bed | 7 Bath

29821 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$9,995,000 | 3 Bed | 4 Bath

6509 WANDERMERE ROAD \$8,950,000 | 5 Bed | 6 Bath

6315 GAYTON PLACE \$6,500,000 | 4 Bed | 5 Bath

22822 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$8,450,000 | 3 Bed | 3 Bath

33020 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$8,000,000 | 3 Bed | 3 Bath

26902 MALIBU COVE COLONY DRIVE \$7,995,000 | 4 Bed | 5 Bath

6201 RAMIREZ MESA DRIVE \$7,450,000 | 5 Bed | 7 Bath

24750 VANTAGE POINT TERRACE \$7,450,000 | 5 Bed | 4 Bath

27553 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$5,995,000 | 4 Bed | 5 Bath
6007 TRANCAS CANYON ROAD \$4,495,000 | 4 Bed | 4 Bath
24216 MALIBU ROAD \$6,695,000 | 3 Bed | 2 Bath
27058 SEA VISTA DRIVE \$5,250,000 | 3 Bed | 3 Bath
29675 HARVESTER ROAD \$4,395,000 | \$18,000/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath
23706 HARBOR VISTA DRIVE \$4,900,000 | 4 Bed | 5 Bath
27727 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$6,495,000 | 4 Bed | 4 Bath
23704.5 HARBOR VISTA DRIVE \$2,950,000 | Approx. 0.482 Acres
3764 LAS FLORES CANYON ROAD \$3,995,000 | 3 Bed | 2 Bath
21546 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$4,350,000 | Approx. 0.127 Acres
9522 COTHARIN ROAD \$4,650,000 | Approx. 18.94 Acres
20048 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$2,500,000 | Approx. 0.083 Acres
5787 CALPINE DRIVE \$4,250,000 | 3 Bed | 3 Bath
29500 HEATHERCLIFF ROAD #71 \$2,245,000 | 3 Bed | 2 Bath

21400 RAMBLA VISTA \$2,000,000 | Approx. 0.362 Acres

6445 LATIGO CANYON ROAD \$2,195,000 | Approx. 5.196 Acres

853 S BUNDY DRIVE | LOS ANGELES \$2,000,000 | 2 Bed | 3 Bath

679 WONDER VIEW DRIVE | CALABASAS \$1,995,000 | 4 Bed | 3 Bath

22548 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY #203 \$1,995,000 | 1 Bed | 1 Bath

27348 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$65,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath

31952 1/2 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$45,000/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath

2388 MAR VISTA RIDGE ROAD \$865,000 | Approx. 9.667 Acres

34550 MULHOLLAND HIGHWAY \$1,450,000 | Approx. 9.59 Acres

30962 BROAD BEACH ROAD \$100,000/month | 7 Bed | 7 Bath

23614 MALIBU COLONY RD \$60,000/month | 5 Bed | 5 Bath

33406 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$41,250/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath

22626 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY #22 \$1,099,000 | 1 Bed | 1 Bath

5092 LATIGO CANYON ROAD \$995,000 | Approx. 3.001 Acres

30245 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$75,000/month | 4 Bed | 6 Bath

28899 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE \$50,000/month | 6 Bed | 5 Bath

33800 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY \$38,500/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath

26714 LATIGO SHORE DRIVE \$50,000/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath

23901 MALIBU KNOLLS ROAD \$37,500/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath

26820 MALIBU COVE COLONY DR \$69,420/month | 5 Bed | 6 Bath

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Eagles Peak at Blackridge. Epic views, a stunning natural stone pool and spa, and artful intent come together in this custom 2020 Modern Masterpiece, newly expanded and elevated. Beyond private gates, walls of glass frame Topanga State Park, Eagle Rock, and distant snow capped peaks. Silky oak floors, white oak beams, soaring ceilings, and Fleetwood doors lead to sweeping decks. The sexy black kitchen has top-of-the-line everything and a vast island. The primary retreat offers a wraparound deck and marble bath with steam shower and view-set tub. The 7,032 SF home includes ensuite bedrooms, library, screening lounge, guest room, infrared sauna, wellness space, and flexible studio. Outside, lpe decks lead to lawn, fruit trees, and the dramatic stone pool and spa. A separate 1,146 SF two-story gym with bath, kitchen, loft, and second two-car garage completes the dream, minutes from Malibu.

6 BED | 7 BATH | 8,178 SQ FT | \$5,999,000

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11971 LOCKRIDGE ROAD

• One-of-a-kind double-gated estate in the prime foothills of Studio City

Newly Priced | By Appointment | \$14,800,000 7 Bed | 9.5 Bath | ± 10,338 sq ft | ± 104,936 sq ft lot

• One owner custom 2002-built 2sty Contemporary Mediterranean manse

• Astonishingly secluded on over 2.4 acres of usable land

- Sweeping unobstructed views of the canyon and city from most areas

• Voluminous scale with super high ceilings and light-filled rooms

• Dramatic 2sty clerestory-skylit entry foyer with double staircase

• Paneled study, living room, grand family and dining rooms downstairs

- Huge chef’s kitchen/breakfast room overlooks the grounds and views

Michael J. Libow

310.691.7889 | mjlibow@gmail.com

michaeljlibow.com

DRE 00863172

• Primary suite with sitting room, FP, dual baths/walk-ins, balcony, views

• Secondary family room and 4 other generous bedroom suites upstairs

• 1 big guest suite along with staff quarters/office downstairs

• Large gym/studio/office off of the direct-access 3-car garage

• Endless flat grounds with huge pool/spa, turf, patios, BBQ center

• Lower-level lit tennis court with views and secondary street entry

• Sited on an exclusive gated 4-home private road in Fryman Estates

• Moments from studios, shopping, hiking trails, and all amenities

Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills

THE MARKETPLACE

BY MICHAEL J. LIBOW

9419 Sunset Boulevard

BY APPOINTMENT

BY APPOINTMENT

NEWLY PRICED | BY APPOINTMENT

812 N. Bedford Drive

\$22,500,000

Newly refreshed stunning 9,288SF gated Medit manse. X-hi clngs. Natural light. Perfect floor plan. 5BD 7.5BA. Sep den & fam rm. Pool/spa/lawns/patios/privacy. GH.

NEWLY PRICED | BY APPOINTMENT

809 N. Bedford Drive

\$18,800,000

610 N. Rodeo Drive

1st time avail in 50yrs. Stately 2sty Colonial charmer. 100ft frontage. ± 19,760SF lot. 5BD + 2BD guest hs. Sunlit rms. X-hi clngs. Wd flrs. Huge lush yrd. Endless potential. Prime!

Tasteful custom 2019-bit 3-lvl Trad. 7BD 9.5BA. Elevator X-hi clngs. Stone/wd flrs. Primary w/2 bas/2 walk-ins/fp/office/60ft balc. PI/spa/patios. Guest unit. Parking galore.

\$10,995,000

\$13,995,000

NEW X | BY APPOINTMENT
JUST SOLD OVER ASKING
11075 W. Sunset Boulevard

Grand chic 2023-completed 2sty Modern manse. 5BD 6.5BA Gated knolltop. Sunlit open spaces. 2sty ceilings. Glass walls. Hugekitch/dining/lounge.Pool/spa/lawns/outdrkitch.3cargar.
NEW X | OPEN SUNDAY 2-5

\$11,995,000

803 N. Rexford Drive

11971 Lockridge Road

\$9,995,000

Grand gated 1sty Italian Renaissance Villa. 5BD 6.5BA Updated. Incred hi clngs. Huge central fountained atrium. Fam rm + den. Big yrd w/pl/lawn/patios/bar/3 car garage.

\$14,800,000

Uber-private double-gated 2sty 10,338SF. Fryman Canyon cstm 2002-blt sunlit estate. 2.4 nearly flat acres. Tennis ct. Incred city/cyn vus.7BD 9.5BA. Sunlit rms. Huge pl/spa.

NEW X | OPEN SUNDAY 2-5
1005 Schuyler Road

Trust Sale - Avail after 47 yrs. Voluminous sunlit split-level 1968 customModern.5BD6.5BA.6,710SF.Superhighvaulted/beamed clngs.3/4 acre lot.PI/patios/lawns. Full tennis crt. Ripe for a redo.

\$11,995,000

PENDING

909 N. Alpine Drive

NEW X | BY APPOINTMENT

JUST SOLD OVER ASKING

515 N. Roxbury Drive

\$7,495,000

Eclectic upgraded Richard Dorman Japanese Modern estate. Huge primary retreat with office up. 2 guest BD down. Open plan. X hi vaulted beamed clngs. Glass walls. Pl. Great prkg.

JUST SOLD OVER ASKING
213 S. Rodeo Drive
Classic 1929 2sty sunlit spacious Spanish. 4BD 3BA. Huge liv & dining rms. Big fam rm. Beaut walled inner courtyard. Lush rear yrd w/lawns/mature foliage. Ready for restoration.
\$4,295,000
NEW X | BY APPOINTMENT

NEW X | SECOND OPEN SUNDAY 2-5
502 N. Palm Drive

\$6,495,000

Elegant spacious updated 2sty 5BD 4.5BA Medit. Light-filled rms. Hi clngs. Open flow. Sep den and lg fam rm. Two possprimaries.Greatkitch.165ftdeeplot.pl/maturefoliage.

\$4,295,000

4135 Nagle Avenue
Sunlit pristine 2004-blt 2sty gated Tradit. 5BD 4.5BA. Huge open kitch/fam/brkfstrms. Hi clngs, wd flrs. French drs. Big primary ste. Conv office (6th BD) down. PI/spa/patios/turf.

9001 Dayton Way Unit D
NEW X | BY APPOINTMENT

\$1,499,000

121 N. Almont Drive Unit 205

PENDING

238 S. McCarty Drive

\$5,495,000

Trust Sale. Pristine elegant 2sty Paul R. Williams, FAIA, 1935 Tradit. 4BD 4.5BA. Perfect flr plan. Grand liv/dining rms. Den. Lg yrd. PI/spa. Lush landscape. Best block.

NEW X | BY APPOINTMENT
211 S. Spalding Drive PH 3S
Extraordinary 3yr custom renovation complete. Best SE facing PH. Incred city vus. Sunlit open space. 2BD 3.5BA. Great rm. Lg balc. Best full srvc bldg. Valet/pl/gym/etc.

\$2,995,000

NEWLY PRICED | BY APPOINTMENT
841 Westmount Drive Unit 116

\$1,499,000

Stunning sunlit spacious redone 3sty Townhs. Boutique 16-unit bldg. PI/gym/sauna/gated prkg. Wide-plank wd flrs. 2 primary stes. 3 patios. Amazing newer open concept kitch.

VILLA BEVERLY PARK 5 BEVERLY PARK | \$27,500,000

THE JOHNNY CARSON ESTATE 400 SAINT CLOUD RD | \$32,995,000

Huge Price Adjustment

17713 Posetano Road | Pacific Palisades

\$4,495,000 | 3 BD | 2.5 BA | 2,622 SF | .0846 LOT

LEAH STEUER

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DRE 00771256

BY APPOINTMENT

BEL-AIR 1200 Bel Air Rd \$99,950,000 12 Beds | 17 Baths belairdecadence.com

Sally Forster Jones 310.579.2200 DRE 00558939

OPEN SUN 2-5PM | NEW LISTING

SANTA MONICA 922 Berkeley St \$4,995,000 4 Beds | 4.5 Baths 3,007± Sq Ft

Susan Stark 310.345.7450 DRE 01061339

BY APPOINTMENT

BEVERLY PARK 5 Beverly Park David Kramer \$27,500,000 310.691.2400 5 Beds | 7 Baths | 2.4± Ac DRE 00996960 9,725± Sq Ft | Co-Listed

BY APPOINTMENT

BIRD STREETS 9330 Flicker Way \$68,000,000 9 Beds | 14 Baths theflickerestate.com

Sally Forster Jones 310.579.2200 DRE 00558939

NEW LISTING

David Kramer 310.691.2400 DRE 00996960

SANTA MONICA 547 Palisades Bch Rd \$35,000,000 7 Beds | 11 Baths 10,300± Sq Ft

NEW LISTING

SUNSET STRIP 2275 Sunset Plaza Dr \$6,995,000 17,000± Sq Ft Under Const 50,783± Sq Ft Lot

Sally Forster Jones Joshua Smith 310.579.2200 DRE 00558939 | 01739044

Allison Schwarz 310.433.0056 DRE 01878458

WEST HOLLYWOOD 8261 Romaine St \$1,650,000 7 Beds | 4 Baths Fourplex

BY APPOINTMENT

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Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01991628. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. SOURCE: 04/10/2026 REALTRENDS CLOSED SALES VOLUME 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025

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\$135,000,000 | 607 SIENA WAY, BEL AIR SHANA TAVANGARIAN, EMILA TAVANGARIAN 310.740.4982 DRE 02074214, 02097113

\$45,000,000 | 1145 ARDEN RD, PASADENA DREW FENTON 310.623.3622 DRE 01317962

\$27,500,000 | 15210 ANTELO PL, BEL AIR DREW FENTON, BJORN FARRUGIA 310.623.3622 DRE 01317962, 01864250

OPEN SUNDAY 2-5
\$14,295,000 | 530 MORENO AVE, BRENTWOOD SUSAN SMITH, SACHA SMITH 310.415.5175 DRE 01187140, 02191374

\$15,995,000 | 634 MORENO AVE, BRENTWOOD ZAC MOSTAME 424.527.8889 DRE 02110196

\$11,900,000 | 607 N LINDEN DR, BEVERLY HILLS N SEGAL, D BALAKHANEH, S ALAN-LEE 310.776.0148 DRE 01013548, 02013682, 01955694

\$6,900,000 | 3063 W STAFFORD RD, THOUSAND OAKS WILLIAM VREELAND, BRIAN LANE 424.410.1314 DRE 02191460, 02038343

\$4,995,000 | 1298 STRADELLA RD, BEL AIR SHANA TAVANGARIAN 310.740.4982 DRE 02074214

OPEN SUNDAY 2-5
\$3,850,000 | 3240 SHELBY DR, CHEVIOT HILLS GUY LEVY 310.623.3651 DRE 01374536

\$34,500,000 | 10790 BELLAGIO RD, BEL AIR DREW FENTON 310.623.3622 DRE 01317962

\$12,995,000 | 8899 BEVERLY BLVD #8B, WEST HOLLYWOOD JAMES HARRIS 310.733.8038 DRE 01909801
\$31,500,000 | 652 CHAUTAUQUA BLVD, PACIFIC PALISADES LINDA MAY, DREW FENTON 310.623.3650 DRE 00475038, 01317962

NEW LISTING
NEW LISTING
\$9,995,000 | 433 BELLAGIO TER, BEL AIR JUSTIN HUCHEL, DREW FENTON 310.617.4824 DRE 01375793, 01317962

NEW LISTING | OPEN SUNDAY 2-5
\$2,895,000 | 652 WOODLAWN AVE, VENICE PETER ZIMBLE 310.266.7600 DRE 02048379

\$3,995,000 | 18001 BORIS DR, ENCINO AREN AFSHARIAN 310.200.9323 DRE 01928144
OPEN SUNDAY 2-5

OPEN SUNDAY 2-4
\$1,495,000 | 3761 GLENALBYN DR, MT WASHINGTON J MOGHARRABI, M KAYS, R EVANS 310.633.1300 DRE 02009871, 01397539, 02190747

CAROLWOOD ESTATES

OPEN SUNDAY 2-5

\$17,995,000 | 1615 BLUE JAY WAY, BIRD STREETS JONATHAN NASH, STEPHEN RESNICK 424.230.6088

\$15,999,000 | 12026 BENMORE TERR, BRENTWOOD BJORN FARRUGIA, ALFONSO LASCANO 310.998.7175

\$14,295,000 | 530 MORENO AVE, BRENTWOOD SUSAN SMITH, SACHA SMITH 310.415.5175

\$12,495,000 | 233 MARGUERITA AVE, SANTA MONICA BJORN FARRUGIA, ALFONSO LASCANO 310.998.7175

\$11,900,000 | 607 N LINDEN DR, BEVERLY HILLS N SEGAL, D BALAKHANEH, S ALAN-LEE 310.776.0148

\$10,850,000 | 121 S ROCKINGHAM AVE, BRENTWOOD B FARRUGIA, J PADILLA, A LASCANO 310.998.7175

\$7,995,000 | 116 S GRETNA GREEN WAY, BRENTWOOD BJORN FARRUGIA, ALPHONSO LASCANO 310.998.7175

\$6,995,000 | 9277 THRUSH WAY, BIRD STREETS KRIS EVERETT, JAMES HARRIS 562.725.6458

\$5,495,000 | 141 S SALTAIR AVE, BRENTWOOD LISA OPTICAN 310.351.6646

\$3,995,000 | 18001 BORIS DR, ENCINO AREN AFSHARIAN 310.200.9323

\$3,850,000 | 3240 SHELBY DRIVE, CHEVIOT HILLS GUY LEVY 310.623.3651

\$3,499,000 | 832 S PLYMOUTH BLVD, HANCOCK PARK ANGEL KOU 310.734.8186

\$3,250,000 | 7325 RINDGE AVE, PLAYA DEL REY M WAGNER, K EVERETT, J HARRIS 424.302.7205

\$2,995,000 | 9146 ST IVES DR, WEST HOLLYWOOD BIANCA FIELDS, ADRIANA YEDIDSION 929.389.5776

\$2,995,000 | 10110 CIELO DR, BEVERLY HILLS GEORGE GHIZ 310.283.8877

\$2,895,000 | 652 WOODLAWN AVE, VENICE PETER ZIMBLE 310.266.7600

\$2,750,000 | 8921 APPIAN WAY, SUNSET STRIP DANIEL CERECES 650.520.5488 OPEN SUNDAY 12-3

\$2,595,000 | 18065 BORIS DR, ENCINO A LASCANO, J LEMEN, O SEVACH, B FARRUGIA 818.800.8848 OPEN SUNDAY 1-4

\$1,995,000 | 1133 5TH ST #204, SANTA MONICA BJORN FARRUGIA, JOE GOODHUE 310.998.7175

\$1,995,000 | 3346 N KNOLL DR, HOLLYWOOD HILLS EAST SHANA TAVANGARIAN, EMILA TAVANGARIAN 310.740.4982 OPEN SAT & SUN 2-5

\$1,675,000 | 4718 COLUMBUS AVE, SHERMAN OAKS RICHARD MASLAN 310.435.2196

\$1,495,000 | 3761 GLENALBYN DR, MT WASHINGTON J MOGHARRABI, M KAYS, R EVANS 310.633.1300 OPEN SUNDAY 2-4

\$1,299,000 | 1534 17TH ST #105, SANTA MONICA HARRY WHELAN 650.799.5360 OPEN SUNDAY 2-4

\$1,149,000 | 17827 BURBANK BLVD, ENCINO NATHAN BISHOP 310.746.7663 OPEN SUNDAY 11-2

\$989,000 | 8455 FOUNTAIN AVE #518, WEST HOLLYWOOD MARCIE HARTLEY 310.980.0141

\$925,000 | 4240 LAUREL CANYON BLVD #105, STUDIO CITY J DAVIS, J NASH, S RESNICK 310.430.6889

THE PENTHOUSE 9440 SANTA MONICA BLVD | BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90210

NEW LISTING | BY APPOINTMENT

NEW LISTING | BY APPOINTMENT

RICHARD MASLAN 310.435.2196 | DRE 01304570

NEW LISTING | OPEN SUNDAY 2-5

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5 Cape Woodbury NEWPORT BEACH | \$5,750,000 4 Bed | 5 Bath | 4,026 Sq Ft 5CapeWoodbury.com

6 Rockledge Road LAGUNA BEACH | \$60,000/MO 4 Bed | 3.5 Bath | 2,457 Sq Ft

2551 Bayshore NEWPORT BEACH | \$15,500/MO 5 Bed | 3 Bath | 2,312 Sq Ft

540 De Anza CORONA DEL MAR | \$14,000/MO 4 Bed | 4 Bath | 2,463 Sq Ft

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\$22,500/MO LEASE

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9656 LAWLEN WAY, BEVERLY HILLS POST

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\$5,200,000

1046 CHAUTAUQUA BLVD, PACIFIC PALISADES 4BD | 4BA | 3,300 SQFT | INCLUDES GUEST HOUSE

CO-LISTED WITH TERI HERTZ #01999670 www.1046chautauqua.com

\$1,299,000 OR \$6,000/MO LEASE

1705 OCEAN AVE #107, SANTA MONICA 2BD | 2BA | 1,439 SQFT | 2-STORY | EXCELLENT AMENITIES

CO-LISTED WITH GEORGINA JACOBSON #01176109

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5544 HOBACK GLEN ROAD, HIDDEN HILLS \$19,950,000 Brand-new estate rests on sprawling, private grounds. ADI LIVYATAN 818.285.3220

5241 TWIN OAKS, HIDDEN HILLS \$14,995,000 Estate set within prestigious guard-gated Hidden Hills ADI LIVYATAN 818.285.3220

25225 ELDORADO MEADOW, HIDDEN HILLS \$7,449,000 Timeless turnkey English tudor, Resort style living! 6br,7ba SANA SALEH 818.324.8062

23042 CALVERT STREET, WOODLAND HILLS \$6,995,000 Walnut Acres gated estate w/ADU, pools & resort amenities home DESIREE ZUCKERMAN 818.262.5648

5414 GENESTA, ENCINO \$5,495,000 New construction estate in the coveted Amestoy Estates ADI LIVYATAN 818.285.3220

15450 HUSTON, SHERMAN OAKS \$5,495,000 Tucked away in Sherman Oaks desirable and tranquil enclaves ADI LIVYATAN 818.285.3220
17765 CAMINO DE YATASTO, PAC PALISADES \$4,850,000 Guard-Gated Architectural Retreat with Pool and Tennis Court JAMES RESPONDEK / EVAN CONOVER 310.488.4400 / 310.890.8490

19950 COLLIER STREET, WOODLAND HILLS \$4,195,000 Historic Schindler Van Dekker House estate with pool & views DESIREE ZUCKERMAN 818.262.5648
5 BUCKSKIN ROAD, BELL CANYON \$3,950,000 6BR Bell Canyon estate on 2 acres with pool, gated luxury living MELODI BELL 818.802.1424

16105 CLEAR OAK DRIVE, ENCINO \$3,799,000 Private Royal Oaks Modern Retreat with Pool & Designer Finishes DESIREE ZUCKERMAN 818.262.5648

23614 DRY CANYON COLD CREEK RD, CALABASAS \$9,950,000 Perched atop a secluded 4.5-acre knoll in the heart of Calabasas ADI LIVYATAN 818.285.3220

12100 BROWNS CANYON RD, CHATSWORTH \$6,995,000 3BR, 3BA, 2,606 S.F., 1,270,462 S.F. Lot with pool CODY BROWN 818.854.0984
3525 KNOLL, HOLLYWOOD HILLS \$2,995,000 Hollywood Hills Gem: 1+ Acre, Pool, Views & Income Potential TOM OTERO 818.919.5350 / 323.570.0036

22924 ERWIN STREET, WOODLAND HILLS \$6,450,000 Architectural masterpiece, situated in the coveted Walnut Acres DANIEL ELIYAHOU 818.983.7688
4447 MATILIJA, SHERMAN OAKS extraordinary newly constructed estate ADI LIVYATAN

1950 ARIELLE, SIMI VALLEY \$4,900,000 Gated luxury estate with views, orchard & resort grounds IOANNA KAMAR 818.266.4107

6377 VIA ESCONDIDO, MALIBU \$3,950,000 Private Gated Malibu Estate with Pool, Spa & Beach Access LISA MORIARITY 818.970.7646
21656 LAS FLORES HEIGHTS, MALIBU \$3,750,000 Private Malibu Sanctuary with Ocean Views & 2+ Acres LAURA PLOURDE 818.292.3383

23925 CROSSON DRIVE, WOODLAND HILLS \$2,799,000 Modern Gated Estate with Unobstructed Valley & Mountain Views DESIREE ZUCKERMAN 818.262.5648

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19629 WELLS DR, TARZANA 4BR, 2BA, 2,496 S.F., 19,126 S.F. Lot with pool HENRY JAVAHERIAN

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13383 CONTOUR DR, SHERMAN OAKS \$2,200,000 Beautifully updated 4BD 3BA traditional. Private & tranquil. POUPÉE & KAREN KOMENKUL 818.482.0085

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1421 BONITA AVE, LA VERNE \$999,900 Updated 2 on 1 lot! 2BD 1BA front home, 3BD 2BA rear ADU! POUPÉE & KAREN KOMENKUL 818.482.0085

5505 CLYBOURN, NORTH HOLLYWOOD \$925,925 Pool, Hill Views & ADU Potential! Charming Corner-Lot Gem ERIC DOMEYER 818.426.0944

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509 W. SEAWARD, VENTURA \$1,052,000 Seaward Avenue Beach Compound with ADU & Private Half-Pipe JESSE JAMES JOHNSTON 818.326.0945

2117 CYPRESS WAY, PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB \$795,000 4BR, 4.5BA, 5,300 S.F., 10,294 S.F. Lot with pool and spa CODY BROWN 818.854.0984
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29315 SEQUOIA RD, SANTA CLARITA \$999,000 5BD 4BA highly upgraded home w/ loft/ofc, resort back yrd POUPÉE & KAREN KOMENKUL 818.482.0085

23032 COHASSET ST, WEST HILLS 4BR, 3BA, 1,721 S.F., 7,571 S.F. Lot with pool MARC TAHLER/KEN ZIETZ
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16940 CHATSWORTH # 206, GRANADA HILLS \$464,950 2+2,1157sf, 1 sty; Open concept; Move-in ready! Rooftop Pool. MATT WILDSTEIN 818.282.5279

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607 Siena is a new architectural masterwork in the city by visionary Ardie Tavangarian, designed and built by ARYA Group Inc. Blending natural materials with cutting-edge technology, the residence offers a full-sensory experience, featuring 30-foot glass walls, a four-story floating staircase and a retractable roof primary suite, along with a wellness center and rooftop terrace with panoramic views of the city and Bel Air Country Club.

For Tavangarian, the idea for 607 Siena took shape during COVID, a period that reshaped his understanding of what a home could be. “We wanted to create more than just a residence. We wanted to create a sanctuary,” he explains. That philosophy begins with the land itself: respecting its history, its existing vegetation and its natural character, allowing the site to guide the architecture rather than imposing a design upon it.

That reverence for nature extends to Tavangarian's broader approach to development. He believes architecture should do more than please the eye. It should forge an emotional connection and add real meaning to people's lives. "Today, people are looking for more than just a beautiful house; they are looking for meaningful experiences and environments that resonate with them," he says.

Location, he notes, is foundational to every project. Before ground is broken, each site functions like a blank canvas with its own identity, one that dictates the direction of sunlight, the quality of views and the surrounding landscape, all of which shape the final design.

What sets 607 Siena apart, Tavangarian says, is its harmony with its natural surroundings. Rather than competing with the land, the architecture, materials, light and views were designed to work together as a single, unified experience. That vision took roughly three and a half years to realize, much of it during the height of pandemic-era supply-chain disruptions and labor shortages.

Every design choice – from the glass-colored windows that slide open to the sculptures placed throughout the property – was made with intention, approached from the inside out to enhance how each space is experienced. “I want the home to feel personal and intuitive, to feel like it belongs to the person living there,” Tavangarian says, “rather than feeling like something imposed by the architect.”

Tavangarian is currently at work on projects in Bel Air, Beverly Hills, and the Pacific Palisades Fire Rebuild.

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Location: 607 Siena Way, Bel Air 90077 Living Area: 53,220 sq ft lot, 8 bedrooms, 20 bathrooms Asking Price: \$135,000,000

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The first wave, “Folk Nouveau,” answers recent searches for “rustic modern” and “heritage home styles.” Where last year favored quiet luxury, 2026 leans into emotional resonance – a “nostalgic yet modern blend of folk, heritage and Art Nouveau influences,” reimagining the “cool grandmother” look. Expect botanical swirls and deep earth tones creating highly personal, collected spaces that feel grounded and storied.

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