Rescuing Pongo, Pearl, Bandit, Tiger and Zipper
David Pierce shouted to his wife, Jane Pierce, to pack, as embers rained down on their block in Altadena. Ms. Pierce set to work on finding the 15 items on…
Living Through the Fires, and Covering Them
The Push and Pull of Los Angeles: Beauty and Danger Often when you’re visiting Los Angeles, you walk up the 282 steps to the Baldwin Hills scenic overlook. You pass…
Does a Strong Holiday Shopping Season Mean a Better Year Ahead?
The retail industry’s report card for the critical holiday shopping season is in. American shoppers surprised analysts, economists and even retail executives by spending more than expected in November and…
How a Monument to Women Finally Won a Place on the National Mall
The end of a presidency tends to bring a rush of last-minute monument making, and Joe Biden’s was no different. In his final week in office, he designated nearly 850,000…
New York City Ballet Pays Tribute to Maria Tallchief in Her Centennial Year
In 1946, Tallchief and Balanchine married: It would be the most wonderful thing, she remembered him saying in her 1997 memoir, and they could work together. The Russia-born Balanchine was…
TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet
The Chinese social media app RedNote is full of cute, heartwarming moments after about 500,000 American users fled to it last week to protest the looming U.S. government ban on…
Trump Aims for Show of Strength as He Returns to Power
Donald J. Trump sat in the middle of a U-shaped table, surrounded by his hard-right allies. It was a Friday night, 10 days before his inauguration, and Mr. Trump was…
What’s behind the uneven exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners?
Three hostages have been freed in the first phase of the cease-fire agreement between Hamas and Israel. The hostages, all women, were released into Red Cross custody in Gaza on…
In TikTok’s Final Hours, Users React to a Nationwide Ban of the App
On Saturday, TikTok users in the United States scrolled through the app in its final hours after the Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that required ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese…
A Workplace Crush Heats Up Thanks to Burned Cauliflower Pizza
Early on in her career in Native American education, Taylor Dawn Maki accepted a role as a youth coordinator at Torres Martinez Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a…