The Los Angeles Times (and others) reported on Sunday’s victory by UCLA women’s basketball, which captured the NCAA national championship with a 79–51 victory over South Carolina, capping a 37–1 season. The Bruins were led by Lauren Betts, who was named the tournament’s most outstanding player, and Gabriela Jaquez, as all five starters scored double figures. The title marks UCLA’s first in women’s basketball since 1978. Read more about UCLA in today’s New York Times, NBC News and others.

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How will U.S. prices stand as war in Iran surges on? | The Guardian

“The good old days are gone,” said Christopher Tang, a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management who studies global supply chain management. “Right now we see the gasoline prices going up, but that is only part of the story. Everything will be more expensive.”

When will the Iran war end? Tracing the Trump administration’s timelines | BBC

Sometimes the timelines given by the president at the time have been vague, and sometimes more specific. Few of the wars, if any, ended up working out as the commander-in-chief predicted. An estimate will often shift as a conflict evolves in real time, explained Professor Eric Min, from the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies conflict resolution and diplomacy. “It is a tricky endeavor to try to figure out how long wars will last,” Min said.  

Trump loses across courts in week of immigration, legal setbacks | Los Angeles Times

“It was an awful week for Donald Trump. It’s not that the courts are anti-Trump. In fact, he wins a lot,” said UCLA’s Adam Winkler.

Under pricey homeless program, 40% have returned to the street | Los Angeles Times

UCLA Law School professor emeritus Gary Blasi, an expert on homelessness, said the program has become too expensive to justify the results — and is in need of “a thorough re-engineering.” Blasi said there were never enough vouchers and low-cost apartments to provide permanent housing to Inside Safe participants in a timely way. As a result, the city has been paying for them to live in expensive motel rooms for long stretches, he said.  

Latino voters undecided in LA mayoral primary | Los Angeles Times’ “De Los”

A new poll from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs released Friday found that Latinos are largely undecided on who they plan on voting for in the upcoming Los Angeles mayoral primary … “It is unusual for 40% of likely voters to be unsure of their choice just two months before an LA mayoralty election,” said Zev Yaroslavsky, the director of the Los Angeles Initiative at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, in a press release.

Hockey rinks turn to plastic ice as planet warms | New York Times

Plastic ice rinks almost certainly generate microplastics because they are made of polyethylene and exposed to constant friction from skates — but there has been little rigorous study of how much is produced, said Sanjay Mohanty, an associate professor of environmental engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Even seemingly small amounts, like a couple of grams of plastic shavings per square meter per month, translate into millions of particles,” he said.

An easy way to step up your workout | New York Times

If you want to train your balance or build more explosive power, there is a simple way to level up your exercises by using a standard household step or even the curb outside. “That little bit of height can make an exercise easier or more difficult,” said Dr. Kyle Lau, team physician for the athletics department at the University of California, Los Angeles.  

A one-time treatment tweaked their genes — and lowered their cholesterol | NBC News

“I love the idea of one and done,” said Dr. Priscilla Hsue, chief of the cardiology division at UCLA Health. “Durably lowering cholesterol for the rest of your life, could be transformational for some patients.”

An uninsurance bomb is about to go off | The Orange County Register

About a million people in Orange County currently qualify for Medi-Cal, and a study issued earlier this year by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UC Berkeley Labor Center projects that as many as 249,000 of those people could lose their plans over the next two years. The same study projects that by 2028, the number of newly uninsured could rise by 1.1 million in Los Angeles County, by 189,000 in Riverside County and by 177,000 in San Bernardino County.