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Immigrant-family teens face bullying amid ICE enforcement | KNBC-TV

The impacts of the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration enforcement efforts are felt across public high schools across the U.S., with some experiencing bullying and a drop in attendance, according to a survey by the University of California, Los Angeles. The UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education and Access published its findings Wednesday, reflecting responses from more than 600 high school principals in the summer of 2025 when anti-immigration operations began in Los Angeles. (Also: The Guardian.)

One-third of ICE arrestees had no criminal record | NPR’s “Morning Edition”

But new data reveals that in the first nine months of the president’s second term, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 74,000 people with no criminal record. That’s more than a third of the total ICE arrests in that period. Those numbers were provided by ICE to the Deportation Data Project, a joint initiative of UCLA and UC Berkeley Law and analyzed by NPR.

Trump’s tariffs have cost U.S. households $1,200 each | Associated Press

Economist Kimberly Clausing of the UCLA School of Law and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, last week told a House subcommittee that Trump’s tariffs amount to “the largest tax increase on American consumers in a generation, lowering standards of living for all Americans.” Clausing, a Treasury Department tax official in the Biden administration, has calculated that Trump’s import taxes “amount to an annual tax increase of about $1,700 for an average household.”

Cities pay a lot for water. These districts get it for free | CalMatters

A report published today by researchers with the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and advocates with the Natural Resources Defense Council shines a light on vast disparities in the price of water across California, Arizona and Nevada. (UCLA’s Noah Garrison was quoted.)

Early adopters of ‘zone zero’ fared better in fires  | Los Angeles Times

Travis Longcore, senior associate director and an adjunct professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, cautioned that the insurance nonprofit’s results are only exploratory: The team did not analyze whether other factors, such as the age of the homes, were influencing their zone zero analysis, and how the nonprofit characterizes zone zero for its report, he noted, does not exactly mirror California’s draft regulations.

7 moments of Asian American and Black American solidarity | Stacker

Disinformation like that contributes to the “model minority” myth, which paints Asian Americans as successful and contrasts their “progress” to minimize the role of racism in explaining the state of Black Americans, creating a wedge between the two communities. Since 2020, efforts have been made to dismantle this misconception. For example, Renee Tajima-Peña, a filmmaker and professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, teamed up with journalist and cultural critic Jeff Chang to establish the “May 19th Project,” a multimedia endeavor celebrating interracial solidarity.

mRNA COVID-19 vaccines may rarely cause myocarditis | Scientific American

No specific treatment for myocarditis exists, though most people are able to recover in months with supportive care, says Dr. Mohammad Madjid, an interventional cardiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Why do men avoid the doctor’s office? | LAist’s “AirTalk”

“As a urologist and a specialist in male reproductive medicine, I have a little bit of a different take. But I will share some of the data that we’ve talked about,” said UCLA’s Dr. Jesse Mills (approx. 9:05 mark).

California is becoming ground zero for superbugs | San Francisco Chronicle

Last year, a team of UCLA researchers reported an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant Shigella, highly contagious bacteria that disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. In the report, the researchers noted they had discovered genetic mutations never observed elsewhere, leading them to conclude that this strain of Shigella was distinct to Los Angeles County.

The tricky veggie that’s a surprising protein powerhouse | Independent

Eating more cruciferous vegetables has been linked to a lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, a reduced risk of cancer and dying from cardiovascular disease. The benefits come with just one or two servings a day, Emma Veilleux, senior dietitian with the Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology, told UCLA Health.