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The race to be California’s next governor | Spectrum News 1

“I think he presents a cheerful, optimistic front as a candidate. I think he’s fun to listen to. I don’t hear much new from him, and I must say I wouldn’t read much at all into the fact that he’s polling well right now,” said UCLA’s Jim Newton (approx. 33:25 mark).

Do wildlife encounters increase drought? What one study found | KABC-TV

For every one-inch decrease in annual rainfall, researchers say there’s a 2-3% increase in clashes with wildlife in California. “So you can imagine during a drought — if we're in multiple inches shorter of rainfall than an average year — that can quickly add up to the number of reported conflicts across the state,” said Kendall Calhoun, researcher at UCLA and UC Davis.

Not just a commuter issue, traffic spreads to more hours of the week | NPR

That came as no great surprise to Michael Manville, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. He warns against reading too much into the individual city rankings but says the overall findings make sense.

Supreme Court allows Texas map favorable to Republicans in ‘26 | AP

The high court’s vote “is a green light for there to be even more re-redistricting, and a strong message to lower courts to butt out,” Richard Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California at Los Angeles law school, wrote on the Election Law Blog.

Do you know what hepatitis is? | New York Times

But the most distinctive signs, like yellowing of the skin or eyes, bloated bellies and bouts of confusion, often only appear when the disease has advanced, said Dr. Otto Yang, an infectious diseases physician at UCLA Health. Many patients with hepatitis show up to the hospital only “when they start to fall off the cliff,” Dr. Yang said.

Plenty of unknowns ahead of next week’s Fed meeting | Marketplace

“You know, we’re going into year-end and we’re going into the holiday season. So, data from September – I don’t know about you, but September feels quite a long time ago,” said UCLA’s Andrea Eisfeldt (approx. :40 mark).