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One year after the fires: L.A. tries to heal | New York Times

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have estimated property and capital losses at as much as $131 billion.

A year after fires, LA. recovery finds red tape | Wall Street Journal

“Things are not coming back as quickly as we would have hoped” in the Los Angeles area, said Stuart Gabriel, director of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at the University of California, Los Angeles. It may take six years to fully rebuild when it should take three, he said.

After L.A. fires, state policy impacted by false narratives | NPR

One example of false narratives having an impact was the fate of something called Senate Bill 549, says Julia Stein, deputy director for the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law.

Burn zone homes have elevated pollutant levels | LAist’s “Air Talk”

A new study out of UCLA Fielding School of Public Health found elevated levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in some homes in burn areas from the 2025 Southern California fires. The study found these chemicals to be in higher concentrations after the fires than during them, suggesting that there is still ongoing emission from smoke-impacted materials. (UCLA’s Yifang Zhu and Michael Jerrett were interviewed.)

911 calls to Reiner home could be key in son legal battle | Los Angeles Times

Saul Faerstein, a clinical and forensic psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at UCLA, said doctors will likely try to piece together the days leading up to the killings to determine what kind of mental state Reiner was in at the time. “We’d want to know what was happening on Friday or Saturday. Was he beginning to decompensate? Was he acting out of character? Was he doing and saying things that surprised people or frightened people? Was he saying things that made no sense?” Faerstein said. 

Running Venezuela may prove tricky | New York Times

Robin Lauren Derby, a historian of Latin America at the University of California at Los Angeles, said Mr. Trump could have lifted the sanctions he imposed on Venezuela in his first term to try to reach Mr. Rubio’s “better future.” “This is a deeply troubling situation,” she said. “The U.S. ‘running’ Venezuela would be very costly and deeply unpopular there.”

Hospitals proving ground for what AI can do | Wall Street Journal

Doctors still make medical decisions, though AI can aid the process. A University of California, Los Angeles, study last year, for example, found that AI was better able to identify subtle signs of breast cancer that can develop and grow undetected between routine screenings. The study estimated that using AI to help screen patients could reduce such breast cancers by 30%.