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The Times: But does it make you uncomfortable, the way they speak about co-governance, as if they endorse and then they feel that those representatives should be answering to them?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
That’s going to be ready to go live, I would say maybe in another month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Viewers will consider his bowl haircut a romantic nonstarter, but there are levels to be revealed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
It has to be a whole-of-government approach to address those kinds of issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Father Julien never imagined he’d be imprisoned for three years, but he still believes the Japanese will lose.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Bass: I am concerned it might continue to decrease, because the numbers that have been approved financially, I don’t know that that’s going to keep up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
“I am making mistakes, and I’m so, so sorry,” he said, before continuing, “I’ve never wanted to be an activist musician.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
“I am just a D-lister . . . but I have been under more pressure than Ed Sheeran,” she said.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
"I am really proud to be a woman working in this industry, showing that things have changed, but it's fair to say that there is still work to do."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
And even though I am still messing up on the piece I’m practicing, just holding Grace makes me feel better.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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I think when people talk about not wanting to criminalize homelessness, the policies there are really around not punishing people for not having a home, not wanting to arrest people for being on the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
In your district, you’ve had locations where encampments are cleared, but then they repopulate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Major carriers from large swaths of the state are now refusing to insure even low-risk properties with minimal danger of burning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
I always do the analogy of, if you’re out of town and a family member is hurt or sick, it doesn’t matter where you are or why you were out of town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Now, at the turn of 1945, the number of prisoners—mostly Americans, who are considered enemy civilians—has swelled to about four thousand.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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I was in the mode of being a good council member and trying to fight for my constituents and endorsing the mayor is part of that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
“This is the Republican nominee for statewide office,” Cornyn said in a post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Above all, there is Cushla’s mother, Gina, played by Gillian Anderson, in a downward spiral since the death of her husband, some two years earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
French posted the photo and wrote on X, “I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Joey, who dreams of being a nun, is a good fit for the convent.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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To see the picture earlier this month was to witness pure, untempered joy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
And that’s a pain point for me, that I was not where I should have been, where I was needed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
I did not see that coming nor did she tell me she was even thinking about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
And it was a big change in renter protections.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
She finally found her brother, wounded and malnourished, at Camp O’Donnell in Capas, a US military base north of Manila that was occupied by the Japanese military.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Her data showed that people in low-risk areas were essentially subsidizing high-risk homes in California’s wealth enclaves such as the Pacific Palisades devastated by the January 2025 firestorm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
It was odd enough that most people in the crowd were wearing fluorescent orange, but stranger still was this rarity: the sight of a group of diverse men full of hope.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Times: Before you announced you were running, you endorsed Bass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Instead, they had shown, over and over again, that they were going to put their own interests ahead of the people who trusted them.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
When we were done helping her clean, she picked up her basket of pea pods and told me to follow her out to the backyard.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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A simple, straightforward condemnation shouldn’t have been hard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
He’s emerged as a breakout star communicator and has been floated as a 2028 presidential contender.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
At different points in time, there have been — not roadblocks, but problems within the process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
A California judge turned down a petition to halt surcharges home insurers have been levying policyholders statewide for costs related to the January 2025 wildfires in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
I’ve been at Ross Academy for over a year now, and the school building still blows me away.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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His obvious joy and enjoyment of being a representative of the city is something I aspire to, and I want people to feel that from me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
His parents’ retirement savings went from being worth the equivalent of $80,000 to 25 cents in just one week.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Another was Rodborough Fields, near Stroud, where a public campaign to protect the woodland from development led to it being brought into community ownership.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Across town, Independent 20th Century, now being staged in the Breuer Building, highlights overlooked artists from the past century as well as less-studied aspects of well-known creators’ careers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
What with her being my mom’s best friend, you’d think she was maybe spying for my parents, but more often, her presence was like wearing a life preserver.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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