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The blue swimming pool, a quintessentially Californian feature, is not just a recreational space but a central element of the new house, which was built from the ground up after the 1956 home was torn down.

For Trumpism to fully cohere, Obama, and what he symbolizes, must be torn down.

For much of that time, the races were held at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, but that track was torn down in 2023 to make room for a giant warehouse complex.

"One of the nearby Buddhist institutions was torn down by the government a few months ago," a monk in his 60s told us in Aba, from under an umbrella as he walked to prayers in the rain.

But other Southern California cities still haven’t acted to require unretrofitted brick buildings be fixed or torn down — including many in the Inland Empire, home to the infamous San Andreas fault.