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Prof. Emeritus Miguel Tinker Salas reacts to President Trump’s comments on the presence of oil in the region and claims that Venezuela had “stolen” oil from U.S. companies.

Wildfire disaster caused billions in losses, and many homeowners are still waiting for insurance payouts and permits to rebuild, The Wall Street Journal writes.

In the wake of L.A.’s devastating wildfires, a look at two very different approaches to creating a fire-resilient home. Is it time to trade wood for concrete? 

For over a century, the city has drawn people with the promise of perfect weather. Now floods and fires threaten its very survival.

Men like Miguel Lorente, Don McPherson, and Michael Kaufman are extraordinary allies in the fight to eliminate violence against women. And they do so by training and changing other men.

A prehistoric discovery in Morocco is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about Earth’s most iconic sea creature. Hidden beneath volcanic ash for over 500 million years, these fossils reveal something no one expected.

“This district is substantively and geographically quite different from that, so you certainly can't compare 41 from before to 41 today,” Prof. Sara Sadhwani told LAist.

Prof. Jessica Stern explains the work behind a 25-year study that revealed how empathy is passed from parents to teens to their future children.

Latinas in the region are experiencing an accelerated rise in labor market outcomes and college attendance across generations, Prof. Fernando Lozano writes in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. 

“We are facing a system that privileges white people and punishes people of color, especially if that person is Latino,” Prof. Emeritus Miguel Tinker Salas said in La Opinion.