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Being a breast cancer surgeon is a rewarding path. UCLA's Dr. Carlie Thompson says walking alongside her patients is a privilege. "It's always fed my soul. Always," she said. Mammograms have always been her mantra. Last summer, at 41, she had her first breast cancer screening. What the scan revealed changed everything.
"Its forward-moving motion is only about three miles per hour. That's going to bring with those wind bands, the precipitation. That's going to be long-lived as that storm continues to stall and just move very slowly," said UCLA's Janine Baijnath-Rodino.
A recent study by UCLA's Latino Policy & Politics Institute analyzed the first seven months after the fire and found that one in four homeowners remain stuck mid-application, unable to advance to the next phase of rebuilding. The study identified financial constraints as the biggest obstacle.
Jasmine Hill, an assistant professor of public policy and sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that the practice emerges partly out of basic need. Black middle-class adults are significantly more likely than their white peers to have a sibling who is poor, research shows.
Rick Hasen, an election law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a social media post that the DOJ's move is a "test run for 2026." (Hasen was also featured by MSNBC - approx. 1:25 mark).
The Second Circuit's ruling potentially ignores what an ordinary person, trying to discern someone's personal interests, might do with coded information, said Andrew Selbst, a professor at the UCLA School of Law. The appeals court therefore fails to give sufficient weight to the privacy concern, he said.
"With SACPA, I think things were much more organized and better funded, but still, it took time," said Darren Urada, a UCLA researcher who evaluated the law. "Show rates and treatment completion rates gradually increased as everyone figured out what to do, and this continued until funding went away."
"Really, these are extremely safe vaccines," said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, a professor at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. "There's nothing people need to be alarmed about."