Corina Knoll

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Amy Graff |Rachel Nostrant |Chris Cameron |Adam Nagourney |Ken Bensinger |Alyce McFadden | +2 more

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Corina Knoll

LOS ANGELES — This is the place where an Anita Baker ballad slips through the speakers and the smell of bacon floats in an irresistible fog. Regulars (and who isn’t?) push through the glass door and sink into a red folding chair hankering for their usual order. The salmon croquette and the catfish are favorites, but the grits are always the star, arriving shimmering in butter and crowned with a fistful of shrimp.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Ken Bensinger |Alyce McFadden |Corina Knoll

President Trump mused on Friday about shutting down the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying that states could do a better job at responding to disasters. "When you have a problem like this, I think you want to go, whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it," Mr. Trump said in Asheville, N.C., which was devastated by the remnants of Hurricane Helene last year.

Jan 22, 2025 | nytimes.com | Corina Knoll |Alyce McFadden |Vik Jolly |Isabelle Taft

As the Hughes fire exploded in size on Wednesday, people living around Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County weighed the question of whether to stay or go. The danger felt all the more real because of the deadly Eaton and Palisades fires that have been ravaging other parts of the county. Greg Wolf, 64, was hunkered down with his family inside his house in Castaic despite a mandatory evacuation order.

Jan 22, 2025 | nytimes.com | Corina Knoll

This is the place where an Anita Baker ballad slips through the speakers and the smell of bacon floats in an irresistible fog. Regulars (and who isn't?) push through the glass door and sink into a red folding chair hankering for their usual order. The salmon croquette and the catfish are favorites, but the grits are always the star, arriving shimmering in butter and crowned with a fistful of shrimp.