K.K. Rebecca Lai

Mar 5, 2025 | nytimes.com | Amy Walker |K.K. Rebecca Lai |K.k. Rebecca Lai

For more than five weeks, the Trump administration has been working to take apart the United States Agency for International Development, through layoffs and contract terminations. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court weighed in on a piece of those efforts, rejecting President Trump's emergency request to freeze nearly $2 billion in already completed foreign aid work.

Jan 28, 2025 | nytimes.com | Jesus Jimenez |Kate Selig |Amy Graff |Zach Montague |Catrin Einhorn |Ivan Penn | +9 more

Jan 26, 2025 | seattletimes.com | Danny Hakim |Ivan Penn |Blacki Migliozzi |K.K. Rebecca Lai |K.K. Rebecca Lai

LOS ANGELES — Early on the evening of Jan. 7, a resident of a neighborhood of homes backed up against the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California saw what he described as a bright white light and then a small fire at the base of an electrical tower up in Eaton Canyon. Another neighbor reported that his lights flickered a few minutes before he saw fire underneath the tower.

Jan 26, 2025 | ourcommunitynow.com | Ivan Penn |Blacki Migliozzi |Danny Hakim |K.K. Rebecca Lai |K.K. Rebecca Lai

Share On Jan. 20, nearly two weeks after the Eaton fire broke out, investigators were examining transmission towers, which had visible signs of smoke residue that appeared to have resulted in a brown discoloration on the structure — features that distinguished them from other towers in the area.Firefighters have begun to slow the spread of the Border 2 fire, which started Thursday in the mountains near the U.S.-Mexico border and has scorched 6,625 acres of wilderness in San Diego County.

Jan 26, 2025 | nytimes.com | Ivan Penn |Blacki Migliozzi |Danny Hakim |K.K. Rebecca Lai |K.K. Rebecca Lai

Early on the evening of Jan. 7, a resident of a neighborhood of homes backed up against the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California saw what he described as a bright white light, and then a small fire at the base of an electrical tower up in Eaton Canyon. Another neighbor reported that his lights flickered a few minutes before he saw fire underneath the tower.