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James T. Butts Jr., photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Sept. 7. To listen to James T. Butts Jr. rattle off Muhammad Ali-style boasts about Inglewood, its people and all that he has accomplished in more than a decade as its mayor, you’d think he grew up in this city. But … Read more

Peter Eliasberg, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Oct. 25. If you Google Peter Eliasberg, the results are misleading: You’ll see him at film awards. Galas. Movie premieres. Lanky, with perpetually tousled salt-and-pepper hair, he looks a little out of place on the red carpet alongside the blond woman in the … Read more

Va Lecia Adams Kellum, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Sept. 8. When the cleanup of homeless camps in Venice three years ago gave a megaphone to a flamboyant sheriff and created battle lines of opposing community activists, one measured voice emerged from the cacophony. Va Lecia Adams Kellum, then the … Read more

Karen Bass: Mayor of the city of the eternal future The mayor of Los Angeles was exhausted. It was just after 8 p.m. on a relatively ordinary Thursday in November, meaning Karen Bass had talked virtually with Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), dropped in on an elder turning 100, met with a group of nonprofit leaders … Read more

Danny J. Bakewell Sr.: Eternal voice for Black Los Angeles It was the tail end of the Great Migration when Danny J. Bakewell Sr. left New Orleans for Los Angeles in 1967. He was 21; a college dropout with a wife and a baby, in an era of dismal prospects for Black people. He would … Read more

Cecily Myart-Cruz, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Nov. 6. The all-but-anonymous mom volunteering as a crossing guard at her kid’s school stood out on this particular morning in her sun hat and dressy batik-pattern outfit. After her crosswalk duties, Cecily Myart-Cruz hustled to a conference at UCLA, where she was … Read more

A highway destroyed by the force of the Moesa river Sunday in the Misox valley, in Lostallo, southern Switzerland. (Michael Buholzer / Associated Press) Rescuers in Switzerland have found the body of one of three people who had gone missing on Saturday after massive thunderstorms and rainfall in the country’s southeast caused a rockslide, Swiss … Read more

Pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, on Monday during the annual Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (Rafiq Maqbool / Associated Press) More than 1,000 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, officials … Read more

Municipal workers carry a body Saturday in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after an apartment building was hit by a Russian airstrike. (Andrii Marienko / Associated Press) Russian authorities said four people died and over 100 were wounded in Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on Sunday, while the second day of Russia’s aerial bombing of Kharkiv in northeastern … Read more

For four long years, an Anthony Fauci-led cabal sought to keep COVID’s origins in a Chinese lab hidden from the public.  With Beijing’s active assistance, they were largely successful. Skeptics like myself, who suggested that Americans shouldn’t buy China’s bat-guano-crazy story about the virus coming from a wet market, were dismissed as “conspiracy theorists” in the United States and … Read more