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UCLA women's basketball head coach Cori Close celebrates after cutting the net down after the victory against the South Carolina Gamecocks in the National Championship of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
The UCLA Bruins women's basketball team will celebrate its 2026 national championship victory at a free event on Wednesday night at Pauley Pavilion.The Bruins toppled the University of South Carolina Gamecocks 79-51 on Sunday, capturing the program's first national championship in the NCAA era.Doors at Pauley will open at 5 p.m. and the celebration will start at 6 p.m. UCLA says fans will need to enter through the north side of Pauley. Fans who arrive early enough will get a special championship poster. Attendees will also be able to take pictures with the championship trophy.Published April 7, 2026 1:30 PM Paul Duncan, Long Beach's homeless services bureau manager, speaking at the city's Homeless Services Advisory Committee on Wednesday, April 1.Long Beach is inching closer to a deadline when they’ll have to kick hundreds of formerly homeless people off of a federal housing assistance program. On Wednesday, a top homelessness official estimated 375 households will lose their benefits as of October, leaving themThe deadline is looming after Congress decided against authorizing new funding for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Emergency Housing Voucher program.The pandemic-era program, launched in 2021, distributed about 70,000 Emergency Housing Vouchers — or EHVs — across the country. Long Beach received 582, and originally expected them to run through 2030, but local officials say rising rent costs drained the funding more quickly than anticipated.Long Beach is inching closer to a deadline when they’ll have to kick hundreds of formerly homeless people off of a federal housing assistance program. On Wednesday, a top homelessness official estimated 375 households will lose their benefits as of October, leaving them The deadline is looming after Congress decided against authorizing new funding for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Emergency Housing Voucher program. The pandemic-era program, launched in 2021, distributed about 70,000 Emergency Housing Vouchers — or EHVs — across the country. Long Beach received 582, and originally expected them to run through 2030, but local officials say rising rent costs drained the funding more quickly than anticipated. When funding runs dry, Long Beach will be forced to end EHVs for the 500 local households that still rely on them, according to Homeless Services Bureau Manager Paul Duncan, who gave an update on the program Wednesday at the city’s Homeless Services Advisory Committee meeting. Duncan said 125 households will be given a new type of HUD voucher meant to ease the shock of losing EHVs, but that leaves 375 in the lurch.“That’s a bigger question at this moment that we have not gotten to,” Duncan said. For now, all EHV recipients have been moved to the top of the waiting list for Housing Choice Voucher, commonly called Section 8, but there’s no guarantee they’ll receive one before the deadline.Wiley is a single mother who has been using an Emergency Housing Voucher since January 2023. She’s studying at LBCC and has an internship to become a radiology technologist in Long Beach on Wednesday, April 2, 2026.Wiley, who declined to give her last name out of fear that speaking with the media could hurt her chances of receiving a new voucher, said her EHV has been instrumental in keeping her in stable housing. She was laid off from her health care job shortly after getting her voucher. The rental assistance she receives — 30% of her $2,000 rent — helped her save enough money to sign up for classes at Long Beach City College. She’s nearing the end of an internship to become a radiology technologist, a job that specializes in conducting X-Rays on patients. For months, while juggling a full class load and a 24-hour-per-week internship, Wiley has been emailing “all kinds of city, state federal representatives” hoping to get a straight answer on what will happen when funding runs out for EHVs.Published April 7, 2026 12:00 PM Jin, Suga, Jimin, V, Jung Kook, and RM on the beach in Santa Monica in 'BTS: THE RETURN.'shows the mega popular K-Pop band’s regrouping after a hiatus that began in 2022 and the process of writing their new albumDirector Bao Nguyen said the idea for the documentary was inspired in part by a BTS concert he went to at SoFi Stadium:"I love going to live concerts, but to go to a BTS concert was definitely the loudest thing I've ever been to — in the best way possible. Just the connection that they had with the fans and how the fans knew every lyric, even in Korean, was so astonishing to me.”When the biggest band in the world was getting back together to make a new album after a nearly four-year hiatus, what made them choose Los Angeles?“L.A.’s kind of like an amusement park.”“I think you can really settle into the creative process rather than maybe other cities like New York or London,”“There's a certain, for lack of a better term, ‘chill’ that helps allow you to be creative,” Nguyen added. “Walking outside and seeing the sun and just feeling that experience, I think you can really let ideas marinate, while in some other cities it feels like a pressure cooker at times.”The documentary chronicles the weeks the band members spent in L.A. in the summer of 2025, living together again for the first time in many years — after some members completed mandatory military service and others pursued solo projects — writing and recording their new albumThey also made time to do some very L.A. things — like watching the sunset on the beach in Santa Monica, sitting in traffic , eating In-N-Out and going to a Dodger game Nguyen said he knew he didn’t want to record formal sit-down interviews with the band members for the documentary in an effort to have the film to “live in the present moment as much as possible,” but found that he naturally ended up finding quiet moments with each of them during their chauffeured commutes to the studio each day.I love being in my car because I love the quiet time and reflection I can get sitting in traffic, or hopefully in motion. So at first I was thinking these car rides would just be these pensive and reflective moments, not even capturing them talking at all. But it was when the members were in the car that they just started talking and they just wanted to get things off their chest. It was a really unique perspective into what they were thinking because, for the most part, they're surrounded by people all day, but in the car, they're by themselves and they can really think and talk about what they want to achieve that day, or coming back home, they can talk about what happened. So I used the routine habit of driving in L.A. and tried to make it as cinematic and meaningful to the story as possible.The technique of giving the band members their own camcorders to capture footage themselves, Nguyen said, partially came about because of a desire to capture their experiences of life outside of the studio without drawing too much attention with a camera crew. The one scene where the band was recorded by the documentary crew out in public in L.A. , was a day they spent at a house on the beach in Santa Monica, and ventured out with chairs to watch the sunset and play soccer.The beach scene was interesting because I wasn't sure if we were gonna have sort of a"Beatlemania" moment, but kudos to our production team who really planned it well. We found a very quiet part of the beach, we checked it the week before at that time to find out how quiet it stays. There were people just sort of stationed at different corners of the beach to make sure nothing went crazy. … And luckily, another benefit of shooting in Los Angeles is that people kind of mind their own business. If they're at the beach, they just want to be at the beach. There were some people who kind of got a hint that something was going on, I think more because of our cameras, but our producer, Jane Cha Cutler, told people we were just shooting a wedding party or bachelor party video, so people would not think anything was happening.If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less.During the mission's loop around the moon, the crew took geological observations of places of interest on the lunar surface with their own eyes and snapping thousands of photos of the surface.The Artemis II astronauts are making their way back to Earth after the lunar flyby. The crew became the first astronauts in over 50 years to fly around the far side of the moon. They also experienced a solar eclipse. The crew will return to Earth on Friday and splash down off the coast of California. NASA says a landing on the lunar surface won't happen until 2028, at the earliest.The Artemis II astronauts are making their way back to Earth after the lunar flyby. The crew became the first astronauts in over 50 years to fly around the far side of the moon. They also experienced a solar eclipse. During the mission's loop around the moon, the crew took geological observations of places of interest on the lunar surface with their own eyes and snapping thousands of photos of the surface. The crew will return to Earth on Friday and splash down off the coast of California. NASA says a landing on the lunar surface won't happen until 2028, at the earliest.April 6: Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby, this image shows the moon fully eclipsing the sun. From the crew's perspective, the moon appears large enough to completely block the sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the sun's outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the moon, but with the moon in darkness, stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity's return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth.April 6: This is a portion of the moon coming into view along the terminator — the boundary between lunar day and night — where low-angle sunlight casts long, dramatic shadows across the surface. This grazing light accentuates the moon's rugged topography, revealing craters, ridges and basin structures in striking detail. Features along the terminator, such as Jule Crater, Birkhoff Crater, Stebbins Crater and surrounding highlands, stand out.April 6: A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew's lunar flyby captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the sun. Although the full lunar disk extends beyond the image, the sun's faint corona remains visible as a soft halo of light around the moon's edge. From this deep-space vantage point, the moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth.April 6: Captured from the Orion spacecraft near the end of the Artemis II lunar flyby, this image shows the sun beginning to peek out from behind the moon as the eclipse transitions out of totality. Only a portion of the moon is visible in the frame, its curved edge revealing a bright sliver of sunlight returning after nearly an hour of darkness.April 6: This image shows the moon, the near side visible at the right side of the disk, identifiable by the dark splotches. At lower left is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the moon's near and far sides. Everything to the left of the crater is the far side.April 6: The moon is seen in the window of the Orion spacecraft, in a photo taken by the Artemis II crew, at the end of Day 5 of the journey to the moon.April 6: The Orion spacecraft, Earth and the moon are seen from a camera as the Artemis II crew and spacecraft travel farther into space.April 6: Artemis II pilot and NASA astronaut Victor Glover peers out one of the Orion spacecraft's windows looking back at Earth ahead of the crew's lunar flyby.April 4: Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch and Victor Glover gather for an interview en route to the moon.April 3: The exterior of the Orion spacecraft Integrity is seen during the Artemis II mission en route to the moon.April 3: The Earth seen from a window on the Orion spacecraft Integrity during the Artemis II mission en route to the moon.April 3: NASA astronaut Christina Koch is illuminated by a screen inside the darkened Orion spacecraft on the third day of the agency's Artemis II mission. To the right of the image's center, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen is seen in profile peering out one of Orion's windows. Lights are turned off to avoid glare on the windows.April 2: A view of Earth taken by Wiseman from of the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection burn.April 2: Mission specialist Christina Koch peers out one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels toward the moon.Eastside residents are invited to a series of field trips this month to learn how air-quality sensors will be installed across Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles, in an effort to improve air quality and extreme heat in the community.Why it matters: Through these field trips, Eastsiders will get to see how and where air quality will be measured in their neighborhoods. Once installed, the monitors will measure wind, black carbon, ozone, particulate matter, and nitrogen dioxide levels. Eastside residents are invited to a series of field trips this month to learn how air-quality sensors will be installed across Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles, in an effort to improve air quality and extreme heat in the community.At the April 18 event, the nonprofit City Plants will also give out free potted fruit and shade trees. Proof of L.A. residency is required to receive a tree. Through these field trips, Eastsiders will get to see how and where air quality will be measured in their neighborhoods. Once installed, the monitors will measure wind, black carbon, ozone, particulate matter, and nitrogen dioxide levels. , the Eastside has been plagued by high smog and poor air quality due to nearby freeways, rail yards, and industrial activities. East L.A. is crisscrossed by heavily trafficked freeways like the I-5, I-10 and I-710. Compared to more affluent neighborhoods, areas like Boyle Heights and East L.A. have fewer trees and parks, which naturally help filter pollutants and improve air quality. As a result, residents in these communities often experience poorer air quality, which contributes to health issues. For example, people in Boyle Heights are 75 to 86% more likely to develop asthma than those in other parts of California,Heads up: The address for each event will be provided the week of that event.
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