LAist reported on the new K-Town Archive, a partnership with UCLA that preserves oral histories, photographs and other materials documenting life in and around Koreatown. UCLA professor David Shorter helped develop the archive as the first community-specific sister site of UCLA’s Archive of Healing, allowing Koreatown stories to become part of the larger collection. Read more about UCLA in today’s Associated Press, NBC News and others.

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More highlights from UCLA in the News: September 14, 2026

Groups plan to push back if interference in midterm elections | Los Angeles Times

Rick Hasen, a UCLA Law professor and director of the school’s Safeguarding Democracy Project, noted that Trump has expressed regret that he didn’t take more aggressive action to overturn the 2020 results, such as ordering voting machines to be seized. “All these things take what was off the wall and put it on the wall,” Hasen said. (Hasen was also quoted by the Associated Press.)

How California Latina, Latino voters differ on politics | Daily Breeze

Forget blue and red. Blue and pink might better describe the gap among California’s Latina and Latino voters, according to a new report. Released this month, the study by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute found that the Golden State’s Latina voters are likelier to embrace progressive politics and an anti-Donald Trump ethos than Latinos. (UCLA’s Nicholas Vargas was quoted.)

9/11’s lasting effect on the Latino community | Los Angeles Times’s “De Los”

A new UCLA- UC Berkeley poll found that Latinos and Latinas in California have radically different political leanings. Overall, Latinas were more likely to support Democratic candidates and back policies aimed at helping immigrants compared to their male counterparts. While 69% of Latinas mentioned that protecting immigrant communities was very important to them, whereas only 52% of Latinos felt it was very important.

The Smithsonian chief’s exit is a blow to democracy | The Guardian

(Commentary co-written by UCLA’s Kimberlé Crenshaw) On Tuesday, Lonnie G. Bunch III announced he would step down as the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian. Bunch was the first historian to lead the august institution, as well as the first African American. His retirement comes as the Trump administration has pressured the Smithsonian to adopt its agenda of “patriotic” education.

Heatwaves accelerating faster than global warming | India Today

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Universidad Adolfo Ibanez in Santiago, Chile, found that each additional increment of warming will have a greater impact on extending heat waves than the previous one. “Each fraction of a degree of warming will have more impact than the last,” said David Neelin, a UCLA climate scientist and senior author of the study.

25 years after 9/11, World Trade Center toxins continue to claim lives | Governing

There’s also a structural problem on the worker health side, says Rachael Jones, director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at [UCLA Fielding School of Public Health]. Even when worker protection standards exist, the inspection and enforcement capacity necessary to enforce them does not.

Billionaires shake up LA sports as teams feel the heat | Los Angeles Times

“The value of these franchises has really kept pace with the most successful businesses in the country,” said Lee Ohanian, an economics professor at UCLA and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Here’s who we think will win the midterms | New York Times

“Anyone who pays close attention to politics knows that midterm-election turnout is always lower than general-election turnout — regardless of who sits in the Oval Office. They also know that the president’s party typically loses seats in the midterms, and that his or her approval rating looms large in terms of both turnout and vote choice,” said UCLA’s Lynn Vavreck.

ICE arrests reach record highs as enforcement tactics shift | NBC News

The states that saw the largest number of arrests were Texas and Florida, according to data from the Deportation Data Project, an initiative by the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, to track ICE arrests and detentions.