Supreme Court ruling could have broad impact on immigrants with temporary protected status — and more UCLA media

The Associated Press reported on the potential nationwide implications of the Supreme Court’s decision allowing the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants. UCLA law professor Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy and an attorney representing Syrian TPS holders, said the ruling is “definitely bad news” for ongoing legal challenges and warned that thousands could soon lose their authorization to work in the U.S. The decision could also shape pending cases involving TPS protections for immigrants from numerous other countries. (Arulanantham was also featured by the Los Angeles Times, CBS News, MS Now and KCRW-FM.) Read more about UCLA in today’s New York Times, CalMatters and others.

More highlights from UCLA in the News: June 26, 2026

Rotting meat, foul smell at site of Boyle Heights warehouse fire | Los Angeles Times

The area surrounding the warehouse is home to at least 31,700 workers, roughly 8 in 10 of whom are Latino, according to a data analysis by researchers at UCLA. Nearly half of them earn less than Los Angeles County’s very-low-income threshold and more than half may have limited access to paid leave, health coverage or the ability to work remotely, the analysis found. That means many couldn’t simply stay home or flee to avoid smoke exposure, said Arturo Vargas Bustamante, research director at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute.

Nithya Raman will shuffle LA’s already shifting political coalitions | CalMatters

(Commentary by UCLA’s Jim Newton) Los Angeles, with its extraordinary diversity, is a national case study in coalition politics — the cobbling together of constituencies to create a political and governing majority. This election for mayor, which pits incumbent Karen Bass against Councilmember Nithya Raman, offers a new opportunity to consider the city’s shifting voting blocs and the ways that growth replaces previous models.

California voters will consider measure to raise taxes on billionaires | Associated Press

The proposed tax may have piqued the interest of many Democrats because it comes at a time when they are particularly concerned about affordability, income inequality and federal cutbacks to government programs, said Martin Gilens, a political science professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In governor’s race, voters face stark choice on immigrant healthcare | KFF Health News

“California, as a state, has the world’s fourth-largest GDP, which is true thanks to Latinos,” [David] Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA, said. Without contributions from Latinos, many without legal status, it drops to eighth place, about the size of Italy’s economy, he added.

How a niche technology became a choke point for AI | New York Times

[Subramanian] Iyer, 72, a former IBM technologist and now a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, has helped drive packaging advances over decades. But he and chip industry executives have watched in alarm as U.S. leadership in the field has slipped away to the same company that dominates advanced chip manufacturing. (Iyer was quoted.)

Some gas companies are using AI to set prices at the pump | LAist’s “AirTalk”

“The complaint alleges that these gas retailers used a common algorithm called Kalibrate to set the prices for gas. So, not only did they sign up to use this algorithm, but they also allowed the algorithm to input their confidential business information regarding pricing and output into the algorithm, which helps it to set prices,” said UCLA’s Jennifer Dixon (approx. 1:40 mark).

Investors in public companies are losing their voting rights | New York Times

In the 20th century, the rule of “one share, one vote” became commonplace, according to Stephen Bainbridge, a law professor at University of California, Los Angeles.

To reveal the rhythmic roots of laughter, just tickle an ape | New York Times

The study demonstrates the “uniqueness of human laughter,” said Greg Bryant, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the new research. “It provides a window into human vocal evolution.”