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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - May 1: A pro-Israeli supporter takes an umbrella from a Pro-Palestinian encampment from at UCLA early Wednesday morning. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

Two weeks that staggered UCLA: Protests, violence, crackdown mark ‘dark chapter’

Here is what we know about the last couple of weeks on campus, based on interviews, recordings, social media and documents.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - May 1: A Pro-Palestinian protestor clashes with a pro-Israeli supporter at an encampment at UCLA early Wednesday morning. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

To find masked mob members who attacked UCLA camp, police using Jan. 6 tactics

FILE - A view of the TikTok app logo, in Tokyo, Sept. 28, 2020.Britain’s privacy watchdog has hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty for a slew of data protection breaches including misusing children’s data. The Information Commissioner’s Office said Tuesday, April 4, 2023, that it issued a $15.9 milllion fine to the the short-video sharing app, which is wildly popular with young people. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

TikTok sues U.S. government, saying ban violates 1st Amendment

A shrine has been set-up inside Alex Guttierrez's home, honoring his daughter, 17-year-old Johanna Gonzalez, who took her own life with a deputy's gun in March.

Their daughter killed herself with a deputy’s gun. They’re still looking for answers

Seoul, South Korea-April 30, 2024-Kim Do-yeon, a new tenant for the 7-dollar apartment for youths, stands inside her room in Dongjak District in Seoul, South Korea. Government officials prepare for the gourds in front of the tenants for them to break them to ward off the evil spirit at the opening ceremony of the 7-dollar apartment for youths in Dongjak District in Seoul, South Korea. (Jean Chung / For The Times)

This tiny apartment costs $7 a month. Scoring one is like winning the lottery

Haitian migrants camp out at the Giordano Bruno plaza in Mexico City, Thursday, May 18, 2023. The group was staying at a shelter in Mexico City on their way north but were forced to make camp at the park after the shelter closed. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

This gentrifying Mexico City neighborhood has a Soho House — and a migrant encampment

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2018, file photo, a Pacific Gas & Electric lineman works to repair a power line in fire-ravaged Paradise, Calif. Two years to the day after some of the deadliest wildfires tore through Northern California wine country, two of the state's largest utilities were poised Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, to shut off power to more than 700,000 customers in 37 counties, in what would be the largest preventive shut-off to date as utilities try to head off wildfires caused by faulty power lines. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Anger builds over sweeping change in the way most Californians will pay for electricity

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MAY 3, 2024 - Diane Shader Smith sits next to a portrait of her daughter Mallory Smith in her home in Beverly Hills on May 3, 2024. Mallory, who had been living with cystic fibrosis since she was a child, died at the age of 25 in 2017 of an antibiotic-resistant lung infection she contracted after a transplant. On Tuesday, May 7, Random House is publishing Mallory's diary entries during her illness as the book, "Diary of a Dying Girl,' and on the same day the WHO, CDC and a ton of other organizations are launching a website called the Global AMR Diary, where other people can share their stories of drug-resistant infections. Shader Smith has become a fierce advocate for awareness of antibiotic resistance. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

A mother’s loss launches a global effort to fight antibiotic resistance

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FILE - In this photo illuminated by an off-camera flash, a tarp covers a portion of a homeless person's tent on a bridge overlooking the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. The United States experienced a dramatic 12% increase in homelessness as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more Americans, federal officials said Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Lawmakers grill Newsom officials on homelessness spending after audit causes bipartisan frustration

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Granada Hills, CA - May 02: A parent holds a "Bring Back School Police," sign during a meeting discussing child safety in the district at Patrick Henry Middle School on Thursday, May 2, 2024 in Granada Hills, CA. L.A. school district holds a regional safety meeting with a fair number of angry and concerned parents over the safety of their children at school. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

Amid school crime spike, task force wants L.A. campuses to decide whether they need police

A view of Twin Lakes in Mammoth Lakes, where winter in the Eastern Sierra isn't over yet. A weekend storm dropped more than a foot of snow in the Mammoth Lakes basin.

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LANDERS, CA - APRIL 23, 2024: Rattlesnake wrangler Danielle Wall carries a Mojave rattlesnake from a container to return it to its natural habitat on April 23, 2024 in Landers California. The snakes have to be returned within a two mile radius of where they were first rescued. Wall rescued 257 snakes last year. She is the premiere snake wrangler in the high desert.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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Huntington Beach, CA - April 20: The sunset illuminates one of thousands of creatures known as by-the-wind-sailors that have been washing ashore Southern California beaches, including Dog Beach in Huntington Beach Thursday, April 20, 2023. The oval-shaped, flat creatures with tiny blue tentacles may look like little jellyfish but are in fact hydroids called Velella velella, more commonly known as "by-the-wind sailors." The invertebrates have been washing ashore at Crystal Cove in Newport Beach, and the sailing bodies have been spotted as far north as Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco. They've also been spotted in San Clemente, Manhattan Beach and along other Southern California beaches.(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Work is started on dismantling the Iron Gate Dam, the largest dam on the Klamath river.

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BYRON, CA APRIL 18, 2024 - Morniing light bathes the Banks pumping plant on Thursday, April 18, 2024 in Byron, Calif. (Paul Kuroda / For The Times)

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Los Angeles, CA, Monday, May 6, 2024 - LA Dodgers starting pitcher Walker Buehler delivers a pitch in the secondinning against the Miami Marlins at Dodger Stadium. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA, Monday, May 6, 2024 - LA Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler delivers a pitch.

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - May 1: A woman prays in front of CHP officers next tot he pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday morning. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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Indio, CA - April 28: Sunday headliner Morgan Wallen performs on the Mane Stage on the final day of Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio Sunday, April 28, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - April 21: Clayton Grimm, "Blippi," in the Los Angeles Times Portrait Studio at the Festival of Books in Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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Indio, CA - April 14: Bebe Rexha performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday, April 14, 2024 in Indio, CA. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

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Haitian migrants camp out at the Giordano Bruno plaza in Mexico City, Thursday, May 18, 2023. The group was staying at a shelter in Mexico City on their way north but were forced to make camp at the park after the shelter closed. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

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Seoul, South Korea-April 30, 2024-Kim Do-yeon, a new tenant for the 7-dollar apartment for youths, stands inside her room in Dongjak District in Seoul, South Korea. Government officials prepare for the gourds in front of the tenants for them to break them to ward off the evil spirit at the opening ceremony of the 7-dollar apartment for youths in Dongjak District in Seoul, South Korea. (Jean Chung / For The Times)

This tiny apartment costs $7 a month. Scoring one is like winning the lottery

FILE - In this photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, The Russian army's Iskander missile launchers take positions during drills in Russia. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the military will hold drills involving tactical nuclear weapons – the first time such exercise was publicly announced by Moscow. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

News analysis: Why Putin is raising the specter of nuclear weapons again

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo rioters loyal to President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Arguments begin Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on allegations that he incited the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Donald Trump puts America on notice again: If he loses, he won’t go quietly

FILE - People attend a rally as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, 2023, by the Capitol in Washington. Schools and colleges across the U.S. would be forbidden from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes under a proposal released Thursday, April 6, from the Biden administration, but teams could create some limits in certain cases, for example, to ensure fairness. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Supreme Court poised to enter debate over transgender care for minors

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