Emily Witt

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As communities across Southern California document and protest the escalating raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.

President Trump’s assertions that federal troops have saved the city from destruction did not appear to reflect reality.

An influx of ultra-high-net-worth newcomers has increased demand for experienced—and discreet—household staff.

From the daily newsletter: a report from Florida’s billionaire enclave.

In Arizona, a crowd of thousands suggested that the left still has a pulse.

In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order banning transition-related care for minors, hospitals in blue states began cancelling appointments—forcing families in New York and beyond to consider whether even liberal cities are safe.

In a Los Angeles suburb, multigenerational families like the Benns found affordable housing and a deep sense of connection. After the devastating fires, many wonder whether they’ll be able to rebuild what they’ve lost.

With four fires raging, tens of thousands have evacuated and others are confronting the precarity of where they live.

In Georgia, Barack Obama spoke of character, and in Michigan, Michelle Obama reminded voters of the stakes for women’s lives.

A bellwether county in Wisconsin appears evenly divided in the final stretch.

At campaign stops in southeastern Georgia and New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate tried to win voters in counties outside her party’s strongholds.

With Kamala Harris preparing to take the spotlight at the D.N.C., Party factions seek to project unity and joy.

Less than a week after the Republican National Convention took over Milwaukee, Harris spoke at a high-school rally there to a crowd of ebullient Democrats.

On Friday night, before the party, I put a single drop of LSD into a glass of water. I drank half, and Andrew drank the other half. For the next couple of hours, while he made beats in his studio, I lay in bed with my eyes closed, listening to one of the final mixes made by Andrew Weatherall, a British d.j. who had got his start in the nineteen-eighties club scene and had recently died. The tracks had titles like “Jagged Mountain Melts at Dawn” and “The Descending Moonshine Dervishes.” I sat up…

The couple figured that Caltrans, the California state transportation authority, was likely to close the road. Mary Lu, who was driving, steered carefully past the crumbled edge of the highway, staying in the northbound lane, so that her husband would make his flight. They were on a stretch of coast with no cell service, on the sole road that gives access to their region. There are no official borders to Big Sur, a seventy-five-mile span of the California coast which, because of both challenging…

On Thursday afternoon, the day of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ home opener at Dodger Stadium, it was not raining, so Ohtani, the team’s biggest star and the world’s greatest baseball player, had the conversation to himself. Not that he participates in it: Ohtani is so private that his rare public disclosures, no matter how anodyne, generate frenzies of interest. In November, when he accepted his second M.V.P award, he revealed that he had a dog, a Nederlandse kooikerhondje named Dekopin, or Decoy, f…

Her transition had been catalyzed by an interaction with artificial intelligence. That February, Sante had downloaded FaceApp, a photo-editing application that uses neural networks to generate realistic transformations of people’s faces. “For a laugh,” she wrote to her friends, she’d uploaded a photograph of herself into the app’s gender-swapping feature. It returned “a full-face Hudson Valley woman in midlife.” Sante was undone. “When I saw her I felt something liquify in the core of my body,”…

Earlier that morning, Barbara Lee, the Democratic congresswoman from the Bay Area, who is currently running to represent California in the United States Senate, attended a King Day breakfast sponsored by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. Under a tent near the end of the parade route, members of the Hollywood Teamsters, the Service Employees International Union, and other unions sat at folding tables, eating from a buffet of sausage, eggs, and grits. Lee, who is the highest-ranking Blac…

The C. Erwin Piper Technical Center is the headquarters of the Air Support Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, which, according to the L.A.P.D., is the largest local airborne law-enforcement unit in the world. The division has seventeen helicopters in its fleet and more than ninety employees, and keeps at least two helicopters airborne for twenty hours a day or more, if deemed necessary. The aircraft are a constant part of the L.A. backdrop, like palm trees and traffic. A cluster of t…