California Today: Is This Miami or L.A.? Southern California Is Hot and Steamy Again.

September 9, 2026, 6:31 a.m. Pacific time

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Is This Miami or L.A.? Southern California Is Hot and Steamy Again.

Temperatures soared across the region on Tuesday. The muggy weather will get worse before it gets better.

California, an Environmental Bastion, Warms to Nuclear Energy

The state is considering extending the life of its last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, and allowing construction of new reactors to help meet its clean energy goals.

Sinkhole Opens at Nicolas Cage’s Malibu Home, Forcing Evacuations

The expanding sinkhole formed under the driveway of a house that the actor bought in 2024. Dozens of other homes were evacuated.

Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Upends Telluride Film Festival

The comic Nathan Fielder and the filmmaker Lance Oppenheim teamed up to interview the convicted executive for “You Can See Everything.”

Can Zoox’s ‘Toaster on Wheels’ Conquer the Self-Driving Car Capital of America?

The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo. Its pitch to riders? Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be filmed.

His Watch Brand Has Personal Associations

The name Camp Watches, for example, honors the Michigan camp that Justin Jakobson attended as a boy.

Hollywood Visions of A.I.: Friendly, Then Deadly, Then Everywhere

Plots involving some kind of artificial intelligence are even part of soap operas. Here’s how they’ve evolved over the decades.

A Shipyard? A Bunch of New Houses? In California, Not This Year.

A legislative setback for a manufacturing and housing proposal shows how hard it remains to build in the largest state — and why a backlash against billionaires could make it even harder.