Nicole Lee

Hugo Crosthwaite’s animated portrait of Dr. Anthony Fauci was called out in a White House post titled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian."

"Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," the Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a social media post. Her lawyers said she had neither resigned nor been told she was fired.

Signed into law last month, the federal "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is projected to cost the county more than $300 million each year in additional costs or lost revenue.

Even today, decades after his death, Richard Nixon inspires divided passions in America. Nixon was a self-made man who rose from modest Quaker beginnings in California to the most powerful office in the world. Admired and reviled, loved and hated, the man and his life continue to fascinate us.

Arlie Sulka appraises a Handel Cattail Lamp, ca. 1915, in "Vintage Los Angeles."