Bluff falls in RPV

Around 400 feet of the coastline drops

Yusra Farzan covers Orange County and its 34 cities, watching those long meetings — boards, councils and more — so you don’t have to.

Published September 29, 2025 1:26 PM

A screen grab showing coastal bluff has fallen. There is caution tape cordoning off the bluff line.

Around 400 feet of coastal bluff slid toward the ocean in Rancho Palos Verdes on Saturday, Sep. 27.

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Rancho Palos Verdes officials say 400 feet of coastal bluff that fell toward the ocean on Saturday night is not related to the land movement that's been ripping part of the city apart for years.

What happened: The bluff behind several coastal homes slipped away, plummeting approximately 60 feet toward the ocean. Megan Barnes, a spokesperson for the city, told LAist that there was no damage to public property, no injuries and no structural damage. There is, however, significant soil damage to the backyards of the four homes affected.

Why? The cause of the incident on Marguerite Drive is still being investigated.

An isolated incident: According to Barnes, this landslide is not connected to the larger Portuguese Bend landslide around 4 miles away, where land movement has left around 20 homes uninhabitable and forced dozens of people off the grid — without power, gas or internet services.

Read on ... for more about how the community is handling this crisis.

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The coastline is sliding away in a new spot in Rancho Palos Verdes

Rancho Palos Verdes officials say 400 feet of coastal bluff that fell toward the ocean on Saturday night is not related to the land movement that's been ripping part of the city apart for years.

The bluff dropped approximately 60 feet toward the ocean. But Megan Barnes, a spokesperson for the city, told LAist there was no damage to public property, no injuries and no structural damage to the four homes affected. There is significant soil damage to their backyards, though.

The cause of the incident on Marguerite Drive is still being investigated, she added.

City Manager Ara Mihranian said that while there are no public sanctioned or approved trails leading down to the shoreline from that bluff top, there is an unauthorized trail that leads fishermen down to that area. The L.A. County Fire Department has closed off the area out of an abundance of caution.

According to Barnes, this landslide is not connected to the larger Portuguese Bend landslide around 4 miles away.

“It is totally separate, not connected,” she said.

What’s next?

The new landslide is being treated as “static” movement, Barnes said, but the city’s geology team will continue to monitor for movement.

The landslide is being treated as an “isolated separate incident” and the city is not seeking an emergency declaration as it has in the past, she said.

Mayor David Bradley told LAist, "We're recommending that the homeowners go get a geotechnical engineer to assess their backyards and their property to assure that there's not gonna be any other movement."

Are other blufftop homes at risk?

There's always concern for bluff top homes that there could be scarfing off of some of the bluffs, Bradley said, because some erosion is to be expected.

Those homes are usually "set back a significantly larger distance than usual, just to protect against some of this type of geologic movement when the cliff face sloughs off and has an erosion," he said.

Mihranian added that state building codes require the distance.

What’s the backstory?

Land movement in the Portuguese Bend area has increased in Rancho Palos Verdes in recent years, triggered by above average rainfall since 2022.

Those landslides have left around 20 homes uninhabitable and forced dozens of people off the grid, stripped of power, gas and internet services.

Responding to the destruction has been a huge financial drain on the city, which spent $48 million on the landslide complex from October 2022 until June of this year. The city has allocated another $18.6 million to spend toward repairs and shoring up the land movement for this fiscal year.

For context, the city's annual budget is around $40 million.

What’s the city’s next move?

The city recently greenlit a comprehensive study to look at how stormwater flows into the landslide complex — and if that water can be redirected elsewhere. The ground in the landslide area is made of bentonite clay that slips and slides when wet.

It comes after Rancho Palos Verdes officials banned new construction in the area. City officials have told LAist the eventual plan is to buy out existing homes in the landslide complex and convert it to open space. There is a buyout plan in motion currently for about 20 homes.

Arts & Entertainment

Golden Globes

Here's the running list of winners

By Clare Lombardo | NPR

Published January 11, 2026 6:08 PM

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The 2026 Golden Globes were live Sunday night, hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser for the second year in a row.

The context: From One Battle After Another to The Pitt, this list will be updated with the winners. Spoilers ahead!

Read on... for who won, and who lost, this year.

Updated January 12, 2026 at 00:20 AM ET

Timothée Chalamet, Teyana Taylor and Noah Wyle each took home acting awards at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.

Comedian Nikki Glaser hosted the show for the second year in a row, joking in her opening monologue that the Golden Globe for best editing should go to the Justice Department, seemingly referencing the Epstein files — and that the award for most editing ought to go to CBS News, calling it "America's newest place to see B.S. news." (New CBS News editor in chief, Bari Weiss, recently drew criticism for pulling a segment about a detention center in El Salvador from 60 Minutes.)

Teyana Taylor's prize was for best supporting actress in a motion picture, one of four awards for One Battle After Another, which also won the evening's prize for best musical or comedy motion picture. Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson took home awards for screenwriting and directing.

Wyle's award was for The Pitt, which also won the prize for best TV drama.

Chalamet's win was the only prize for Marty Supreme, which was nominated as a comedy. Hamnet won the award for best drama film; Jessie Buckley took home the award for best actress in a drama for the same movie.

The Netflix series Adolescence took home trophies for best limited or anthology series, along with prizes for actors Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty. The Studio took home the prize for best TV musical or comedy, with Seth Rogen winning the top prize for actors in that group.

Good Hang with Amy Poehler won the Globes' very first prize for the best podcast.

The nominees in each category are below, with winners noted in bold.

Best motion picture – drama
Winner: Hamnet (Focus Features)
Frankenstein (Netflix)
It Was Just an Accident (Neon)
The Secret Agent (Neon)
Sentimental Value (Neon)
Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best performance by a female actor in a motion picture – drama
Winner: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)
Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)
Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)
Julia Roberts (After the Hunt)
Tessa Thompson (Hedda)
Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture – drama
Winner: Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams)
Oscar Isaac (Frankenstein)
Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine)
Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)
Jeremy Allen White (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere)

Best motion picture – musical or comedy
Winner: One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Bugonia (Focus Features)
Marty Supreme (A24)
No Other Choice (Neon)
Nouvelle Vague (Netflix)

Best performance by a female actor in a motion picture – musical or comedy
Winner: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You)
Cynthia Erivo (Wicked: For Good)
Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue)
Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)
Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee)
Emma Stone (Bugonia)

Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture – musical or comedy
Winner: Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
George Clooney (Jay Kelly)
Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)
Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
Lee Byung-hun (No Other Choice)
Jesse Plemons (Bugonia)

Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role in any motion picture
Winner: Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)
Emily Blunt (The Smashing Machine)
Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value)
Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good)
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value)
Amy Madigan (Weapons)

Best performance by a male actor in a supporting role in any motion picture
Winner: Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)
Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another)
Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)
Paul Mescal (Hamnet)
Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)
Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly)

Best original song – motion picture
Winner: "Golden" – KPop Demon Hunters
"Dream as One" – Avatar: Fire and Ash
"I Lied to You" – Sinners
"No Place Like Home" – Wicked: For Good
"The Girl in the Bubble" – Wicked: For Good
"Train Dreams" – Train Dreams

Best screenplay – motion picture
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)
Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)
Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'Farrell (Hamnet)

Best director – motion picture
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein)
Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)
Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)
Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)

Cinematic and box office achievement
Winner: Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
F1 (Apple Original Films)
KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Paramount Pictures)
Weapons (Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema)
Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures)
Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Best motion picture – animated
Winner: KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
Arco (Neon)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle (Aniplex, Crunchyroll, Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Elio (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (GKIDS)
Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Best original score – motion picture
Winner: Ludwig Göransson (Sinners)
Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein)
Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another)
Kangding Ray (Sirāt)
Max Richter (Hamnet)
Hans Zimmer (F1)

Best motion picture – non-English language
Winner: The Secret Agent (Neon) - Brazil
It Was Just an Accident (Neon) - France
No Other Choice (Neon) - South Korea
Sentimental Value (Neon) - Norway
Sirāt (Neon) - Spain
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Willa) - Tunisia

Best television series – musical or comedy
Winner: The Studio (Apple TV)
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Bear (FX on Hulu)
Hacks (HBO Max)
Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

Best television series – drama
Winner: The Pitt (HBO Max)
The Diplomat (Netflix)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
Severance (Apple TV)
Slow Horses (Apple TV)
The White Lotus (HBO Max)

Best television limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Adolescence (Netflix)
All Her Fault (Peacock)
The Beast in Me (Netflix)
Black Mirror (Netflix)
Dying for Sex (FX on Hulu)
The Girlfriend (Prime Video)

Best performance by a male actor in a television series – drama
Winner: Noah Wyle (The Pitt)
Sterling K. Brown (Paradise)
Diego Luna (Andor)
Gary Oldman (Slow Horses)
Mark Ruffalo (Task)
Adam Scott (Severance)

Best performance by a female actor in a television series – drama
Winner: Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus)
Kathy Bates (Matlock)
Britt Lower (Severance)
Helen Mirren (Mobland)
Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us)
Keri Russell (The Diplomat)

Best performance by a female actor in a television series – musical or comedy
Winner: Jean Smart (Hacks)
Kristen Bell (Nobody Wants This)
Ayo Edebiri (The Bear)
Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building)
Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face)
Jenna Ortega (Wednesday)

Best performance by a male actor in a television series – musical or comedy
Winner: Seth Rogen (The Studio)
Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This)
Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)
Glen Powell (Chad Powers)
Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)
Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)

Best performance by a male actor in a supporting role on television
Winner: Owen Cooper (Adolescence)
Billy Crudup (The Morning Show)
Walton Goggins (The White Lotus)
Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus)
Tramell Tillman (Severance)
Ashley Walters (Adolescence)

Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role on television
Winner: Erin Doherty (Adolescence)
Carrie Coon (The White Lotus)
Hannah Einbinder (Hacks)
Catherine O'Hara (The Studio)
Parker Posey (The White Lotus)
Aimee Lou Wood (The White Lotus)

Best performance by a male actor in a limited series, anthology series, or a motion picture made for television
Winner: Stephen Graham (Adolescence)
Jacob Elordi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
Paul Giamatti (Black Mirror)
Charlie Hunnam (Monster: The Ed Gein Story)
Jude Law (Black Rabbit)
Matthew Rhys (The Beast in Me)

Best performance by a female actor in a limited series, anthology series, or a motion picture made for television
Winner: Michelle Williams (Dying for Sex)
Claire Danes (The Beast in Me)
Rashida Jones (Black Mirror)
Amanda Seyfried (Long Bright River)
Sarah Snook (All Her Fault)
Robin Wright (The Girlfriend)

Best performance in stand-up comedy on television
Winner: Ricky Gervais (Ricky Gervais: Mortality)
Bill Maher (Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?)
Brett Goldstein (Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life)
Kevin Hart (Kevin Hart: Acting My Age)
Kumail Nanjiani (Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts)
Sarah Silverman (Sarah Silverman: Postmortem)

Best podcast
Winner: Good Hang with Amy Poehler (Spotify)
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard (Wondery)
Call Her Daddy (SiriusXM)
The Mel Robbins Podcast (SiriusXM)
Smartless (SiriusXM)
Up First (NPR)

Downtown Los Angeles

a lively protest scene with a prominent figure in the foreground wearing a large inflatable frog costume. The frog costume is green with black markings, big red eyes, and a blue scarf tied around its neck. The person in the costume is holding a cardboard sign that reads: “RENEE GOOD ICE BAD” in bold, black letters.

a dramatic moment during a street protest. The scene is filled with smoke or incense, creating a hazy atmosphere that diffuses the sunlight streaming from the background. The lighting is warm and golden, suggesting late afternoon or early evening.

A protest taking place on a city street lined with historic buildings. The street is filled with a dense crowd of demonstrators holding various signs and banners.

A protest scene taking place outdoors on a city street during what appears to be late afternoon or early evening, as the sunlight is low and casts a warm golden glow across the crowd. A person is holding a prominent cardboard sign with bold, handwritten text that reads: “DISAPPEARED, MURDERED” in large orange and red letters at the top.

a street protest taking place near a bright red CitySightseeing Hollywood Los Angeles double-decker tour bus.

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A person holding a white sheet of paper with bold, handwritten and printed text. The paper reads:
At the top, in large handwritten letters: “NO MORE” Below that, in printed text:
“19 shootings 10 injuries 5 deaths”

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US-wide anti-ICE protests

People take to streets after Renee Good's death

By Chandelis Duster and Sergio Martínez-Beltrán | NPR

Published January 11, 2026 6:34 AM

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People have been taking to the streets nationwide this weekend to protest the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics following the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer this week.

Where things stand: At least 1,000 events across the U.S. were planned for Saturday and Sunday, according to Indivisible, a progressive grassroots coalition of activists helping coordinate the movement it calls "ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action."

In L.A.: Here's what we know about planned protests.

People have been taking to the streets nationwide this weekend to protest the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics following the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer this week.

At least 1,000 events across the U.S. were planned for Saturday and Sunday, according to Indivisible, a progressive grassroots coalition of activists helping coordinate the movement it calls "ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action."

Leah Greenberg, a co-executive director of Indivisible, said people are coming together to "grieve, honor those we've lost, and demand accountability from a system that has operated with impunity for far too long."

"Renee Nicole Good was a wife, a mother of three, and a member of her community. She, and the dozens of other sons, daughters, friends, siblings, parents, and community members who have been killed by ICE, should be alive today," Greenberg said in a statement on Friday. "ICE's violence is not a statistic, it has names, families, and futures attached to it, and we refuse to look away or stay silent."

Large crowds of demonstrators carried signs and shouted "ICE out now!" as protests continued across Minneapolis on Saturday. One of those protestors, Cameron Kritikos, told NPR that he is worried that the presence of more ICE agents in the city could lead to more violence or another death.

"If more ICE officers are deployed to the streets, especially a place here where there's very clear public opposition to the terrorizing of our neighborhoods, I'm nervous that there's going to be more violence," the 31-year grocery store worker said. "I'm nervous that there are going to be more clashes with law enforcement officials, and at the end of the day I think that's not what anyone wants."

The night before, hundreds of city and state police officers responded to a "noise protest" in downtown Minneapolis. An estimated 1,000 people gathered Friday night, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, and 29 people were arrested.

People demonstrated outside of hotels where ICE agents were believed to be staying. They chanted, played drums and banged pots. O'Hara said that a group of people split from the main protest and began damaging hotel windows. One police officer was injured from a chunk of ice that was hurled at officers, he added.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemned the acts of violence but praised what he said was the "vast majority" of protesters who remained peaceful, during a morning news conference.

"To anyone who causes property damage or puts others in danger: you will be arrested. We are standing up to Donald Trump's chaos not with our own brand of chaos, but with care and unity," Frey wrote on social media.

Commenting on the protests, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told NPR in a statement, "the First Amendment protects speech and peaceful assembly — not rioting, assault and destruction," adding, "DHS is taking measures to uphold the rule of law and protect public safety and our officers."

Good was fatally shot the day after DHS launched a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota set to deploy 2,000 immigration officers to the state.

In Philadelphia, police estimated about 500 demonstrators "were cooperative and peaceful" at a march that began Saturday morning at City Hall, Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson Tanya Little told NPR in a statement. And no arrests were made.

In Portland, Ore., demonstrators rallied and lined the streets outside of a hospital on Saturday afternoon, where immigration enforcement agents bring detainees who are injured during an arrest, reported Oregon Public Broadcasting.

A man and woman were shot and injured by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Thursday in the city. DHS said the shooting happened during a targeted vehicle stop and identified the driver as Luis David Nino-Moncada, and the passenger as Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, both from Venezuela. As was the case in their assertion about Good's fatal shooting, Homeland Security officials claimed the federal agent acted in self-defense after Nino-Moncada and Zambrano-Contreras "weaponized their vehicle."
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