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China's Ministry of Commerce added Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger parent PVH Corp. to its Unreliable Entity List, accusing the company of boycotting Xinjiang cotton and "cutting normal transactions with Chinese enterprises," following a probe opened in September 2024.

Goldman Sachs ended its policy of taking companies public in the US and Western Europe only if they had at least two diverse board members, one of them a woman, citing legal developments after Nasdaq's diversity rule was struck down.

Mayor Karen Bass removed Kristin Crowley as Los Angeles fire chief, saying 1,000 firefighters were sent home the morning the fires broke out and that Crowley refused to write an after-action report.

Facing a nearly $1 billion shortfall, Mayor Karen Bass signed Los Angeles's roughly $14 billion 2025-26 budget on the charter deadline, restoring more than 1,000 of the positions her April plan had slated for layoff.

Declaring a local emergency after 23 businesses were looted, Mayor Karen Bass ordered an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew across roughly a square mile of downtown Los Angeles, bounded by the 5, 10 and 110 freeways, and lifted it a week later.

Mayor Karen Bass signed agreements with SEIU 721, AFSCME and other unions that averted the last of the roughly 600 civil-service layoffs and the planned furloughs in the 2025-26 budget, closing the city's $1 billion deficit.

Qualcomm's tenth Snapdragon Summit ran three days in Maui, where it launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 phone chip and the 5 GHz Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and X2 Elite PC processors, with Google's Rick Osterloh, Adobe's Shantanu Narayen and HUMAIN's Tareq Amin on stage.

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and X2 Elite, 3 nm Windows PC processors with up to 18 Oryon cores, the first Arm-compatible CPU to reach 5 GHz and an 80 TOPS NPU, for laptops in the first half of 2026.

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 3 nm phone chip with a 4.74 GHz third-generation Oryon CPU that it called the world's fastest mobile system-on-a-chip, for flagships from Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus and a dozen other brands.

The Red Roses beat Canada 33-13 before a capacity 81,885 at Twickenham for their third Rugby World Cup and first since 2014, with two tries from Alex Matthews.

The Los Angeles Fire Department published its 70-page After-Action Review of the first 36 hours of the Palisades Fire, citing too few resources on the initial attack, communication lapses and water shortages.

At an HHS press conference, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announce that the FDA will remove the breast cancer, heart disease and dementia boxed warnings that have covered menopausal hormone therapy since the early 2000s.

In the first year of a multi-year deal, Lululemon dressed the tournament's staff, officials and ball crew, ran an 8,000 sq ft pop-up, and Frances Tiafoe debuted its first sweat-concealing ShowZero fabric on court.

The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-3 to slow the raises in its Olympic Wage ordinance, pushing hotel and airport workers' $30 minimum from the 2028 Games to 2030, as business groups withdrew a ballot measure to repeal the city business tax.

Mayor Karen Bass signed a $14.85 billion balanced budget for fiscal 2026-27, $750 million more than the year before, keeping Inside Safe, funding 510 new police officers and more street and sidewalk repair.

In the 2 June 2026 primary Mayor Karen Bass led with 34.3% and Councilmember Nithya Raman overtook Spencer Pratt for second as late ballots were counted, setting up a November runoff between two Democrats.

After 14 years of stalled foundations, construction officially restarted on 2 World Trade Center with a groundbreaking ceremony, anchored by American Express as its future headquarters tenant.

The 2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count found 45,194 people homeless in the City of Los Angeles, up 3.4%, and about 73,000 countywide, up 1.2%, driven by a 7.9% rise in unsheltered homelessness in the city.

The EU's Cyber Resilience Act reaches its first live phase: manufacturers of any product with digital elements sold in the EU must report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents to ENISA and their national CSIRT - an early warning within 24 hours, a full notification within 72, and a final report within 14 days.

The CFDA Fashion Awards presented by Amazon Fashion will take place Monday, November 2, 2026 at the American Museum of Natural History, the fourth consecutive year American fashion's biggest awards night has been held at the Upper West Side museum.

Mayor Karen Bass faces Councilmember Nithya Raman in the 3 November 2026 general municipal election, the first all-Democrat runoff for LA mayor after Raman edged out Spencer Pratt in June; the winner starts a four-year term on 14 December.

Los Angeles voters decide six charter amendments from the city's charter reform process, including a two-year budget and a parks funding guarantee, plus a half-cent sales tax for the Fire Department and a transfer-tax break for January 2025 fire victims.

The season-ending championship for the top eight singles players and doubles teams moves from Riyadh to the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in California for 8-15 November, after the WTA ended its Saudi hosting deal a year early.

PVH Corp. is expected to report third-quarter fiscal 2026 results in early December 2026, after a second quarter in which profitability beat expectations even as revenue slipped 3% under the company's "PVH+" turnaround plan.

Major construction begins on the Hillcrest Medical Center Renewal Project, replacing the hospital built as the county hospital in 1963 with about 800,000 square feet holding roughly 300 licensed beds and a Level One trauma centre. The wider Hillcrest redevelopment is a ten-year, $2.5-3 billion programme finishing in 2033.

Every obligation the Cyber Resilience Act carries comes into force: products with digital elements may only be placed on the EU market if they meet the Act's essential cybersecurity requirements, carry a conformity assessment and are supported with security updates for their declared support period.