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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

I grew up in West Los Angeles, right on the border of Pacific Palisades, and that irreplaceable town was a landscape of my childhood. The devastation there and in Altadena is almost beyond comprehension; but resilience really is a default setting in southern California, and in the past week an extraordinary number of relief and rebuilding initiatives have been…