L.A.’s Private Firefighters, and U.S. Childhood Vaccination Rates Fall

Plus, remembering a civil rights Freedom Rider. On Today’s Episode: Dangerous Winds Are Forecast as Crews Battle L.A. Wildfires , by Yan Zhuang, Amy Graff and Jonathan Wolfe Childhood Vaccination Rates Were Falling Even Before the Rise of R.F.K. Jr. , by Francesca Paris Israeli Security Chiefs Join Critical Talks for a Cease-Fire in Gaza , by Isabel Kershner, Adam Rasgon and Ronen Bergman Inside Trump’s Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown , by Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82 , by Clay Risen Tune in every weekday morning. To get our full audio journalism and storytelling experience, download the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter. Tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher . For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.