By Scottie Andrew, CNN

(CNN) — Measles was eradicated in the Americas, Beyoncé made “Lemonade” and liberal hopes were high for the first woman president. Voters were encouraged to Pokémon Go to the polls. Remember 2016?

A decade on, celebrities and laypeople are sharing fond memories from 2016, the era of face “baking” and #ImWithHer, when some of the biggest national dramas pitted Kim Kardashian against Taylor Swift.

It was also an infamously terrible year. The Pulse nightclub massacre became the deadliest mass shooting in US history (until the following year). Prince and David Bowie died, among other lost treasures. Political schisms deepened and common ground collapsed. The ground was laid for an already dystopian 2026. How grim, then, is the present?

Celebrities loved 2016

Many women who were very famous in 2016 have been sharing photos online from their past, reminding followers all how much more famous they’ve since become. Kylie Jenner, who in 2016 was queen of Tumblr and the overdrawn pout, memorialized the launch of the lip kit that helped make her a billionaire. Supermodel Karlie Kloss remembered wearing chokers and using the Snapchat puppy filter, a true mid-2010s relic. Lena Dunham, Kloss’ fellow Taylor Swift “squad” member, reminisced about shooting “Girls.” And between behind-the-scenes “Big Little Lies” snaps, Reese Witherspoon also snuck in a 2016 photo of herself with Swift.

Then, the gushing. Celebrities and non-famous folks remembered 2016 as a time that was more carefree, even happier. Jeans were tighter, brows were blockier. It’s inspired some to return to or try on those 2016 aesthetics like a costume in the present.

“I loved this time and all my memories from then, so had to post!” Mindy Kaling captioned an Instagram carousel of herself in vibrant outfits from her “The Mindy Project” era. Longtime tech YouTuber iJustine commented on another creator’s post: “2016 was so great!!!!”

“I don’t think we ever left 2016,” added the Instagram account for the boho brand Free People (and based on its consistent

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Michelin stars are the highest honor in the culinary world and are currently awarded to only 3,766 restaurants around the world. Restaurants inspectors dine at each restaurant many times and evaluate based on five main criteria: ingredient quality, harmony of flavors, mastery of culinary techniques, how the chef’s personality shines through their cuisine, and consistency. You can read more about the award here.

Using data from the latest Michelin Guides, Stacker compiled a list of every Michelin-starred restaurant in Los Angeles. Across the U.S., the cities with the most Michelin-starred restaurants include New York City (69), San Francisco (26), Washington D.C. (23), Chicago (20), and Los Angeles (15).

Hayato
– Rating: 2 Stars
– Cuisine: Japanese, Seafood
– Price: $$$$
– Address: 1320 E. 7th St., Ste. 126, Los Angeles, CA, 90021, USA
– Read more on Michelin Guide

Restaurant Ki
– Rating: 1 Star
– Cuisine: Korean Contemporary
– Price: $$$$
– Address: 111 San Pedro St., Los Angeles, CA, 90012, USA
– Read more on Michelin Guide

Mori Nozomi
– Rating: 1 Star
– Cuisine: Japanese, Sushi
– Price: $$$$
– Address: 11500 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90064, USA
– Read more on Michelin Guide

Orsa & Winston
– Rating: 1 Star
– Cuisine: Contemporary, Asian
– Price: $$$$
– Address: 122 W. 4th St., Los Angeles, CA, 90013, USA
– Read more on Michelin Guide

Uka
– Rating: 1 Star
– Cuisine: Japanese
– Price: $$$$
– Address: 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Level 5, Los Angeles, CA, 90028, USA
– Read more on Michelin Guide

Morihiro
– Rating: 1 Star
– Cuisine: Japanese, Sushi
– Price: $$$$
– Address: 1115 Sunset Blvd., Ste. 100, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, USA
– Read more on Michelin Guide

Sushi Kaneyoshi
– Rating: 1 Star
– Cuisine: Japanese, Sushi
– Price: $$$$
– Address: 250 E. 1st St., B1, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, USA
– Read more on Michelin Guide

n/naka
– Rating: 1 Star
– Cuisine: Japanese, Contemporary
– Price: $$$$
– Address: 3455 S. Overland Ave.

Por Hanna Park y Taylor Romine, CNN

Una jueza federal dictaminó este viernes que los agentes que llevan a cabo el amplio operativo inmigratorio de la administración Trump en Minnesota no pueden arrestar ni implementar ciertas medidas de control de multitudes contra quienes participen en protestas pacíficas y sin obstrucciones.

La orden se produce mientras crece la indignación por dos tiroteos perpetrados por funcionarios del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) en Minneapolis en una semana.

Las nuevas restricciones a los agentes federales también llegan tras conocerse que el Departamento de Justicia está investigando al gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, y al alcalde de Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, por posible obstrucción a las fuerzas del orden federales, según informaron a CNN fuentes familiarizadas con el asunto.

La investigación plantea la posibilidad de consecuencias penales para los dos líderes demócratas, quienes han criticado abiertamente el aumento de la actividad federal que comenzó el mes pasado.

Grupos de manifestantes continuaron denunciando la represión inmigratoria en Minneapolis durante el día y la noche del viernes, a pesar de las gélidas temperaturas.

Las manifestaciones se intensificaron la semana pasada después de que Renee Good, de 37 años y madre de tres hijos, muriera a tiros en su auto a manos de un agente de ICE, y de nuevo una semana después, cuando otro funcionario disparó e hirió a un venezolano acusado de resistirse violentamente al arresto, según el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional.

Los agentes federales que trabajan en la Operación Metro Surge de la administración Trump en Minnesota no pueden arrestar ni tomar represalias contra manifestantes pacíficos ni usar “gas pimienta o municiones no letales similares y herramientas de dispersión de multitudes” contra ellos, dictaminó la jueza federal de distrito Katherine Menéndez en una orden judicial preliminar emitida el viernes.

Menéndez también afirmó que los agentes ya no pueden detener a los conductores cuando no existe una sospecha razonable y articulada de que estén obstruyendo o interfiriendo por la fuerza con las operaciones federales.

“El hecho de seguir con seguridad a los agentes a una distancia adecuada no crea, por sí solo, una sospecha razonable que justifique la detención de un vehículo”, añadió la jueza.

La orden sólo se aplica en Minnesota y sólo a los agentes involucrados en la operación actual, y no alcanza a otros funcionarios federales que manejan tareas rutinarias en otros lugares, especificó la orden.

En respuesta al fallo, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional declaró que está “tomando medidas apropiadas y constitucionales para defender el Estado de derecho y proteger a nuestros oficiales y al público de alborotadores peligrosos”.

La secretaria adjunta del DHS, Tricia McLaughlin, señaló que a pesar de estas amenazas, los agentes siguen el entrenamiento y usan “la mínima cantidad de fuerza necesaria para protegerse a sí mismos, al público y a la propiedad federal”.

La orden preliminar fue solicitada por activistas que presentaron una demanda el mes pasado alegando que el Gobierno federal violaba sus derechos constitucionales.

Este caso es independiente de otra demanda presentada por Minnesota y las Ciudades Gemelas el lunes, que busca el fin, por orden judicial, de lo que

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN

(CNN) — Clay Crystal was sitting on his front porch in Jackson, Mississippi, as a child in 1967 when he heard the thunderous sound of an explosion echo through his neighborhood.

“I had no idea what it was,” said Crystal, who was 13 at the time.

He’d later learn from his father, then president of the Beth Israel Congregation, that their rabbi’s house had been bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. Their temple, the state’s oldest synagogue, had been destroyed in a similar bombing two months before.

Like many in the Jewish community, his parents struggled to move forward. Fearful of more bombs being planted, they made Crystal sleep in a room in the back of their house rather than his bedroom, facing the front yard.

“It was a scary time for sure,” said Crystal, who at 72 is still attending Beth Israel.

Nearly 60 years later, the community is reliving the horror of those bombings after an arson fire left the walls of the Beth Israel temple severely damaged and its library destroyed.

The 19-year-old suspect, identified by the FBI as Stephen Spencer Pittman, set fire to the building last Saturday and confessed to starting the blaze because of its “Jewish ties,” according to a criminal complaint.

Pittman was arrested and charged with “arson of property used in interstate commerce or used in an activity affecting interstate commerce” according to the complaint. He was also indicted on a state charge of first-degree arson of a place of worship with a hate crime enhancement, according to a statement obtained by Mississippi Free Press.

While Beth Israel Congregation Rabbi Benjamin Russell has been processing the “sadness, anger, bitterness” of seeing the synagogue destroyed, the damage has also been a reminder of the impact of the 1967 bombings.

“We are kind of living through a repeat of that because the same spaces that were destroyed then are the same spaces that have been destroyed now in a different manner,” Russell said.

1960s bombings loom large in Jackson

The 1967 bombing came during the historic civil rights movement that saw Black activists, often supported by Jewish leaders, fighting and marching for equality as their churches and homes were bombed and set on fire by the Klan and other people opposing racial integration.

Jewish leaders were also instrumental in the funding and creation of civil rights groups such as the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, according to the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.

On September 18, 1967, Klan members bombed Beth Israel’s temple, destroying most of the rabbi’s office and the library, according to the Institute of Southern Jewish Life.

Two months later, its members bombed Rabbi Perry Nussbaum’s house while he and his wife were home. They were not seriously injured.

Nussbaum, who took the reins of Beth Israel in 1954, was an

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN

(CNN) — After pushback from both gun rights and gun control groups, the Trump administration has quietly abandoned its plan to merge the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to people briefed on the matter.

The decision comes as the White House works to secure Senate confirmation for Robert Cekada, who is nominated as director of the ATF. The agency has struggled with lengthy leadership vacuums amid the political turbulence that comes with regulating guns in the United States.

If confirmed, Cekada would be only the third leader, and the first in a Republican administration, to win Senate approval in the 20 years since the post became subject to Senate confirmation.

Cekada currently serves as deputy ATF director and is a 21-year veteran of the agency. The current acting director, Daniel Driscoll, also serves as army secretary, and while he was initially viewed as a skeptic of agency, he has become a champion of its violent crime work, according to people briefed on the matter.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced plans last year to merge ATF into the DEA, a proposal that would require Congressional budgetary approval and is part of the early administration-wide effort to shrink the size of federal government agencies.

But it was a proposal that had surfaced several other times over the years, as administrations have wrestled with what to do with an agency that is often buffeted by the politics surrounding gun rights issues. Joe Biden, when he was vice president, floated the idea in discussions about a task force that was set up to tackle mass shootings and gun crime in the Obama administration.

Officials involved in the proposal told CNN at the time of Blanche’s proposal that the two agencies had different missions — ATF is tasked with investigating violent crime, gun trafficking, arson and bombings, while DEA agents enforce the nation’s drug laws — but they naturally went hand-in-hand.

“Where there are drugs there are usually guns, and where there are guns there are usually drugs,” one of the officials previously told CNN.

The effort was re-affirmed in June, when Justice Department officials suggested eliminating the ATF “as a separate component, with its functions merged into the Drug Enforcement Administration,” leaving the DEA as “a single component that will address violent crime, drug enforcement, and crimes relating to firearms” in their budget proposal.

Administration officials’ expectations that pro-Trump gun-rights groups would welcome the plans were dashed almost immediately.

Some conservative and gun-rights groups have long called for the ATF’s abolishment but raised concerns that a merger with another agency would empower the agency’s gun-related efforts, not weaken them. The MAGA groups want ATF gone and the laws it enforces repealed. Giving its powers to another agency makes things worse, a gun rights source told CNN.

“Regulating guns is a hot potato. Everyone is for eradicating illegal drugs. Not everyone is for gun regulation,” one person involved in the Trump administration discussions that followed the Blanche memo told CNN.

Democrats and left-leaning gun control groups also decried the plan as an attempt to sideline ATF and harm efforts to reduce gun violence. But at the White House, the backlash from conservatives froze any momentum for the merger. Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, was initially in favor of merging the agencies but later came to advocate for the ATF’s role in crime-fighting efforts in cities, a top priority for the president, p