On her first day in office, the new Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass talked to us about fighting homelessness, being in a group of Black mayors leading the nation's four biggest cities and going forward after a personal tragedy. And, researchers zapped hydrogen fuel with lasers and generated more energy than the lasers put in. But a future with carbon-free fusion energy is still decades away. Physicist Omar Hurricane tells us more. Then, the holiday season often means family recipes. We hear from Sujata Halarnkar, a listener from Yuma, Arizona, as part of our series sharing your family recipes.