Good morning. It’s Monday, and I’m reading about how a woman got trapped in a Lake Tahoe gondola overnight. The very last line of that article reads “[She] did not find the survival kit in the gondola,” which sent me, because I can’t tell if it’s an ill-advised diss or just weird editing. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

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23andMe is accused in a class-action lawsuit of neglecting to notify customers with Jewish and Chinese heritage that they were specifically targeted in a data breach last year. The lawsuit alleges that the San Francisco-based genetic testing company only discovered the data breach six months after it happened, and that a hacker leaked the names, addresses and birth dates of over 1 million customers of Jewish ancestry — later offering to sell data about “wealthy families serving Zionism” — and released profile information for 100,000 Chinese customers at the request of someone on an internet forum.

Staff / The New York Times

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The LA City Council is looking to crack down on thieves stealing copper wiring from public light fixtures, a phenomenon that’s surged over the last year and has reportedly cost the city at least $17 million in repairs. Two council members introduced a motion that would, most notably, allow people to email a hotline to report thefts in return for monetary compensation. “The city, quite literally, is being stripped for parts,” the motion read.

Angie Orellana Hernandez / Los Angeles Times

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When Gov. Gavin Newsom flew to South Carolina last week to stump for President Biden’s reelection, voters seemed more interested in 2028 — when Newsom will presumably run himself. As with many California politicians looking to export their brands to the national stage, the biggest question Newsom faced is whether he’s “too liberal” to win a nationwide election. Two-thirds of California’s land mass is deeply red, Newsom noted. A group of high school boys, though, had a much more pressing question: Does he know Snoop Dogg? “Gov.,” read a text Newsom pulled up in response. “it’s snoop.”

Christopher Cadelago / Politico

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Former LA City Councilmember José Huizar was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for racketeering and tax evasion. Prosecutors said that Huizar, 55, once seen as a rising star in LA politics, accepted lavish gifts from developers in exchange for helping them move projects along in his district. Those gifts included all-expenses-paid trips to Las Vegas with prostitutes, rides on private jets and hundreds of thousands of dollars in casino chips.

Frank Stoltze / LAist

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California’s DMV rejects vanity plates that it deems too inappropriate for the road using a set of policies that are somewhat hilarious in and of themselves. For instance, the number 69 is banned wholesale from California license plates, except for on vehicles from that year. But the real fun comes from the actual rejected plates. Here are a few of my favorites from 2023: “HONKY69,” “EVMYASS,” “SESYTOY,” “THTBCH” and “ELON 69.” And though I’d like to clarify that I do not condone these, the two that really got me were “RACIST” and “LKENACI.” Like, what was the thought process?

Emma Stiefel / San Francisco Chronicle

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