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Good morning, and happy birthday to Anna, my dear colleague. To celebrate her 19th, she’ll get to spend hours putting together tomorrow morning’s newsletter with me. Thanks, Anna! And now, here’s the news you need to know for today. |
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1. Expect traffic on Saturday — like, lots of it. Los Angeles Football Club will play for the MLS Cup at the Banc of California Stadium in the early afternoon, followed by an evening kickoff as USC takes on Cal at the Coliseum just across the street. |
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2. An L.A. Police Department captain tipped off CBS executives when a woman reported that CBS’ former CEO sexually assaulted her, the New York attorney general’s office concluded in a sweeping report. When the woman reported the harassment to the LAPD in 2017, a captain secretly provided Leslie Moonves — the former CEO — and other CBS executives with status updates on the LAPD’s investigation as well as personal details about the accuser. |
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3. Unexpected storms “decapitated” California’s fire season on the heels of a historic September heat wave. The wet weather might seem unusual, but experts say it’s actually typical for California; the past couple fire seasons have been out of the ordinary. |
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4. Southern California Gas Co. is searching for alternative sources of revenue as the state works to ban the sale of gas furnaces and water heaters starting in 2030. Unlike other major California utilities that also have electricity businesses, SoCalGas deals only in natural gas. The utility, which serves 21.8 million customers, is exploring repurposing its system to transport green hydrogen, an energy source that doesn’t emit carbon. |
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5. A new state law bans public and private universities from a practice known as “scholarship displacement,” which is when universities reduce financial aid to students who accept private scholarships. Scholarship displacement can often mean that students who earn outside grants end up with a net-zero gain when universities decrease their initial financial aid packages. |
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6. California launched a website that will let victims of sexual assault track the status of their rape kits — forensic exams that can help law enforcement identify perpetrators. The site’s launch is part of an effort to address widespread complaints about a backlog in processing. |
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7. Animals at the L.A. Zoo are in for a treat. Grocery stores and pumpkin patches across the city are donating unsold pumpkins to the zoo for animals to smash, feed and play with. |
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Nation / world |
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President Joe Biden warned that GOP candidates who refuse to accept the midterm election results will lead the U.S. down a “path of chaos” and put democracy at risk in a primetime address. (The Washington Post) CVS and Walgreens, the two largest drugstore companies in the U.S., agreed to pay over $10 billion to resolve opioid-crisis lawsuits despite saying the settlements are not admissions of guilt or wrongdoing. (The Wall Street Journal) Elon Musk is expected to fire around half of Twitter’s employees and remove the company’s work-from-anywhere policy on Friday. (Bloomberg) Up to 100,000 people are being held captive in Cambodia, lured by promises of high-paying jobs then forced to work for Chinese cybercriminals. (Los Angeles Times) The Ethiopian government and leaders in the northern Tigray region agreed to a truce as the second anniversary of the start of the civil war arrives. (The New York Times)
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Other things we’re reading |
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Tomo’s picks: “Jerry Lee Lewis Was an SOB Right to the End” (New York) “Underwater cables keep the internet online. When they congregate in one place, things get tricky.” (WIRED) “Inside the Secret Mansions of Montecito, California’s Discreet Hamptons” (Bloomberg)
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In case you missed it |
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Los Angeles County will pay $47.6 million to settle several lawsuits alleging misconduct by sheriff’s deputies. In three cases, deputies shot people; in a fourth, they failed to prevent an inmate from killing himself and in a fifth, a man suffering a mental health crisis died after being violently restrained by deputies. |
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Orange County declared a health emergency as its hospitals overflow from an early surge of respiratory infections, particularly respiratory syncytial virus among children. The broader United States is seeing an unusually early surge in pediatric RSV cases. |
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