Anti-abortion activist discovers nobody likes her
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, and I can’t get enough of the Elon crosswalk button. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles, and California stories you need to know for today.
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Anti-abortion activist Lydia Taylor Davis visited campus yesterday for her “Abortion is Violence” tour. After Charlie Kirk’s rowdy visit, she seemed liable to draw a crowd … except only, like, six people talked to her. “It was a lot,” said freshman Huckleberry Young. “I kind of got roped into that.”
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A suspected gang-related shooting at the corner of Vermont Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard left three people injured around 4:10 p.m. yesterday. Two 16-year-old boys are stable in the hospital, and a woman in her 50s is in critical condition. Police are searching for two teenagers who they say shot the victims then fled.
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The California DMV routinely fails to revoke licenses from drivers with horrifying histories of reckless and dangerous driving, a CalMatters investigation found. Drivers often retain licenses after DUIs, crashes, and numerous tickets. Some of those drivers go on to kill people. Sometimes, they go on to kill a second person.
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Harvard University unequivocally rejected the Trump administration’s preposterous demands in an enviable display of a backbone — then was promptly rewarded with a $2 billion funding freeze. “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” President Alan Garber wrote.
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A homeless man in San Luis Obispo won $1 million from a lottery scratcher. The odds of winning such a prize are 1 in 2,047,423. “I just can’t wait to get off the streets,” the unidentified man said in a viral video, whose caption noted that he and his wife have been homeless “for a long time.”