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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers from using gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to people. 🔗 Learn more: vist.ly/5kcyj ✍️ Sophie Austin | The Associated Press 📸 Dylan Lovan/AP Photo

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California is now the second state to recognize the two main Muslim holidays as state holidays. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5kc94 ✍️ Yusra Farzan 📸 Courtesy ISOC

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Los Angeles County will begin sending mail-in ballots starting this Thursday ahead of the Nov. 3 elections. Counties across the state have until next Monday, Oct. 5, to begin mailing out ballots. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5kbvw ✍️ Elly Yu 📸 Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

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Have a gun? You’re going to need to take another safety class after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills Saturday that are a boon to gun control advocates. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5k976 ✍️ Mikhail Zinshteyn | CalMatters 📸 Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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California will ban the sale of single-use, battery-powered vapes to fight plastic pollution under a law signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5k93v ✍️ Olga R. Rodriguez | Associated Press 📸 Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

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The Orange County Transportation Authority board declared coastal erosion conditions an emergency, allowing the agency to speedily replenish sand at San Clemente’s beaches. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5k8xg ✍️ Destiny Torres 📸 Orange County Transportation Authority

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The forum, which starts at 6:30 p.m., is sponsored by a coalition of Jewish groups including Jewish Federation Los Angeles, Jewish Family Services and the Anti-Defamation League of L.A. LAist will broadcast the event at 8 p.m. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5k8tg ✍️ Frank Stoltze 📸 LAist

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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed two pieces of legislation aimed at increasing accountability and protections for communities in the aftermath of the Lineage warehouse fire. 🔗 Learn more: vist.ly/5k8qp ✍️ Alejandra Molina | Boyle Heights Beat 📸 Brian Feinzimer/The LA Local

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The latest budget from the Olympics organizing committee for the 2028 Games is now public, but like other reports from LA28, it’s light on key financial details. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5k8q3 ✍️ Libby Rainey 📸 Bonnie Ho/LAist

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As Californians drown in medical debt and worry about losing coverage, the two candidates running for governor have given voters little indication of how they’d help. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5k8mc ✍️ Ana B. Ibarra | CalMatters 📸 Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images/Jules Hotz/CalMatters

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California officials say they will not use a federal database pushed by the Trump administration to check voter eligibility. That’s after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way last week. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5k8gi ✍️ Elly Yu 📸 Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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As Californians drown in medical debt and worry about losing coverage, the two candidates running for governor have given voters little indication of how they’d help. 🔗 More details: vist.ly/5k8de ✍️ Ana B. Ibarra | CalMatters 📸 Jules Hotz/CalMatters, Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images

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The Trump administration announced Monday it's scaling back how fuel efficient American carmakers need to make their fleets. 🔗 More details: vist.ly/5k86w ✍️ Willa Rubin | NPR 📸 Apu Gomes/Getty Images

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California lawmakers are cracking down on expensive concert experiences by targeting “ghost tickets” — so called because the person selling access to the show doesn’t actually own the ticket yet. 🔗 Read the story: vist.ly/5k72b ✍️ Lynn La | CalMatters 📸 Andrew Park/Invision via AP

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The debate over the safety of AI and whether and how it should be regulated is not a simple clash between two opposing sides. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5k78h ✍️ Katie McQue | NPR 📸 AFP via Getty Images/Collage by Emily Bogle/NPR

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Shohei Ohtani has become the first player to lead Major League Baseball jersey sales at the end of four straight seasons since the sport started tracking figures in 2010. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jytm ✍️ The Associated Press staff 📸 Ronald Martinez/Getty Images North America

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It’s no secret that childcare is expensive — and unaffordable — for many families. In L.A. County, costs for childcare take up, on average, nearly 20% of a family’s household income. What are Karen Bass and Nithya Raman's plans for expanding childcare? 🎥 Elly Yu, Joshua Letona

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Leading up to November, LAist looked at who is financing the campaigns behind the Orange County Board of Supervisors races and how much they're putting down. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jype ✍️ Destiny Torres 📸 Samanta Helou Hernandez/LAist

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Southern California is expected to dodge the brunt of Hurricane Polo, but the storm is expected to cause coastal erosion, flooding, dangerous rip currents and light rain. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jx87 ✍️ Lucas Brady Woods 📸 NOAA / NWS

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Los Angeles fire investigators stopped short of identifying what caused the June fire at the Lineage warehouse in Boyle Heights. 🔗 Read the story: vist.ly/5jx5c ✍️ Christopher Damien | Boyle Heights Beat 📸 Jae C. Hong/AP Photo

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The City of Long Beach is pushing back against requests to release information about a sustained misconduct finding from the personnel file of one of its former officers — even as more details come out about past incidents. 🔗 Find out more at LAist.com/LBPD 🎥 Jared Bennett, Joshua Letona

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Depression increased 36% and anxiety increased 22% among patients seen at AltaMed after the Lineage warehouse fire, according to a new report released Thursday. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5jwyt ✍️ Laura Anaya-Morga | Boyle Heights Beat 📸 Courtesy AltaMed

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Two years ago, LAist food and culture writer Gab Chabrán called Yerod Mas, an Armenian bakery and Deli in Glendale, the next best L.A. restaurant. The New York Times just released its Best Restaurants List for 2026, and guess who made the cut? 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jwwj ✍️ Gab Chabrán

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A federal appeals court today rejected the Trump administration’s latest attempt to sideline the L.A. region’s lead homelessness agency from a $239 million federal funding process. 🔗 Read the story: vist.ly/5jwtq ✍️ Aaron Schrank 📸 Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

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A group of residents is forming a neighborhood watch group after the LAPD reported at least six home burglaries over a three-week period this summer in South L.A. 🔗 Read the story: vist.ly/5jwsv ✍️ LaMonica Peters | The LA Local 📸 Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press

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Pour yourself a cup of ambition. It’s Dolly Parton Day. Across the world, communities are dedicating Friday to honoring the beloved country singer. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5jwbv ✍️ Kimberlee Kruesi | The Associated Press 📸 John Russell/AP Photo

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The U.S. Supreme Court has for now revived a federal data system the Department of Homeland Security revamped into a tool to check the citizenship of millions of Americans on voter rolls. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5jwbt ✍️ Jude Joffe-Block | NPR 📸 David Delgado/AP

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After a fire scorched more than a third of Santa Rosa Island this spring, the race is on to protect what remains of a beloved grove of rare Torrey pines. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5jw49 ✍️ Erin Stone 📸 National Park Service/inciweb.wildfire.gov

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The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage leaped to 7.03% on Thursday, according to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., which also goes by Freddie Mac. 🔗 Read more: vist.ly/5jsk4 ✍️ Stephan Bisaha | NPR 📸 Joe Raedle/Getty Images

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A new report from the ACLU and Amnesty International USA details how universities like the University of California, Los Angeles violated free speech laws and imposed severe punishments on students. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jsiu ✍️ Yusra Farzan 📸 Brian Feinzimer/LAist

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In back-to-back rulings, CA Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Riverside Sheriff Bianco broke the law when he seized more than 650,000 ballots earlier this year. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jset ✍️ Ben Christopher, Nigel Duara | CalMatters 📸 Anjali Sharif-Paul/The Sun via Getty Images

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The LAX People Mover train is facing new delays due to issues with the final stage of testing and ongoing disputes with the city of Los Angeles. The contractor’s latest estimate has the train opening in January. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jr2n ✍️ Kavish Harjai 📸 Kavish Harjai / LAist

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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore access to the three media organizations banned from covering White House events last week by President Trump. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jr54 ✍️ David Folkenflik, Juliana Kim | NPR 📸 Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

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The Los Angeles Police Department is planning to deploy thousands of officers a day during the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and it estimates it will cost $732 million to do so. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jqs6 ✍️ Libby Rainey 📸 David McNew/Getty Images

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The 2025 Los Angeles firestorms led California and L.A. County to consider adopting “disaster registries,” an emergency management strategy for people based on age, disability or other health conditions. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jqd6 ✍️ Timothy Lane 📸 Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

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Tanner Blackman’s job is to push housing projects through L.A.s’ famously slow permitting process. With a torrent of state laws aimed at streamlining and speeding up approvals. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jpz6 ✍️ Ben Christopher | CalMatters 📸 Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters

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Insurance companies are starting to write new policies in California again after years of holding back as wildfire risk climbed higher. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jmvh ✍️ Levi Sumagaysay | CalMatters 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters

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MacArthur Park got an unexpected guest Tuesday: Justin Bieber, who joined several members of his band for an impromptu performance. 🔗 Read more: vist.ly/5jmt5 ✍️ Hanna Kang | The LA Local 📸 Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

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CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued President Trump over his White House ban, citing the First Amendment. DOJ says the outlets published falsehoods and sensitive info. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jmst ✍️ David Folkenflik | NPR 📸 Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo

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