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Anyone in Los Angeles will be able to digitally hail a Waymo robotaxi starting Tuesday, but don’t expect self-driving cars to hit the highways. Waymo announced Tuesday it would launch its Waymo One service in the county, but vehicle use would be limited to roadways, and the startup, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet, has been testing vehicles equipped with sensors for months. It’s here. This service is accessible 24 hours a day through the app. Los Angeles officials are skeptical and are calling for increased vehicle safety oversight as future growth looms and unions raise concerns about job…

After a short break over the weekend, strong winds are back in Southern California. “You can hear it, you can see it, you can feel it,” KTLA 5’s Carlos Herrera said simply about the winds in the San Fernando Valley Tuesday morning. “Northerly winds” will be felt across the region, the National Weather Service said during a regional forecast discussion. Wind gusts could reach 40 mph in some locations, the NWS said. KTLA 5 Meteorologist Henry DiCarlo reiterated that wind speeds are likely to be highest in Ventura County and western Los Angeles County, where wildfires are currently burning. Other…

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced further job cuts on Tuesday, citing “ongoing funding challenges.” The layoffs will affect 325 employees, or about 5% of JPL’s workforce, and will affect the space agency’s technical, business and support employees. JPL Director Laurie Leshin said the layoffs will take place Wednesday, when all JPL employees were told to work from home. Lesin said the number of planned layoffs is “lower than expected months ago, thanks in part to the hard work of so many people across JPL.” “While the employee evaluations carried out as part of this process were extensive and thorough and…

Eminem, Boy George, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Janet Jackson, the Doobie Brothers, NWA and Alanis Morissette are inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, an eclectic group of rap, rock, hip-hop and pop artists. Trailblazers are among the nominees for the Class of 2025. On the ballot will be Bryan Adams, whose radio classics include “Summer of ’69” and “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?,” and Mike from the Beach Boys, 25 years after the band’s founder Brian Wilson.・Love is also participating in the vote. . David Gates, co-lead singer of pop music group Bread, is also looking for…

But the Nov. 5 election revealed that voters in the region have limits to their compassion. Motivated by pent-up frustration over property crime and homelessness, and a sense that San Francisco and Oakland have lost control of their streets, Bay Area voters went to the right in last week’s elections, ousting both cities’ mayors and ousting them. Rejected a small number of leftists. Wing candidate. And in a stunning rebuke to the progressive movement for criminal justice reform that the region once championed, a majority of voters in all nine Bay Area counties voted to impose harsher penalties for habitual…

The Los Angeles Unified School District on Tuesday announced details about its pending cell phone ban on school campuses starting in January 2025. The district’s presentation to the school board said LAUSD’s policy is in line with the Cell Phone Ban Act, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, which requires all school districts to develop policies that limit or ban the use of smartphones. It was shown that Starting with the second semester of the 2024-2025 academic year, students will no longer be able to use cell phones on campus during class hours. This means you need to turn off your…

Is it a toaster? Is that a pill on the wheel? No, it’s Zoox’s funny looking robotaxis. It’s the latest fully autonomous vehicle on the streets of California.Zoox’s self-driving cars began operating in San Francisco’s SoMa district this week and are expected to compete with robotaxis designed by Waymo, which began offering ride-hailing services to the public in San Francisco and Los Angeles earlier this year. But it’s not complete yet. For now, Zoox’s unmanned trips around SoMa are for testing and research purposes only. “Since 2017, our test vehicles have been driving autonomously on the streets of San Francisco…

WASHINGTON — The morning after former President Trump won a second term on a promise to deport millions of immigrants, a line formed outside a Riverside County legal aid organization even before it opened.Lawful permanent residents were seeking assistance with their citizenship applications. Asylum seekers who had given their home addresses to the federal government wondered if they should pack up and move. TODEC Legal Center in Riverside County is helping immigrants prepare for President Trump’s re-election (Mark Boster/For the Times) A woman in the country illegally reported to the organization that her children refused to go to school for…

Public health researchers at the University of California, San Diego tested 78 online retailers’ compliance with federal and local regulations regarding flavored e-cigarette products. For most people, the answer was no. To prevent young people from becoming addicted to tobacco, Congress took two steps in 2020 to prevent minors from purchasing e-cigarette products online while posing as adults. It prohibited e-cigarette sites from delivering through the U.S. Postal Service and required delivery by any delivery method. The service they used to verify the recipient’s identity.California added its own twist that year, banning most flavored tobacco products. Although the ban did…

Days after the general election that marked the midpoint of his term as Los Angeles County Sheriff, Robert Luna said he “absolutely” intends to run again in 2026.Luna issued a short statement on Sunday amid rumors that he was planning to resign due to health issues.”It’s not true,” he told the Times. “I have no health problems. I will definitely run for re-election.”The little-known former Long Beach police chief came out of retirement two years ago to run for sheriff as a sober antidote to what he once described as the “dysfunction and chaos” of his predecessor, Alex Villanueva. positioned…