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The L.A. City Controller has subpoenaed the Olympics organizing committee over financial records. California voters are feeling overwhelmed by what's on the ballot. Banana Ball is coming to Dodger Stadium next year.

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An empty high school classroom with rows of tan desk-chair combos and navy seats on a glossy blue floor. Small labels sit on several desktops. The walls hold handwritten poster paper, framed black-and-white photos, a green, white and orange flag, and posters including a Dodgers logo, a photo of a white columned building and a “We Can Do It!” Rosie the Riveter print above a counter and sink. Gray storage cabinets stand in the back corner.
LAUSD built schools to combat overcrowding. Today, enrollment is down
Red fireworks burst above the Hollywood Bowl’s illuminated band shell at night as performers in colorful costumes stand onstage under bright white stage lights. A large crowd fills the seats and the area in front of the stage, which is decorated with palm trees, colorful artwork panels and a large inflated face with an open mouth.
Lauren Halsey turned the Hollywood Bowl into a funk opera
Dozens of electric bikes with fat tires crowd together on a sunlit curb outside a school building, several with bike helmets hanging from their handlebars and one with its rear tire chained. Behind them, a banner on a chain-link fence reads “Newport Theatre Arts” and shows posters for productions including “A Few Good Men” and “Urinetown.”
OC is cracking down on e-bikes
A pianist in a cream button-up shirt and jeans plays a black grand piano on an outdoor stage, while several audience members lie on the stage floor beneath and beside the piano. Behind them, sunlit hills rise to the Hollywood sign under a clear blue sky, with more concertgoers seated in lawn chairs in the background.
He trucked his grand piano into Griffith Park
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, in a tan uniform with four gold stars on each collar and a dark green tie, speaks into microphones at a lectern. His badge carries a black mourning band, and an American flag patch is on his shoulder. A U.S. flag hangs out of focus behind him.
Riverside sheriff broke election law, California Supreme Court rules. What's next?
A pine tree with a blackened, charred trunk and lower branches still holds a full green canopy. It stands on bare ground covered in gray ash and scorched soil, under a clear blue sky.
Santa Rosa Island fire: The race to save rare Torrey pines
Actor Jon Voight in a black jacket and grey sweater standing next to President Donald Trump sporting a black suit and red tie.
Is Hollywood dead? How President Trump says he'll revive it
A man in a red cap holds up a ramen burger with noodle buns over a bowl of ramen at a sunny outdoor table.
The ramen burger is back — inside Keizo Shimamoto's lowkey Irvine kitchen
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It's more than Star Wars at the Lucas Museum
A smiling woman with short curly hair and glasses, wearing a magenta blazer over a white top, stands surrounded by supporters holding "Vote Karen Bass for Mayor" campaign signs.
Congress warns Bass: 'Every tool' will be used to get her testimony
Olympics Monday
Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia in front of City Hall. (Courtesy of Kenneth Mejia)
LA city controller subpoenas LA28, demanding financial documents
L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia says his office is demanding LA28 hand over documents detailing its finances, contracts and budgets for venue construction projects.
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Follow the fast-moving developments under the Trump Administration.
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Justice Department threatens California with legal action over claim of noncitizens on voter rolls
The U.S. Department of Justice has threatened California with possible legal action over what it says are noncitizens believed to have received mail ballots.
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How to take part in Friday's first-ever meeting of LA County Ethics Commission
Only three of seven members serve now. Four members of the public will be picked for the remaining four seats.
Education
Blocks and benches of wood are placed in a circle in between trees in a school playground.
Most LAUSD campuses have few tree canopies where students play. Parents want to change that
Twenty-six percent of Los Angeles Unified School District schools have a critically low tree canopy of less than 5%.
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Forget swiping: How pitch decks are saving LA’s exhausted singles
At this LA singles night, friends pitch their besties on stage with slide decks, and the hype is the whole point.
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Pawn Shop LA: The Hollywood sports bar with a James Beard chef
LAist sat down with two of the minds behind Pawn Shop, a new sports bar on Melrose with menu items like pickle-brined fried chicken and caviar.
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    Prop 39, a voter ID measure that would dramatically change voting in California is on the ballot this November. Proponents say that requiring voters to show a government ID when they cast a ballot would increase peoples’ trust in the election process. But opponents say the measure would add unnecessary hurdles – and that it plays into false claims of widespread election fraud that President Donald Trump has long promoted. In this episode of our Voter Game Plan series, LAist’s Orange County correspondent Jill Replogle joins Imperfect Paradise to share what she’s learned from the author of Prop 39, its opponents and election experts.

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