Today, we'll start out with a discussion about Obama's visit to Mexico. Then, changes to the LAPD's deadly force policy will impact how officers deals with the mentally ill. Plus, a salt shortage in Sochi almost impacts the Olympics, Trader Joe's is in the middle of a battle over its popular pretzel snacks, and much more.
Listen
• 7:35
It's the meeting called "The Three Amigos." President Obama is in Toluca, Mexico today to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Listen
• 5:15
There's been a mounting uproar over a Time magazine cover set for publication next week. It features a photo of a statuesque President Pena Nieto with the headline "Saving Mexico."
Listen
• 7:56
The LAPD's civilian oversight panel unanimously decided that what an officer does in the moments before a shooting will now be considered when investigating use of deadly force. Part of the reason for this decision relates to how the police deal with the mentally ill.
Listen
• 7:06
We turn to Angela Robinson, who has worked as a director and producer of some projects you might have heard of like The L Word and True Blood.
Listen
• 9:56
It's time for sports with Andy and Brian Kamenetzky, who have covered the sports scene for ESPN and the L.A. Times.
Listen
• 5:09
Olympic officials in Sochi had to sweet-talk a Swiss salesman, re-route a plane from Bulgaria, and have the Russians strong-arm through customs ... all for 19 tons of salt needed for the slopes.
Listen
• 7:02
After more than a decade, the L.A. archdiocese is settling the last of its pending priest molestation lawsuits. In about an hour, lawyers will hold a press conference to discuss details of the settlement.
Listen
• 7:01
The Congressional Budget Office released a report this week on how increasing the federal minimum wage would affect workers and businesses across the country. Here in California, the minimum wage is set to increase to $9 per hour in July and $10 per hour in 2016.
Listen
• 5:36
It's not a funky new ad campaign, it's actually part of their new terms of service agreement. The actual wording reads "We may contact you in any manner we choose."
Listen
• 4:48
There's a legal battle over who invented them, who gets to make them for Trader Joe's, and how TJ's own supply chain works.
Listen
• 4:37
A small, freshwater mussel called the Quagga has moved into a Southland waterway, and it's particularly damaging.
Listen
• 10:55
Bob Casale was a musician best know for his work with DEVO, a band which made a name for itself in the late 1970s.