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Headlines: ICE Maintains Surveillance Network Capable Of Spying on Most Americans; FBI Returning Cannabis Cash Seized From Armored Cars

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<p>One of L.A. TACO&#8217;s co-founders, Hadley Tomicki is a writer and editor on food, travel, and culture whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, UrbanDaddy, High Times, and many other places.</p>


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Families Displaced By Dodger Stadium Start Official Petition for Reparations and Other Demands

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Three Dead in Downtown From Suspected Fentanyl Poisoning, L.A. To Hand Out 50,000 Boxes of NARCAN

Flight to LAX Delayed Over South Korean DJ’s ‘F*ck You’ Pants, Forcing Her to Take Them Off Before Boarding

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Headlines: L.A. Mountain Lions Becoming “Seriously Inbred;” CHP Officers Kill Pedestrian on 105 Freeway

<p>Lexis-Olivier Ray is an award-winning staff investigative reporter for L.A. TACO known for holding powerful people in Los Angeles accountable and his reporting on Los Angeles culture. As well as an artist and filmmaker. In 2022, the Society of Professional Journalists&#8217; Los Angeles chapter named Ray one of their &#8220;distinguished journalists.&#8221; In 2023, Ray won a second place Anthem Award in their Health Innovation category for a texting service geared towards the unhoused community and service providers that he launched in 2021 with L.A. TACO and Subtext. Ray was a 2020 USC Center For Health Journalism (CHJ) Data Fellow. As well as a 2022 CHJ Impact Fellow. As a freelancer, Ray has contributed to the L.A. Times, Men&#8217;s Health Magazine, KCET and SFGATE.</p>


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Real Estate Con Artist Cheats $6 Million Out Of Hundreds Of Victims Through Fake Open House Scheme

Headlines: Dave Chappelle Attacked At Hollywood Bowl; Planned Parenthood Seeks Rick Caruso’s Apology