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- A US Navy vet was briefly knocked out after being sucker-punched near the corner of Vermont and Wilshire in Koreatown. The victim said that the attack was unprovoked. Police are searching for the alleged attacker. [KTLA]
- A suspicious vehicle resulted in the departures level at Los Angeles International Airport being shutdown for several hours. On social media passengers complained that a lack of communication led to confusion and chaos. [LAX Airport]
- Maya Flores, a Republican representative from Texas, became the first Mexican-born woman to be sworn into congress. [CNN]
- State officials released an "unprecedented plan" to return Bruce Beach to the descendants of a Black couple that were pushed out of Manhattan Beach nearly a century ago. The beachfront property is reportedly worth an estimated $20 million. [LAT]