Headlines: Three Mixteco Men Murdered in Phoenix; ‘Atheist Pirates’ Clean Up L.A.’s Streets

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—Three indigenous Mixteco men from Santo Domingo Tepuxtepec, Oaxaca, were found murdered in Phoenix after crossing the border for Wisconsin with a larger group they'd separated from. [Vice]

—KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic has put us onto a large database of Ukranian musicians to explore, along with charities and community groups to help support Ukrainians. [Google Docs]

—Leslie Stephanie Ramirez Perez, a footballer raised in L.A. by a dad from Mexico and mom from Guatemala, has been signed to play as a forward for Liga MX Femenil club CD Guadalajara. [Chivas Feng/Twitter]

—West Hollywood's infamous Viper Room nightclub is slated to be transformed into a 12-floor mixed use project under Silver Creek Development. [Deadline]

—A historic look back into the rise of L.A.'s Black-owned restaurants. [LAist]

—Atheist Pirates, a subgroup of Atheists United, is a team that scouts the streets of Los Angeles for illegal religious signs, then takes them down to, as one member says, “reinforce our commitment to a secular society.” [Religion News]

—Today L.A. County has lifted the indoor mask mandate. [LAT]

—1,600 trees will be planted along a five-mile section of South L.A.'s Slauson Avenue, thanks to a $500,000 grant given by the California Natural Resources Agency to L.A. Sanitation and Environment. [NBC]

—A second L.A. deputy is accusing an LAPD commander of intentionally getting in the way of a criminal investigation into firearms theft from an L.A. Police Academy gun store to cover up the crime for another commander. [LAT]

—The difficult, seemingly never-ending task of identifying Mexico's nearly 100,000 disappeared murder victims. [AP]

—Visualizing our world's landfill/garbage crisis. [VC]