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Headlines: Teddy’s Red Tacos Helps Save Local Mole Legend; Second Hold Put on Garcetti’s India Ambassadorship

7:18 AM PDT on March 25, 2022

Teddy's Red Tacos. Photo from L.A. TACO archives.

Teddy’s Red Tacos. Photo from L.A. TACO archives.

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—Los Angeles lost about 1% of its residents in the first year of COVID, while San Francisco lost 6.7%. [LAT]

—Teddy's Red Tacos has donated $5,000 to La Diosa de Los Moles owner Rocio Camacho to help her restaurant survive, winning our own (imaginary) Taco Peace Prize in the process. [TRT/Instagram]

—How truck-driving may provide both the fertile killing ground and convenient cover for serial killers. [Mel]

—Brazilian singer Pocah detailed her recent hospitalization over stomach pains due to holding in flatulence in front of her boyfriend. [Popcrush]

—"Auto sears," cheap, small, and easy-to-install contraptions that turn pistols and other weapons into fully automatic machine guns, are flooding the U.S. [Vice]

—Cases of the BA.2 variant of the COVID Omicron variant have jumped in one week. [Deadline]

—A second Republican senator from Iowa has placed a hold on Mayor Eric Garcetti's appointment to a U.S. ambassador post in India, citing accusations that he ignored the sexual harassment claims levied against an aide. [LAT]

—Climate activists are really not down with California's embrace of bio-fuel, using methane from cows. [LAT]

—Melina Abdullah, the Cal State professor and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, has lost her lawsuit against the city and former chief Charlie Beck, over a 2018 arrest at a commission meeting that she argued was unlawful. [MNLA]

—Police are looking for a man accused of punching an Anaheim library worker for no reason earlier this month. [KTLA]

—A Ukrainian film producer is slamming the international film festival circuit for continuing to show Russian films and refusing to participate in a boycott. [Deadline]

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