Friday’s Headlines
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By
Sahra Sulaiman
and
Joe Linton
11:52 AM PDT on October 10, 2025
- DAILY MEMO: Another ICE Detention Death and A Woman is Saved By Police from ICE (LA TACO)
- Chicago: South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities (The TRiiBE)
- Gavin Newsom signs law overhauling local zoning to build more housing (CalMatters)
- Many CA cities wanted to build more housing by eliminating stair requirements. Only Culver City got it done (LAist)
- In LA, Olympic Dreams Lead to Nightmares for a Historic Black Community (Capital B News)
- How an Echo Park historian is preserving — and reclaiming — L.A.’s Chola culture (LA Public Press)
- A love letter to South Central LA. Two local artists highlight a community often overlooked (CALÓ News)
- Carnage: Laguna Beach Hit-and-Run Driver Killed In Second Crash While Fleeing First Crash (KTLA)
- La Niña is back (again). Why that matters. (WaPo)
- Federal officials probe Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ over traffic violations (WaPo)
- 9th annual Festival Chapín de Los Angeles heads to Lafayette Park over weekend (KCAL)
- Solidarity: LA Times union votes to authorize strike for first time ever (LAist)
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Sahra is Communities Editor for Streetsblog L.A., covering the intersection of mobility with race, class, history, representation, policing, housing, health, culture, community, and access to the public space in Boyle Heights and South Central Los Angeles.
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