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Single-use plastics now banned in parts of Los Angeles County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:44 GMT

Single-use plastics are now banned in restaurants throughout parts of Los Angeles County.The ordinance went into effect on May 1 and requires full-service restaurants in unincorporated L.A. County to provide only recyclable or compostable foodware. This applies to containers, cups, dishes, cutlery and more.The ordinance was passed by The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in April 2022 with aims to reduce waste and littering in communities and waterways, while increasing sustainability efforts.Main points of the ordinance include:-Requires full-service restaurants to use multiservice utensils (i.e., reusable foodware) for dine-in customers.-Prohibits food facilities such as restaurants, cafeterias, food trucks, etc. located in the unincorporated areas from providing single-use foodware accessories (e.g. straws, forks, condiment packets, napkins, etc.) to customers unless the customer requests them.-Requires online food-ordering businesses to include on their platforms a way for...

Presale Codes for Wizkid More Love, Less Ego Tour

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:44 GMT

“You don’t need no other body, only you fi hold my body” … ahem, hello, didn’t see you there. Well, Wizkid has announced the makeup dates to his much anticipated tour, and I can’t help myself. Dubbed the “More Love, Less Ego” tour in support of his 2022 album, the Nigerian superstar is hitting cities across Europe and North America. The North American leg will launch November 2 in Philadelphia, PA and wrap November 30 in Washington, D.C, with a stop here in Los Angeles at the Kia Forum on November 21 — see below for all dates. Passwords and presale codes for the Wizkid More Love, Less Ego Tour tickets are as follows:Presale codes for Wizkid More Love, Less Ego TourPresale tickets for the Wizkid More Love, Less Ego Tour go on sale today, May 3 and we’ve been told the following presale codes and passwords may work. Details are subject to change, and vary by event date:Live Nation website presale code or password: ICONICLive Nation mobile...

Lakers’ Anthony Davis shows why he, not LeBron, is Warriors’ toughest matchup

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:44 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO – Turns out, trying to contain LeBron James might not be the biggest challenge the Golden State Warriors face in their second-round playoff series with the Los Angeles Lakers.Anthony Davis had a playoff game for the ages Tuesday, etching his name alongside some of the storied franchise’s all-time greats, as he had 30 points, 23 rebounds and five assists to lead the Lakers to a 117-112 win over the Warriors in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal at Chase Center.“For us, it’s a treat for us to be able to have such a dynamic player that can not only go out and get you 30 and 20,” James said, “but also command the paint defensively.”Davis did just in the final two minutes in the game’s most crucial sequence.After the Warriors went on a 14-0 run over a four-plus minute span to tie the game at 112 with 1:38 to go, guard D’Angelo Russell responded with a driving layup to give the Lakers back the lead. Then on the Warriors’ ensuing possession, Davis blocked a short Cu...

Could France protest fury spill into next year’s Olympics?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:44 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Retired and with time to kill, Bernard Gauvain wants to be a volunteer at the 2024 Olympics — but a bad one.His intention is not to help out, but to gum up the Olympic machine by refusing to turn up for work. If others do likewise in sufficient numbers, he hopes they’ll sting the VVIP who stands to gain if the Paris Games run triumphantly like clockwork: French President Emmanuel Macron.The 68-year-old former agricultural consultant in southern France is part of an otherwise mostly hush-hush band of Olympic opponents who call themselves “un-volunteers.” Also anti-Macron — the president has ignited a months-long firestorm of French protest with unpopular pension reforms — the anti-Olympic Trojan horses are working to infiltrate and then disrupt next year’s Paris Games by signing up as volunteers, posing as willing-to-help superfans when they’re anything but.Their surreptitious operation, and other Olympic contestation that is picking up online and...

New reversal by Twitter after move sparked MTA withdrawal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:44 GMT

In an about-face, Twitter says it has restored free access to a key tool for verified government and “publicly owned” services so they can tweet weather, transit and other alerts after New York City’s transit agency said earlier this week it would no longer use the platform for its service advisories. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is among countless official and unofficial accounts that abruptly lost access to Twitter’s API, or application programming interface, to send out automated alerts about service changes and emergencies last week. By Thursday afternoon, senior executives agreed to cease publishing service alerts to the platform altogether.The decision put the country’s largest transportation network among a growing number of accounts, from National Public Radio to Elton John, who have reduced their Twitter presence or left the platform since its takeover by Elon Musk.Twitter had signaled that the days of private accounts disseminating troves of information ...

EE.UU. y México anuncian que México seguirá aceptando migrantes retornados por razones humanitarias

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:44 GMT

(CNN) — La Casa Blanca anunció este martes por la noche que EE.UU. y México acordaron una serie de medidas adicionales para hacer frente a la crisis migratoria, incluyendo que México continuará aceptando migrantes de Cuba, Haití, Nicaragua y Venezuela después del 11 de mayo, fecha en que se levanta el Título 42, por razones humanitarias.Estados Unidos también seguirá permitiendo que los migrantes de esas cuatro naciones busquen una vía para llegar a Estados Unidos, haciéndoles elegibles para la visa humanitaria, según un comunicado conjunto de los dos países.La Casa Blanca dijo que la asesora de Seguridad Nacional Liz Sherwood Randall se reunió este martes con el presidente mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador en la Ciudad de México para discutir la crisis humanitaria “causada por los flujos migratorios sin precedentes en nuestra frontera compartida y en la región”.El presidente de México habló de temas migratorios con enfoque humanitario con la enviada del preside...

Germany, Italy clamp down on Italian mob with raids, arrests

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:44 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — Police arrested suspects and raided homes early Wednesday across Germany and Italy in a massive effort to clamp down on members of the Italian ’ndrangheta organized crime syndicate.In Germany, more than 1,000 officers searched dozens of homes, offices and stores in the states of Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia, prosecutors said in a joint statement.In Italy, carabinieri police backed by helicopters served arrest warrants on 108 people who were accused, among other things, of mafia association; possession, production, and trafficking of drugs and weapons; and money laundering.European authorities have been waging a campaign against the Calabria-based ’ndrangheta, arguably the world’s richest organized crime group, in recent years. The group has exploited tens of billions of dollars in cocaine revenues over decades to extend its criminal reach across Europe and into several continents as the Sicilian Mafia lost influence.Over 30 ...

Teenage boy opens fire in school in Serbia capital

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:44 GMT

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A teenage boy opened fire early Wednesday in a school in central Belgrade, causing injuries, Serbian police said.Police received a call about the shooting in the Vladislav Ribnikar primary school around 8:40a.m., they said in a statement.The suspect, a 7th grade student, was arrested, police said. The statement added that the boy apparently fired several shots from his father’s gun at other students and the school guard.Serbian media have reported that the guard was killed in the shooting. Police gave no other details. The Vladislav Ribnikar school is located in the very center of Belgrade. Primary schools in Serbia have eight grades.The Associated Press

Iran’s president lands in Syria for rare meeting with Assad

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:44 GMT

DAMASCUS (AP) — Iraninan President Ebrahim Raisi landed in Damascus Wednesday on the first visit by an Iranian head of state to the war-wracked country in over a decade.Tehran has been a main backer of President Bashar Assad’s government since an uprising turned into a full-blown war in March 2011 and has played an instrumental role in turning the tide in his favor. Iran has sent scores of military advisers and thousands of Iran-backed fighters from around the Middle East to fight on Assad’s side. With the help of Russia and Iran, Syrian government forces have controlled large parts of the country in recent years. During his two-day visit, Raisi is expected to meet Assad to sign several agreements and memorandums of understanding to boost cooperation, Syrian state and pro-government media reported. In an interview with pan-Arab television channel Al-Mayadeen, Raisi called for reconstruction efforts and for refugees who fled the country’s war to return to the countr...

In coronation, King Charles carries on a medieval tradition

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:44 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Great Britain’s royal family turns the page on a new chapter Saturday with the coronation of King Charles III. The pomp, pageantry and symbolism dates back more than 1,000 years, but the crowning of this king will feature new twists on the tradition and changes from the coronation of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, 70 years ago. Plans for the ceremony at Westminster Abbey call for a more toned-down affair than the last one, even though royals from other nations, heads of state and most of Charles’ family will be there, and the monarch plans to wear the same vestments as Elizabeth did. Here are some things to know about the coronation:WHY HAVE THE CORONATION IF CHARLES IS ALREADY KING?Charles automatically ascended to the throne when Elizabeth died Sept. 8, and he was officially proclaimed Britain’s monarch two days later in an ascension ceremony broadcast for the first time on television. Charles said he was “deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duti...