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Temperatures begin cooling for most of Southern California on Monday, getting us back down to seasonal averages.

Tuesday will see more of a drop in temperatures. And by Wednesday, inland valley communities will feel temperatures 10-15 degrees below average.

Marine-layer clouds will be more extensive heading into the middle of the week, with increased onshore winds.



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1. 2 libraries on USC campus evacuated by bomb threat

Two libraries at USC’s University Park Campus were evacuated Sunday after a bomb threat was reported.

Sunday afternoon’s announcement affected the Leavey Library and the Doheny Memorial Library, campus police posted on X.

People were urged to stay away from the area.

The Leavey Library is on West 34th Street west of Figueroa Street and the Doheny Memorial Library is located off Childs Way west of Figueroa.

USC announced on social media Sunday afternoon that the search had concluded but that both libraries would remain closed until Monday morning as a precaution.

2. Bass returns from New York City to study its response to street homelessness

Mayor Karen Bass returned to Los Angeles Saturday after a brief visit to New York City she said she made to study its success in providing interim housing for people who had been living on the streets.

“One of the things that I knew about New York, and I wanted to come here and see what they had developed, is that they started years and years ago developing a system of interim housing,” Bass told City News Service in a telephone interview Friday from New York City.

Bass emphasized that approximately 97% of homeless people in New York City are sheltered, citing statistics from the New York Department of Social Services, and hopes to emulate that success in Los Angeles.

The mayor met with Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park on Friday and toured several of the city’s facilities with traditional and interim housing.

3. LAPD stops providing protection for Kamala Harris

The Los Angeles Police Department stopped providing special protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris Saturday, days after the Brentwood resident had her Secret Service protection rescinded by President Donald Trump.

After Trump ordered the Secret Service detail to be pulled as of Sept. 1, the California Highway Patrol moved to fill the gap, assisted by specialized units from the LAPD’s Metropolitan Division.

The latter move by the LAPD, at the behest of Mayor Karen Bass, was met with “heavy criticism within its own ranks that officers were being diverted from crime suppression” to protect Harris, according to the Los Angeles Times. Sources told the newspaper that Metro officers had to be drawn away from crime suppression work in the San Fernando Valley this week.

The board of directors of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union representing LAPD officers, had blasted the decision to offer Harris special protection, and weighed in again on Saturday.

(Camille Cohen / AFP / Getty Images)

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Jada Johnson with Power California talks ways they are working to get out the young vote. (Spectrum News/Vania Patino)

USC study finds voter turnout decline among Californians in 2024

More than 1 million fewer Californians showed up to the polls in the 2024 election than in 2020, according to a recent study from the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the USC Price School of Public Policy. 

That drop in voter turnout, although disappointing, was not surprising, says Jada Johnson, Field Director for Power California.

Focused on getting voters ages 18 to 34 to the polls, she says it starts by changing the culture around voting, like launching campaigns to encourage people to vote for their community — which Johnson knows is not an easy task, as she was once also a casual voter. 

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The team from “The Traitors” accepts the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series Emmy during night two of the Television Academy’s 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Content Services)