A crowd of people damaged a self-driving Waymo vehicle in Los Angeles' Beverly Grove neighborhood early Saturday, police said. Police received a call reporting a group vandalizing the robotaxi near La Cienega Boulevard and West 3rd Street around 4 a.m., said J. Chavez, public information officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers took a vandalism report, he said. The unoccupied vehicle had reportedly stopped at a red light when it was surrounded. No injuries were reported and no arrests were made.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Gabriel Zendejas Chavez leaves the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. Indicted in 2018 in an investigation of the Mexican Mafia's rackets in L.A. County jails, Chavez pleaded guilty in federal court to a rarely filed charge called "misprision of a felony." A lawyer accused of helping members of the Mexican Mafia traffic drugs, collect extortion money and expose government informants pleaded guilty Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that may spare him prison time. Gabriel Zendejas Chavez, who was indicted in 2018 in an investigation of the Mexican Mafia's rackets in L.A. County jails, told U.S. District Judge George Wu he was guilty of a rarely filed charge of "misprision of a felony."

Washington, DC – Since its first session in 1946, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has served as a platform for world leaders and diplomats to spell out their countries' priorities and offer assessments of the problems and needs of humanity. UNGA meetings, particularly the general debate, have brought sworn enemies to the same building and allowed some of the United States' most hostile adversaries to visit New York, where the UN headquarters are located. As the assembly convenes for its annual session this week, here's a look at some unforgettable, and sometimes comical, UNGA moments. After more than four decades in power, the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi made it to the UN podium in 2009. And it was a debut to remember.

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Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala – On a recent afternoon, the COVID-19 vaccination centre in the heart of the Indigenous Mayan town of Santiago Atitlan was quiet. The health centre had a vaccine supply, but demand was low. The lack of coordination of a Guatemalan government-led campaign to overcome vaccine hesitancy has resulted in the expiration of millions of doses across the country this year, critics have said, as more than half of the population remains unvaccinated. According to Juan Manuel Ramirez, an evangelical preacher in Santiago Atitlan, some community members have taken the vaccine, knowing it helps to protect against severe disease. But others have subscribed to conspiracy theories about its potential dangers.

Rhiannon Chavez has always been an animated teacher, and her fourth-grade classroom is her theater. She sings, dances and gesticulates during her lessons, engaging her 23 students at 186th Street Elementary School in Gardena. But distance learning has elevated these tactics to a whole new level. Now, as she teaches into a computer screen from her home in San Pedro, she pours every last bit of energy into making sure that her enthusiasm is infectious enough to span the digital divide. From one of her three computer monitors screens she leads the children in a song about rounding numbers, her hand movements and facial expressions are bigger and more spirited than ever.

If somebody hacked communications to grid-connected devices and interrupted a demand response (DR) event, peak demand might not be cut, capacity prices could spike and that somebody could make a lot of money. Because of the fast-rising number of grid-connected devices in DR programs like smart thermostats and water heaters and the even faster-rising number of smart phones and other Internet technologies through which customers communicate with DR programs, market manipulations like that are possible, cybersecurity experts from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) told the Demand Response World Forum October 17. It is one of many potential intrusions of communications between utilities and customers with grid connected devices and distributed energy resources (DER), they said. To counter these threats, data analytics experts are using the laws of physics and unprecedented masses of data to find cybersecurity breaches. And their work is leading to machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms which, though only just beginning to find actual deployment, are expected to soon advance the ability to identify patterns to the intrusions and raise the level of protection for critical power systems.

CARACAS – Authorities detained six people suspected of using explosives-laden drones in a failed bid to assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, officials said Sunday, in what one witness described as a terrifying attack that shook her apartment building. The government alleged that opposition factions conspired with assailants in Miami and Bogota, although they offered no specific evidence. Opposition leaders decried Maduro for broadly singling out his political opponents, and they warned he may use it to further suppress his critics. The thwarted attack comes as Venezuela is reeling from a worsening economic and humanitarian crisis and Maduro has grown increasingly isolated. Foreign nations, including the United States, are slapping economic sanctions against a growing list of high-ranking officials and decrying his government as an autocratic regime.

Preview: Canelo Alvarez (48–1–1, 34 KOs) and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (50–2–1, 32 KOs) meet in a non-title fight on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Alvarez enters the fight as the favorite at -600 compared to Chavez's 450. Both Mexican boxers weighed in at 164 pounds for the catchweight of 164.5 pounds. Alvarez is listed at 5-foot-9, with a reach of 70.5 inches. Chavez is 6-foot-1 and has a 73-inch reach.

Two high-profile Mexican fighters meet on Cinco de Mayo weekend, with Canelo Alvarez (48–1–1, 34 KOs) the heavy favorite over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (50–2–1, 32 KOs) at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Oddsmakers list Alvarez at -600, while Chavez Jr. has 450 odds in their matchup Saturday night at a 164.5-pound catch-weight. Alvarez, among the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world, has won six consecutive fights after losing in a majority decision to Floyd Mayweather in September 2013. Chavez has lost two of his last six fights and hasn't won a fight by knockout since defeating Andy Lee in June 2012. Both boxers are coming off wins at a much different weight.