Manhattan Shooting, Humanitarian Crisis, Campus Protests, Abortion Fight, Wildfire Costs, & AI Sashimi

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

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UCLA settles a $6.45 million lawsuit from Jewish students over pro-Palestinian protests they say excluded them from campus life. California and other states sue the Trump administration to keep Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding for essential health services. A January wildfire in Los Angeles could cost as much as $51.7 billion in home damages alone. And an El Segundo startup unveils a robot that blends AI and Japanese tradition to make sashimi more humanely and affordably.

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0:00.0	This is an LA Times Studios podcast.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Angelica Coronado at LA Times Studios.
0:10.0	Here are some of today's headlines from the Los Angeles Times.
0:14.0	UCLA has agreed to settle a hefty lawsuit by Jewish students
0:18.0	over pro-Palestinian protests last spring.
0:21.6	LA Times reporters say they will pay $6.45 million to end a legal contest from three Jewish students
0:28.6	who accused the school of violating their civil rights and enabling anti-Semitism during pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus.
0:36.6	The students called these sites a Jew exclusion zone that prevented them from fully accessing
0:42.4	the school, something which they say the university supported by not removing them sooner.
0:47.7	Despite the settlement, court documents show that UCLA believes they're not responsible for
0:52.7	protesters' actions.
0:59.0	The money will be spread between the plaintiffs and UCLA student organizations, in addition to institutions like the Anti-Defamation League.
1:02.0	California and other states are suing the Trump administration
1:06.0	to protect funding for Planned Parenthood.
1:09.0	Kevin Rector reports that the states are challenging a section in Trump's Big Beautiful
1:14.0	Bill that bans the organization from receiving Medicaid money because of their abortion
1:19.0	health care services.
1:20.7	Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is helping lead the suit, called the provision a, quote,
1:25.9	cruel backdoor abortion ban. This section in the bill
1:29.5	seeks to expand the existing ban on Medicaid abortion funding by also cutting support for other
1:35.3	services. At Planned Parenthood, these include cancer screenings, birth control, and sexual
1:41.4	disease testing. The lawsuit says the government is targeting the organization
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