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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday announced a merger between the mayor’s Evolve Entertainment Fund and Group Effort Initiative, an initiative created by Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, to offer more people from under-represented communities employment, training and mentorship opportunities in the entertainment industry.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti appears to be in line to be nominated by President Joe Biden for a post as ambassador to India, and although the White House has made no announcements as of yet, it raises the question: Who would be the next mayor?

reported Thursday by multiple outlets. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was tapped to be Ambassador to India.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki indicated this week that the White House hopes to name nominees for ambassadorships “soon,” a highly anticipated announcement in L.A. donor circles and among Democratic fundraisers across the country.

The Dodger Stadium coronavirus vaccination supersite will close down at the end of May, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Friday morning, noting the site will "wind down" operations in the coming weeks. One of the largest vaccination sites in the country,Dodger Stadium has administered more than420,000 vaccine doses since it opened in January.

Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti laid out a sprawling plan to reboot Los Angeles as the city begins to emerge from a pandemic and to combat systemic inequitiesduring his annual State of the City address on Monday night. Speaking from the Griffith Observatory, the mayor laid out a forthcoming budget that will devote millions to health, efforts to combat poverty and homelessness and changes to public safety and equity, among other initiatives.

Concerns about the Johnson & Johnson Coronavirus vaccine were raised this morning following reports that federal health agencies have recommended an immediate pause in use of the single-dose shot after six U.S. recipients developed serious blood clots.

Roy Trakin Rabbi Sharon Brous, the charismatic spiritual leader and founder of the trendy, progressive IKAR congregation — whose members include both Steven Spielberg and Mayor Eric Garcetti — remembers the first time she heard Hillel Tigay perform his song “Alive” during Rosh Hashana services at the Los Angeles temple.“I was completely floored,” she says of the tune, which shares the singalong spiritual vibe of Arcade Fire.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti today gave an upbeat assessment of the city’s efforts to beat back the Covid-19 pandemic on CBS Sunday talk show Face the Nation.

Mayor Eric Garcetti has announced that the majority of the Friday vaccination appointments at city sites will be postponed due to delivery delays caused by severe winter storms across the country. Not so long ago, the city was averaging about 13,000 doses administered per day.

The good news in Los Angeles this week is that the city’s largest Covid-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium will reopen. The bad news is, for the second week in a row, the city has next to no first doses of vaccine to administer.

Dodger Stadium's vaccination site will temporarily close for two days amid vaccine shortage. During a press briefing on Wednesday,Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti gave an update in which he stated that he would provide both good and bad news.

As many Angelenos are struggling to understand if they qualify for a Covid-19 vaccine — and then struggling to get one — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti received his first dose on January 21.

LOS ANGELES – Speaking to reporters from Dodger Stadium, the city’s mega-vaccination site, Mayor Eric Garcetti acknowledged that the shortages in the vaccine supply was presenting some difficulties as the city and the county public health department strive to get the most vulnerable Angelenos, those 65 and older vaccinated.

Speaking from Dodger Stadium, which he proposed was the country’s — and possibly the world’s — “largest Covid-19 vaccination site,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that Los Angeles’ five vaccination sites have already administered vaccines to more than 80,000 people. The mayor said that, on Wednesday alone, the Dodger Stadium facility delivered a staggering 7,730 doses.

“Many of you are wondering if there are credible threats here in Los Angeles County, and the answer is no,” L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said today on the eve of the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States in a massively militarized Washington, D.C.

On Friday afternoon, as the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors met behind closed doors to discuss new, stricter shutdown orders; as Mayor Eric Garcetti and California Governor Governor Gavin Newsom appeared together to try and jumpstart the region’s lagging vaccination efforts; one key reason for the urgency of those efforts became clear.

California Governor Gavin Newsom flew down to Los Angeles on Friday for the opening of a mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium. Before Newsom stepped to the podium, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti introduced him as “not just California’s governor, but America’s governor.”

The morning after Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti revealed that the County Board of Supervisors is considering new business closures in case of an increase in Covid-19 numbers, the board was reportedly doing just that behind closed doors on Friday.

Joe Biden has a $1.9 trillion plan to beat back the coronavirus pandemic and get the economy back on its feet. However, here in LA, Disney’s Executive Chairman and his spouse are putting some of their own money on the table to help local small businesses right now.

“As of today, 1 in 3 people in Los Angeles County have been infected with the virus,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti on Thursday.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorBob Iger and Willow Bay will be donating $5 million to small businesses throughout Los Angeles that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday.

Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that Covid-19 testing at two of the city’s largest sites will end today. In conjunction with the county, vaccine distribution will begin by the end of the week.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti made a staggering comparison on Thursday. The mayor said that the near-record number of 259 daily Covid-19 deaths in L.A. County on Tuesday was “more than all the homicides in 2019 in L.A. City combined.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti have weighed in on the chaos at the U.S. Capitol today as pro-Donald Trump protesters stormed the building.

LOS ANGELES – Authorities in Los Angeles are cracking down on any potential New Year’s Eve celebrations that would create more havoc for an already overburdened healthcare system which over the past thirty days has been crushed by a deadly COVID-19/coronavirus surge.

Amid an avalanche of awful Covid-19 news on Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a renewed focus on preventing gatherings ahead of New Year’s Eve.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he turned down a position in President-elect Joe Biden's administration, opting to stay in his city as the COVID-19 crisis worsens, with his 9-year-old daughter testing positive for the disease.