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Which Way, L.A.?
The Los Angeles Auto Show The first auto show of the season is held in the car capital of the world. The Los Angeles Auto Show opens to the public tomorrow. KCRW's Saul Gonzalez went to the press preview yesterday. (He spoke with Ed Loh, Editor of Motor Trend magazine, Gene Jennings, President of Automobile magazine, and Freeman Thomas, Design Director for the Ford Motor Company .) You can see pictures of some of these new high-tech cars on our blog: KCRW.com/WhichWayLAblog .
Which Way, L.A.?
Little Cars, Green Cars at the LA Auto Show The exhibition opening tomorrow at the downtown convention center is not your father's LA Auto Show . Bentley, Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini won't even be there. That has a lot to do with what's selling these days and the answer is, not much. The automakers, of course, want to turn that around.
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Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.
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Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.