After a Decade, Women to Regain Driver’s Seat
- Share via
After a 10-year ban, Afghan women drivers are about to be licensed to hit the country’s roads again, officials said.
Thirty women from the Women’s Affairs Ministry have completed a four-month driving class and are to get their licenses this week.
Afghan women have not been allowed to drive since 1992, when Islamic groups took control of the capital, Kabul.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
