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Newsletter: Today: Apple, Latinos and Security. A National Trauma That Shaped Nancy Reagan.

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I’m Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don’t want you to miss today.

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Apple, Latinos and Security

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Is Apple trying to build on Latinos’ fears about government as the iPhone maker defies a court order in a terrorism case? That might explain why Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of Internet software and services, told Univision that Latinos should be very concerned about any law that gives the government broad access to personal information.

To Live (as a Puma) and Die (as a Koala) in L.A.

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Zoo officials can’t say 100% that he’s the culprit, but he was caught on video near the scene of the crime. P-22 was already a celebrity mountain lion before the predawn killing of a koala Thursday at the L.A. Zoo. While the zoo investigates, animals will be kept in night quarters after closing.

A National Trauma That Shaped Nancy Reagan

On March 30, 1981, a would-be assassin shot and wounded President Reagan. When Nancy Reagan recalled that day three decades later, her eyes glistened and her hands trembled. Sitting next to Jerry Parr, the Secret Service agent who made the lifesaving decision to take the president to a hospital rather than the White House, she said, “Jerry, thank you for giving me my life back.” As the former first lady is memorialized in Simi Valley today, our Justice Department reporter Del Quentin Wilber, who wrote a book on the events of that day in 1981, describes how the assassination attempt reshaped Nancy Reagan and her legacy.

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L.A. County’s Water Catchers

It never rains in Southern California, as the song goes, but it pours, man, it pours. When rain falls here, the Department of Public Works in L.A. County performs an engineering ballet to catch the rainwater before it disappears into the ocean. Spend a rainy day with the “storm boss” and other engineers who — in the midst of a punishing drought and the still-awaited effects of El Niño — work to save that fresh water. The effort captures millions of gallons of water as it gushes through a 3,300-mile network of storm drains, channels, debris basis, dams and spreading grounds.

Hoop Dreams

The NBA has set out to create a basketball culture in India almost from scratch. Why? More than other major U.S. sports leagues, the NBA has pushed to expand its global reach and sees India’s 1.25 billion people as potential fans. To make that happen, the league has deployed dozens of coaches across the country. Since less than half of 1% of the population plays basketball, the NBA also has stepped up efforts to find a homegrown star.

CALIFORNIA

-- In Brentwood, a developer chopped down more trees than he was allowed to. Now neighborhood groups want the building permits — for two nearly 15,000-square-foot homes — to be revoked.

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-- Why did Yosemite change all those iconic names in the park? Robin Abcarian posits that officials there were being smarter than the average bear.

-- A woman gave birth, returned to jail in San Bernardino County and died. Now her family wants answers.

-- Malibu residents are closer than they’ve ever been to a potential separation from the school district the city shares with Santa Monica, its less wealthy neighbor.

NATION-WORLD

-- President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced joint initiatives to combat climate change, expand renewable energy and protect the Arctic.

-- Los Angeles is the eighth-most expensive city in the world for tourists and foreign businesspeople, up from 27th last year, a new study says.

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-- Senate Democrats are coalescing around the view that President Obama should nominate a mainstream jurist rather than a liberal standard-bearer to the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

-- Farmers in India have gone on a hunger strike to protest a mass gathering planned for this weekend by a spiritual guru. They say it will destroy the fragile ecosystem of the Yamuna River.

-- Young Muslim activists in Sweden are trying to protect their peers from radicalization.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS

-- Solving the mystery of “10 Cloverfield Lane”: Meredith Woerner gets to the bottom of how J.J. Abrams made a movie no one knew about.

-- The new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel Gallery opens Sunday in downtown Los Angeles’ arts district. Art critc Christopher Knight reviews the show, and architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne wishes for something more.

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BUSINESS

-- United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz, who underwent a heart transplant two months ago, stands to make a $10.5-million “longevity” bonus if he can work six straight months this year. David Lazarus writes that the case highlights the gap between how executives and average workers are treated by their corporate employers.

-- Kaiser Permanente has announced the location for the medical school it plans to build: Pasadena.

SPORTS

-- The Dodgers’ new right-handed pitcher, Kenta Maeda of Japan, is making progress in spring training — on the mound and in the clubhouse.

-- The Angels, however, have reason to worry about right-hander Jered Weaver, who underwent an MRI on his neck Thursday.

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WHAT OUR EDITORS ARE READING

-- Have you wondered how the rest of the world sees Donald Trump’s run for the White House? Politico tracked down cartoons from a dozen countries. And yes, Trump’s signature hairstyle is featured in all.

-- It’s billed as a “one-time spectacular.” The New York Times Magazine put together 25 songs that their writers believe “tell us where music is going.” No. 17? The “magnificently cheesy” Lionel Richie ballad “Hello.”

ONLY IN CALIFORNIA

When Jack English sat down with The Times in 2013, he shared some simple advice: “Happiness is making other people happy. It’s a darn sight better than making them feel bad.” English, then 94, was facing the need to leave his beloved remote cabin in the mountains east of Big Sur. English died last week at 96. Reporter Thomas Curwen remembers the last of the mountain men.

Please send comments and ideas to Davan Maharaj.

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