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LOS ANGELES — City Councilmember Nithya Raman filed paperwork Saturday to challenge Mayor Karen Bass, launching a progressive campaign that mirrors the failed policies of New York City's Democratic Socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani. Raman, who chairs the City Council's Housing and Homelessness Committee, submitted her candidacy just hours before the noon deadline. Her entry into the race brings the...

Despite taxpayer funding and a legal mandate to convene, the state’s fast-food wage council mainly sat dormant with no future meetings scheduled. Officials insist work is happening behind the scenes, even as the council missed required meetings and remains without a chair. California taxpayers have funded roughly $1.1 million last year to support four staff positions for the...

DHS records show the administration expanded parole pathways while unlawful crossings reached historic highs. Newly reviewed federal documents show the Biden administration dramatically expanded its use of humanitarian parole beginning in late 2022, describing the policy in official filings as a strategy to “reduce irregular migration” by allowing migrants to enter the United States legally rather than cross...

A coalition of 37 county sheriffs warns that Proposition 50 would erase independent redistricting and hand map-drawing power to partisan politicians—threatening fair representation. In a dramatic public declaration, 37 California sheriffs have come forward in opposition to Proposition 50, calling it “a power grab by back‐room, self‐dealing partisan politicians.”  Among those listed are Sheriff Don Barnes of Orange...

“Why do Governor Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass care more about violent murderers and sex offenders than they do about protecting their own citizens?” asked Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.Last summer, as ICE raids swept through Los Angeles, emergency calls to the LAPD dropped sharply. According to dispatch data reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, LAPD calls...

Some California Democrats broke with Gov Gavin Newsom over his mid-decade redistricting push, with Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains casting the lone Democratic “no” vote as lawmakers advanced the plan to the November ballot last week; two other Democrats, Dawn Addis and Alex Lee, did not vote. The Assembly approved the constitutional amendment 57-20 on Aug. 21, and the Senate...

Former chief alleges defamation, retaliation, and suppressed warning ahead of deadly blaze. Former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley filed a legal claim against the City of Los Angeles on Wednesday, alleging Mayor Karen Bass orchestrated a “campaign of misinformation, defamation, and retaliation” to save her political image after the catastrophic Palisades and Alta Dena Fires earlier this...

“Manipulating maps for political gain is a disservice to the people,” said  League of Women Voters CEO Celina Stewart. California Democrats are hard at work corralling their base behind a proposed partisan redistricting effort to oust the few remaining Republican representatives in Congress. Their strategy hit an unexpected roadblock when the League of Women Voters, a long-standing left-of-center...

The vote has exposed deep divisions within the Democratic Party over the future of healthcare access. Democrat members of the Latino Caucus—an immensely powerful force in California politics—once spoke with vim and vigor about the need to expand healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants. Once a mere pipe dream, the effort goes back to the early 2010’s when Caucus...

“If the insurance commissioner's office isn't able to provide answers as to the government purpose of this travel, I think it's absolutely appropriate for us to move forward requesting an audit so we can get answers for the taxpayers,” said Vice Chair of the Assembly Insurance Committee Greg Wallis. The Senate Insurance Committee recently held its first insurance...