The surprising, cut-throat race for Los Angeles mayor
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Karen Bass is fighting for her political life as progressives battle to lead the US’s second-largest city Karen Bass has never lost an election. But this fall, she faces the fight of her political life. Bass has roughly a month to convince voters that she should be elected to a second term as the mayor of Los Angeles…
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Karen Bass is fighting for her political life as progressives battle to lead the US’s second-largest city Karen Bass has never lost an election. But this fall, she faces the fight of her political life. Bass has roughly a month to convince voters that she should be elected to a second term as the mayor of Los Angeles…
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LA Mayor Karen Bass, 73, defended her travels to Ghana when the Palisades fires rampaged through California, as she blamed the city's size for its high number of crises.
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- Karen Bass shocks with tone-deaf defense of her Ghana trip amid devastating LA Palisades fire: 'It's very difficult to leave town' (opens Daily Mail in a new tab)
LA Mayor Karen Bass, 73, defended her travels to Ghana when the Palisades fires rampaged through California, as she blamed the city's size for its high number of crises.
- Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Defends Visiting Africa as Wildfires Raged (opens Breitbart in a new tab)
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued a puzzling defense of her being in Ghana as the 2025 wildfires raged across her city, destroying the Pacific Palisades and most of Altadena.
- The surprising, cut-throat race for Los Angeles mayor (opens The Guardian in a new tab)
Karen Bass is fighting for her political life as progressives battle to lead the US’s second-largest city Karen Bass has never lost an election. But this fall, she faces the fight of her political life. Bass has roughly a month to convince voters that she should be elected to a second term as the mayor of Los Angeles…
