A former high school classmate of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has written to the L.A. Times to defend the mayor's conduct during the Palisades Fire -- which broke out when Bass was abroad at Ghana's presidential inauguration.

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The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) could have pre-deployed ten engines to the Pacific Palisades ahead of the deadly Palisades Fire on January 7, but chose not to, according to former fire chiefs quoted by the Los Angeles Times.

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Steve Hagerty, the founder of Hagerty Consulting, which Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass chose behind closed doors to lead the city's rebuilding effort, had a disastrous tenure as mayor of the liberal college town of Evanston, Illinois.

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Developer Rick Caruso slammed the Los Angeles city government for an apparent delay in construction at a venue that is to be used during the 2028 Summer Olympics that officials are blaming on the recent Palisades Fire.

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Two former disaster recovery experts at Hagerty Consulting, which L.A. Mayor Karen Bass appointed to lead rebuilding efforts after the recent wildfires, pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to defrauding New York City of Hurricane Sandy relief funds.

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Los Angeles "Chief Recovery Officer" Steve Soboroff said Saturday night that he would work for free, after coming under fire for earning $500,000 for three months of work, even though his salary was to have been paid privately.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) has brought in an Illinois consulting firm headed by a far-left politician who took part in a George Soros-funded mayors' program, appointed his city's first chief equity officer, and signed a resolution to recognize that his city's land was stolen from Native Americans by "white colonizers" to help the post-fire recovery process.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass backed down Saturday night in the face of pressure from residents, reversing a decision to open the Pacific Palisades to general traffic before most locals had been able to visit their own property.

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Jason Oppenheim, star of the Netflix reality TV series "Selling Sunset," now regrets voting for Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom after his friend experienced a burglary.

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After Trump told Karen Bass on Friday that a week is "actually a long time" to wait, L.A. backed down and allowed residents to visit their homes, starting Monday.

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President Donald Trump reportedly plans to lift federal regulations on Monday to expedite the rebuilding of Los Angeles County, which has been ravaged by wildfires.

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President Donald Trump said those who lost their homes in the Los Angeles County fires should be entitled to a ten to fifteen percent bonus on their house, declaring it is not their fault their homes burned down.

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President Donald Trump intends to waive virtually all federal permitting requirements to expedite the rapid rebuilding of infrastructure destroyed by the wildfires in Los Angeles County in recent weeks. He is calling on local officials to do the same.

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President Donald Trump travels to Los Angeles, California, to meet with officials in the wake of devastating wildfires in the area on Friday, January 24.

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President Donald Trump's imminent visit to fire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday will bring him into direct contact -- and conflict -- with Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, both of whom have failed to protect the city.

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For Breitbart Fight Club Members only, every week we reveal our top five articles based on reader engagement. These are the stories that our readers were talking about for the past week.

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During a portion of an interview aired on Friday’s edition of “The Issue Is,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) called for Disney CEO Bob Iger to replace Karen Bass as Mayor of Los Angeles and stated that “we need a new

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A Los Angeles firefighter combatting the area's devastating fires told Mel Gibson that he wasn't made aware of the county's depleted water reservoirs, sayings it was "surprising" to run out of water so early in their fight.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had been attending a cocktail party at the U.S. Embassy in Ghana when the Pacific Palisades fire erupted. 

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A new poll by Rasmussen Reports shows that L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is underwater with voters, with 42% approval and 44% disapproval, in the wake of the wildfires that have destroyed large swathes of the city.

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