Opinion | Los Angeles Is Still Burning. Where Are the Leaders?
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Opinion | Los Angeles Is Still Burning. Where Are the Leaders?

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines We got the evacuation alert on Wednesday night. The fire came out of nowhere and threatened to sweep through Hollywood. I pulled our son out of the bathtub. We rushed into the car and drove north, past two other fires, through smoke and…

Before Taking Office, L.A.’s Mayor Said She Would Not Go Abroad
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Before Taking Office, L.A.’s Mayor Said She Would Not Go Abroad

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After the first rally in her campaign for mayor of Los Angeles in 2021, Karen Bass spoke candidly about what she saw as a potential drawback to the job — a lack of world travel and involvement in global affairs. Ms. Bass was…

Trump Calls Officials Handling Los Angeles Wildfires ‘Incompetent’
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Trump Calls Officials Handling Los Angeles Wildfires ‘Incompetent’

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President-elect Donald J. Trump offered fresh criticism early Sunday of the officials in charge of fighting the Los Angeles wildfires, calling them “incompetent” and asking why the blazes were not yet extinguished. “The fires are still raging in L.A.,” Mr. Trump wrote on…

Opinion | The Best Time to Fireproof Los Angeles Was Yesterday
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Opinion | The Best Time to Fireproof Los Angeles Was Yesterday

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines “The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself,” Joan Didion wrote way back in the 1960s. And on X and Truth Social and, indeed, Fox News, they were playing the hits, too — the fires were not the result of climate…