In the end, Mayor Karen Bass will ultimately be judged by one metric: Did she house the people of Los Angeles?

When the week began, L.A. city and county officials faced demands to move more swiftly in hauling away debris. When it ended, critics charged that they were moving too fast.

The Pacific Palisades had a “flavor,” as broker Anthony Marguleas remembers it. The residential neighborhood on the Westside ...

Against the backdrop of the fires that wiped out whole sections of Southern California, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Los ...

Karen Bass was elected mayor of Los Angeles in 2022 on a pledge to reduce homelessness, drawing on her decades of experience in government. She won decisively and proceeded, with some success ...

Look no further than Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s decision to suspend her city’s “all electric” building code—but only for homes rebuilt after the fires. The City Council in late 2022 ...

By Penelope Green Karen Pryor once taught a hermit crab to ring a bell by pulling a string with its claw. She taught a cat to play the piano (ham was involved) and, most impressive, her mother to ...

The White House on Friday called for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to apologize for remarks pledging to push back against the Trump administration’s agenda. Jeffries at a press ...

In a new video produced by the White House, the Trump administration blasted Selena Gomez for posting an Instagram video in which she filmed herself crying over deportations of undocumented ...

The White House faces a decision on how to move forward with director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard — wait and see if any GOP senators publicly oppose her, or launch a pressure ...

A massive crowd of protesters blocked traffic on a downtown Los Angeles freeway, causing major delays, in response to ...

Karen Tumulty is an associate editor and columnist ... She also held positions with Time as congressional correspondent and White House correspondent. Before joining Time in 1994, Tumulty spent ...