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CHRISTINA HOUSE Los Angeles Times MAYOR Karen Bass shakes hands Tuesday with Michael Stephens of Urban Community Action Network. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in an interview Monday that she does not want embattled mogul Casey Wasserman running the 20... See more

NITHYA RAMAN, left, Monica Rodriguez and Hugo Soto-MartÃnez at a meeting on Palisades building fees. (ALLEN J. SCHABEN Los Angeles Times) More than five years ago, Nithya Raman made history as the first candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of Ame... See more

LA28 HEAD Casey Wasserman has not addressed demands that he resign. IN MILAN: IOC officials lay out plans in new phase of the Games process (ALLEN J. SCHABEN Los Angeles Times) Casey Wasserman, the head of the LA28 Olympic committee, is facing growing cal... See more

CARLIN STIEHL Los Angeles Times AGENTS stage an immigration raid in Bell in June. SB 747 passed the Senate and now heads to the Assembly. Amid a national uproar over the recent killing of a Minnesota man by immigration agents, the California Senate on app... See more

MYUNG J. CHUN Los Angeles Times: MONIQUE LIMÓN, the granddaughter of a farmworker, is the first Latina elected Senate president pro tem. Since President Trump's immigration raids began sweeping through California's cities and farm fields, state Senate Pr... See more