Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who has come under intense scrutiny for traveling to Africa last month amid a botched fire response, is deflecting blame on the controversial trip. “I felt absolutely terrible not being here for my city,” Bass, a Democrat, told a Fox 11 Los Angeles reporter in a recent interview. “Would I say it was a mistake, absolutely. The idea that I was not present...

Republican lawmakers are backing President Donald Trump’s insistence that Ukraine hold elections, even if they don’t share his belief that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a “dictator.”  “I think you have to give them some space… There is a negotiation going on,” said Sen. Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. Trump on Tuesday night said Ukraine “never should have started” the war, and doubled down by calling Zelenskyy a “dictator”...