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”...

An immigration judge appointed by former President Joe Biden is lashing out after being fired by President Donald Trump. “It was political,” Judge Kerry Doyle said, according to a report from WGBH. Doyle, who worked in Massachusetts, was one of more than 20 immigration judges fired in recent days without explanation, with Doyle saying she received an email from the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) last week...