Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview that he wanted to see U.S. military aid to Israel reduced to $0 within ten years.
Netanyahu spoke with CBS News&#8217;s Major Garrett in an interview that sired on Sunday, and he said that his goal was to see an Israel no longer dependent on aid from the United States.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells 60 Minutes he wants Israel to eventually stop relying on U.S. military aid: “It&#8217;s time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support.” <a href="https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW">https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW</a> <a href="https://t.co/LIwJKrfMOQ">pic.twitter.com/LIwJKrfMOQ</a>
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&#8220;Do you believe it&#8217;s time for the state of Israel to reexamine and possibly reset its financial relationship with the United States — meaning what the United States provides to Israel on an annual basis?&#8221; Garrett asked.
Netanyahu&#8217;s reply was unequivocal: &#8220;Absolutely. And I&#8217;ve said this to President Trump, I&#8217;ve said it to our own people. Their jaws dropped, but I said, &#8216;Look.'&#8221;
Garrett prompted Netanyahu to elaborate, asking, &#8220;What do you mean?&#8221;
&#8220;I want to draw down to $0 the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have, because we receive $3.8 billion a year, and I think that it&#8217;s time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support,&#8221; Netanyahu said.
Garrett asked whether the Israeli Prime Minister was able to give him &#8220;a timetable&#8221; or an estimate as to when he thought that could be accomplished.
&#8220;I said let&#8217;s start now and do it over the next decade, over the next ten years, but I want to start now,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to wait for the next congress, I wasn&#8217;t to start now, and it could go down very fast.&#8221;
Netanyahu also weighed in on the state of the ongoing war in Iran, saying that he believed much of what the United States and Israel set out to accomplish had come to pass, but that it wasn&#8217;t over yet.
&#8220;I think it accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over,&#8221; he said.
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“I think it accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells 60 Minutes about the war in Iran. Netanyahu says highly enriched uranium must be removed from Iran and believes “it can be done physically.” <a href="https://t.co/N5XbvzpYa0">pic.twitter.com/N5XbvzpYa0</a>
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Los Ángeles Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt vowed to bring in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) if elected, saying it would be necessary to rid the streets of &#8220;medieval diseases.&#8221;
Pratt, speaking with David Friedberg on &#8220;The All In&#8221; podcast, said that he&#8217;d give the lawless in L.A.&#8217;s streets &#8220;three weeks, or maybe we&#8217;ll even do two weeks, maybe people will want it faster&#8221; before he set to work cleaning things up.
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🚨 JUST IN: LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt announces Los Angeles criminals and homeless degenerates will have 2-3 WEEKS after he gets into office before MASS ARRESTS ensue
&#8220;First 3 weeks: signups, no nakedness, no drug use, no robbing, no dog abuse.&#8221;
Love this guy MORE AND… <a href="https://t.co/exoqW3j28e">pic.twitter.com/exoqW3j28e</a>
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&#8220;First three weeks, signs up across the city: &#8216;No more nakedness, no more drug use, no more robbing, no more —'&#8221; Pratt began.
&#8220;No more burning dogs in the street,&#8221; Friedberg interjected, referencing reports that dogs had been abused in the streets.
&#8220;— No more dog abuse,&#8221; Pratt agreed. &#8220;Very — on every sign, everywhere, so that — and we&#8217;re going to go around, we&#8217;re going to warn everybody, &#8216;you got three more weeks of this, clock&#8217;s ticking,&#8217; just keep telling — so that people are aware that, oh wow, there&#8217;s a new mayor in town.&#8221;
&#8220;They may start leaving,&#8221; he added with a shrug. &#8220;And then when the three weeks, or maybe we&#8217;ll even do two weeks, maybe people will want it faster. And then once we start enforcing the laws, BOOM! Streets will be back.&#8221;
&#8220;You know how else I&#8217;m going to bring in? The CDC, because there&#8217;s medieval diseases in these encampments. They&#8217;re not swabbing these encampments, they&#8217;re not swabbing the streets! People are just living in feces and drug use and dogs burning, and body — we need these streets cleaned!&#8221;
Pratt sparred with current Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and Democratic socialist city council-member Nithya Raman over how to deal with the issue of homelessness, and both of them argued in favor of offering treatment and beds at city expense. Pratt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reality-tv-star-spencer-pratt-obliterates-leftist-policies-in-heated-l-a-mayoral-debate">pushed back</a>, citing statistics indicating that many of L.A.&#8217;s homeless were abusing drugs.
Speaking specifically to Raman, he volunteered to go with her to offer treatment to homeless people in the city, and warned they were likely to attack her rather than accept her help.

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Troops forced out over the COVID-19 vaccine may soon see a dramatic change as War Secretary Pete Hegseth — even for those who do not wish to return to military service.
Hegseth announced the change in a video posted to X on Friday afternoon, saying that he planned to restore missed payments and enlistment bonuses — as well as benefits denied based on unfavorable discharge characterizations.
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The Biden administration’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine mandate was wrongfully forced onto our warfighters.
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&#8220;I&#8217;m directing the Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness to establish a Department of War COVID-19 reinstatement and Reconciliation Task Force,&#8221; Hegseth explained, noting that their first move would be to assist anyone who wanted to return to military service to do so. &#8220;The services have them right now. We&#8217;re establishing one at our level to oversee the entire thing. The task force&#8217;s goal is to bring back into service all those who desire to continue to serve our country in uniform.&#8221;
But Then Hegseth went on to say that changes were also coming for those who were discharged for refusing the COVID vaccine mandate under former President Joe Biden and opted not to put the uniform back on. Those who were denied education benefits due to a &#8220;general&#8221; discharge, Hegseth vowed, would have them restored.
&#8220;Even if you do not intend to return to service, the War Department will provide a path for resolution of unearned bonuses, upgrades to discharge characterizations that will unlock your well-deserved benefits, and removal of adverse documents from service files,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Further, I have directed a review of policies and decision-making to ensure that we do not go down this path again. You raised your right hand and sworn ill to serve and protect the Constitution and our nation.&#8221;
&#8220;You were mistreated by the Biden Pentagon, and we are fixing that injustice,&#8221; Hegseth concluded.
Between August of 2021 and the beginning of 2023, approximately 8,700 service members were forced out over Biden&#8217;s vaccine mandate — and more than one third of them (3,000) received &#8220;general&#8221; discharges rather than &#8220;honorable&#8221; discharges. Still more, because they were forced to separate prior to fulfilling their contracts, were denied promised enlistment bonuses and pay.
Typically those who receive a &#8220;general&#8221; discharge from military service are eligible to receive disability benefits and health care benefits through the VA, but can be denied access to education benefits through the post-9/11 G.I. Bill.
By March of 2026, some 600 Air Force members had already had their discharges upgraded. The Marine Corps and the Navy had the highest number of separations due to the vaccine mandate.

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President Donald Trump lashed out on Sunday after receiving what he said was a &#8220;totally unacceptable&#8221; offer from Iranian leaders.
Trump took to Truth Social late Sunday afternoon to say that he&#8217;d received a reply to his latest offer from the Iranian regime to end the war and strike a deal — and that he was not at all happy with what they&#8217;d said.
&#8220;I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called &#8216;Representatives.&#8217; I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116552102914488206">posted</a>.
In a previous post earlier Sunday afternoon, Trump had warned that the Iranian regime against continuing to play games with the United States — and he has repeatedly encouraged leadership in Iran to agree to a deal, often threatening to end the regime if a deal is not reached.on his timetable.
Trump said on Friday that he was waiting for an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-iran-letter-trump-is-waiting-for-could-decide-what-happens-next">important letter</a> from Iran — one that would determine his course of action in the coming days — and at the time, he seemed confident that Tehran was anxious to strike a deal.
&#8220;We’re getting a letter [from Iran] supposedly tonight, so we’ll see how that goes,&#8221; he told reporters, adding that he wasn&#8217;t certain whether or not Iran&#8217;s leadership was intentionally dragging out negotiations — a tactic the Trump administration had said they used in the past. &#8220;I don’t know. We’ll find out soon enough.&#8221;
The Trump administration has been clear about the particulars of any potential deal with Iran, saying that no deal would be agreed to unless Iran agreed to stop any and all efforts to enrich uranium and develop nuclear weapons and to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The news comes as several skirmishes — provoked by Iranian attacks — had reporters asking Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-we-arent-a-stupid-country">Marco Rubio</a> why there was so little ceasing and so much firing in the current ceasefire.
Rubio pushed back, saying that &#8220;only a stupid country&#8221; would not fire back when fired upon.

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President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that the Iranian regime needed to stop &#8220;playing games&#8221; with the United States, blaming former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for the fact that they&#8217;d done so in the past.
Trump laid out his thoughts in a Sunday afternoon <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116551553302876569">post</a> on his Truth Social platform, declaring that Iran would soon be &#8220;laughing no longer&#8221; if things did not change.
&#8220;Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit &#8216;pay dirt&#8217; when Barack Hussein Obama became President,&#8221; Trump began, noting that the regime would always call for negotiations but then would never come to the table in good faith — and he argued that Obama had fallen right into their trap.
&#8220;He was not only good to them, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel, and all other Allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life,&#8221; Trump continued, referencing Obama&#8217;s part in sealing the Iran Nuclear Deal and in freeing up billions of dollars that were then delivered to the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
&#8220;Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and 1.7 Billion Dollars in green cash, flown into Tehran, was handed to them on a silver platter. Every Bank in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland was emptied out — It was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian Thugs had no idea what to do with it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They had never seen money like this, and never will again. It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn’t believe their luck.&#8221;
Trump went on to argue that Biden had been even worse for the United States — and better for Iran — saying, &#8220;They finally found the greatest SUCKER of them all, in the form of a weak and stupid American President. He was a disaster as our &#8216;Leader,&#8217; but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden!&#8221;
In summation, Trump declared that his administration would not tolerate an Iranian regime that stalled negotiations to wait out American presidents and continued to kill their own people simply for protesting.
&#8220;For 47 years the Iranians have been &#8216;tapping&#8217; us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They will be laughing no longer!&#8221;

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed back on reporters who wondered why there appeared to be less &#8220;cease&#8221; than &#8220;fire&#8221; in the ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, saying that &#8220;only stupid countries&#8221; would allow an enemy to attack with impunity.
Rubio fielded questions from the press on Friday, saying that the United States was not engaging in any acts of aggression, but also was not going to let attacks from Iran go unanswered.
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SECRETARY RUBIO: Only stupid countries don’t shoot back when you’re shot at. And we’re not a stupid county.
The redline is clear – if Iranian boats threaten Americans, they’re going to get blown up.
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&#8220;I guess the point is there&#8217;s not much ceasing in the firing,&#8221; one reporter began, but Rubio stopped him before he could go any further.
&#8220;Well, you should ask that of the Iranians, don&#8217;t ask me,&#8221; Rubio shot back. &#8220;They fired on us. My point is, if you fire on a U.S. Navy ship, what are we supposed to do? Say, &#8216;Oh, there&#8217;s a ceasefire, we&#8217;re not going to shoot down your drone.&#8217; That&#8217;s a stupid question.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s a stupid position to take,&#8221; he repeated. &#8220;Of course we fired back at them, they were shooting at us. That&#8217;s what I would expect to do. Only stupid countries don’t shoot back when you’re shot at. And we’re not a stupid county.&#8221;
The reporter followed that up by asking whether or not Rubio had communicated with the Iranians, making it clear where any &#8220;red lines&#8221; might be.
Rubio&#8217;s answer was unequivocal: &#8220;No, the red line is clear: if they threaten Americans, they&#8217;re going to get blown up. I mean, that&#8217;s the — that&#8217;s — how much clearer can you be than that? If you fire on — if you are a missile-launching guy, whatever you call that job, and you&#8217;re sitting there and you fire a missile at the United States and we saw you fire it, we&#8217;re going to hit you. Of course we are!&#8221;
&#8220;Who doesn&#8217;t do that?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Unless you want to get your ship sunk. We&#8217;re not going to let our ships get sunk by the Iranians with their little drones that they&#8217;re firing. You know, they don&#8217;t have a navy anymore, but they bring out these little Boston whaler fishing boats and they try to swarm you, we&#8217;re going to blow the boats up if they&#8217;re coming towards our boats.&#8221;
Rubio doubled down then, warning any Iranian who might receive an order to attack an American asset: &#8220;You&#8217;re probably not going to survive.&#8221;

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Under pressure, CBS News reversed course and released the full interview with Los Angeles mayoral candidate and former MTV reality star Spencer Pratt.
&#8220;FULL INTERVIEW: Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt spoke exclusively to CBS News this week about his campaign, his vision for the city, and why it&#8217;s resonating so strongly with voters on social media,&#8221; CBS shared the video on X Saturday afternoon.
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&#8220;A new era of responsible journalism! Thank you to CBS for posting our full interview so the voters can hear from their next Mayor!&#8221; Pratt <a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2053205613208027359">praised the move</a>.
After initially releasing only a short clip of the interview, the network came under fired as Pratt claimed that incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat, was being allowed to place her thumb on the scales. The full interview, he said, painted a very different picture — and he challenged CBS to release it without editing.
Noting that he had filmed with CBS for &#8220;over an hour&#8221; at the site where his home once stood in the Pacific Palisades, Pratt said that he had discussed everything from affordability to crime — &#8220;things that voters care about&#8221; — but that the network had &#8220;turned it over to Karen Bass&#8217;s PR team,&#8221; and what they&#8217;d ultimately aired was a &#8220;comical&#8221; representation that included only a few minutes of the interview spliced with scenes from MTV&#8217;s &#8220;The Hills.&#8221;
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! LA mayor candidate Spencer Pratt just caught CBS engaging in ELECTION INTERFERENCE
He says they condensed a 1 hour interview into a “5 minute hit piece” after he WALLOPED Karen Bass
“They need to air the full, unedited interview.”
They KNOW Pratt is surging in LA <a href="https://t.co/saBXaIJaMw">pic.twitter.com/saBXaIJaMw</a>
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&#8220;They can’t beat my ideas, they can’t beat me in the debates, so they gotta try to turn my campaign into a sideshow,&#8221; Pratt said, calling on CBS to release the full interview.
During the interview, Pratt was asked about the fact that he&#8217;d been compared to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani because of the way both had managed to harness social media to effectively reach people.
&#8220;He promised voters the subway will be free,&#8221; Pratt said of Mamdani. &#8220;I&#8217;m promise my voters the Metro buses, the Metro trains, they will be free from urine, feces, stabbing, attacks — so that&#8217;s kind of similar.&#8221;
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🚨 Spencer Pratt DROPS THE MIC when asked about people comparing him to Zohran Mamdani 🫳🏻🎤
“He promised voters the subway will be free.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m promise my voters the Metro buses, the Metro trains, they will be free from URINE, FECES, stabbing attacks!” 🔥 <a href="https://t.co/IxXmWKoYRQ">pic.twitter.com/IxXmWKoYRQ</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2053503283847700986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Los Ángeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt took time out on Mother&#8217;s Day to honor his wife and the mother of his two boys, Heidi Montag.
Pratt shared video of the family as they returned to the Pacific Palisades for the first time after their home burned to the ground, praising his wife for everything she did to make things better for the boys even when she was very clearly hurt and struggling herself.
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&#8220;Mother&#8217;s Day is every day,&#8221; he captioned the video, which began on a scene that showed smoke, flames, and flying ash.
&#8220;Heidi and I have been through hell together. No mom should ever have to for through what she&#8217;s been through,&#8221; Pratt narrated as they showed the boys where their home used to be and the Airstream trailer that was to be their new home, at least for the time being.
&#8220;Are you okay?&#8221; Heidi asked one of the boys, and her face fell along with his when she heard him say, &#8220;No.&#8221;
&#8220;I am constantly in awe of Heidi. She&#8217;s the most incredible mom to our boys. She&#8217;s why I fight,&#8221; Pratt said.
Pratt has made no secret about the fact that losing his home in the Palisades Fire — and seeing how poor leadership in Los Angeles was making a devastating situation even worse — was what drove him to join the race to become the city&#8217;s next mayor. He has repeatedly and publicly blamed current Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and others in city leadership for failing to make the proper preparations before the fire and for failing to take steps to correct course once the fire was underway.
Bass, in response, claimed that Pratt was &#8220;exploiting&#8221; the victims of the Palisades Fire for political purposes. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spencer-pratt-hits-back-after-leftist-mayor-claims-hes-exploiting-palisades-fire-victims">Pratt pushed back</a> with video of himself comforting his mother — who also lost her home, the home in which he&#8217;d grown up, in the deadly fires.

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Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced his plan to make California the first state to provide &#8220;free diapers&#8221; to newborns leaving the hospital — funneling the money for the program through a nonprofit headed by a friend of California&#8217;s self-described &#8220;First Partner.&#8221;
Baby2Baby co-CEO Norah Weinstein sits on the board of Jennifer Siebel Newsom&#8217;s group &#8220;California Partners Project&#8221; — and it&#8217;s Baby2Baby that will take point on the $20 million diaper project, which is supposed to provide every family leaving the hospital with a newborn with 400 diapers.
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🚨 JUST IN: California Gov. Gavin Newsom conveniently announces $20 MILLION in taxpayer dollars will flow to an organization connected to his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom
&#8220;Free diapers&#8221; will be handed out to newborns through the group Baby2Baby — a co-CEO of which is Norah… <a href="https://t.co/QlWdemZq5Z">pic.twitter.com/QlWdemZq5Z</a>
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As The Media Research Center&#8217;s Brittany Hughes pointed out, 400 diapers sounds like a lot until you experience life with a newborn.
&#8220;400 diapers will last a family with a newborn approximately five weeks,&#8221; Hughes <a href="https://x.com/realbritthughes/status/2052795517940191634?s=46">pointed out</a>. And although five weeks without needing to buy diapers would certainly help some families, what is the actual cost?
&#8220;The program will cost the state approx $12.4 million this year alone,&#8221; Hughes added. &#8220;That money will be funneled through a company called Baby2Baby, which will then provide their branded diapers to 400 participating in hospitals (California has over 500 hospitals in total.) Meaning that instead of lowering taxes and letting families keep their own money to buy essentials like diapers, California takes their money, pumps it through a &#8216;nonprofit&#8217; that has overhead and whose CEO made $240,000 in 2024, to provide a &#8216;free&#8217; service available only in certain locations, and that you could have bought yourself for much cheaper.&#8221;
The &#8220;free diaper&#8221; project is far from the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/27/us-news/jennifer-siebel-newsom-making-big-money-from-nonprofit-sources/">first time</a> that California&#8217;s &#8220;First Partner&#8221; has profited from her husband&#8217;s political position. As The New York Post reported in late August, 2025, Jennifer Siebel Newsom received donations through her Representation Project nonprofit  — which promotes radical gender ideology — from companies that lobbied Governor Newsom&#8217;s administration.
She also controls Girls Club Entertainment LLC, a for-profit film company, that pulled in $150,000 from the Representation Project in 2024.
The Representation Project also hosts an annual gala titled &#8220;Flip the Script,&#8221; and among the attendees are often at least a handful of high-dollar donors to Gavin Newsom&#8217;s political ambitions.
&#8220;These types of connections certainly appear unseemly and raise some serious red flags,&#8221; Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told The Post at the time.

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Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is withdrawing from a May 13 candidate forum — with just over two weeks to go before the primary election that could decide her fate.
Bass, who sparred with former reality TV star Spencer Pratt (MTV&#8217;s &#8220;The Hills&#8221;) and Democratic socialist city councilwoman Nithya Raman on the debate stage last week, pulled out of the forum despite previously confirming her attendance.
League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles and the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs issued a <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/karen-bass-cancels-appearance-at-televised-l-a-mayoral-forum/">statement</a> on Bass&#8217;s apparent reversal, saying, &#8220;Mayor Bass’s withdrawal is disappointing. Public forums such as this are a cornerstone of democratic accountability. These forums provide voters with the opportunity to hear candidates share their perspectives, respond to questions, and engage with one another on issues facing Los Angeles.&#8221;
The organizations touted their joint history of sponsoring candidate events that were presented in a fair and balance fashion, and allowed candidates across all parties to address the issues that mattered most.
&#8220;We remain committed to providing voters with meaningful opportunities to engage with those seeking public office,&#8221; the statement concluded.
Campaign spokesperson Alex Stack explained that Bass had decided to forgo the candidate forum because she&#8217;d already debated her &#8220;top two&#8221; opponents — referring to Raman and Pratt — and would instead be &#8220;in Sacramento that day fighting for funding for housing, homelessness, and Palisades Fire recovery, and will also discuss the city and state partnership on the Olympics and World Cup.&#8221;
Several of those topics — particularly homelessness, housing, and the Palisades Fire — were topics of heated exchanges during the previous debate. Pratt, who lost his home in the Palisades Fire, challenged both Bass and Raman directly over their actions (or lack thereof) that he claims exacerbated the deadly blaze.
Three candidates are still expected to participate in the Wednesday forum: Raman, Adam Miller and Rae Huang. Pratt was initially invited to participate but had declined due to a prior scheduling conflict.

LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 17: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass announces establishing a task force to investigate, apprehend and prosecute suspects who have committed retail theft as businesses grapple with an uptick of smash-and-grabs in recent weeks a press conference held at City Hall in Los Angeles, CA.

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Last October, then-Attorney General Jason Miyares (R-VA) warned Democrats that their unconstitutional redistricting gamble would do little more than waste the taxpayers&#8217; time and money.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the newly-drawn congressional map — which skews dramatically in favor of Democrats — is flagrantly unconstitutional. But when all was said and done, as Miyares pointed out, the measure had already run up a $70 million tab — some of which was to be paid by taxpayers.
HB 1384, the amendment that set the special election, set aside $5 million of taxpayer money in order to pay for that election — but it did not cap the amount, meaning that supplemental funding may have been added to that as needed.
In addition to the taxpayer dollars, millions were spent on ads promoting the measure.
&#8220;If Abigail Spanberger and Virginia Democrats had paid attention my October 2025 AG’s Opinion that made clear this scheme was unconstitutional and illegal, they could have saved more than $70 million, countless headaches, and months of obnoxious television ads defending the indefensible,&#8221; Miyares said in a statement posted to X. &#8220;Instead, they ignored the law, wasted taxpayer money on running a special election, and dragged Virginians through a completely avoidable mess.&#8221;
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Miyares issued his opinion on October 28, 2025, saying in part, &#8220;My office just issued an official opinion explaining that the constitutionally required process to amend the Virginia Constitution cannot be short-circuited by a last-minute vote of the General Assembly taken during an ongoing election.&#8221;
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The Virginia Supreme Court ultimately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-supreme-court-strikes-down-redistricting-in-brutal-blow-to-democrats">agreed with Miyares</a>, ruling on Friday 4-3 that irregularities in the process had resulted in a new map that would not stand.
&#8220;In this case, the Commonwealth submitted a proposed constitutional amendment to Virginia voters in an unprecedented manner that violated the intervening-election requirement in Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia,&#8221; the Court held, adding, &#8220;This violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void.&#8221;
So the Commonwealth of Virginia is right back where it started — albeit a bit poorer — for the Democrats&#8217; efforts to put a thumb in the midterm scales.

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A number of American cruise passengers who may have been exposed to hantavirus are being monitored at home after returning from the Dutch ship M.V. Hondius.
<a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/us-news/americans-on-hantavirus-plagued-cruise-ship-return-home-to-three-states/">The passengers</a> — two in Texas, two in Georgia, one in Virginia, one in Arizona, and one in California — disembarked on the remote South Atlantic island of Saint Helena and are all reported to be in good health. They are still being monitored by health officials in their respective states, as life-threatening symptoms can still develop weeks after the initial exposure. None of the passengers were aware when they left the cruise ship that they might have been exposed.
Oceanwide Expeditions, the company that operates the Dutch cruise ship, released a statement on Thursday: &#8220;These disembarked guests have all been contacted by Oceanwide Expeditions. We are working to establish details of all passengers and crew who embarked and disembarked on various stops of M/V Hondius since March 20.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON599">Hantavirus</a> is most commonly transmitted through contact with rodent droppings, but the Andes virus — which primarily attacks the respiratory system and can carry a mortality rate of up to 50% — can be transmitted from person to person. The Andes virus, according to the World Health Organization, is responsible for the Hondius outbreak. Other strains of hantavirus can cause what&#8217;s known as Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS), a condition that can cause the kidneys to shut down.
The ship has been stranded for several days — with travelers trapped on board — as officials determine when and where passengers will be permitted to disembark. The next destination is likely to be Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands.
Since the outbreak began, seven cases have been identified — two through lab testing and five through medical evaluation. According to the WHO, three of those patients have died and one still remains critical — and three more have had only mild symptoms of infection.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/world/hantavirus-ship-tenerife-outbreak-intl">Travelers in at least</a> seven other countries are also monitoring for signs of illness after leaving M.V. Hondius.

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