Fact Check: LA Mayor Olympic flag video falsely linked to 2025 wildfires
A video of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass disembarking a flight with the Olympic flag after the 2024 Paris Games handover ceremony has been falsely linked online to the January 2025 wildfires in the ...
With L.A. focused on fire recovery, Convention Center expansion is now in doubt
City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo said that, in the wake of the wildfires, the expansion and modernization project ...
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LA Mayor Karen Bass told NY Times in 2021 that she wouldn't travel internationally as mayor
Bass has traveled internationally four times since she became mayor, the Times reported, once to Mexico and three times to Paris for the Olympics. "Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent ...
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Los Angeles mayor had vowed not to travel internationally before taking office
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, left, holds an Olympic flag, and San IOC President Thomas Bach, center, and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, right, look in during the 2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony ...
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Will the L.A. Fires Sink Bass, Newsom — and the Olympics?
Los Angeles operates under a weak-mayor system with great authority ... willingly fund the potential cost overruns of the Olympics? Bass and Newsom will need real answers.
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Before Taking Office, L.A.’s Mayor Said She Would Not Go Abroad
Mayor Bass did not personally respond to multiple ... Of her 2021 remarks about travel, he said: “In light of the Olympics coming, that the city owns and operates the nation’s largest ...
Gavin Newsom Recall Process Could Start This Week, With Karen Bass Next
Murmurs of recalls are swirling in California, where the state and local response to the L.A. wildfires has led to bipartisan ...
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LA Mayor Karen Bass promised before being elected to not go abroad — then was caught in Ghana when fires erupted
LA Mayor Karen Bass promised voters before being elected ... Claudia Sheinbaum and three times to France for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the Times said. Rivals and constituents across the ...