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‘The whole city is in limbo’: Anxious waiting as Bass, Caruso ballots are counted for LA mayor

LOS ANGELES — Rick Caruso and Karen Bass both asserted their optimism Wednesday about an eventual victory in the Los Angeles mayor’s race, with both saying they would not let the slowly unfolding tabulation get in the way of their plans for a quick transition into the city’s top job.

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Bass, Caruso duel in historically expensive LA mayor’s race

LOS ANGELES — Businessman Rick Caruso and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass were in a virtual dead heat Tuesday night in the historically expensive race for mayor of Los Angeles, though the first returns remain far from definitive in what is expected to be a close contest.

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‘I’m terrified our world is coming to an end.’ Voters head to the polls across California on a rainy Election Day

LOS ANGELES — Voters across Southern California braved the rain Tuesday morning to cast their ballots in a midterm election that will determine the balance of power in Congress, abortion access and who will lead the nation’s second-largest city.

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Why Katy Perry, Chris Pratt and Netflix are causing controversy in the LA mayoral election

Rick Caruso, a billionaire real estate magnate, is taking on Democrat Karen Bass in the race for LA mayor

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LA in crisis: Troubled city has stark choice for next mayor

Los Angeles voters have a stark choice for mayor: A billionaire developer who is promising a shift to the political right, or a progressive congresswoman who could become the first Black woman to hold the job

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Fierce fights over US House, LA mayor top California ballot

California's midterm elections are coming to a close with a burst of house-to-house campaigning and nonstop TV advertising

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Forget election night results. Answers might take days or weeks in some LA races

LOS ANGELES — Celebratory confetti blanketed the Grove on primary night, as developer Rick Caruso — then sporting a multi-point lead in the Los Angeles mayor's race — declared his to be a "victory story."

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Karen Bass could be LA’s first female mayor. How important is milestone to Angelenos?

LOS ANGELES — For the last 241 years, the city of Los Angeles has been run by men.

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LA's mayor's race is tightening as Rick Caruso closes in on Karen Bass, new poll finds

LOS ANGELES — The race for mayor of Los Angeles was tightening rapidly as it entered its final week, with Rick Caruso cutting deeply into Rep. Karen Bass' lead, putting him within striking distance in the contest to run the nation's second-largest city.

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Marijuana is on the ballot in five states on Election Day

Welcome to the Thursday, November 3, Brew.

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The Valley is where LA's mayoral race could be won or lost

LOS ANGELES — One of Rick Caruso's first developments was a mall in Encino. It opened in 1994 after the Northridge earthquake and turned what had been seen as an eyesore into something "compatible with the neighborhood," as one resident put it.

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Obama endorses Karen Bass for LA mayor

LOS ANGELES — The Democratic circling of the wagons for Rep. Karen Bass is complete.

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Gustavo Arellano: Rick Caruso's Latino appeal isn't bought — it's real. But is it enough to win?

Telenovela star Kate del Castillo took a lunchtime stroll toward a black GMC Yukon parked on Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in Boyle Heights, cameramen and photographers behind her.

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LA mayoral candidate Rick Caruso on track to exceed $100 million in campaign spending

LOS ANGELES — Rick Caruso is on track to spend more than $100 million by Nov. 8 in his bid for Los Angeles mayor, an astounding sum that puts the real estate developer on par with candidate outlays in some of the country’s most closely watched and expensive midterm races.

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Caruso spending $53 million on relentless ad war against Bass, a 13-1 advantage

LOS ANGELES — Businessman Rick Caruso will end his campaign for mayor of Los Angeles much as he started it — pounding away with a television advertising campaign that attempts to persuade Angelenos he is the kind of independent problem solver who can overcome entrenched and corrupt interests at City…

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Bass and Caruso differ on public safety and policing. But not as much as many think

LOS ANGELES — On a campaign stop last spring in the San Fernando Valley, billionaire developer and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso was flanked by a who's who of old-school heavyweights from the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Leaked racist audio recording could push LA City Hall further left in Nov. 8 election

LOS ANGELES — Dissatisfaction with Los Angeles City Hall has been simmering for years, with residents growing exasperated over the protracted homelessness crisis, anxious over crime and exhausted by a string of corruption indictments targeting various city leaders.

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California’s down-ballot races most contentious and costly in midterm election

More than $1 billion so far has been poured into California races — but with less than three weeks to go before voting ends, candidates for governor and U.S. Senate haven’t aired a single general-election ad that touts their campaigns.

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Gustavo Arellano: Karen Bass' Latino-Black family is everything the ugly audiotape is not

LOS ANGELES — Last month, after the first L.A. mayoral debate between Karen Bass and Rick Caruso, I approached their campaigns with the same request.

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Nicholas Goldberg: Karen Bass says she'll protect Angelenos' abortion rights. But can the mayor of LA really do that?

On Monday, Los Angeles was still riddled with homeless encampments, crime was still too high, traffic was horrendous as usual and mass transit remained spotty. But mayoral candidate Karen Bass spent a good chunk of the day in a packed room with Vice President Kamala Harris and an official from…

The Guardian - US

Billionaire Rick Caruso has spent $80m of own money on LA mayoral race, records show

In contrast to the real estate developer with a net worth of around $5.3bn, his opponent Karen Bass raised only $6m as of September

Reason

LA Mayoral Candidate Rick Caruso Mocked for Suggesting He is Something Other than Generically White

A Telemundo debate resulted in this colloquy between the moderator and mayoral candidate Rick Caruso:"The next mayor of Los Angeles will be either an African American woman or a white man." Elvir said, referring to Bass and Caruso respectively. "I'm Italian," Caruso shot back in apparent objection. "Italian American," Elvir…

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles is running out of water, and time. Are leaders willing to act?

LOS ANGELES — On a clear afternoon recently, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti looked down at the Hollywood Reservoir from 1,200 feet in the air.

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Editorial: Endorsement: Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor

Los Angeles desperately needs, and will soon get, new leadership. No elected office is more important than mayor; this is the person Angelenos look to in a crisis, who can set the tone of the political discourse and should act as the moral compass for city policy.

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Biden can’t quit LA, or its complex politics, even as racist audio leak rocks the city

LOS ANGELES — What a moment for the leader of the free world to show up in Southern California.

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