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Incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Republican challenger Spencer Pratt, and Democratic Socialists of America-aligned city councilwoman Nithya Raman squared off in a heated nonpartisan debate on Wednesday as the city heads toward its June 2 mayoral primary.
The debate, hosted by NBC4 and Telemundo 52, centered on questions of public safety, affordability and immigration. Conservative commentators on social media, as well as some on the left, generally felt that Pratt exceeded expectations as he jumps into politics following his history as a reality star on «The Hills.»
Fox News Digital took a look back at the top moments of the debate, including Bass confronting top issues such as the Palisades fires that tore through Southern California in 2025.
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Former reality television star Spencer Pratt is running against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to lead the second-largest city in the country. (Left (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images), Right (Ronaldo Bolaños / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images))
‘Stabbed in the neck’
«First off, Inside Safe, I like to say Inside Safe makes all of us outside, unsafe,» Pratt said near the midpoint of the debate.
Inside Safe is a municipal program spearheaded by Bass intended to take people out of homeless encampments and bring them into temporary or permanent indoor housing. A city report found that it spent $300 million on the project, which assisted roughly 6,000 people, 40% of whom have since ended up back on the streets.
«The reality is, no matter how many beds you give these people, they are on super meth,» Pratt continued. «They are on fentanyl. The DEA statistic says 93% of this is a drug addiction problem. I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with [Raman] and we can find some of these people she’s going to offer treatment for. She’s going to get stabbed in the neck.»
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Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman talks with Mayor Karen Bass at Hazeltine Park in Sherman Oaks on Feb. 10, 2024, before a campaign event. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)
‘This is a yes or no question’
Near the end of the debate, moderator Enrique Chiabra asked the three candidates a straightforward question.
«I want to ask you all three if this is a yes or no question and answer,» Chiabra said. «So there’s an LA council member. He wants voters to decide. He is saying that non-citizens, should they be allowed to vote in local elections. Is this a yes or no, Mr. Pratt?»
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Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman attends National Coming Out Day 2024 in Los Angeles, California, on Oct. 11, 2024. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)
Pratt answered in a single word: «No.»
Bass gave a longer answer, differentiating between green card holders and illegal immigrants, pointing out that some cities allow the former category to vote in local elections.
Raman, meanwhile, gave an answer that a Los Angeles Times columnist described as «tongue-tied.»
«Yeah, I would say again, it does depend in other places, school boards have non-citizens, non-citizens who are residents who vote for these,» she began to say, before a moderator cut her off.
‘The most dangerous thing that the mayor put us up against’
Early in the debate, Pratt took a jab at Bass over her handling of the January 2025 Pacific Palisades fires.
«To the mayor, Karen Bass, the thousand firefighters that were available, but there [were] no engines for them because of the $17 million that Chief Crowley had asked the mayor for nine weeks before, and Mayor Karen Bass denied it,» Pratt said. «Not to mention Janisse Quinones, who Mayor Karen Bass put into a position of power at the LA DWP. She drained both of these reservoirs that these firefighters needed to put out these fires.»
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TV personality and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt visits Fox & Friends at Fox News Channel Studios in New York City on Jan. 28, 2026. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
Pratt called Bass’ conduct in the lead-up to the fires «the most dangerous thing that the mayor put us up against.»
‘Mayor Bass and I are definitely not working together’
Raman, who has been struggling to break through in the polls, accused Bass and Pratt during the debate of working together to block her out of the general election.
«You’re going to watch today as Mayor Bass and Spencer Pratt attack me because they want to run against each other in the general election,» Raman said, directly addressing debate viewers.
«First off, Mayor Bass and I are definitely not working together,» Pratt responded. «I blame this person for burning my house and my parents house and my town and all my neighbors down.»
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said «it depends» when asked whether noncitizens should be allowed to vote in local elections. (Getty Images)
He went on to point out that Bass’ strong relationship with labor unions and her status as incumbent mayor made her a stronger opponent than Raman, in his view.
Pratt concluded his statement by dismissing Raman as a «random council member.»
‘Public safety should be our number one priority’
As the debate shifted to public safety, Pratt took an opportunity to slam Raman for historically advocating for decreased police funding.
«Councilwoman Raman keeps saying that the police department is over funded public safety – should be our number one priority,» he said. «And we’re going to find all this money when we stop her useless open bed plans. That actually doesn’t put drug addicts in these housing, that we’re spending billions of dollars, and we’re going to actually start checking where this money is going.»
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Pratt proposed providing more resources to the Los Angeles Police Department to ultimately build the force to 12,500 officers.
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A bipartisan push to make Daylight Saving Time permanent is heading for a chamber-wide vote after clearing a key House hurdle.
The House Rules Committee on Monday teed up a floor vote on the Sunshine Protection Act, which would allow states to enact Daylight Saving Time year-round — with an option to opt out. The committee approved the rule in a 6-4 vote.
The measure has the support of many coastal lawmakers and President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly urged Congress to make Daylight Saving Time permanent and end the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks — a practice currently observed by every state except Hawaii and most of Arizona.
Proponents argue that resetting clocks has negative health impacts, while permanent Daylight Saving Time would boost outdoor recreation, tourism and economic activity, among other benefits.
Rep. Vern Buchanan, a Republican from Florida, attends a House Ways and Means Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 2026. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Most Americans already set their clocks forward one hour each spring to preserve more evening daylight before «falling back» one hour in November.
«Americans are overwhelmingly supportive of this policy and want to end the practice of ‘springing forward’ and ‘falling back.’ Locking the clock all year long would have positive impacts on sleep schedules, energy conservation, motor vehicle safety, and our economy,» Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said in an opening statement Monday.
«In practice, this change would mean more time for people to exercise outside, visit family, attend concerts and sporting events, attract customers to their retail businesses, and more.»
«Floridians and Americans across the country are tired of the biannual time change, and the evidence is clear that permanent daylight saving time can improve public health, reduce traffic accidents, lower crime and encourage more outdoor activity,» Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., who authored the measure, previously said in a May news release.
«Ending the clock change is a commonsense reform that will improve everyday life for millions of Americans,» he added.
The legislation’s momentum comes after the House Energy and Commerce Committee overwhelmingly passed the measure 48-1 in May.
«It’s time that people can stop worrying about the ‘Clock,’ not to mention all of the work and money that is spent on this ridiculous, twice-yearly production,» Trump wrote following the Sunshine Protection Act’s advancement out of committee. «It will also be a very nice WIN for the Republican Party. Take it! We are going with the far more popular alternative, Saving Daylight, which gives you a longer, brighter Day — And who can be against that — This is an easy one!»
President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol on June 24, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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Roughly 20 states have already passed legislation that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent if Congress were to authorize the practice. Alabama, South Carolina, Oregon, Maine and Florida are among those places.
But opponents, including several medical organizations, argue that permanent standard time — which provides more sunlight in the morning — would be the healthier option because it would more closely align with the body’s natural circadian rhythms.
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., proposed amending the bill with language from her co-sponsored Sunshine for Our Kids Act, which would make standard time permanent nationwide. The amendment was quickly rejected.
Scanlon argued that permanent daylight saving time would pose significant health and safety risks by leaving more Americans — particularly children — in darkness during morning hours. She also pointed to the nation’s brief experiment with year-round daylight saving time in 1974, which Congress abandoned after widespread public backlash.
Rep. Nanette Barragán, D-Calif., was also the lone lawmaker to oppose the legislation during the Energy and Commerce Committee markup in May, citing concerns that year-round daylight saving time could negatively affect children’s health and sleep schedules.
Some conservative lawmakers have also argued that GOP leadership should be focused on what they describe as more pressing legislative issues, including legislation codifying Trump’s border security executive orders and the stalled SAVE America Act.
«Republicans are majoring in the minors — fiddling with the clocks while the country burns,» Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, wrote Monday.
The House has already passed versions of the SAVE America Act multiple times, but the measure has struggled to overcome the Senate’s legislative filibuster.
This illustration photo shows a clock in the background of a smartphone showing the time after Daylight Saving Time was implemented in Los Angeles. (Chris Delmas/Getty Images)
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The Senate unanimously passed a version of the Sunshine Protection Act in 2022, but it died in the House amid opposition, including from lawmakers who voiced concerns about darker morning hours in parts of the country during the winter.
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Trump informó que EEUU investiga la posible presencia de drones iraníes en Cuba: “Si los tienen, nos encargaremos de ello en breve”
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, informó el lunes por la noche que su Gobierno investiga una posible presencia de drones iraníes en Cuba y advirtió que Washington actuará si confirma esa información. “Si los tienen, y es muy posible que los tengan, nos encargaremos de ello. Marco está justo en la habitación de al lado. Y si los tienen, nos encargaremos de ello en breve”, afirmó desde el Despacho Oval.
Trump respondió a preguntas de la prensa sobre una eventual presencia de drones iraníes en la isla y sostuvo que su administración no permitirá esa situación. Además, planteó la posibilidad de que Cuba también almacene armamento iraní.
«Podría ser» que la isla caribeña estuviera «almacenando algunos» misiles iraníes, señaló el mandatario. “Lo estamos investigando ahora mismo”, expresó, antes de remarcar que su Gobierno no va a «permitir que eso ocurra“.
Las declaraciones del presidente llegaron poco después de que el secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, anunciara que Washington continuará con el uso de «todas las herramientas a su disposición» para «impulsar» reformas «políticas y económicas» en Cuba y poner fin a «décadas de represión e incompetencia económica de su régimen comunista“.
En la víspera, el embajador de Estados Unidos ante las Naciones Unidas, Mike Waltz, sostuvo que Cuba alberga bases «tanto rusas como chinas» y atribuyó a Moscú y Beijing la presencia de «puestos de inteligencia, puestos de recolección de señales y oficiales militares en Cuba“.
Las declaraciones se producen en un contexto de creciente presión de Washington sobre La Habana. Al embargo vigente desde hace más de seis décadas, Estados Unidos sumó desde comienzos de año un bloqueo energético que provocó, en distintas ocasiones, la interrupción total del suministro eléctrico en la isla.
El pasado viernes, las autoridades cubanas confirmaron un nuevo apagón eléctrico de alcance nacional, el cuarto registrado en lo que va del año.
El régimen cubano incorporó más de 300 drones militares de origen ruso e iraní desde 2023, según fuentes de inteligencia citadas por Axios. El informe sostiene que las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FAR) analizan un eventual uso de estos sistemas contra objetivos militares estadounidenses, como la Base Naval de Guantánamo o instalaciones en Cayo Hueso, en medio de la creciente tensión con Estados Unidos.
Las autoridades del régimen, encabezadas por Miguel Díaz-Canel, invocaron el derecho a la legítima defensa, aunque no negaron la posesión de estos sistemas. El canciller Bruno Rodríguez advirtió que habrá un «baño de sangre» si Washington ejecuta una acción militar contra la isla.
De acuerdo con el portal El Toque, el interés de las FAR por los drones antecede a 2023 y responde a una política de cooperación militar con Irán, Rusia, Bielorrusia, Argelia, Venezuela y Vietnam. El medio también señala que existen indicios de que la industria militar del régimen desarrolló capacidad para ensamblar y modificar estos equipos.
Uno de los primeros antecedentes documentados data de 2012, cuando el entonces director de la empresa bielorrusa Minsk Aircraft Overhaul Plant, Yevgeny Vaitsekhovich, informó sobre un proyecto conjunto con la dictadura cubana para ensamblar drones Sterkh-BM. En 2024, el ministro de las FAR, Álvaro López Miera, visitó instalaciones militares en Bielorrusia donde inspeccionó modelos Irkut, Orlan, Supercam, Formula, VR-12, Moskit y Busel.
Según Axios, no existe evidencia pública sobre los modelos exactos incorporados por las FAR, aunque las fuentes consultadas apuntan a sistemas similares a los utilizados en la guerra de Ucrania, entre ellos los iraníes Shahed-136, Arash-2 y Mohajer-6, además del ruso Geran-2.
El Shahed-136 posee un alcance estimado de entre 2.000 y 2.500 kilómetros y puede transportar una ojiva de 40 a 50 kilogramos. El Arash-2 ofrece una autonomía de hasta 30 horas, mientras que el Mohajer-6 incorpora sensores electroópticos e infrarrojos y puede portar municiones guiadas de precisión.
El informe también indica que gran parte de los drones observados en Cuba corresponde a modelos comerciales chinos adaptados para tareas de vigilancia y reconocimiento. Además, las instituciones educativas de las FAR incorporaron formación específica en Vehículos Aéreos No Tripulados (VANT) y la Empresa Militar Industrial Yuri Gagarin presentó drones con capacidad para lanzar pequeñas granadas de mortero durante el ejercicio Meteoro 2025, lo que evidencia capacidad de ensamblaje, modificación y mantenimiento dentro de la isla.
El análisis publicado por Axios sostiene que «presentar drones armados como ‘medios defensivos’ supone una confusión conceptual sobre los principios básicos de la doctrina militar o una deliberada distorsión del lenguaje para consumo político interno“. Además, señala que la incorporación de estos sistemas respondió a un proceso de planificación de varios años y no a una reacción inmediata frente a las tensiones recientes con Estados Unidos.
(Con información de Europa Press)
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