The most fortunate thing that ever happened to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was the catastrophic Palisades fire of January 2025. That sentence sounds cruel until you study how her political survival actually works. The fire — with its dead, its incinerated neighborhoods, its iconic image of a stone-faced mayor refusing to answer questions on a tarmac after returning from Ghana — is so visually overwhelming and emotionally charged that it absorbs nearly every ounce of public anger directed at her administration. Critics keep relitigating the trip to Accra. They should be relitigating everything else.

Because behind the smoke, Bass is presiding over one of the most quietly disastrous mayoralties in modern American urban history. A federal judge is breathing down her neck over billions in unaccounted homeless spending. The city ran a billion-dollar deficit two years into her tenure. The Department of Justice has sued her city. The National Guard and U.S. Marines had to be deployed because she would not deploy her own police. And her response to nearly all of it has been to hide — from auditors, from forums, from voters.

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Three hundred thousand. That is the figure the federal government now uses to describe the unaccompanied migrant children that the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services lost track of or handed to unvetted sponsors between January 2021 and December 2024. Three hundred thousand children is not a statistic. It is the population of Anaheim. It is larger than Pittsburgh, larger than Cincinnati, larger than St. Louis. It is a city of children, and the United States government cannot tell you where most of them are tonight.

The cabinet secretary who presided over that disappearance is now asking Californians to make him their next governor.

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Discovering fraud isn’t victory. It’s the bare minimum. In California, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced charges against 21 suspects in a $267 million Medi-Cal hospice fraud ring. Shell companies used stolen identities to bill taxpayers for end-of-life care that never happened—no patients, no services, just straight cash grabs.

Days earlier, federal agents arrested eight more in a separate $50 million scheme running sham hospices across Los Angeles. Feds have now suspended 447 hospices and 23 home health outfits over an estimated $600 million in Medicare rip-offs. Ground zero is LA County, where hundreds of these operations trigger every red flag in the book.

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