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Left-wing candidate vows ‘fight for a healthier, safer and more joyful Los Angeles’ after edging out Spencer Pratt

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Left-wing candidate Nithya Raman said she was “incredibly honored” and would “fight for a healthier, safer” and “more joyful Los Angeles” as she edged out former reality TV villain Spencer Pratt in the city’s mayoral race.

Donald Trump was loudly booed when he was shown on the video screens at Madison Square Garden on Monday night before Game 3 of the NBA finals between the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks.

Trump told supporters in South Carolina the end of the war with Iran is comming soon. “I think we are winning that battle, but you’re really going to win it over the next two weeks when we declare total victory. It’ll be a total victory,” said the president who routinely promises that things will happen in two weeks which never happen at all.

In an interview at the National Press Club in Washington DC on Monday, Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont, was asked if he still supports Graham Platner. “I’m going to do everything I can to make sure Graham Platner is the next senator from the state of Maine,” Sanders said.

Trump nominated Todd Blanche to serve permanently as attorney general, lining up his former personal lawyer to be the country’s ⁠top ⁠law ⁠enforcement officer.

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