The latest vote tally Saturday evening showed Nithya Raman closing the gap with Spencer Pratt in the L.A. mayor’s race, now behind by 1 percentage point.

Twenty states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in March, alleging that the Trump administration is attempting to place unlawful conditions on $74 billion in federal food assistance.

Spencer Pratt’s election night party at Don Antonio’s Mexican restaurant in West Los Angeles included a few uninvited guests.

The mayoral general election is an opportunity to lay out a better plan on homelessness.

Pratt took large swaths of the Westside and West Valley, Bass locked up South L.A. and Raman showed strength in renter-dominant neighborhoods such as Echo Park, partial election returns show.

Democrat Xavier Becerra consolidated Democratic support to advance in a bitter primary to become California’s next governor, while the second spot remains up for grabs.

An update of votes for Los Angeles mayor, reported by media outlets, led some observers to believe there was a large batch of votes counted that included zero votes for candidate Spencer Pratt. There was no such batch, but there was a misleading update.

Two school board presidents, one conservative and one liberal, will face each other in California’s November runoff for state schools superintendent.

Federal prosecutor Bill Essayli says multiple California election fraud investigations are underway as state officials reject Trump’s cheating claims.

The last time a sitting Los Angeles city attorney was knocked out of office in a primary election, the Great Depression was in full swing. The apparent defeat this week of Hydee Feldstein Soto was the result of a lack of clear messaging and a controversy-plagued term, political analysts say.