A Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) source told Breitbart News on Tuesday that there were not enough officers available to direct traffic and assist the evacuation from the Palisades Fire because they were guarding President Joe Biden.
President Donald Trump has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet with him at the White House next week, making the Israeli leader the first such guest in the second Trump administration.
Steve Soboroff, whom L.A. Mayor Karen Bass has appointed to lead recovery efforts for the city after the Palisades Fire, told Breitbart News at a community meeting Tuesday: “I want to work with Trump!”
Mayor Karen Bass joined a community meeting about the recent L.A. fires on Tuesday that opened with a denunciation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which had nothing to do with the natural disaster.
Trump is not wrong, but the problem is more acute than supply: L.A. was not generally short of water; it mismanaged the water supply it already had.
There was something crucial that the public did not see in the town hall that President Donald Trump held in my town, Pacific Palisades, California, on Friday.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has decided that fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades will be built by an “outside consultant.”
The We Fund the Blue Foundation, a charity founded by veteran John Rourke, has been supporting firefighters and police working on the Palisades Fire by providing them refreshments, entertainment, and even some chiropractors.
Residents of Pacific Palisades, California, were finally given permission by local authorities to return to visit their fire-ravaged lots and homes after President Donald Trump intervened at a town hall on Friday and urged a speedy return.
President Donald Trump suggested for the second time in three days that Palestinians would be better off leaving Gaza after the conclusion of the latest war that Hamas terrorists have launched against Israeli civilians.
Swiss authorities have arrested and deported Ali Abunimah, the executive director of the radical anti-Israel website Electronic Intifada, after he arrived in the country to speak at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Zurich.
The Trump administration has strengthened Israel’s bargaining position in its first week in office vis-à-vis Hamas and Hezbollah, two Iranian-backed terrorist groups that launched a brutal but failed war against Israel in October 2023.
A “committee” widely cited in the media as opposing the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services turns out to be a Bill Gates-backed “Astroturf” organization that accepts fake signatories.
The state-controlled media in Qatar, a regime that has long been the patron of radical groups, smeared President Donald Trump as a “Nazi” and as a “vulgar” and “insufferable” person during his first term as president.
“Where is Steve Soboroff?” That’s the question many Pacific Palisades residents are asking after the developer, whom L.A. Mayor Karen Bass appointed to lead rebuilding efforts, has been absent from public meetings on the recent fire.
After Trump told Karen Bass on Friday that a week is “actually a long time” to wait, L.A. backed down and allowed residents to visit their homes, starting Monday.
President Donald Trump’s meeting Friday with residents of the Pacific Palisades and elected officials produced specific commitments.
The four female Israeli hostages released on Saturday defied their Hamas captors in Gaza by appearing strong and upbeat as the terrorists attempted to humiliate them in front of an audience of radical Islamists.
President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he would like to “clean out” Gaza after the devastation of the war started by Hamas on October 7, 2023, sending residents to Egypt and Jordan for humanitarian reasons.
Residents of the Pacific Palisades flocked home on Saturday after President Donald Trump’s visit the day before, with many gaining access to their property for the first time since the Palisades Fire more than two weeks ago.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Thursday providing $2.5 billion dollars in relief for the wildfires — though almost all of the money will go to emergency response, and only a tiny fraction is earmarked for rebuilding.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) accused President Donald Trump of spreading “misinformation” about California’s struggles with water, saying there is no “spigot” that can be turned to solve all the state’s water problems.
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) will not meet with President Donald Trump during his visit Friday to see the devastation of the wildfires in California, saying he must stay in Washington, DC, for nomination votes rather than helping his state.
President Trump, we really appreciate the visit. But what we need most after you leave is some tough love.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to make the first trip of his second term on Friday, when he will visit victims of natural disasters in North Carolina and California that, many believe, were worsened by government incompetence.
President Donald Trump’s imminent visit to fire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday will bring him into direct contact — and conflict — with Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, both of whom have failed to protect the city.
President Donald Trump re-designated the Houthi rebels in Yemen as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on his third day in office Wednesday, restoring a status that former President Joe Biden had reversed upon taking office in 2021.
Californians could only look on in awe and envy as Florida pre-deployed emergency resources ahead of the storm that dumped record amounts of snow on the Panhandle this week, rather than waiting until after the damage was done. “Wait. Ahead
Local philanthropists Greg and Jodi Perlman gave checks and gift cards on Tuesday to hundreds of families displaced by the Palisades Fire and struggling with expenses, with help from the Change Reaction platform and GoFundMe. The Perlmans, who made their
President Donald Trump signed 118 executive orders, actions, and memoranda on January 20, 2025, within hours of taking the Oath of Office. They are as follows: Rescinding 78 executive orders by President Joe Biden. Revocations include: Biden’s order to make
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi resigned Tuesday over the military’s failures to anticipate the Hamas terror attack of October 7, 2023. Major General Yaron Finkelman, who leads the IDF Southern Command, announced his intention to resign
President Donald Trump signed several pro-Israel executive orders on his first day in office, among a stack of dozens of others. This author had specifically recommended that Trump take over 200 actions — including executive orders — in his first
President Donald J. Trump mentioned the Palisades Fire, among other fires in the Los Angeles area, near the start of his Second Inaugural address in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday in Washington, D.C. Trump said: Our country can no longer
Law enforcement has caught several dozen alleged looters in the areas affected by the Altadena and Palisades Fires, but new Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman says that looting has likely been underestimated. Hochman spoke to Breitbart News on Monday
President Barack Obama was first inaugurated in January 2009 on a Tuesday — the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day was observed. There was an obvious connection to draw between the holiday celebrating the legendary civil rights leader, and the
President Donald Trump has had the most successful transition of any president in American history, thanks to what has been called the “Trump Effect”: the sudden willingness of world leaders and domestic rivals to align with Trump.
President-elect Donald Trump told tens of thousands of supporters at a rally in Washington, DC, on the eve of his Inauguration on Sunday that he intends to devote his first presidential visit to the California wildfires on Friday. Trump said:
The IDF released the first photos of the three female hostages who were released Sunday as part of a hostage deal with Hamas.
Firefighters took 20 minutes to respond to the Palisades Fire on January 7, according to the New York Times, confirming what sources have told Breitbart News over the past two weeks about the city’s poor reaction.
Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher. These are the names of the first three hostages to be freed on Sunday by Hamas after a ceasefire deal with Israel nearly fell through when Hamas failed to provide the list as agreed.
