By Samantha Delouya, CNN

(CNN) — A surprisingly competitive mayoral campaign from former reality television star Spencer Pratt has thrust some of Los Angeles’ economic anxieties into the national spotlight ahead of Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary election.

Pratt has built his campaign around frustration with the city’s leadership and direction after the Pacific Palisades home he shared with his wife, fellow “The Hills” co-star Heidi Montag, and their two children was destroyed by the devastating fires that ravaged Los Angeles last year. In viral campaign videos, he has portrayed Los Angeles as poorly managed and struggling to recover from overlapping crises.

The message appears to be resonating: Recent polls show Pratt competitive with Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman and within striking distance of incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.

Pratt’s rise comes when many living in the country’s second-largest city grapple with a deep uncertainty about its future.

For more than a century, Los Angeles built a reputation of selling glamour and reinvention. But in recent years, economic pressures have mounted. Housing costs have soared, deepening affordability worries and homelessness. The entertainment industry, one of the city’s defining economic engines, has slowed due to production cutbacks and broader changes in Hollywood. International tourism has fallen sharply, as fear about wildfire destruction and ICE raids across parts of the city has kept more travelers away.

At the same time, recovery from the Palisades and Eaton fires, which destroyed more than 16,000 structures, has further intensified frustrations around rebuilding, insurance costs and the city government’s response to crises.

Much of Pratt’s campaign has centered on dissatisfaction with the city’s direction and calls to disrupt the political status quo, though he has released fewer detailed policy plans than some rival candidates.

Pratt announced his campaign on the one-year anniversary of the fires and has said he decided to run after growing frustrated with what he describes as government failures that contributed to the scale of the destruction.

A focus on solving the city’s homelessness crisis

The city’s visible homelessness has become a potent symbol of government dysfunction among many LA residents. The issue has been a core tenet of Pratt’s campaign.

There were more than 43,000 people who experienced homelessness on any given night in the city in 2025, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. While homelessness in the city has declined since peaking in 2023, the population of unhoused residents remains roughly 23% higher than it was in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic.

Pratt argues that the city “doesn’t have a homelessness problem,” but rather, a drug problem. Many of the city’s homelessness issues would be solved simply by “enforcing the laws” and arresting drug users or bringing them to treatment centers, he has said.

“Mayor Bass and Councilwoman Raman, they think empty beds, they think it’s a housing problem. It’s a drug addiction problem,” Pratt said on CNN’s “The Lead” on Thursday. “Of course, we need to house and find shelter and rehabs for these people, but we need to have mandatory treatment for people that are on drugs.”

The data does not support Pratt’s claims, said Benjamin Henwood, the director of the Center for Homelessness, Housing and Health Equity Research at the University of Southern Califo

Por Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN en Español

La candidata conservadora Keiko Fujimori mantiene una ligera ventaja sobre el izquierdista Roberto Sánchez en la intención de voto, según divulgó la última encuesta de Ipsos, publicada este domingo por Perú 21, aunque la diferencia se mantiene en el margen de empate técnico a una semana de la segunda vuelta.

La aspirante de Fuerza Popular, que compite por cuarta vez consecutiva en un balotaje, obtuvo el 38 % de las preferencias, frente al 35 % del candidato de Juntos por el Perú, según el estudio de IPSOS realizado entre el 29 y 30 de mayo.

A fines de abril, Fujimori y Sánchez estaban empatados con 38 % cada uno, y a mediados de mayo Fujimori logró una ventaja de cuatro puntos sobre el congresista, según los sondeos de la consultora.

La veda que prohíbe la publicación de encuestas comienza este lunes, por lo que no podrá divulgarse sondeos que midan el impacto del debate televisado entre Fujimori y Sánchez, que se realizará este domingo.

La líder derechista encabezó la primera vuelta del 12 de abril con el 17,2 % de los votos, mientras que Sánchez pasó a segunda vuelta con el 12 %, y una diferencia de apenas poco más de 21.000 votos sobre el ultraderechista Rafael López Aliaga. Esos resultados fueron proclamados oficialmente el 17 de mayo, aunque Fujimori y Sánchez ya estaban recorriendo ciudades en campaña a la segunda vuelta.

La hija y heredera política del expresidente Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) recibió esta semana el apoyo de López Aliaga, que no la mencionó explícitamente, pero invocó a no votar en blanco ni apoyar a “la izquierda radical”. También fue respaldada por Carlos Espá (3,35 % de votos en la primera vuelta) y de Rafael Belaúnde (0,24 %).

En tanto, Sánchez, que hace campaña con el sombrero del encarcelado expresidente Pedro Castillo, recibió el apoyo del empresario Ricardo Belmont, que alcanzó el 10 % de votos, del centroizquierdista Alfonso López Chau (7,3 %), y de Yonhy Lescano (1,3 %), entre otros candidatos con menor representación.

Por su parte, el centrista Jorge Nieto, que quedó en cuarto lugar con casi el 11 % de votos, llamó a votar nulo, como también lo hizo la exministra Marisol Pérez Tello.

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Por Kevin Liptak, CNN

El presidente de EE.UU, Donald Trump, devolvió los cambios propuestos al acuerdo con Irán tras una reunión con sus asesores el viernes, según informaron fuentes oficiales, lo que prolonga las negociaciones de ida y vuelta una semana más.

Los cambios exactos que solicitó Trump no quedaron claros de inmediato, pero las fuentes indicaron que el mandatario ha insistido en un lenguaje más firme en torno a los compromisos nucleares de Irán y a su promesa de reabrir el estrecho de Ormuz.

Trump también ha expresado su preocupación por el alivio financiero que se le podría brindar a Irán como parte del acuerdo, receloso de las comparaciones con los “palés de efectivo” que se entregaron bajo el acuerdo nuclear de la era Obama, al que él tilda de débil.

La última ronda de cambios propuestos llega una semana después de que Trump declarara que el acuerdo estaba “prácticamente finalizado” y señalara que el fin de la guerra era inminente.

Desde entonces, funcionarios estadounidenses han dado a conocer avances para alcanzar un acuerdo que pondría fin a las hostilidades, reabriría el estrecho y daría inicio a conversaciones más detalladas sobre el programa nuclear de Irán.

Sin embargo, incluso después de que Trump anunciara que tomaría una “decisión final” durante la reunión del viernes y detallara algunas de las condiciones del acuerdo en las redes sociales, la sesión de dos horas concluyó sin una decisión concluyente.

Mientras que Trump afirmó en su mensaje que Estados Unidos confiscaría las reservas de uranio altamente enriquecido de Irán y las destruiría, Irán ha dicho sistemáticamente que no está discutiendo los detalles de su programa nuclear en el marco de las negociaciones actuales.

Trump también afirmó que no se había discutido el intercambio de dinero como parte del acuerdo, una condición que, según Irán, debe incluirse en cualquier acuerdo.

Aún no está claro cómo se resolverán esas discrepancias, mientras continúan las discusiones sobre la redacción del acuerdo.

Axios y The New York Times informaron anteriormente sobre la solicitud de cambios de Trump.

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(CNN) — President Donald Trump sent back changes to the proposed deal with Iran after a meeting with advisers Friday, officials said, extending the back and forth negotiations into another week.

The exact changes Trump requested weren’t immediately clear, but officials said the president has insisted on tougher language surrounding Iran’s nuclear commitments and its pledge to reopen to Strait of Hormuz.

Trump has also voiced concern at what financial relief might be provided for Iran as part of the deal, wary of comparisons to the “pallets of cash” that were delivered under the Obama-era nuclear deal he derides as weak.

The latest volley of proposed changes comes a week after Trump declared the deal “largely finalized” and signaled the end of the war was imminent.

Since then, US officials have telegraphed progress on reaching an agreement that would end hostilities, reopen the strait and begin more detailed talks on Iran’s nuclear program.

Yet even after Trump announced he would be making a “final determination” during Friday’s meeting, and spelled out some of the deal’s conditions on social media, the two-hour session ended without a conclusive decision.

While Trump claimed in his message that the US would seize Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium and destroy it, Iran has consistently said it is not discussing details of its nuclear program under the current negotiations.

Trump also claimed there had been no discussion of exchanging money as part of the deal, a condition Iran says must be included in any agreement.

How those discrepancies are resolved remained unclear as the haggling over the deal’s language ground forward.

Axios and The New York Times reported earlier on Trump’s request for changes.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday that no agreement will be approved with the United States until Tehran’s “rights” are secured, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

“The soldiers of the diplomatic battlefield have no trust in the words and promises of the enemy. What matters to us is tangible achievements that we must obtain, in exchange for which we will fulfil our commitments,” Tasnim cited Ghalibaf as saying.

Delaware Sen. Chris Coons on Sunday morning said the terms Trump outlined last week for a deal look acceptable on paper, but expressed skepticism it would be achievable in practice – particularly in regard to the Strait of Hormuz.

“While we can use our technological superiority to bomb big factories in Iran, we’re not going to be able to stop them from having the power to use their mines to close the Strait of Hormuz and their drones to attack us and our allies,” Coons, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We’re going to need a tough deal to actually address this new capability that Iran has demonstrated in this war.”

In response to Iran’s chokehold on the strait, a critical passage for the global energy trade, Trump has directed the US Navy to blockade the country’s ports and clear the strait of Iranian mines.

The blockade has continued amid the negotiations, with the US military on Friday disabling a Gambian-flagged vessel that was heading to Iran by firing a missile into its engine room, according to US Central Command.

CENTCOM said in a statement posted to social media on Saturday the M/V Lian Star was en route to an Iranian port in the Gulf of Oman when the US military issued “more than 20 warnings” that it was violating the US blockade of Iranian ports.

This marks the fifth commercial ship the US military has disabled since the blockade began, CENTC