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Why this matters:

• Raman was elected to the city council with the support of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the election will test whether voters in the heavily Democratic city want to move further to the political left to address long-running problems of homelessness, buckled streets and climbing housing prices. 
  
  

• The race also has historical markers. Bass is the first Black woman to hold the post, and Raman could be the first South Asian woman in the job.

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WORLD NEWS

Netanyahu and Trump are at odds over the war they started together

President Donald Trump had publicly warned Israel not to strike Beirut in its war with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. When it did, on Sunday, Israel traded strikes with Iran, with which Trump has been engaged in weeks of high-stakes negotiations. Read more.

Why this matters:

• The latest strikes made it clear that Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu want different things. While the fighting has since died down, the differences between the two leaders are likely to persist. That’s because Trump, whose party faces elections later this year, wants to wind down an unpopular war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to ease gas prices. Netanyahu, who also faces elections this year, is under pressure to stop Hezbollah's attacks and prove that he is winning the war with Iran and its allies.

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• A very online Israeli army spokesman is the face of war for millions of Arabs 
  
  
• War in the Middle East is flaring again. Here’s how each side sees the stakes 
  
  
• After morning of sirens, Israelis fall back into well-worn war routines 

POLITICS

Federal judge strikes down Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas

U.S. District Court Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston sided with 20 states, saying the executive branch exceeded its authority. Read more.

What to know:

• H-1B visas are meant for high-skilled jobs that are difficult to find American workers to fill. The administration announced the much higher fee in September as a way of preventing foreign workers from taking American jobs.
  
  

• The announcement set off a wave of panic among confused employers, students and workers in the United States and abroad and led to several lawsuits. In this case, states argued that using the H-1B program for much-needed doctors and teachers was already difficult before the higher fee.
  
  

• The ruling contradicts an earlier federal court decision that upheld the increased fee. There's still another federal case in San Francisco, setting up the possibility for appellate court clashes.