119th Congress

West Hollywood Fire Station 8, used frequently in the 1970s TV show “Emergency!,” will soon have a new $20 million home.

Supervisor Lindsey Horvath helped secure $19.5 million from the Measure E property tax fund that's been raising money for projects just like this, and an additional $500,000 secured by Congresswoman Laura Friedman.

U.S. Rep. Laura Friedman announced Monday a new $500,000 federal investment to help replace Los Angeles County Fire Station 8 in West Hollywood, a 73-year-old facility L.A. County officials have deemed vulnerable to collapse during a major earthquake.

Two weeks after 139 people died in raging Texas floods last summer, the leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ridiculed reporting that said the agency had missed thousands of calls to its emergency help center.

“Fake news,” David Richardson, the acting administrator at the time, told House lawmakers who were probing officials’ response to the flash flooding that killed more than two dozen children.

“The vast majority of phone calls were answered,” Richardson said. “All calls were answered within three minutes.

California Democrats in Congress are raising concerns about Paramount Skydance’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery — a $111-billion deal that would dramatically reshape Hollywood by consolidating two historic film studios.

Last week, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump both made calls for Disney to take Jimmy Kimmel, host of the ABC late-night series “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” off the air, citing his jokes against the president, which they characterized as harmful. Trump alleged that Kimmel called for “violence.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the “rhetoric” was “completely deranged.”

Most of California’s Democratic congressional delegation sent a letter to Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday urging him to “closely scrutinize” the pending merger of Paramount and Warner Bros.