Bass has faced widespread outrage over her whereabouts after returning to Los Angeles from Ghana on Wednesday, 24 hours after fires ignited.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday deflected questions about her controversial overseas trip to Ghana as newly unearthed photos show her at a cocktail party in the African country when the ...

L.A. is scared, seething and looking for a scapegoat — and who better than a mayor who jetted to another continent despite warnings that devastating winds were about to blast through a region that ...

Mayor Karen Bass has come under criticism for attending an inauguration in Ghana as mounting warnings signaled heightened fire risks in Los Angeles.

Bass was on a plane to Ghana’s capital Accra. open image in gallery Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, pictured with and California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, was absent when the first fires ...

Bill Maher opened his first Real Time show of 2025 by tearing into LA Mayor Karen Bass (D) and others over the wildfires that ...

Ms. Bass, a longtime state and federal lawmaker, was seen as a pragmatic leader before the fires. But many Los Angeles ...

American, I obviously don’t have a problem with listening to black women. My own grandmother was a black woman and I listened ...

More than 4,000 acres have been burned by wildfires on the outskirts of LA and people are asking why the city's mayor was in Africa as the crisis unfurled.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass repeatedly dodged questions about her leadership and alleged lack of initial presence during the ...

LA Mayor Karen Bass promised voters before being elected that she would not travel abroad — only to be caught gallivanting around Ghana when the worst wildfires in the city’s history broke out ...

Bass is also under fire for being out of the country when the blazes began, having left on a diplomatic trip to attend the inauguration of Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday. LOS ...