Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is at the center of controversy after social media photos showed her posing at a cocktail party in Ghana as the Palisades Fire exploded.

For the first 24 hours of Los Angeles' wildfire disaster, Mayor Karen Bass was a constant presence on social ... as part of a presidential delegation to Ghana, just as the National Weather Service began ratcheting up its warnings about the coming windstorm.

The National Weather Service warned about its forecast for ... Los Angeles Democrats, sometimes you just pick a bad one. The 71-year-old Karen Bass was either oblivious to the forecast for ...

It remains unclear how much the city and its mayor will ultimately be to blame for the explosive horror of the Palisades fire.

For Mayor Karen Bass, the horror show was compounded ... The mayor left for Africa on Jan. 4, a day after the National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch for Los Angeles, flagging ...

Strong winds over the next day will create dangerous conditions as several major wildfires continue to burn in the Los Angeles area. About 88,000 people remained under evacuation orders Tuesday morning because of the fires. But another 84,800 have been warned that they might be ordered to evacuate.

Karen Bass has come in for criticism over her handling of the fire department’s budget and other issues. Her chances for reelection may depend on the city’s long rebuilding process.

Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and the 2028 Summer Olympics: All three, to different degrees, have been imperiled by the deadly wildfires still tearing through Los Angeles.

Thursday, 10:30 a.m. PST The Palisades Fire’s containment jumped to 22% while Cal Fire reported 55% containment for the Eaton Fire, 98% containment for the Hurst Fire and 85% containment for the Auto Fire (only a few red flag warnings remain in effect for parts of Los Angeles County and adjacent regions).

The Palisades Fire - the first of several blazes to erupt in LA - broke out on Tuesday last week, but Mayor Karen Bass reprotedly did not call on her crisis response team until seven days later.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 25 people. The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Southern California.