Text messages to and from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass about January’s deadly Palisades Fire while Bass was on a trip to ...

Text messages to and from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass about January’s deadly Palisades Fire while Bass was on a trip to Africa were not saved, according to a newspaper report. The Los Angeles Times ...

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The Times filed a public records request for all text messages sent or received by the mayor while she was in transit that ...

Bass and her office have said she was in constant communication while she was out of the country. But it's impossible to know ...

When flames erupted in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7, Mayor Karen Bass was more than 7,000 miles away, on a diplomatic mission to Africa.

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