Julia Ingram

2 months ago | cbsnews.com | Laura Doan |Julia Ingram

Trump signs cost-cutting DOGE executive order Elon Musk suggested Wednesday that a number of federal employees who did not respond to an email requesting a summary of their achievements from the previous week could be "dead" or "not real people," but offered no facts to back it up. "We think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead, which is probably why they can't respond, and — and some people who are not real people," Musk said.

Jan 29, 2025 | cbsnews.com | Julia Ingram

Images of aid reaching Gaza Both President Trump and his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, have claimed that the administration has stopped a plan to spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza as part of the new administration's reevaluation of federal funding. "We identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas," he said Wednesday.

Jan 24, 2025 | cbsnews.com | Laura Doan |Julia Ingram |Julie Watts

CBS News Confirmed examines Gov. Newsom's "fact checks" on California fires As California officials sought to tamp down false claims about the devastating wildfires, Gov. Gavin Newsom created "California Fire Facts," a page on his website to counter what he called "lies" about the California fires. Among the claims the governor sought to debunk were some related to his management of the state's firefighting resources and forest management.

Jan 15, 2025 | cbsnews.com | Julia Ingram |Joanne Stocker

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass faced renewed scrutiny Wednesday after new details emerged about her trip to Ghana and the exact timing of her travel back to the United States, raising further questions about whether she returned as quickly as she could have when the Palisades Fire broke out. Bass traveled to Ghana to attend the inauguration of the nation's new president on Jan. 4, a day after the National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch for Los Angeles. She landed on Jan.

Jan 13, 2025 | cbsnews.com | Julia Ingram |Jui Sarwate

Why California fire hydrants ran dry The Santa Ynez Reservoir, a 117-gallon water resource near the Pacific Palisades, was under renovation and empty when fires tore through the Los Angeles neighborhood last week and firefighters quickly depleted available water resources, city officials said. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday he was launching an independent state investigation into the loss of water pressure and unavailability of water from the reservoir.