Prosecutors said they were unable to gather enough evidence showing free lance filmmaker Jeremy Portje intended to injure a Sausalito officer in a Nov. 30 incident when police confiscated video equipment at a homeless encampment.

The U. S. Justice Department fought a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of four New York Times reporters in a hunt for their sources during the last weeks of the Trump administration and continuing under President Joe Biden, a top lawyer for the newspaper said Friday night. While the Trump administration never informed the Times about the effort, the Biden administration continued waging the fight this year, telling a handful of top Times executives about it but imposing a gag order to shield it from public view, said the lawyer, David McCraw, who called the move unprecedented. The gag order prevented the executives from disclosing the government’s efforts to seize the records even to the executive editor, Dean Baquet, and other newsroom leaders.

Within hours of the his faux flyer trending online, the university's Office of Community Standards dropped the complaint and lifted the hold on Nicholas Wallace's degree.

California is one of four states, including Oregon, Minnesota and Tennessee, along with Washington, D.C., that have proposed new laws.

The opinion expressed impatience with the federal appeals court in California for disregarding the Supreme Court’s instructions.

The congresswoman joined 22 of her colleagues in demanding answers about government surveillance of peaceful protesters.

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit over San Jose’s secret negotiations with Google are questioning the impartiality of a new judge assigned to the case.