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The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is investigating protests that broke out at the University of California, Berkeley, this week during an event held by Turning Point USA, the group founded by slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk that caters to youth on American campuses. Protesters gathered hours before the event, with some seen in standoffs with lines of police. Several arrests were made by both city and university officers, according to UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof, who condemned any violence around the event...

A protest at the University of California's Berkeley campus erupted during an on-campus event by the conservative group Turning Point USA. The sold-out "This is the Turning Point" tour event took place Monday evening about two months after the death of its founder and leader, conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot to death on the campus of Utah Valley University. "To get out here and to be in community and to really advocate for the values that we hold as an institution to hold ourselves as students accountable and to be here and show up to protect the rights of so many people and fight against hatred and bigotry," Andrew Simmalaychanh, a junior in his first year at UC Berkeley, told CBS News...

Officials in Marion County, Kansas, have agreed to pay more than $3 million and issue a formal apology over a 2023 police raid on a small-town newspaper that ignited national backlash and raised alarms about government overreach and press freedom.