The day's other headlines start with a small-town newspaper and a big legal victory.

The editor of the Marion County record in Kansas says the county government will pay $3 million

and will formally apologize for a raid on the paper back in 2023.

Police raided their offices as part of an investigation into whether the paper committed

identity theft and illegally

accessed information in reporting a story, which it denied. The incident sparked an outcry over

press freedom, and prosecutors later concluded no crime was committed by the paper's publisher

or its staff. Democrats in Congress are celebrating news from Utah, where a judge adopted a new electoral

map that will create a Democratic-leaning district. Judge Diana Gibson rejected a proposal from

Republicans who currently hold all four of the state's U.S. House seats, saying their map, quote,

unduly favors Republicans. Instead, the new map will keep Salt Lake County

almost entirely within one district rather than it being split into four. The result gives

Democrats a chance to pick up a seat in next year's midterm elections as they try to counter

Republican redistricting efforts in states like Texas, Missouri, and elsewhere. The Justice

Department says it will investigate security at UC Berkeley after protests outside a Turning Point USA event last night led to several arrests.

Turning Point posted this video from the scene, comparing it to a war zone and claiming that an Antifa member lit a flare in the crowd. Police made at least four

arrests, though some of those were off campus. The head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division

posted that her agency sees, quote, several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local

security. Yesterday's turning point event was its last stop on a nationwide college tour

following the group's co-founder Charlie Kirk being killed in September. In Pakistan's capital

of Islamabad, a suicide bomber targeted a district court killing at least 12 people and injuring

dozens more. Hundreds of people attending court hearings fled from the site of the blast.

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