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California will be the first state to ban most law enforcement, including federal

immigration agents, from covering their faces while on official duty.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill today a measure that will likely test the powers of states to regulate the conduct of federal agents.

Newsom says masked law enforcement pulling people off the streets is a step toward authoritarianism in, quote, Trump's America.

A few other states are considering similar measures. The law does allow exceptions for things like riot gear, medical masks,

and undercover work. In the past, ICE said its officers wear masks to prevent being

identified in videos and photos online and facing threats. Police organizations in California

oppose the law that applies to local and federal law enforcement, but not state.

The top federal prosecutor in Northern Virginia has left his job after he that applies to local and federal law enforcement, but not state.

The top federal prosecutor in northern Virginia has left his job after he was pressured to resign from President Trump.

And Pierce Kerry Johnson reports he had been investigating several of Trump's perceived political enemies.

Eric Siebert was a longtime career prosecutor in Virginia who advanced to lead the U.S.

Attorney's Office this year. Seabert had been in charge of investigations in New York Attorney General Tish James and former FBI director Jim Comey, but he expressed doubts about pursuing

any charges in those cases against the prominent Trump critics. On social media,

the president says Sebert did not quit, but that Trump fired him. Virginia's two Democratic

senators said he's an ethical prosecutor who was pushed out for refusing to pursue Trump's

vendettas. The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia handles some of the country's most important national security and espionage cases.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

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