Elon Musk was alternately depicted in a San Francisco courtroom as a liar who callously jeopardized the savings of "regular people" or a well-intentioned visionary. Those descriptions emerged Wednesday in opening statements at a trial focused on a Tesla buyout that never happened. Lawyers on opposing sides drew the starkly different portraits of Musk for the nine-person jury that will hear the three-week trial. The case is focused on two August 2018 tweets that the billionaire posted on the Twitter service that he now owns. The tweets indicated that Musk had lined up the financing to take Tesla private at a time when the automaker's stock was slumping amid production problems.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an office in Washington. Earlier Thursday, Biden acknowledged that a document with classified markings from his time as vice president was found in his "personal library" at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, along with other classified documents found in his garage. Biden told reporters at the White House that he was "cooperating fully and completely" with a Justice Department investigation. Biden did not say when the latest documents were found, only that his lawyers' review of potential storage locations was completed Wednesday night.
President Joe Biden says he was "surprised' when he was informed that government records were found by his attorneys at a former office space in Washington. The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has requested that the U.S. intelligence community conduct a "damage assessment" of potentially classified documents found among the papers. Speaking to reporters in Mexico City, Biden says his attorneys "did what they should have done" when they immediately called the National Archives about the discovery. Biden says he doesn't know what's in the documents," adding his lawyers have suggested he not inquire what was in them. The Department of Justice is reviewing the matter.
The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has requested that U.S. intelligence conduct a "damage assessment" of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden's former institute, Rep. Mike Turner sent the request Tuesday to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, saying that Biden's retention of the documents puts him in "potential violation of laws protecting national security, including the Espionage Act and Presidential Records Act." It comes a day after the White House confirmed that the Department of Justice was reviewing "a small number of documents with classified markings" that were discovered as Biden's personal attorneys were clearing out the offices of the Penn Biden Center.
 The Justice Department is reviewing a batch of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden's former institute. Special counsel to the president Richard Sauber says "a small number of documents with classified markings" were discovered as Biden's personal attorneys were clearing out the offices of the Penn Biden Center, where the president kept an office after he left the vice presidency in 2017 until shortly before he launched his 2020 presidential campaign in 2019. Sauber says the documents were found on Nov. 2, 2022, in a "locked closet" in the office.
Homeless people are asking a federal judge for an emergency order to stop San Francisco from dismantling tent encampments without offering shelter beds. They are also asking the court at a hearing Thursday to stop the city from destroying the belongings of homeless people. Attorneys for San Francisco say the city has strict policies that balance the rights of homeless people with the need for clean public spaces. The lawsuit filed in September is the latest in a yearslong battle between politically liberal San Francisco and the thousands of people who live outdoors. Similar legal battles are taking place in other western states.
