CNN — An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is alleged to have leaked classified information to foreign press in the hopes of influencing public opinion on hostage negotiations, according to a court release published Sunday. According to the magistrate’s court of Rishon Lezion, the leak began when a non-commissioned officer in the Israeli military reserves took a “highly …
The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay the legal bills for a local journalist and a group of activists whom it took to court last year for publishing photographs of LAPD officers, part of a tentative settlement that will end a lawsuit some saw as an assault on media freedom. Stop LAPD Spying Coalition organizer Hamid Khan said …
James Porter, a longtime resident of the Sanborn Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, complains that the floors are filthy and the environment is unsafe at the Skid Row Housing Trust building. Los Angeles city taxpayer costs to rescue the failed nonprofit Skid Row Housing Trust are now expected to approach $40 million, with officials warning more dollars will be needed …
Prompted by the release of information about thousands of Los Angeles police officers that activists posted to a public online database, City Atty. Feldstein Soto’s proposal — contained in a two-page document she has asked several state lawmakers to introduce as a bill — would allow government agencies to decline public records requests that seek “images or data that may …
