- A 38-year-old man was arrested for allegedly assaulting someone in Palo Alto with a skateboard. The suspect "yelled nonsensically" and hit the twentysomething victim in the stomach. [CBS SF]
- A San Francisco FBI agent had a firearm, magazine, and an FBI jacket stolen out of his vehicle in Oakland. The FBI is seeking the public's help in recovering the weapon and the jacket. [NBC Bay Area]
- Greg Kidd, an early investor in Square, calls Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project a "game changer." "It forces the banks and card companies to get a little more innovative and it forces the crypto companies to get a little more practical, because Libra is in between," Kidd says. [SF Business Times]
- Miscarriage leave is becoming a more common benefit in the Bay Area. As more executives experience it in their own lives, companies are giving off time the way they would for bereavement. [Chronicle]
- President Trump officially dropped his battle to add a citizenship question to the Census late Thursday, and basically admitted that the entire effort had to do with drawing Congressional districts. [New York Times]
- Hundreds showed up outside ICE headquarters in SF on Thursday to protest planned raids on immigrant families this weekend. [Bay City News]
- Latinx communities in the South Bay are bracing for families of mixed status to be potentially split apart. [CBS SF]
- ICE has a terrible record of wrongfully detaining people who are citizens — they wrongfully detained 3,500 in Texas alone between 2006 and 2017. [New York Times]
- Video shows the Coast Guard boarding a small submarine that was trying to smuggle thousands of pounds of cocaine up the coast from Mexico. [CBS SF]
- Check out the new Grant Hyatt at SFO, which is getting its own AirTrain station. [SF Business Times]