On this day in conspiracies

Federal Judge William Byrne dismisses all Espionage Act and conspiracy charges against Ellsberg and Russo after revelations of government wiretapping and a break-in at Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office.

Marley dies at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami at age 36, of metastatic melanoma. He is given a state funeral in Jamaica. The medical cause of death is not in dispute among his physicians; the dispute is over how the cancer began.

Mercury News executive editor Jerry Ceppos publishes a column stating the series was solid on several points but fell short of the paper's standards: it oversimplified the crack epidemic, presented a single narrative where the evidence was ambiguous, and did not adequately account for competing views. Webb disagrees and is later reassigned; he leaves the paper.

Information Commissioner M. Sridhar Acharyulu of the Central Information Commission directs the PMO and the ministries of external affairs and home to state what categories of records on Shastri's death they hold, including any papers of the 1977 inquiry.

Time's actual editions for the week carry other cover subjects: Hailey Bieber on the North American edition, Sundar Pichai on the Asia edition, the YouTuber MrBeast on the South Pacific edition, and an illustration about US-Cuba relations on the Europe, Middle East and Africa edition. None feature Lula.

France 24's Truth or Fake devotes a segment to the 'plandemic'/'Covid 2.0' claims, walking through why the viral posts about the hantavirus outbreak do not hold up.

The Justice Department's charges, one count of attempting to assassinate the president, interstate transport of a firearm and ammunition with intent, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, proceed as the accused pleads not guilty to all counts. He is presumed innocent pending trial.