

Marin supervisors to weigh limits on immigration agents’ use of county property
A policy before the board on Tuesday would bar federal agents from staging on county land, but a coalition of residents says only a binding ordinance will do. […]
Oakland city workers authorize a strike as deficits narrow the room for a deal
Members of SEIU Local 1021 voted 95 percent in favor of letting their bargaining team call a walkout, raising the prospect of Oakland’s first municipal strike since 2017 as the city confronts nine-figure budget gaps. […]
Sheng Thao’s bribery trial opens in Oakland with a fight over the government’s star witness
In the first week of the federal case against Oakland’s former mayor, prosecutors described a pay-to-play scheme, defense lawyers attacked the government’s cooperating witness and Ms. Thao’s former chief of staff took the stand. […]





Philippines summons China’s ambassador over remark that Beijing could ‘easily win’
Manila’s formal rebuke of Ambassador Jing Quan deepens a war of words between Beijing and a U.S. treaty ally, a dispute of particular interest in California, home to more than a third of the nation’s Filipino Americans. […]
Saudi consulate offers to cover bail for former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging executives
A defense filing says the kingdom’s consulate will pay any bond a judge sets for Abdulrahman Alfozan, drawing a foreign government into a San Francisco case that federal officials have cast as a matter of national security. […]
Beijing and Taipei tighten technology export rules, and the Bay Area takes stock
China proposed controls on 40 artificial intelligence, biotech and solar technologies on Friday as Taiwan said it would criminalize unauthorized AI chip shipments to China, moves that reach from Santa Clara chip designers to South San Francisco drug developers. […]





























