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California faces a $2 billion food aid bill unless it cuts an error rate. The deciding year just ended.
Federal error-rate data, state budget records and legislative testimony show how a 2025 law is already shifting CalFresh costs to Sacramento and the counties, why California would pay sooner than several states with worse records, and what the state is doing to bring its rate…
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California faces a $2 billion food aid bill unless it cuts an error rate. The deciding year just ended.
Federal error-rate data, state budget records and legislative testimony show how a 2025 law is already shifting CalFresh costs to Sacramento and the counties, why California would pay sooner than several states…
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A flaw in the code behind most websites sends governments and companies scrambling to patch
Federal agencies told organizations to update PHP immediately or take sites offline, a warning that reaches from state and city portals to the San Francisco companies…
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Meta is ordered to pay $25 billion on the day it reports soaring sales and a deal to keep Zuckerberg in California
A New Mexico judge imposed the largest penalty yet against the Menlo Park company, which said it would appeal, as Meta disclosed heavy A.I. spending, negative…
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Hayward pauses new data centers as more Bay Area governments rethink the A.I. building boom
Hayward’s council adopted an immediate moratorium on the same night Richmond extended its pause to 2028 and San Mateo County began weighing zoning limits, while Santa…
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As Washington and Beijing spar over AI, OpenAI steps back from the fight over chip sales to China
The San Francisco company has stopped pressing Congress for tighter export limits, Politico reported, just as China protested a U.S. ban on DeepSeek and Chinese tech…
From the Bureaus
Washington Bureau
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Trump administration holds back another $1.2 billion in Medicaid money for California home care
Federal Medicaid officials cited rapid growth in the state’s personal care services as grounds for a third deferral…
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Schiff tours SFO holding room and says detained travelers still cannot call lawyers or family
After a Tuesday oversight visit, Senator Adam Schiff said some people held by Customs and Border Protection at…
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HUD cites San Francisco as it remakes federal homelessness aid. Bay Area filings show what is at stake.
Court records, federal grant data and the region’s own funding applications show how a $1.3 billion shift toward…
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Sports
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San Francisco moves to auction a Sea Cliff house at the center of a deed-fraud lawsuit
Supervisors authorized the tax collector to sell a long-delinquent home on 32nd Avenue, a step neighbors see as a way out of…
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Two transit taxes on San Francisco’s ballot would cover most of Muni’s deficit, but not all of it
Budget documents, the official voter pamphlet and the measures’ own text show what Proposition H and the regional transit sales tax would…
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PG&E puts a $22.5 billion price on San Francisco’s grid, more than six times the city’s figure
In testimony filed with state regulators Tuesday, the utility laid out its case against a public power takeover, setting up a monthslong…
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San Francisco supervisors take up hidden rental fees, lower ceilings and a final vote on shadow appeals
Three housing measures on Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors agenda would require landlords to advertise a single all-in monthly price, lower the minimum…
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California’s tax on software subscriptions leads $14.3 billion in new levies, taxpayer group says
A California Tax Foundation tally finds that Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature approved 67 tax and fee increases over the two-year…
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California’s own software flagged 28,000 Medi-Cal providers as high risk. It followed up on about 2,000.
A new state audit, two federal inspector general reports and the health department’s own figures show how Medi-Cal’s fraud defenses have not…
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Bonta settles with Fidelity’s crypto arm over limits on withdrawing coins
The $500,000 agreement extends a legal theory California first used against Robinhood: under a 1990 state commodities law, investors who buy cryptocurrency…
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California joins states pressing for child-safety terms in Character.AI’s bankruptcy sale
Attorney General Rob Bonta and a bipartisan group of states warn that the Menlo Park chatbot company’s archive of intimate user conversations,…
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HUD cites San Francisco as it remakes federal homelessness aid. Bay Area filings show what is at stake.
Court records, federal grant data and the region’s own funding applications show how a $1.3 billion shift toward transitional housing is already…
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California Democrats press Education Department to restore funds shifted away from Hispanic-serving colleges
A letter signed by both of California’s senators and four Bay Area House members argues the department had no authority to redirect…
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Federal regulators examine Fairfield crash in which a Tesla driver said he was asleep
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s inquiry into a Solano County crash that injured two CHP officers revives a five-year federal question:…
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As records begin leaving San Bruno, California’s National Archives lawsuit faces a slow federal calendar
Records have started to close at the Bay Area’s regional archive while the state’s case awaits its first scheduled conference in February…
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Netflix trims its forecast as ad sales lag, and its shares fall
The Los Gatos streaming company beat profit estimates for the third quarter but lowered its outlook for advertising revenue and cash flow,…
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Layoffs are easing across California. In the Bay Area, they are climbing again.
An Inquirer analysis of five years of state layoff notices finds that the nine-county region accounts for nearly 39 percent of the…
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California settles with 23andMe’s bankrupt shell for $6 million, ending its fight over genetic data
The deal resolves the state’s claims over a 2023 breach that exposed more than 855,000 Californians, and drops its appeals of the…
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Bay Area giants face a high-stakes earnings week after a tech sell-off
Netflix reports on Tuesday, days after announcing about 1,000 job cuts, and Meta, Tesla and Lam Research follow on Wednesday, as investors…
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Marin adopts limits on immigration agents’ use of county property, but stops short of an ordinance
After two hours of public comment, Marin County supervisors unanimously approved an administrative policy that bars federal immigration operations from county property,…
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Santa Clara County sheriff seeks $50 million Axon deal adding AI jail monitoring, drones and plate readers
The proposal, which supervisors take up on Tuesday as a report rather than a vote, would fold the department’s technology into a…
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California faces a $2 billion food aid bill unless it cuts an error rate. The deciding year just ended.
Federal error-rate data, state budget records and legislative testimony show how a 2025 law is already shifting CalFresh costs to Sacramento and…
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Trump administration prepares to resume student loan collections after the midterms, report says
Treasury is moving to hire private debt collectors for defaulted federal student loans, a step that could reach hundreds of thousands of…
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State Department says it has revoked more than 300,000 visas since January 2025
The figure, announced Tuesday, marks a sharp acceleration since summer and lands in the state that hosts more international students than any…
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Fees on Chinese-built ships are set to return Nov. 10, and no notice extending the pause has been published
A two-month extension of the U.S.-China trade truce, announced in September, has not been written into the Federal Register, leaving the Port…
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Warriors open the season with Porzingis out indefinitely and a smaller lineup in his place
With Kristaps Porzingis sidelined by an undisclosed health matter and Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody recovering from knee surgery, Steve Kerr plans…
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Unbeaten 49ers host Washington as Brock Purdy nears the top of the NFL’s passer-rating list
Five more attempts on Monday night at Levi’s Stadium would make Purdy, the final pick of the 2022 draft, the league’s career…