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Peninsula cities shrink license plate camera networks as a grand jury deadline nears
Response letters due to a San Mateo County civil grand jury by Nov. 2 show cities cutting off hundreds of outside agencies and private university police, while some dispute the jury’s account and put off the contract changes it sought.
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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 reshaping Bay Area homelessness programs, weeks before a federal judge…
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Justice Department charges 28 California green-card holders with voting crimes, escalating ballot fight
The cases, six of them against Bay Area residents, are Washington’s newest argument for setting aside some 20,000 California mail ballots; state officials say the numbers…
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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 sale of customers’ DNA…
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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 single five-year contract that…
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DeepSeek is said to be shaping Huawei’s AI chips, a new test for Nvidia and U.S. export policy
A report that Huawei engineers are working inside China’s best-known AI start-up adds pressure on Santa Clara’s Nvidia, and on a Washington chip policy that has…
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Judge weighs San Francisco and Santa Clara bid to halt DHS voter home visits
At a hearing in Oakland, a federal judge pressed both sides on standing and scope as two Bay…
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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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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…
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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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San Francisco supervisors weigh labor deals whose cost would reach $384 million a year
Six contract extensions on Tuesday’s agenda would give more than 22,000 city employees 12 percent raises through 2031 and a no-layoff pledge…
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As San Francisco’s jail count falls, the sheriff’s overtime bill reaches $62 million
Four months after a civil grand jury warned that the city’s jails were at a breaking point, payroll data, budget records and…
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San Francisco supervisors set to vote on barring evictions over small rent debts
A measure backed by Mayor Daniel Lurie and eight of 11 supervisors would require tenants to owe more than a month of…
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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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California’s billionaire tax could pass and still fail, as rival measures loom over Proposition 40
With ballots already in the mail, the one-time wealth tax polls narrowly ahead, but two competing measures backed by Sergey Brin would…
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California files its 100th lawsuit against the Trump administration, targeting ICE arrests at courthouses
Attorney General Rob Bonta says immigration arrests in and around state courthouses have frightened victims and witnesses away from testifying; the White…
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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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Suspicious letters reach Bay Area congressional offices as federal inquiry widens
Lofgren’s San Jose office was cordoned off and Panetta’s Santa Cruz staff found powder in an envelope, part of a nationwide wave…
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Federal plan tying transit aid to birth and marriage rates clouds Bay Area rail funding
A draft Federal Transit Administration policy would reward corridors with more births and marriages and weigh cost per rider more heavily, a…
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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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Santa Clara’s Cloudera barred from green-card sponsorship program for two years
The data-software company will pay up to $2 million to settle federal claims that it shut American applicants out of jobs earmarked…
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Chip stocks’ eight-day slide tests Silicon Valley, and California’s budget
A sell-off that has erased trillions of dollars in semiconductor market value has fallen hardest on the Bay Area’s largest chipmakers, renewing…
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Caribou Biosciences to close Berkeley site as Bay Area biotech retrenchment deepens
The CRISPR company, co-founded by Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, is ending its cell-therapy programs and exploring a sale, while BioMarin is cutting…
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Peninsula cities shrink license plate camera networks as a grand jury deadline nears
Response letters due to a San Mateo County civil grand jury by Nov. 2 show cities cutting off hundreds of outside agencies…
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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…
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Poll finds deepening national gloom two weeks before midterms, raising the stakes in California’s House races
An NBC News survey puts President Trump’s approval at a second-term low of 34 percent as Californians begin returning ballots in a…
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Trump shelves new Russia sanctions, and California lawmakers join a bipartisan outcry
The president’s order pauses tariffs and penalties that Congress passed last month, a decision the administration ties to strained energy markets that…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Valkyries take Game 1 of the WNBA Finals as Gabby Williams carries a cold-shooting offense
Golden State, in only its second season, beat the Atlanta Dream 68-64 at Chase Center on Saturday, leaning on its defense and…