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HHS finalizes rule excluding gender dysphoria from Section 504 disability protections
The department says the rule applies an exclusion Congress wrote into law in 1990 and 1992, while disability and LGBTQ legal groups…
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San Jose’s police chief says he knew of a license plate data inquiry when he told the council the system was secure
Chief Paul Joseph, responding for the first time to criticism over a March assurance about the city’s Flock camera network, told a…
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Inside the consultant travel that preceded the high-speed rail chief’s exit
An Inquirer Investigation reads the inspector general’s report behind Ian Choudri’s resignation, which found the rail authority paid $595,600 in travel it…
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McClintock bill to preempt sanctuary policies awaits a House vote, with San Francisco’s police grants at stake
The Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act would override local limits on cooperation with ICE and redirect federal law enforcement money from jurisdictions…
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Joe Gebbia’s Eames museum plan for Novato puts a quiet patron in the spotlight
The Eames Institute, which counts the Airbnb co-founder as a founding donor, has filed plans for a 185,000-square-foot design museum on the former Birkenstock campus while saying little about how much of its money comes from him.
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Shirin Neshat brings a film trilogy rooted in a Bay Area tragedy to Rome
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Kiley campaign’s demand to pull “Duck” ad frames the final stretch of the CA-6 race against Pan
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State tells Menlo Park it must revisit its housing plan if voters pass Measure P
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Joe Gebbia’s Eames museum plan for Novato puts a quiet patron in the spotlight
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Inquirer Investigation: Measure Q campaign videos were filmed inside a Richmond fire station. What the law says, and what the filings show
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McClintock bill to preempt sanctuary policies awaits a House vote, with San Francisco’s police grants at stake
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Inside the consultant travel that preceded the high-speed rail chief’s exit
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Joe Gebbia’s Eames museum plan for Novato puts a quiet patron in the spotlight
The Eames Institute, which counts the Airbnb co-founder as a founding donor, has filed plans for a 185,000-square-foot design museum on the former Birkenstock campus while saying little about how much of its money comes from him.
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Prop. G and the Great Highway: what Tuesday’s vote would do, and who is paying for each side
San Francisco’s Proposition G would reopen the Upper Great Highway to cars on weekdays and keep Sunset Dunes…
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Inside the contract chain that put ICE vehicles in a city-owned garage
Federal parking at San Francisco’s Golden Gateway Garage came through a private operator and the General Services Administration,…
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High tides flood the Embarcadero for a third day, with more forecast through Friday
Preliminary federal readings show San Francisco’s tide gauge topping Monday’s October record on Tuesday, and forecasters expect water…
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Alcatraz closes for nearly four weeks as crews replace the pilings under its ferry dock
The island is shut to visitors through Nov. 18 while Alcatraz City Cruises pays for new dock pilings,…
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San Jose’s police chief says he knew of a license plate data inquiry when he told the council the system was secure
Chief Paul Joseph, responding for the first time to criticism over a March assurance about the city’s Flock…
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Inquirer Investigation: Measure Q campaign videos were filmed inside a Richmond fire station. What the law says, and what the filings show
A Richmond attorney has asked prosecutors and the state’s ethics agency to review four Yes on Q videos…
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Mario Juarez, the government’s central witness, takes the stand in Sheng Thao’s corruption trial
The Oakland political operative testified that the former mayor sought $300,000 in exchange for city help for a…
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Education Department opens student-privacy investigations into three California districts over ethnic studies
Federal officials say lessons in San Francisco, Palo Alto and North Monterey County may have asked students about…
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State tells Menlo Park it must revisit its housing plan if voters pass Measure P
In a letter sent four days before the election, the state housing department said the parking-lot measure would…
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Inside the consultant travel that preceded the high-speed rail chief’s exit
An Inquirer Investigation reads the inspector general’s report behind Ian Choudri’s resignation, which found the rail authority paid…
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Lawmakers weigh curbing insurers’ wildfire claims against utilities as experts warn of higher premiums
At a joint Assembly hearing, an actuary estimated that ending insurers’ recoveries from utilities could raise statewide homeowners…
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Bonta joins 13 attorneys general pressing Meta to explain the suspension of the No Kings Instagram account
Meta has apologized and blamed an automated system that mistook an AI tool’s activity for bot traffic, and…
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HHS finalizes rule excluding gender dysphoria from Section 504 disability protections
The department says the rule applies an exclusion Congress wrote into law in 1990 and 1992, while disability…
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CMS announces $233.6 million for rural health in California, an award first made public last year
A federal release on Oct. 29 highlights California’s share of the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, money…
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CMS opens $275 million program to pay nurses to work in nursing homes
The Trump administration’s Nurses for Nursing Homes initiative lists about 780 California facilities as eligible, more than any…
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GAO finds HHS violated impoundment law by leaving $78 million in health-quality research funds unspent
The congressional watchdog says the department withheld fiscal 2025 grant money for the Agency for Healthcare Research and…
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McClintock bill to preempt sanctuary policies awaits a House vote, with San Francisco’s police grants at stake
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Kiley campaign’s demand to pull “Duck” ad frames the final stretch of the CA-6 race against Pan
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Josh Harder’s bipartisan Build More agenda bets that faster permits can lower the cost of living
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FDA proposes new nutrient limits for infant formula, its first broad update since 1998
The proposal would raise the minimums for iodine and vitamin D and cap manganese for the first time,…
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Judge’s order limits federal demands on election workers through Nov. 16, and the Justice Department appeals
A San Francisco federal judge temporarily barred the Justice Department and Homeland Security from threatening election workers with…
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CDC will require U.S.-bound air passengers to attest they have not been in Congo
Starting with flights that depart late on Nov. 3, travelers bound for San Francisco International and every other…
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Supreme Court leaves in place Texas-Justice Department judgment ending administrative closure in immigration courts
The justices declined to pause a consent judgment that bars immigration judges from indefinitely shelving deportation cases, turning…
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What an ‘Inconclusive’ Bullet Comparison Can and Cannot Show in the Robinson Case
The A.T.F. could not match the fatal bullet to the rifle prosecutors say Tyler Robinson used. Here is…
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2028 or 2029? A Judge Weighs When Tyler Robinson Will Be Tried
Prosecutors proposed a January 2028 trial; the defense asked for late 2029. Judge Tony Graf is expected to…
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Online Investigators Have Theories About the Robinson Case. Here Is How They Compare With the Record.
Podcasters and citizen sleuths have built big audiences around the prosecution in the Charlie Kirk killing. Some raise…
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Where the Robinson Case Stands, and the Open Questions About the Evidence
Tyler Robinson has been ordered to stand trial in the killing of Charlie Kirk, but there is no…
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Anthropic’s IPO filing shows $16.3 billion in half-year revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss
A close read of the San Francisco AI company’s S-1 finds revenue up 1,300 percent, a loss driven…
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Dropbox and Front file notices for 110 San Francisco layoffs as Bay Area tech cuts outpace 2025
State filings show 57 Dropbox jobs and 53 at the customer-service software maker Front ending in the city,…
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Netflix files to lay off 227 at its Los Gatos headquarters as eBay cuts 229 in San Jose
State layoff notices put the first hard Bay Area numbers on two companywide cuts of roughly 1,000 jobs…
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Airtable files notice to lay off 190 at its San Francisco headquarters after Bending Spoons takeover
A state filing puts a number on the cuts Airtable’s new Italian owner announced this month, and the…
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The AI super PAC Greg Brockman helped launch has taken in no new donations since February, filings show
Leading the Future, which received $25 million from the OpenAI president and his wife, reported no contributions for…
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Joe Gebbia’s Eames museum plan for Novato puts a quiet patron in the spotlight
The Eames Institute, which counts the Airbnb co-founder as a founding donor, has filed plans for a 185,000-square-foot…
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Max Levchin’s Affirm becomes Sam’s Club’s exclusive pay-over-time provider
The San Francisco lender, founded and run by Max Levchin, returns to the Walmart family of stores 19…
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The Baszuckis’ $20 million bet on metabolic psychiatry
The philanthropy of Roblox founder David Baszucki and author Jan Ellison Baszucki is paying for a new McLean…
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Qatar steps up mediation between Iran and the U.S. as Rubio says talks have “never stopped”
Qatari mediators spent three days in Tehran and Doha on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,…
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Inside the $2.1 billion Patriot sale to Ukraine that allies, not U.S. taxpayers, will fund
A State Department notice to Congress for 500 PAC-3 MSE interceptors, paid for by Canada, Germany, Norway and…
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Israel’s election count puts Netanyahu’s bloc ahead but short of a majority
With more than half the ballots counted, neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition nor Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc…
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Flávio Bolsonaro drops call to annul Brazil’s election, vows abuse-of-power case against Lula
Brazil’s electoral court says a late two-hour voting extension did not change the result. President Trump, pointing to…
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Shirin Neshat brings a film trilogy rooted in a Bay Area tragedy to Rome
“Do U Dare!”, the Berkeley-trained artist’s meditation on Nasim Aghdam, who opened fire at YouTube’s San Bruno headquarters in 2018, opens at Rome’s MAXXI museum on Nov. 13…
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Barbara Lee asks Oakland for a full term, and for a stronger mayor’s office
Eighteen months after she was elected to finish a recalled mayor’s term, the Berkeley-trained social worker faces three challengers on Tuesday’s ranked-choice ballot alongside Measure EE, which would…
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Kiley campaign’s demand to pull “Duck” ad frames the final stretch of the CA-6 race against Pan
Rep. Kevin Kiley, who left the Republican Party in March, says a Democratic-aligned ad wrongly suggests President Trump endorsed him this year. Outside groups have reported about $7.3…
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State tells Menlo Park it must revisit its housing plan if voters pass Measure P
In a letter sent four days before the election, the state housing department said the parking-lot measure would force Menlo Park to reopen a certified housing plan that…
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Joe Gebbia’s Eames museum plan for Novato puts a quiet patron in the spotlight
The Eames Institute, which counts the Airbnb co-founder as a founding donor, has filed plans for a 185,000-square-foot design museum on the former Birkenstock campus while saying little…
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Inquirer Investigation: Measure Q campaign videos were filmed inside a Richmond fire station. What the law says, and what the filings show
A Richmond attorney has asked prosecutors and the state’s ethics agency to review four Yes on Q videos shot in Fire Station 66. The firefighters’ union says it…
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McClintock bill to preempt sanctuary policies awaits a House vote, with San Francisco’s police grants at stake
The Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act would override local limits on cooperation with ICE and redirect federal law enforcement money from jurisdictions that keep them. Supporters call it…
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Inside the consultant travel that preceded the high-speed rail chief’s exit
An Inquirer Investigation reads the inspector general’s report behind Ian Choudri’s resignation, which found the rail authority paid $595,600 in travel it should not have and corrected its…
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San Jose’s police chief says he knew of a license plate data inquiry when he told the council the system was secure
Chief Paul Joseph, responding for the first time to criticism over a March assurance about the city’s Flock camera network, told a council committee he could not disclose…
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HHS finalizes rule excluding gender dysphoria from Section 504 disability protections
The department says the rule applies an exclusion Congress wrote into law in 1990 and 1992, while disability and LGBTQ legal groups say they expect a court challenge.
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The AI super PAC Greg Brockman helped launch has taken in no new donations since February, filings show
Leading the Future, which received $25 million from the OpenAI president and his wife, reported no contributions for the second and third quarters and is heading into Election…
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FEMA housing aid for LA fire renters has ended as California seeks more federal recovery money
FEMA extended rent help for displaced homeowners to July 2027 but not for renters, citing the rental market. The state says $732 million in approved public-works money awaits…
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Qatar steps up mediation between Iran and the U.S. as Rubio says talks have “never stopped”
Qatari mediators spent three days in Tehran and Doha on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as the Trump administration says it prefers a diplomatic outcome…
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Anthropic’s IPO filing shows $16.3 billion in half-year revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss
A close read of the San Francisco AI company’s S-1 finds revenue up 1,300 percent, a loss driven by noncash charges and a trust that elects most of…
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FDA proposes new nutrient limits for infant formula, its first broad update since 1998
The proposal would raise the minimums for iodine and vitamin D and cap manganese for the first time, with public comments due March 2.
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Prop. G and the Great Highway: what Tuesday’s vote would do, and who is paying for each side
San Francisco’s Proposition G would reopen the Upper Great Highway to cars on weekdays and keep Sunset Dunes a park on weekends. Here is what the measure says,…
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Appeals court expedites EPA’s bid to treat California clean-air waivers as rules Congress can overturn
The D.C. Circuit will hear on a fast track the EPA’s appeal of two injunctions protecting six California waivers, while House-passed resolutions targeting two port-pollution rules wait in…
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Warriors erase a 25-point deficit and beat the Lakers 112-95 behind Curry’s 31
Stephen Curry made eight 3-pointers and passed Dominique Wilkins on the career scoring list as Golden State’s reserves outscored the Lakers’ 50-7 at Chase Center.
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CMS announces $233.6 million for rural health in California, an award first made public last year
A federal release on Oct. 29 highlights California’s share of the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, money that federal records show was awarded in December 2025 and…
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In the Sable pipeline appeal, the Ninth Circuit will test how far the Defense Production Act reaches
The Trump administration says its Defense Production Act order to restart a Santa Barbara County oil pipeline protects fuel supplies for West Coast military bases, California says the…
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