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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 kept pace with a program that now costs about $220 billion a year, and why the fight over them will land on the…
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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 official responses show that a court ruling has eased crowding…
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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 handful of districts that…
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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 weigh what the artificial…
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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 only a binding ordinance…
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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 particular interest in California,…
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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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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…
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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…
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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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San Francisco speed cameras cut excessive speeding 84 percent, city report finds
An 18-month review required by state law found that all 33 of the city’s camera sites passed California’s performance test, though officials…
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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 indictment of Newsom’s former chief of staff implicates high-profile Democrats
By Staff Reporter November 21, 2025 In a stunning blow to California’s political establishment, Dana Williamson—once the brash, influential chief of staff…
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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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Fearing Chakrabarti’s surging campaign, AIPAC props up Connie Chan’s stalking horse campaign with big money
AIPAC has spent heavily backing Connie Chan in an apparent plot to block Chakrabarti from the general election. In the final days…
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Chakrabarti surges over establishment competitors in Pelosi’s prized congressional district
Supporters say Chakrabarti’s independent voice would breathe fresh air into Congress San Francisco’s 11th Congressional District is about to elect its first…
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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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Appeals court throws out class certification in Tesla self-driving case
A Ninth Circuit panel in San Francisco ruled that California buyers of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving package cannot, for now, sue as a…
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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…
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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…
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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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Justice Department sues to stop California from counting 20,000 mail ballots
With ballots already in voters’ hands, the Trump administration has asked a federal judge to set aside votes from people it calls…
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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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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…
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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…