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An official San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters ballot drop box outside a building in California.

Poll finds deepening national gloom two weeks before midterms, raising the stakes in California’s House races

The domed facade of San Francisco City Hall seen across Civic Center Plaza under a clear blue sky.

San Francisco supervisors weigh labor deals whose cost would reach $384 million a year

A Netflix sign in front of a modern three-story office building on Albright Way in Los Gatos, California

Bay Area giants face a high-stakes earnings week after a tech sell-off

The California State Capitol building in Sacramento, viewed from 10th Street

California’s tax on software subscriptions leads $14.3 billion in new levies, taxpayer group says

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education, in Washington, D.C., with the department's name above the entrance.

California Democrats press Education Department to restore funds shifted away from Hispanic-serving colleges

Exterior of San Francisco's county jail complex in San Bruno, Calif.

As San Francisco’s jail count falls, the sheriff’s overtime bill reaches $62 million

The domed facade of San Francisco City Hall seen across Civic Center Plaza under a clear blue sky.

San Francisco supervisors weigh labor deals whose cost would reach $384 million a year

San Francisco supervisors set to vote on barring evictions over small rent debts

San Francisco speed cameras cut excessive speeding 84 percent, city report finds

San Francisco school board votes to replace enrollment lottery with neighborhood schools

The long, arched exterior of the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, seen above surrounding trees.
Around the Region

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. […]

The ornate granite tower of Oakland City Hall against a deep blue sky, with a California flag below.
Around the Region

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. […]

The twin beige towers of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in downtown Oakland against a blue sky with wispy clouds.
Around the Region

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. […]

A Netflix sign in front of a modern three-story office building on Albright Way in Los Gatos, California

Bay Area giants face a high-stakes earnings week after a tech sell-off

An aerial view of office buildings and a parking structure in Santa Clara, California.

Santa Clara’s Cloudera barred from green-card sponsorship program for two years

Chip stocks’ eight-day slide tests Silicon Valley, and California’s budget

Caribou Biosciences to close Berkeley site as Bay Area biotech retrenchment deepens

Appeals court throws out class certification in Tesla self-driving case

An official San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters ballot drop box outside a building in California.

Poll finds deepening national gloom two weeks before midterms, raising the stakes in California’s House races

People gather outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento, lit in blue and yellow, for a rally marking the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Trump shelves new Russia sanctions, and California lawmakers join a bipartisan outcry

Justice Department sues to stop California from counting 20,000 mail ballots

Shooting at an Oregon elementary school kills three children and a teacher, reviving a West Coast debate over guns

Ring Energy (REI) is expected to surge above $2 a share by week’s end

The California State Capitol building in Sacramento, viewed from 10th Street

California’s tax on software subscriptions leads $14.3 billion in new levies, taxpayer group says

The dome and sculpted pediment of the California State Capitol in Sacramento against a blue sky.

California’s own software flagged 28,000 Medi-Cal providers as high risk. It followed up on about 2,000.

Bonta settles with Fidelity’s crypto arm over limits on withdrawing coins

California joins states pressing for child-safety terms in Character.AI’s bankruptcy sale

California’s billionaire tax could pass and still fail, as rival measures loom over Proposition 40

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education, in Washington, D.C., with the department's name above the entrance.

California Democrats press Education Department to restore funds shifted away from Hispanic-serving colleges

Traffic on Interstate 80 in Fairfield, Solano County, California.

Federal regulators examine Fairfield crash in which a Tesla driver said he was asleep

As records begin leaving San Bruno, California’s National Archives lawsuit faces a slow federal calendar

Suspicious letters reach Bay Area congressional offices as federal inquiry widens

Federal plan tying transit aid to birth and marriage rates clouds Bay Area rail funding

The headquarters of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs on Roxas Boulevard in Pasay City, Metro Manila.
Foreign Affairs

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. […]

The Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Courthouse, a tall modernist office tower on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco
Foreign Affairs

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. […]

The glass-and-steel Endeavor building at Nvidia’s headquarters campus in Santa Clara, California, with an Nvidia sign at the entrance.
Foreign Affairs

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. […]

  • As San Francisco’s jail count falls, the sheriff’s overtime bill reaches $62 million
  • California’s own software flagged 28,000 Medi-Cal providers as high risk. It followed up on about 2,000.
  • Marin supervisors to weigh limits on immigration agents’ use of county property
  • Philippines summons China’s ambassador over remark that Beijing could ‘easily win’
  • California Democrats press Education Department to restore funds shifted away from Hispanic-serving colleges

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