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A Norwegian appeals court keeps the stepson of King Haakon VIII, a Berkeley graduate, in detention
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The House takes up six Energy and Commerce nuclear bills on Monday. What they would change for licensing, and for California
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At SFMOMA, the Fisher family’s collection gets its first full rehang in a decade
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Oakland Coliseum and Arena operator files notice to lay off 1,605 workers as the complex changes hands
Legends Global says the layoffs take effect Dec. 31, when its operating contract ends; unions say they are negotiating with the incoming…
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Newsom asks the California Supreme Court to clear the way for commuting all 548 death sentences
The governor says no one would be released or become eligible for parole; 382 of the commutations need the court’s recommendation, and…
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Congress returns with 16 House session days before federal funding runs out on Dec. 11
The stopgap law that keeps agencies open also carries highway and transit money and other authorities that matter to California, and both…
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What California has at stake as Trump and Xi prepare to meet at APEC in Shenzhen
The administration says it wants China to deliver on farm purchases and critical-mineral supplies promised in last year’s Busan arrangement; Beijing says…
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What California has at stake as Trump and Xi prepare to meet at APEC in Shenzhen
The administration says it wants China to deliver on farm purchases and critical-mineral supplies promised in last year’s Busan arrangement; Beijing says U.S. restrictions are the problem.
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A Norwegian appeals court keeps the stepson of King Haakon VIII, a Berkeley graduate, in detention
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The House takes up six Energy and Commerce nuclear bills on Monday. What they would change for licensing, and for California
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At SFMOMA, the Fisher family’s collection gets its first full rehang in a decade
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Scott Wiener wins the race to succeed Pelosi as Connie Chan concedes; the count is unofficial until certified
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Inquirer Investigation: A draft federal review finds California’s coastal program deficient and calls for talks with SpaceX and Sable
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What California has at stake as Trump and Xi prepare to meet at APEC in Shenzhen
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Congress returns with 16 House session days before federal funding runs out on Dec. 11
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Newsom asks the California Supreme Court to clear the way for commuting all 548 death sentences
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What California has at stake as Trump and Xi prepare to meet at APEC in Shenzhen
The administration says it wants China to deliver on farm purchases and critical-mineral supplies promised in last year’s Busan arrangement; Beijing says U.S. restrictions are the problem.
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Lurie’s administration lets go six Innovation Office staffers, months after a $7 million Bloomberg grant to expand the team
The mayor’s office says no positions have been eliminated and that new job descriptions will be posted in…
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Voters approved Lurie’s three charter changes. Here is what shifts at City Hall, and when
San Francisco voters backed Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Propositions D, E and F, which raise the bar for local…
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Valkyries parade Wednesday: street closures, Muni changes, robotaxi limits and the open question of cost
San Francisco will close much of the Embarcadero and South Beach on Wednesday for the Golden State Valkyries’…
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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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Oakland’s city administrator replaces three top executives days after Mayor Barbara Lee wins a full term
Transportation Director Josh Rowan, Human Resources Director Mary Hao and Assistant City Administrator Chuck Baker are leaving; the…
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In Sheng Thao’s corruption trial, the defense spends a day testing the government’s central witness
Mario Juarez, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and is cooperating with prosecutors, faced about…
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Oakland reaches tentative deals with two city worker unions, heading off a Nov. 5 strike
Oakland’s tentative three-year agreements with SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 would raise wages 9 percent without…
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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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Newsom asks the California Supreme Court to clear the way for commuting all 548 death sentences
The governor says no one would be released or become eligible for parole; 382 of the commutations need…
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Voters reject Prop. 45’s CEQA overhaul, and both sides turn to the Legislature
The Associated Press called the measure Saturday evening, with unofficial returns showing about 56 percent of voters opposed…
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Newsom orders a Highway 1 task force and suspends some environmental rules for El Niño flood work
Two executive orders signed Oct. 27 set a Dec. 15 deadline for a plan to protect Highway 1…
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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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Congress returns with 16 House session days before federal funding runs out on Dec. 11
The stopgap law that keeps agencies open also carries highway and transit money and other authorities that matter…
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Inquirer Investigation: A draft federal review finds California’s coastal program deficient and calls for talks with SpaceX and Sable
NOAA’s draft cites “a pattern of jurisdictional and regulatory overreach” and suspends future coastal grants until the cited…
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California Democrats flipped five House seats under the new map. What the delegation looks like in January
The Associated Press awarded Democrats the House on Nov. 3. In California, the party has been declared the…
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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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The Delegation
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Scott Wiener wins the race to succeed Pelosi as Connie Chan concedes; the count is unofficial until certified
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Panetta presses the Postal Service over a Brookdale post office closed since a 2024 fire
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McClintock bill to preempt sanctuary policies awaits a House vote, with San Francisco’s police grants at stake
Energy & Environment
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The House takes up six Energy and Commerce nuclear bills on Monday. What they would change for licensing, and for California
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The Senate’s first test of the permitting deal comes Monday. What it would change for California projects
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Appeals court expedites EPA’s bid to treat California clean-air waivers as rules Congress can overturn
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ICE agents bring a person in custody to a Boyle Heights hospital for care, and a protest follows outside
ICE says it does not target hospitals and will not discuss the operation; the hospital says it treated…
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Inquirer Investigation: The Justice Department’s new election-crime cases in California, charge by charge
On Nov. 2 the department announced charges involving 63 people nationwide, including 12 lawful permanent residents in two…
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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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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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Oakland Coliseum and Arena operator files notice to lay off 1,605 workers as the complex changes hands
Legends Global says the layoffs take effect Dec. 31, when its operating contract ends; unions say they are…
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How a $24 million price gap ended Covenant’s 24-year run screening passengers at SFO
Federal contract records, a state layoff notice and a rejected bid protest show how the Transportation Security Administration…
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Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at about $115 billion
The Santa Clara chipmaker is betting that pairing its electrical connectivity chips with San Jose-based Lumentum’s lasers and…
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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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At SFMOMA, the Fisher family’s collection gets its first full rehang in a decade
SFMOMA’s reimagined galleries for the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, nearly 250 works on four floors underwritten by…
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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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What California has at stake as Trump and Xi prepare to meet at APEC in Shenzhen
The administration says it wants China to deliver on farm purchases and critical-mineral supplies promised in last year’s…
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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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A Norwegian appeals court keeps the stepson of King Haakon VIII, a Berkeley graduate, in detention
Norway’s Borgarting Court of Appeal has ruled that Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Queen Mette-Marit and stepson of King Haakon VIII, a 1999 Berkeley political science graduate,…
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The House takes up six Energy and Commerce nuclear bills on Monday. What they would change for licensing, and for California
Six bipartisan bills from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, scheduled for votes under suspension of the rules on Monday, would loosen hearing and review requirements at the…
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At SFMOMA, the Fisher family’s collection gets its first full rehang in a decade
SFMOMA’s reimagined galleries for the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, nearly 250 works on four floors underwritten by the family’s foundation, remain one of the city’s central museum…
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Scott Wiener wins the race to succeed Pelosi as Connie Chan concedes; the count is unofficial until certified
State Sen. Scott Wiener led Supervisor Connie Chan by about seven points in the latest count for San Francisco’s House seat, and Ms. Chan, whom Nancy Pelosi endorsed,…
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Inquirer Investigation: A draft federal review finds California’s coastal program deficient and calls for talks with SpaceX and Sable
NOAA’s draft cites “a pattern of jurisdictional and regulatory overreach” and suspends future coastal grants until the cited deficiencies are addressed; California officials call the review preordained, and…
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What California has at stake as Trump and Xi prepare to meet at APEC in Shenzhen
The administration says it wants China to deliver on farm purchases and critical-mineral supplies promised in last year’s Busan arrangement; Beijing says U.S. restrictions are the problem.
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Congress returns with 16 House session days before federal funding runs out on Dec. 11
The stopgap law that keeps agencies open also carries highway and transit money and other authorities that matter to California, and both parties enter the lame-duck session with…
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Newsom asks the California Supreme Court to clear the way for commuting all 548 death sentences
The governor says no one would be released or become eligible for parole; 382 of the commutations need the court’s recommendation, and prosecutors and victims’ groups are urging…
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Oakland Coliseum and Arena operator files notice to lay off 1,605 workers as the complex changes hands
Legends Global says the layoffs take effect Dec. 31, when its operating contract ends; unions say they are negotiating with the incoming owners, and a stagehands’ union official…
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ICE agents bring a person in custody to a Boyle Heights hospital for care, and a protest follows outside
ICE says it does not target hospitals and will not discuss the operation; the hospital says it treated the patient and diverted ambulances for about two hours after…
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Oakland’s city administrator replaces three top executives days after Mayor Barbara Lee wins a full term
Transportation Director Josh Rowan, Human Resources Director Mary Hao and Assistant City Administrator Chuck Baker are leaving; the mayor’s office says City Administrator Betsy Lake made the decisions…
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Lurie’s administration lets go six Innovation Office staffers, months after a $7 million Bloomberg grant to expand the team
The mayor’s office says no positions have been eliminated and that new job descriptions will be posted in the coming days, but it has not said whether the…
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Bosa is back, Buckner is home, and the Raiders visit the Bay Area for the first time since leaving Oakland
The 6-1 49ers host the 4-4 Raiders at 1:25 p.m. Pacific on Sunday at Levi’s Stadium, the clubs’ first regular-season meeting in Santa Clara since 2018.
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The Senate’s first test of the permitting deal comes Monday. What it would change for California projects
Senators are scheduled to vote about 5:30 p.m. Eastern on whether to begin debate on a bipartisan package that would rewrite environmental reviews, shorten lawsuit windows and require…
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Inquirer Investigation: The Justice Department’s new election-crime cases in California, charge by charge
On Nov. 2 the department announced charges involving 63 people nationwide, including 12 lawful permanent residents in two California federal districts. The defendants are presumed innocent.
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California Democrats flipped five House seats under the new map. What the delegation looks like in January
The Associated Press awarded Democrats the House on Nov. 3. In California, the party has been declared the winner in five seats Republicans held, while unofficial returns in…
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Voters reject Prop. 45’s CEQA overhaul, and both sides turn to the Legislature
The Associated Press called the measure Saturday evening, with unofficial returns showing about 56 percent of voters opposed to a California Chamber of Commerce-backed rewrite of the state’s…
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In Sheng Thao’s corruption trial, the defense spends a day testing the government’s central witness
Mario Juarez, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and is cooperating with prosecutors, faced about six hours of cross-examination on Friday in the federal trial…
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Voters approved Lurie’s three charter changes. Here is what shifts at City Hall, and when
San Francisco voters backed Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Propositions D, E and F, which raise the bar for local ballot measures, give the city administrator more control over contracting…
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Panetta presses the Postal Service over a Brookdale post office closed since a 2024 fire
Nearly two years after a fire shut the only post office in the Santa Cruz Mountains town of Brookdale, Rep. Jimmy Panetta is asking the Postal Service to…
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