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Eric Schmidt, a Berkeley Ph.D., takes the chair of Caltech’s board and says big data centers belong away from population centers
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Senate environment committee holds a hearing Tuesday on Justin Schwab, the nominee to run EPA’s air office
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Brian Chesky pledges $100 million to San Francisco parks, the largest gift the city has received from a single donor
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A second Epstein-records petition is two signatures from forcing a House vote as the lame-duck session opens
Forty-two California Democrats have signed Rep. Thomas Massie’s petition for a bill letting states, victims and lawmakers sue over withheld records; the…
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Trump says the Iran war is militarily “effectively over” after meeting Qatar’s prime minister, and the naval blockade stays in place
The president says the United States is ready to resume strikes if needed while talks continue; Iran calls its own proposal the…
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San Francisco voters approved a public bank. Here is what Prop. B sets in motion, and what it does not pay for
The charter amendment opens a path to a city-owned lender and, later, a public bank, but it provides no money, and the…
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Inquirer Investigation: The $87.6 billion Operation Epic Fury request, line by line, as Congress faces a Dec. 11 deadline
The White House request would send $67.1 billion to the Department of War and about $15.6 billion to farm aid, the Ebola…
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Becerra has eight weeks to staff a government and write a budget. Here is what the transition has to do before Jan. 4
The governor-elect must fill hundreds of appointed posts and propose a state budget by Jan. 10, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office says its first look at that budget arrives Nov. 18.
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Eric Schmidt, a Berkeley Ph.D., takes the chair of Caltech’s board and says big data centers belong away from population centers
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Senate environment committee holds a hearing Tuesday on Justin Schwab, the nominee to run EPA’s air office
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Brian Chesky pledges $100 million to San Francisco parks, the largest gift the city has received from a single donor
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Doris Matsui, ahead in an unofficial count, presses a bipartisan bill to stop HHS’s 340B rebate pilot before it starts
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Commerce extends its pause on the export-control affiliates rule to Jan. 10, keeping a reprieve in place for Bay Area chip-equipment makers
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FDA adds a warning about a rare optic nerve condition to Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound and other GLP-1 drugs
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Bay Area air regulators push the gas water heater phaseout to 2028 and widen exemptions. What changes for homeowners
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Inquirer Investigation: The $87.6 billion Operation Epic Fury request, line by line, as Congress faces a Dec. 11 deadline
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Deeper Analysis
Becerra has eight weeks to staff a government and write a budget. Here is what the transition has to do before Jan. 4
The governor-elect must fill hundreds of appointed posts and propose a state budget by Jan. 10, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office says its first look at that budget arrives Nov. 18.
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San Francisco voters approved a public bank. Here is what Prop. B sets in motion, and what it does not pay for
The charter amendment opens a path to a city-owned lender and, later, a public bank, but it provides…
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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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Bay Area air regulators push the gas water heater phaseout to 2028 and widen exemptions. What changes for homeowners
The amended Air District rule still requires most replacement water heaters to be zero-emission, but it adds a…
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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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Becerra has eight weeks to staff a government and write a budget. Here is what the transition has to do before Jan. 4
The governor-elect must fill hundreds of appointed posts and propose a state budget by Jan. 10, and the…
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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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A second Epstein-records petition is two signatures from forcing a House vote as the lame-duck session opens
Forty-two California Democrats have signed Rep. Thomas Massie’s petition for a bill letting states, victims and lawmakers sue…
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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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The Delegation
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Doris Matsui, ahead in an unofficial count, presses a bipartisan bill to stop HHS’s 340B rebate pilot before it starts
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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
Energy & Environment
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Senate environment committee holds a hearing Tuesday on Justin Schwab, the nominee to run EPA’s air office
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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
Berkeley Alumni
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Eric Schmidt, a Berkeley Ph.D., takes the chair of Caltech’s board and says big data centers belong away from population centers
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A Norwegian appeals court keeps the stepson of King Haakon VIII, a Berkeley graduate, in detention
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Barbara Lee asks Oakland for a full term, and for a stronger mayor’s office
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FDA adds a warning about a rare optic nerve condition to Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound and other GLP-1 drugs
The agency’s review of 126 clinical trials found 6.4 cases per 100,000 patient-years among people taking the drugs,…
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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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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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Commerce extends its pause on the export-control affiliates rule to Jan. 10, keeping a reprieve in place for Bay Area chip-equipment makers
The two-month extension tracks the U.S.-China trade truce; the rule, which the administration says closes a national-security loophole,…
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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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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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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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Brian Chesky pledges $100 million to San Francisco parks, the largest gift the city has received from a single donor
The Airbnb co-founder’s commitment will pay first for five projects in SoMa, the Mission, Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill…
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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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Trump says the Iran war is militarily “effectively over” after meeting Qatar’s prime minister, and the naval blockade stays in place
The president says the United States is ready to resume strikes if needed while talks continue; Iran calls…
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Inquirer Investigation: The $87.6 billion Operation Epic Fury request, line by line, as Congress faces a Dec. 11 deadline
The White House request would send $67.1 billion to the Department of War and about $15.6 billion to…
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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,…
Latest News
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Eric Schmidt, a Berkeley Ph.D., takes the chair of Caltech’s board and says big data centers belong away from population centers
The former Google chief executive, who earned his master’s and doctorate in computer science at Berkeley, began leading Caltech’s trustees on Oct. 31 and told Axios that large…
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Senate environment committee holds a hearing Tuesday on Justin Schwab, the nominee to run EPA’s air office
Mr. Schwab, a senior adviser to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and a former deputy general counsel at the agency, would oversee the Clean Air Act programs behind California’s…
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Brian Chesky pledges $100 million to San Francisco parks, the largest gift the city has received from a single donor
The Airbnb co-founder’s commitment will pay first for five projects in SoMa, the Mission, Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill and on the downtown waterfront, with the Board of Supervisors…
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Doris Matsui, ahead in an unofficial count, presses a bipartisan bill to stop HHS’s 340B rebate pilot before it starts
The Sacramento Democrat and Rep. Tracey Mann, a Kansas Republican, want Congress to end a Health and Human Services pilot that will let 10 drugmakers pay some 340B…
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Commerce extends its pause on the export-control affiliates rule to Jan. 10, keeping a reprieve in place for Bay Area chip-equipment makers
The two-month extension tracks the U.S.-China trade truce; the rule, which the administration says closes a national-security loophole, stays on the books and can be revived.
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FDA adds a warning about a rare optic nerve condition to Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound and other GLP-1 drugs
The agency’s review of 126 clinical trials found 6.4 cases per 100,000 patient-years among people taking the drugs, compared with 3.8 among those on comparison treatments, and it…
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Bay Area air regulators push the gas water heater phaseout to 2028 and widen exemptions. What changes for homeowners
The amended Air District rule still requires most replacement water heaters to be zero-emission, but it adds a year and carve-outs that staff estimate could cover about half…
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Inquirer Investigation: The $87.6 billion Operation Epic Fury request, line by line, as Congress faces a Dec. 11 deadline
The White House request would send $67.1 billion to the Department of War and about $15.6 billion to farm aid, the Ebola response and domestic projects; the Pentagon…
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San Francisco voters approved a public bank. Here is what Prop. B sets in motion, and what it does not pay for
The charter amendment opens a path to a city-owned lender and, later, a public bank, but it provides no money, and the controller puts the cost of building…
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Trump says the Iran war is militarily “effectively over” after meeting Qatar’s prime minister, and the naval blockade stays in place
The president says the United States is ready to resume strikes if needed while talks continue; Iran calls its own proposal the most reasonable offer, and California drivers…
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A second Epstein-records petition is two signatures from forcing a House vote as the lame-duck session opens
Forty-two California Democrats have signed Rep. Thomas Massie’s petition for a bill letting states, victims and lawmakers sue over withheld records; the Justice Department says it complied with…
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Becerra has eight weeks to staff a government and write a budget. Here is what the transition has to do before Jan. 4
The governor-elect must fill hundreds of appointed posts and propose a state budget by Jan. 10, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office says its first look at that budget…
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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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