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Layoffs are easing across California. In the Bay Area, they are climbing again.
An Inquirer analysis of five years of state layoff notices finds that the nine-county region accounts for nearly 39 percent of the workers California employers have reported cutting in 2026, its largest share since the tech retrenchment of 2023.
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Fees on Chinese-built ships are set to return Nov. 10, and no notice extending the pause has been published
A two-month extension of the U.S.-China trade truce, announced in September, has not been written into the Federal Register, leaving the Port of Oakland, California exporters and West Coast carriers planning around…
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Trump administration prepares to resume student loan collections after the midterms, report says
Treasury is moving to hire private debt collectors for defaulted federal student loans, a step that could reach hundreds of thousands of Californians as soon as…
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Netflix trims its forecast as ad sales lag, and its shares fall
The Los Gatos streaming company beat profit estimates for the third quarter but lowered its outlook for advertising revenue and cash flow, a week after announcing…
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Marin adopts limits on immigration agents’ use of county property, but stops short of an ordinance
After two hours of public comment, Marin County supervisors unanimously approved an administrative policy that bars federal immigration operations from county property, a step activists said…
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State Department says it has revoked more than 300,000 visas since January 2025
The figure, announced Tuesday, marks a sharp acceleration since summer and lands in the state that hosts more international students than any other.
From the Bureaus
Washington Bureau
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Schiff tours SFO holding room and says detained travelers still cannot call lawyers or family
After a Tuesday oversight visit, Senator Adam Schiff said some people held by Customs and Border Protection at…
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Judge weighs San Francisco and Santa Clara bid to halt DHS voter home visits
At a hearing in Oakland, a federal judge pressed both sides on standing and scope as two Bay…
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HUD cites San Francisco as it remakes federal homelessness aid. Bay Area filings show what is at stake.
Court records, federal grant data and the region’s own funding applications show how a $1.3 billion shift toward…
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Sports
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PG&E puts a $22.5 billion price on San Francisco’s grid, more than six times the city’s figure
In testimony filed with state regulators Tuesday, the utility laid out its case against a public power takeover, setting up a monthslong…
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San Francisco supervisors take up hidden rental fees, lower ceilings and a final vote on shadow appeals
Three housing measures on Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors agenda would require landlords to advertise a single all-in monthly price, lower the minimum…
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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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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…
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Bonta settles with Fidelity’s crypto arm over limits on withdrawing coins
The $500,000 agreement extends a legal theory California first used against Robinhood: under a 1990 state commodities law, investors who buy cryptocurrency…
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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 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 no authority to redirect…
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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 a five-year federal question:…
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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 scheduled conference in February…
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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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Layoffs are easing across California. In the Bay Area, they are climbing again.
An Inquirer analysis of five years of state layoff notices finds that the nine-county region accounts for nearly 39 percent of the…
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California settles with 23andMe’s bankrupt shell for $6 million, ending its fight over genetic data
The deal resolves the state’s claims over a 2023 breach that exposed more than 855,000 Californians, and drops its appeals of the…
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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…
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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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Santa Clara County sheriff seeks $50 million Axon deal adding AI jail monitoring, drones and plate readers
The proposal, which supervisors take up on Tuesday as a report rather than a vote, would fold the department’s technology into a…
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Peninsula cities shrink license plate camera networks as a grand jury deadline nears
Response letters due to a San Mateo County civil grand jury by Nov. 2 show cities cutting off hundreds of outside agencies…
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Justice Department charges 28 California green-card holders with voting crimes, escalating ballot fight
The cases, six of them against Bay Area residents, are Washington’s newest argument for setting aside some 20,000 California mail ballots; state…
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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…
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Fees on Chinese-built ships are set to return Nov. 10, and no notice extending the pause has been published
A two-month extension of the U.S.-China trade truce, announced in September, has not been written into the Federal Register, leaving the Port…
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DeepSeek is said to be shaping Huawei’s AI chips, a new test for Nvidia and U.S. export policy
A report that Huawei engineers are working inside China’s best-known AI start-up adds pressure on Santa Clara’s Nvidia, and on a Washington…
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Warriors open the season with Porzingis out indefinitely and a smaller lineup in his place
With Kristaps Porzingis sidelined by an undisclosed health matter and Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody recovering from knee surgery, Steve Kerr plans…
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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…