Today’s Edition
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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 warnings about how closely Sacramento’s revenues track the…
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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 likely noncitizens, a demand California officials say rests…
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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 cooperating witness and Ms. Thao’s former chief 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 have not yet measured the effect on crashes.
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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 and Northern California lawmakers press a bill to…
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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, many of them with minors, should not change…
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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 shipments to China, moves that reach from Santa…
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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 of mailings to lawmakers and election offices less…
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Attacks in the Strait of Hormuz intensify, threatening California’s fragile relief at the pump
Eight strikes on merchant ships in three days have kept traffic through the world’s most important oil chokepoint far below prewar levels, just as Bay Area gas prices had begun…
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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 formula that could disadvantage BART’s San Jose extension…
