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The White House sent a memo of talking points to Republicans on Capitol Hill and other allies telling them to say President Trump was "entirely correct" in his controversial assessment of the violence in Charlottesville.
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A new study has found that 83 percent of Bay Area renters say they plan to leave the region, with two-thirds of those saying the high cost of living here will be the factor that pushes them out. The study, conducted by housing site Apartment List,...

Google and Facebook get a lot of attention in the Bay Area, Glassdoor Director of Communications Scott Dobroski says, but they are just about average when it comes to their job candidate interviews. Instead, lesser known names took the top spots in this...

Uber Technologies Inc. is in talks for about as much as $12 billion in future funding from SoftBank, Didi, General Atlantic and Dragoneer Investment Group, but the fate of any deal rests on the results of a lawsuit between the company's former CEO and...

The public information officer for the Alameda County sheriff’s office apologized Tuesday for mistakenly retweeting a video of a press conference held by a prominent white supremacist. Sgt. Ray Kelly said he was doing research Monday night on neo-Nazi...

The San Francisco city attorney’s office has notched a major legal victory in a long-running legal dispute with a retail services company that it accused of extorting and falsely imprisoning shoplifting suspects. Correctional Education Co., or CEC,...

Bay Area political events: Voter registration, Urban Shield Political events Voter registration: Volunteers will help new U.S. citizens register to vote after swearing-in ceremony. Sponsored by Democracy Action, which works to advance Democratic...

The violence and death sparked by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend was, to most people, a frightening look into a fringe hate-group philosophy that experts say is resurgent across the country. [...] the images of Ku Klux...

Novato Fire paramedics responded to a rattlesnake bite at the College of Marin Indian Valley campus on Saturday morning, campus officials said.According to College of Marin spokesperson Nicole Cruz, the 68-year-old man stepped on the snake while in the...

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2 children among 3 dead in SJ mobile home fire Three people, including two children, died in a mobile home fire in San Jose on Tuesday, fire officials said. The fire at the Golden Wheel Mobile Home Park broke out about 12:30 p.m. and quickly engulfed...

A lead guitarist of the Jefferson Starship has somebody to sue — five members of the venerable rock band, for continuing to use its name in alleged violation of a promise to stop after founding member Paul Kantner died last year. U.S. Magistrate...

Grocery stores face revamp as tech advances, The story about the future of grocery purchases gave an incorrect date for when the farmers’ market in the Ferry Building got its start. The regular market opened in 1993. The story that started on the...

San Francisco’s top political leaders piled on Tuesday in opposition to a right-wing group’s planned rally next week at Crissy Field, with Mayor Ed Lee expressing outrage that the National Park Service granted a permit for the event and House Democratic...

When Oakland nurse Maria Mendoza-Sanchez noticed an incoming call Tuesday afternoon from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the mother of four waved her family into her bedroom and put the phone on speaker. [...] Feinstein, D-Calif., told Mendoza-Sanchez, as she...

Hundreds of early-morning BART riders will have to begin their commutes an hour later on weekdays — or resort to buses or their cars — as the transit agency struggles to keep up its aging infrastructure while undergoing a massive modernization. BART...

California joined San Francisco on Monday in taking legal action challenging a Trump administration threat to withhold federal public safety grants from sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate in deportations. Becerra said the state’s lawsuit, filed...

Heart disease was the cause of death in Palo Alto last month of actor John Heard, the Santa Clara County coroner announced on Tuesday. Heard, who died last month in a hotel at the age of 71 following back surgery at Stanford Hospital, suffered “sudden...

A psychologist at a California prison facility has alleged she was twice locked in a room with a dangerous inmate in retaliation for reporting mistreatment of LGBTQ inmates.
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An internet company is fighting what it says is a "sweeping" request for information about an anti-Trump website that prosecutors allege was behind destructive Inauguration Day protests.
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The San Francisco-based bank announced Tuesday that Elizabeth Duke would become its chairwoman on January 1, replacing Stephen Sanger and making her the first woman to hold the position at a major Wall Street bank.
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A Concord dental assistant pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to five counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old, Contra Costa County prosecutors said.
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Legendary hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest on Tuesday apologized to fans after canceling its scheduled performance at the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco not once but twice over the past weekend.
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Police in San Francisco on Tuesday were investigating a shooting involving a security guard and an alleged shoplifter outside of the Burlington Coat Factory store at 5th and Howard, according to authorities.
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Following the violence last weekend at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, San Francisco’s city, state and federal officials today sent a strong message to organizers of a right-wing rally planned for later this month at Crissy...

A fourth top executive on Tuesday resigned from President Trump's manufacturing council in the wake of his handling of the violence and terror attack in Charlottesville last weekend.
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University of California, Berkeley officials say they are working extensively with police to ensure security ahead of politically charged events planned in coming weeks.
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Police in Fresno say a convicted rapist arrested for illegally carrying a firearm had been working as a security guard at a rape crisis center in Fresno, reports CBS affiliate KGPE-TV.
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The company has been asked by the Justice Department, the Maryland attorney general's office and a key senator for information about the sales practices of its pain-killing opioid drugs.
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Wells Fargo said Tuesday that the bank has taken what it calls “board refreshment actions” as it struggles to right the ship from a series of scandals that have damaged its once-sterling reputation as Main Street’s bank. The San Francisco-based bank...

Immigrants and their advocates gathered in San Jose Tuesday to celebrate and defend the federal Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals program on the fifth anniversary of its enactment.
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Earnest joins a financial stampede to Salt Lake City, where Goldman Sachs and San Francisco-based fintechs are drawn to the city's talent pool and lower cost of living.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired back at the various CEOs — including Kevin Plank — who have left his manufacturing council in the past 48 hours, calling them "grandstanders" and promising to fill the positions. "For every CEO that drops out of...

The new brick-and-mortar space will be available for Prime and Prime Student members, and made its initial debut this week among four other locations across the country.
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An Illinois man has pleaded guilty to running illegal drug labs in Millbrae and Stockton where tons of smokeable synthetic cannabinoids were created and distributed throughout the U.S.
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The remains of a U.S. Marine will be returned home to California's Central Coast nearly 74 years after he was killed in a bloody World War II battle in the Pacific.
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President Donald Trump's condemnation of hate groups — two days after his initially equivocal response to a deadly attack at a rally in Virginia — disappointed and even angered some of the white nationalists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis who...

Police arrested three teen boys Friday in Greenfield in connection with the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl who was found Wednesday night lying unconscious on a sidewalk.
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Hundreds of supporters -- including San Francisco 49ers Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young -- crowded into Palo Alto City Hall Monday in a show of support for a community chorus that is facing eviction from a local church.
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The state joined San Francisco and Chicago in seeking to block the federal government from withholding crime-fighting grants for cities that don’t cooperate with federal immigration agents.
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