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SF School District Won’t Cancel Ethnic Studies, But Pauses Its Homegrown Curriculum
San Francisco schools will adopt an interim curriculum used by other California districts as SFUSD audits its own course materials following backlash from some parents.
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SF Band Ditches Spotify Over CEO’s $700M Military AI Investment
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Health Care Workers at Children’s Hospital Oakland End Nearly 2-Week Strike
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Lurie and SF Zoo CEO at Odds About Her Resignation
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Journalists Fleeing Authoritarian Regimes Now at Risk, as Trump Ends Parole Program
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Lineage, Not Race: California’s Strategy to Advance Equity for Descendants of Slavery
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The New 'Razor Blade Throat' Nimbus COVID Variant: Symptoms, Incubation Period and When to Test
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Berkeley Council OKs Zoning Overhaul, Allows Small Apartments Across Most of City

Berkeley, the first city in the nation to adopt single-family zoning, will now allow small apartment buildings in most neighborhoods.
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SF Supervisors Preserve Millions for Homeless Prevention, Housing in Budget

San Francisco’s city proposed budget advanced this morning, after supervisors and the mayor agreed to reallocate funding back toward homeless prevention and housing, instead of temporary shelter.
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Facing Costly Lawsuit, Berkeley Pauses Its Ban on Rent-Setting Algorithms

After it was sued by a major property management software company, the city postponed its recent prohibition on rent-setting algorithms to March 2026.
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One Bay Area City's Answer to Homeless RV Residents Shows Promise for State

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Journalists Fleeing Authoritarian Regimes Now at Risk, as Trump Ends Parole Program

One Nicaraguan journalist escaped a crackdown on press freedom to seek asylum in the U.S. Now she feels hunted again, as deportation looms.
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Much of LA’s Community of Immigrants Is Hiding, Leaving a Hole in the Fabric of the City

Los Angeles’ large, productive, highly integrated, and now very afraid community of undocumented immigrants has slipped into the shadows, leaving a visible impact throughout the city.
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California Pushes Back After Supreme Court Ruling on Trump Citizenship Order

California leaders blasted the Supreme Court's ruling narrowing federal court power to block Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship.
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Newsom Sues Fox News for $787 Million, Saying It Lied About Trump Phone Call

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s defamation lawsuit claims Fox News lied about when he spoke with President Donald Trump about the immigration raids and protests in Los Angeles.
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SF Band Ditches Spotify Over CEO’s $700M Military AI Investment

Deerhoof will remove its entire catalog from the ‘data-mining scam masquerading as a ‘music company.’’
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Health Care Workers at Children’s Hospital Oakland End Nearly 2-Week Strike

Hospital employees returned to work on Monday morning after a judge declined to block a UCSF plan to turn them into university employees, which their union called illegal.
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Lurie and SF Zoo CEO at Odds About Her Resignation

Following a year of scandal at the San Francisco Zoo, Mayor Daniel Lurie said finding a new CEO would usher in stability.
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SF School District Won’t Cancel Ethnic Studies, But Pauses Its Homegrown Curriculum

San Francisco schools will adopt an interim curriculum used by other California districts as SFUSD audits its own course materials following backlash from some parents.
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Journalists Fleeing Authoritarian Regimes Now at Risk, as Trump Ends Parole Program

One Nicaraguan journalist escaped a crackdown on press freedom to seek asylum in the U.S. Now she feels hunted again, as deportation looms.
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Lineage, Not Race: California’s Strategy to Advance Equity for Descendants of Slavery

In a bold legal test, California legislators are advancing bills that would benefit descendants of enslaved people without mentioning race, setting the stage for a court battle.
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From Dugout to Zen Den, San Francisco Giants Champion Mental Wellness

Inside a tiny room beneath Oracle Park, the San Francisco Giants are quietly reshaping what it means to be strong — on the baseball field, in the clubhouse and for the next generation of fans.
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