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San Francisco

August 2024

  • Graphic image of what looks like a watercolor black-and-white portrait of Kamala Harris.

    The evolution of Kamala Harris: from activist in pigtails to presidential candidate

    The daughter of civil rights activists has an unbroken history of working to change ‘anything that wasn’t right’, friends say
  • man who is Scott Peterson wearing red top and blue mask stands next to US flag

    Scott Peterson says he’s an ‘a-hole’ for cheating on slain wife but maintains innocence

    In first on-camera remarks in decades, Peterson, convicted in 2004 of murder, denies killing his pregnant wife
    • ‘She makes us proud’: Harris raises over $12m in California as Pelosi welcomes her home

    • No water, no power, hordes of birds: who will buy San Francisco’s $25m private island?

    • Elon Musk says ‘no choice’ but for X to shut San Francisco HQ

July 2024

  • A homeless encampment

    California ramps up removal of homeless encampments after US supreme court ruling

  • side-by-side photo of rows of produce and a portrait of a woman

    A first-of-its-kind free food market opens in San Francisco: ‘Without this, some of us won’t make it’

  • A project to install suicide barriers is almost complete in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday, July 29, 2023. It’s estimated that more than 1800 people have committed suicide from jumping off the bridge. 
(Photo by Preston Gannaway © 2023)

    Bereaved families mark completion of Golden Gate Bridge safety net: ‘A symbol of our collective effort’

  • a still from Bushman, with Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam as Gabriel and Elaine Featherstone as Alma.

    Bushman review – amazing real-time evocation of a Nigerian’s life in 70s America

  • Italian court upholds murder convictions of two Americans over death of police officer

  • Three coyotes killed in San Francisco park after five-year-old girl bitten

  • ‘The power of fiction’: San Francisco store sends LGBTQ+ books to states that ban them

June 2024

  • Dozens of men in white and blue T-shirts stand and play on a basketball court.

    California voters could get to vote on toughening charges for some crimes

    Proposition 47 reduced penalties for certain non-violent offenses, but public support has waned after retail thefts
  • man wearing suit and blue tie smiles in front of glass door

    Not guilty: how tech mogul Mike Lynch’s fortunes soared, fell – and rose again

    A jury of Californians acquitted the Autonomy founder, who on trial tried to show that life is ‘nuanced and messy’
    • Mike Lynch: four key takeaways from the fraud trial of ‘Britain’s Bill Gates’

    • San Francisco police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters occupying Israeli consulate building

    • California firefighters battle wind-driven wildfire near San Francisco

May 2024

  • Man in navy uniform looks down street behind yellow caution tape

    David DePape apologizes for attacking Paul Pelosi and gets 30-year sentence – again

    DePape, who didn’t get to speak in court in original trial on assault of Nancy’s Pelosi’s husband, gets no change to original sentence
  • Abstract graphic of people joining hands in front of their homes.

    Unions help US workers. Could the same model work for tenants?

    Collective bargaining has brought benefits to workers – now it’s being used to improve living conditions and fight rent increases
  • White man wearing suit and tie and carrying briefcase in street

    Tech titan Mike Lynch testifies at fraud trial that Autonomy was ‘not perfect’

    UK founder, accused of inflating sales and misleading regulators, takes stand and says he wasn’t fully responsible for firm’s decisions
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