San Francisco touts win as event gets shut down
A former U.S. attorney will lead an independent review of Charlottesville's response to three white nationalist rallies, the largest of which ended in deadly violence, the city announced Friday.
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San Francisco claims victory after right-wing group shut out
A protester holds up a sign outside of Alamo Square Park in San Francisco, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. San Francisco officials took further steps Saturday to prevent violence ahead of a planned news conference by a right-wing group.
Mix of protest events expected in San Francisco
In this May 10, file photo, protesters stage outside the offices of Sen. Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco.
San Francisco to greet ‘Patriot Prayer’ with unique protests
Northern California police and civic leaders are hoping for calm, but bracing for violence... . File - In this April 27, 2017 file photo, a demonstrator guards the speakers area during a rally for free speech in Berkeley, Calif.
Dog poop protest planned ahead of SF right-wing rally
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California cities fear violence at latest right-wing protests
Police officers at protests over the cancellation of conservative provocateur Ann Coulter's speech in Berkeley. Police officials are bracing for violence at a 'No to Marxism in America' rally over the coming weekend: REUTERS/Stephen Lam Seeking to prevent a pair of right-wing weekend rallies from spiralling into violence, Bay Area authorities are vowing a bolstered police presence and urging counter-protestors to stay away as federal officials rebuffed a high-profile attempt to halt a San Francisco rally.
FAA changes San Francisco landing rules after close call
The FAA has issued new rules at San Francisco International Airport after two Air Canada pilots mistakenly lined up a jet to land on a taxiway, sort of a side road that four other planes were using to reach the runway. Federal officials have issued new rules for nighttime landings and control-tower staffing at San Francisco International Airport after an Air Canada jet nearly struck planes on the ground last month.
Rep. Speier wants to use 25th Amendment to remove Trump
With fallout over President Trump's take on the bloody events in Charlottesville, Democratic Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee announcing his plans to introduce articles of impeachment against the president. Rep. Jackie Speier wants to remove Trump from office under an article within the 25th Amendment to the Constitution that allows the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to declare the president temporarily "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."
Hundreds of Bay Area residents gather to oppose racist violence
Monique Rollocks sheds tears as she talks about her experiences with racism during a gathering of people in support of those who stood up to the white nationalist protesters in Charlottesville, and to remember those who were injured and died in the confrontation in front of City Hall in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, August 13, 2017.
Data: Jet as low as 59 feet in near miss at SF airport
This composite of images released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows Air Canada flight 759 attempting to land at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco on July 7. At top is a map of the runway created from Harris Symphony OpsVue radar track data analysis.
invigorated with her new role of opposing President Trump.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks during a rally in Washington against the Republican healthcare bill. Even six months after Donald Trump won the White House, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to talk about election night, preferring to fast-forward to what happened the next day.
Live in a Piece of History at This $16 Million San Francisco Mansion
In 1906, Elizabeth Leslie Meyerfeld married Leon Lazare Roos. Her father, who owned a chain of theaters, promised the couple a new house.
Rep. Jared Huffman leading charge on climate for North Coast
North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman is making moves on the environmental front, candidly speaking out against the White House's initiatives regarding public lands and energy, as well as recent actions by U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Huffman has wholeheartedly taken up climate change as a platform issue, introducing two pieces of legislation on energy policy and joining three other members of Congress on climate legislation that seeks to get the U.S. on 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2050, named the 100 by '50 Act.
Kamala Harris Went to Prison So Others Wona t Have To
Kamala Harris visited just about every corner of California during her successful 2016 campaign to take over Barbara Boxer's seat in the US Senate, and she's kept it up somewhat since taking office. But on a recent, sweltering July afternoon, I accompanied Harris to a place where no senator has set foot for at least a decade.
States join fight over EPA chief’s decision not to ban pesticide …
Several states are seeking to join a legal challenge to a Trump administration decision to keep a widely used pesticide on the market despite studies showing it can harm children's brains. Led by New York, the coalition filed a motion Wednesday to intervene in a legal fight over the continued spraying of chlorpyrifos on food.
84-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein not retiring
In this June 13, 2017, file photo, Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., right, with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., listens as Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Feinstein, who turns 84 June 22, 2017, is showing no signs of slowing down and is raising lots of campaign money, even if she hasn't declared her intention to run again in 2018. California's Dianne Feinstein turns 84 on Thursday and is displaying signs that she's headed for a re-election campaign, not a retirement party.
No retirement talk from Dianne Feinstein, oldest US senator
California's Dianne Feinstein turns 84 on Thursday and is displaying signs that she's headed for a re-election campaign, not a retirement party. While the Democrat has been coy when asked about seeking a fifth full term next year, her political committee, unambiguously titled Feinstein for Senate 2018, raised more than $650,000 in the first three months of this year in a cue she is looking ahead.
Panicked UPS workers flee California gunfire that killed 4
Sources say that President Donald Trump is now calling the House-passed health care bill 'mean' after he helped rescue it. San Francisco police confirm a shooting at a sprawling UPS warehouse and customer service center, but no information on injuries has been released.
Dramatic bloody scuffle preceded Market Street police shooting
Video footage released Wednesday shows a man shot and killed by San Francisco police in a Market Street Subway store last week had attacked and struggled with an employee before officers arrived and opened fire. The videos, taken both from body-worn cameras worn by the responding officers and from surveillance cameras inside the store, were released at a town hall meeting on Market Street held to present preliminary information on the May 3 shooting that killed 26-year-old Nicholas Flusche.
Behind The Trail Running Initiative Advocating To Protect Public Lands
In late January, Emily Peterson was on her usual trail run around the stunning Marin Headlands, near San Francisco, when she was gripped by fear. Here she was, enjoying public lands at a time when the fate of public lands was very much up in the air.