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For the first time since 2011, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference — an annual economic forum featuring delegates from 21 member economies, including the United States, China, Japan, Canada, Mexico and Russia — will take place in America. More specifically, from Nov. 11 to 17, APEC will be in San Francisco. In a press release last week, the mayor’s office referred to the upcoming event as “the largest convening of world leaders in San Francisco since the UN Charter was signed…
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On the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 13, Michael Eisen — a tenured UC Berkeley professor and the editor-in-chief of the open-access journal eLife — reposted an Onion article on X, formerly Twitter. “Bingo,” he wrote in a response to The Onion link, titled “Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas.” In another post, he wrote, “The Onion speaks with more courage, insight and moral clarity than the leaders of every academic institution put together. I wish there were a @TheOnio…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently completed a weeklong trip to China, where he met with President Xi Jinping and other high-ranking Chinese officials. The ostensible purpose of the trip was to discuss climate change, and specifically, more cooperation between California and China on climate-related matters. But as with all things involving Newsom, it’s fair to wonder whether there may have been ulterior (presidential) motives to his diplomatic visit. This story isn’t about what Newsom’s trip…
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In July 2022, Elon Musk tried to renege on purchasing Twitter for $44 billion. Anxious to finalize a deal with Musk at a price point that was generally considered an enormous overpay, Twitter sued Musk. On Oct. 28, 2022, the day before the trial was supposed to start, Musk and Twitter came to terms on the original $44 billion asking price. A year later, Musk is now claiming that he was actually compelled to buy Twitter — now X — out of an overriding sense of civic duty, because he needed to save…
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An 81-year-old Bay Area woman in declining health, one of hundreds of Palestinian Americans trapped in Gaza amid Israeli airstrikes, has filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California in a last-ditch effort to compel the United States government to help her evacuate the war zone. At a press conference Thursday afternoon, one of the woman’s grandchildren, Sayed Bseiso, joined attorney Ghassan Shamieh at the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco to discuss the case. SFGATE is ho…
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Shasta County’s Tuesday election is arguably the most watched in California on an otherwise muted Election Day. That’s not because of what’s on the ballot in the rural county’s special election, which includes choosing a new school board member. Instead, people are eyeing Shasta — four hours north of San Francisco, with a population of less than 200,000 — to see how residents consumed by conspiracies and the politicians they’ve elected will react to a recently enacted state voting law, and the o…
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Former President Donald Trump is back to blaming one of his favorite scapegoats, Sen. Mitch McConnell, after Kentucky voters chose to reelect Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on Tuesday night. Election Day 2023 was relatively light on big races, with notable exceptions in Ohio — where voters ultimately chose to legalize marijuana and protect abortion access — and Kentucky, which had an off-year governor’s race. Despite high approval ratings, polling indicated that incumbent governor Beshear was vuln…
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Familial squabbling over the bountiful estate of wealthy financier Richard Blum and the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein has grown more acrimonious and accusatory since Feinstein’s death in late September, according to a recent court filing reviewed by SFGATE. The filing reveals heated discussions about multimillion-dollar properties, “Himalayan stuff” and “the automobiles at Aspen.” A few weeks prior to Feinstein’s death at age 90, Judge Roger Picquet ordered Feinstein’s daughter Katherine and some o…
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is considering leaving Congress entirely after getting booted from the House Speaker position in early October, CNN recently reported. He’s allegedly going down swinging. On Tuesday, NPR’s Claudia Grisales reported on a tiff between McCarthy and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who was one of eight Republicans to vote in favor of ousting McCarthy from leadership. Burchett was being interviewed by Grisales on Capitol Hill when McCarthy strolled by and “shoved Burchett,”…
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Hours after arriving in San Francisco on Tuesday for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, President Joe Biden — joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed, among others — attended a glitzy fundraiser for his 2024 re-election campaign. Just a half-block away, hundreds of protesters marched in support of Palestinians and a Gaza cease-fire. The fundraiser, referred to as a “super event” by in-the-know sources who spoke to Polit…
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President Joe Biden led off his remarks at an APEC welcome reception in San Francisco on Wednesday evening by semi-jokingly floating a future Gavin Newsom presidency. “I want to talk about Gov. Newsom. Want to thank him,” Biden said at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, according to a transcript released by the White House. “He’s been one hell of a governor, man. Matter of fact, he could be anything he wants. He could have the job I’m looking for.” Newsom, the governor of California, has for ye…
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