Raheem Hosseini

Behind the effort to deliver a critical swing state in the presidential election — and what it reveals about post-Dobbs barriers in and outside California.

Project 2025 plans ‘thermonuclear attack’ on internet — so why do some Big Tech execs prefer Trump?

Why is Oracle assembling a secret database of Trump loyalists?

Silicon Valley is divided on Harris vs. Trump — and its richest investors could decide the election

Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, wants the American public to be alarmed as he is. In March, the North Bay representative was in a Congressional Progressive Caucus briefing requested by several liberal organizations raising an alarm about Project 2025, the 920-page action plan for a second Donald Trump term. Prepared by the Heritage Foundation and a multitude of conservative organizations, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project calls for swift, sweeping action from the next Republican preside…

The trouble began for Mauricio Badillo around July 2022, when the 43-year-old married father of three asked his landlord to address the mold in the home he rents in San Pablo. Badillo, a painter, tried to wash it off his walls but couldn’t. It emitted a rotten odor and crept into the furniture. His landlord sent an inspector who Badillo said confirmed his suspicions and blamed the 80-year-old home’s lack of insulation. Badillo said the landlord told him he didn’t have the money for repairs and a…

When Donald Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account in March promoting a $59.99 Bible packaged with founding American documents and lyrics to a country song, reactions noted the jarring fusion of faith and commerce. Here was the once and aspiring president — facing four criminal prosecutions, owing more than $800 million in civil fines and famously at sea discussing Christian scripture — selling the King James translation appended with the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution,…

He approached from the back row wearing dark sunglasses and a T-shirt with a black swastika at its center. He said his name was “Scottie.” And for the next two minutes, Harley Ray Petero Jr. read clumsily from his antisemitic speech, making threats both legal and genocidal, during Wednesday night’s meeting of the Walnut Creek City Council. “I’m here today because people like you …” Petero said, pointing at Council Member Kevin Wilk, losing his place, finding it again, and resuming, “… think we’r…

He investigated neo-Nazi ‘Zoom bombs’ in the Bay Area. Then he became their target

From Jesse Lewis, Director of Culture and Operations: The Chronicle is pleased to announce the addition of reporter Ko Lyn Cheang, who will cover Asian American and Pacific Islander communities on the newspaper’s Race & Equity Team. Cheang joins the Chronicle after more than two years with the Indianapolis Star, where she did enterprising coverage of housing, criminal justice and city government with an eye for accountability and an understanding of how immigrant communities experience these sys…