1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (423+ words) Inflation cooled slightly in the Bay Area in August, but gasoline prices skyrocketed in the region, a government report released Friday shows. The Bay Area inflation rate rose 3.4% over the one-year period that ended in August, less than the 3.8% annual…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (490+ words) The Department of Homeland Security has been quiet about its plans, saying in a statement Wednesday it would make an announcement “at an appropriate time” and that Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador would stay in effect until then. Its…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (576+ words) DHS said in a statement Wednesday that it will announce a decision on El Salvador “at the appropriate time” and that protections would remain in place until then. About 200,000 people from El Salvador have lived in the U.S. since…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (498+ words) By MEG KINNARD and GARY FIELDS, Associated Press Bunch said in a news release Tuesday that he was departing the position he had held since 2019 “with very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude.” The Smithsonian said he would leave the post…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (453+ words) How did the rest of the world respond? NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels and immediately activated Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty for the first and only time, saying that an attack against one NATO member has to…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (127+ words) East Bay Times 51-year-old engineer who started at Apple in 2001 as a product designer and helped oversee work on the iPad, iPods and the Apple Watch becomes CEO of the Cupertino tech giant, succeeding Tim Cook. PG&E CEO loses…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (1021+ words) By Amir Vahdat, Toqa Ezzidin and Cara Anna | Associated Press CAIRO — U.S. forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with ballistic missiles, the American military said Saturday, warning that it would “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (576+ words) Bessent said that getting even 19 countries to agree to take on the problem was “incredible” and shows “the sheer the enormity of the problem.” Bessent spoke after a two-day meeting of the 20 countries in Asheville, N.C. Bessent said earlier…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (707+ words) In her blistering feminist satire, Fillinger imagines a team of seven exhausted women managing the everyday political chaos and one catastrophe after another for America’s commander-in-chief. Inspired by the realities of today’s polarized government, “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (543+ words) It was the end-of-summer beach day in south San Clemente, a chance to enjoy the sand and surf before school got back in session. But the life-changing day turned in an instant as an 8-year-old struggled in the surf at…...