1+ day, 5+ 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, 13+ hour ago   (614+ words) By GLENN GAMBOA, AP Business Writer Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign founded by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, announced a $100 million pledge Thursday to make giving birth in the United States safer. The five-year commitment aims to…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (413+ words) SAN JOSE — Santa Clara County has the second-most data centers among all counties in the nation and is seeing the fastest growth of the controversial facilities in the past year, according to a new report. An estimated 1,474 data centers were…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1153+ words) By Christine Mai-Duc | KFF Health News By the time Democrat Xavier Becerra left Washington, D.C., more Americans than ever had health insurance, owing partly to his work over the years to pass, defend, and expand the Affordable Care Act. It’s an…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (536+ words) A century ago, on Sept. 15, 1926, the Berkeley Daily Gazette published an editorial about the prospects for a Civic Center block in downtown Berkeley. “Some day — no one can say when — the city of Berkeley will purchase for a civic center…...

4+ day, 11+ 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, 3+ 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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (792+ words) In a new letter to President Donald Trump and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the lawmakers demanded an accounting of operational costs placed on the Defense Department; of effects on the oil and energy markets; and of impacts on inflation, supply…...

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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…...