Brown Rejects San Francisco Mayor's Plea For Incarcerated Brother
Gov. Jerry Brown issued 143 pardons and 131 commutations of sentence Christmas Eve, but San Francisco Mayor London Breed's brother was not among them.
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Gov. Jerry Brown issued 143 pardons and 131 commutations of sentence Christmas Eve, but San Francisco Mayor London Breed's brother was not among them.
The sell-off of the Silicon Valley giants Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet (Google) continued Monday as the Dow plunged 653 points to finish the holiday-shorten trading day well below 22,000 points.
There is currently no end in sight for the partial government shutdown, and a change in control of Congress could drag it into the new year.
President Trump says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave his post on Jan. 1. Trump announced Mattis' new departure date in a tweet and said he's naming deputy defense chief Patrick Shanahan as acting secretary.
More police officers will be patrolling the streets of Oakland to stop sideshow activity, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell announced shortly after noon Saturday (PST) that the Senate is adjourned until Dec. 27 assuring that the government will be partially shut down through Christmas.
Current U.S. Secretary of Defense and retired four-star Marine Corps General James Mattis has submitted a resignation letter to President Donald Trump.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that President Trump would not sign a Senate bill passed Wednesday which would keep the government funded through February.
A Yemeni mother was reunited with her dying toddler Wednesday night following public outcry over her repeated failed attempts to get a travel visa to the United States.
SF Mayor London Breed confirmed Wednesday she has asked outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown to reduce the prison sentence for her brother, who is currently in prison for a manslaughter conviction.
A federal judge in San Francisco Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump's partial ban on asylum seekers who enter at the United States' southern border.
A mother who has been stuck in Egypt under the Trump administration's travel ban is set to arrive in the Bay Area Wednesday night for a final visit with her dying son.
Gov. Jerry Brown is predicting it will be difficult for his successor to control Democrats' hunger for more spending and rules.
The attorney general in the nation's capital has filed a lawsuit against Menlo Park-based Facebook for allowing data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data from as many as 87 million users.
The San Jose City Council on Tuesday approved the construction of two "tiny home" communities to house unsheltered individuals over the next two years.
