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Brett Kavanaugh is set to become the Supreme Court justice who inaugurates a conservative majority for a generation, after wavering Republicans closed ranks to give him sufficient votes for confirmation in a historic victory for President Donald Trump.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday responded to the mayor of San Francisco's sister city, Osaka, Japan, after he cut ties between the two cities on Tuesday over San Francisco's Comfort Women Memorial.
Facebook is due to hold an internal town hall on Friday to address employee concerns after the company's top executive in Washington appeared in support of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at a Senate hearing.
Hayward city leaders now plan to spend millions, to help people in desperate need of housing.
The Senate is poised to take a crucial vote Friday on whether to advance Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court as key Republican senators remain undecided.
In an op-ed Thursday in The Wall Street Journal, Judge Brett Kavanaugh said there were "a few things I should not have said" during last week's Senate hearing.
In a politically fraught decision Thursday just a month before the Nov. 6 election, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp cited concerns about the federal judge's temperament in announcing her opposition.
Bay Area law professors are among the hundreds of law professors who have stated their opposition to Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination in a letter published by the New York Times.
Christine Blasey Ford is on the cover of this week's Time magazine. But it's not a photograph of Ford; it's an illustration of the words and phrases from her testimony arranged into a striking image of her taking an oath.
Survivors of rape and sexual assault took to a stage in front of the US Supreme Court on Thursday to ask their senators: "Do you believe survivors?"
A bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last week will allow for San Francisco to create new conservatorship programs for severely mentally ill people to get them off city streets and into treatment.
A federal inspection report has uncovered "serious violations" at a southern California facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Vice President Mike Pence launched a broad attack against Beijing Thursday, accusing China of "predatory" economic practices, military aggression against the US and of trying to undermine President Donald Trump and harm his chances of winning re-election.
Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford sent a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray on Thursday expressing regret that investigators did not speak with her in their review of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
A high-stakes partisan row quickly broke out Thursday over a confidential FBI report about allegations that Brett Kavanaugh sexually abused women three decades ago.
