Golden Gate Fields holds final Berkeley race amid protests
ALBANY — The latest unexplained death of a horse this past week at Golden Gate Fields did not appear to detract from a festive celebration Sunday on the historic race …
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‘Toxic and hostile environment for Jewish students’ at UC Irvine, students claim
Daniel Levine (courtesy Levine) For those unwilling to condemn Israel in the harshest terms, he said, the UC Irvine campus has become a hostile and dangerous place. “When Jewish students say …
Judge temporarily halts UC academic workers’ strike over Gaza war
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of academic workers on strike at the University of California were ordered by a state judge Friday to temporarily cease their weekslong strike over …
‘Trump Chicken’ to sail San Francisco Bay during Trump fundraiser
When former President Donald Trump arrives in the Bay Area on Thursday for a fundraising event with local tech billionaires, he will be greeted by a giant chicken caricature of …
VP Kamala Harris’ quiet stops in Bay Area met with Gaza ceasefire protests
In a brief visit Wednesday to the city where she was born, Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted in Oakland by jeers and boos from pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a …
Gaza war: truce plan leaves Israel’s Netanyahu fighting for ‘political survival’
Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday to demand Netanyahu agree to a deal to free hostages held by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Protests …
Panda diplomacy, Columbia’s Chinese protesters, Taiwan’s ‘US whisperer’: 7 reads about US-China relations
We have selected seven of the biggest and most important news stories covering US-China relations from the past few weeks. If you would like to see more of our reporting, …
Bay Area victims advocate groups rally to push for state funding
Advocates and policymakers gathered outside San Jose City Hall on Friday morning to push the state government to preserve funding for victims services organizations after a projected $700 million slash …
UC Santa Cruz: ‘Many’ pro-Palestinian protesters arrested
By KATHY McCORMACK (Associated Press) Police in riot gear surrounded arm-in-arm protesters Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to remove an encampment and barricades where pro-Palestinian demonstrations have …
80 arrested as police break up pro-Palestinian encampment at entrance to UC Santa Cruz
Police in riot gear from agencies across the Bay Area broke up an encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators early Friday morning that had blocked the main entrance to the UC Santa …