18 h. ago Rare notoriously stinky flower begins blooming in California

A rare flower that is known for its distinctive foul smell has begun blooming in California.

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4 d. ago Colorado woman charged with murder in 16 years old case involving newborn who was found in a dumpster

Angela Onduto, 46, of Colorado, has been charged with the 2009 murder of her newborn daughter, whom police named Matea Esperanza, after the baby was found in a San Francisco Bay Area dumpster.

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4 d. ago ‘Harvey would say, we’re on the brink’: why conservatives are coming for a gay rights hero

Emboldened by Trump, the right is trying to chip away the legacy of the trailblazing politician Harvey Milk. Activists say it’s a sign of a wider assault on the LGBTQ+ communityAs San Francisco’s pride festivities came to a close last week, a cloud hung over the otherwise joyful celebrations as the city’s LGBTQ+ community learned that the US government had stripped a naval ship of its name honoring the gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk.Donald Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, claimed the action showed the administration’s commitment to “taking the politics” out of military naming conventions. San Francisco’s queer community saw things differently. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Now, London, Paris, New York, Rome, and San Francisco Struggle with Traffic Congestion, Disrupting Tourism During July 4th Week: Know Before You Go

Now, London, Paris, New York, Rome, and San Francisco Struggle with Traffic Congestion, Disrupting Tourism During July 4th Week: Know Before You Go  Travel And Tour World

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6 d. ago University of California reiterates ban on student government boycotts of Israel

The president of the University of California has reiterated that student governments are prohibited from financial boycotts of companies associated with any particular country, including Israel

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7 d. ago A slider, a milestone, and a heartfelt thank you: Kershaw's 3,000th strikeout

Clayton Kershaw has reached a major milestone in his career, becoming the 20th pitcher in MLB history to achieve 3,000 strikeouts

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1 week ago NYC, San Francisco and other US cities capping LGBT+ Pride month with a mix of party and protest

Monthlong celebration reaches rainbow-laden crescendo as major cities around the world host parades and marches

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1 week ago NYC, San Francisco and other US cities capping LGBTQ+ Pride month with a mix of party and protest

The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride is reaching its rainbow-laden crescendo as New York and other major cities around the world host major parades and marches

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1 week ago San Francisco 49ers' Deommodore Lenoir arrested in Los Angeles

San Francisco 49ers player Deommodore Lenoir has been arrested on a charge of obstructing law enforcement

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1 week ago San Francisco bookstores pull ‘Harry Potter’ books in protest of J.K. Rowling’s anti

Bookstores announced the move in response to the launch of the J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund

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1 week ago As the United Nations turns 80, some key moments in its history

There have been many memorable moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations at its headquarters in New York and at its far-flung global operations

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2 w. ago Anthropic did not breach copyright when training AI on books without permission, court rules

Judge says firm made ‘fair use’ of literature but that storage of pirated books in central library constituted infringementA US judge has ruled that a tech company’s use of books to train its artificial intelligence system – without permission of the authors – did not breach copyright law.A federal judge in San Francisco said Anthropic made “fair use” of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train its Claude large language model. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Anthropic wins ruling on AI training in copyright lawsuit but must face trial on pirated books

In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books

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2 w. ago 4 members of a California family among the 8 dead in a boat capsize on Lake Tahoe during a storm

Four members of a family from Northern California were among eight people killed over the weekend when a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe in California during a fierce thunderstorm

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2 w. ago ‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files‘It was a beautiful morning. The sun was shining on the buildings. Everything down there was bright – very, very bright. You could see the city from 50 miles away, the rivers bisecting it, the aiming point. It was clear as a bell. It was perfect. The perfect mission.”I’m sitting in a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco opposite the navigator of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. The year is 2004, and Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, aged 83, has agreed to be interviewed for a book I’m writing for the 60th anniversary of that fateful mission. Van Kirk informs me, with the trace of a smile, that this will probably be the last interview in his life. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Kate Upton gives birth to second child with husband Justin Verlander

Kate Upton has given birth to her second child with husband Justin Verlander, his team the San Francisco Giants confirmed on Friday

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2 w. ago Judge asks if troops in Los Angeles are violating Posse Comitatus Act

A federal judge held a brief hearing over whether the Trump administration should continue its deployment of troops to Los Angeles

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2 w. ago California challenges troop deployment after appeals court rules for Trump

State to argue in federal court that control of national guard – deployed to Los Angeles – should return to Gavin NewsomCalifornia’s challenge of the Trump administration’s military deployment on the streets of Los Angeles returned to a federal courtroom in San Francisco on Friday after an appeals court handed Donald Trump a key procedural win in the case.Friday’s hearing comes a day after the ninth circuit appellate panel allowed the president to keep control of national guard troops he deployed in response to protests over immigration raids. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago BBC threatens legal action against AI startup over content scraping

Letter sent to Perplexity AI but US-based firm calls corporation’s claims ‘manipulative and opportunistic’The BBC is threatening legal action against Perplexity AI, in the corporation’s first move to protect its content from being scraped without permission to build artificial intelligence technology.The corporation has sent a letter to Aravind Srinivas, the chief executive of the San Francisco-based startup, saying it has gathered evidence that Perplexity’s model was “trained using BBC content”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago LA protests: US court allows Trump to keep control of California national guard while lawsuit proceeds

Appeals court in San Francisco extends pause on district judge ruling that president called troops into federal service unlawfullyA US appeals court has let Donald Trump retain control over California’s national guard while the state’s Democratic governor proceeds with a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Republican president’s use of the troops to quell protests and unrest in Los Angeles.A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th US circuit court of appeals on Thursday extended a pause it had placed on US district Judge Charles Breyer’s 12 June ruling that Trump had called the national guard into federal service unlawfully. Continue reading...

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