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California Republicans Applaud Trump’s VP Pick of JD Vance at National Convention
California delegates praised Vance’s youth as KQED spoke to officials at the GOP convention, where Trump was nominated Monday.

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Trump Picks JD Vance as Vice Presidential Running Mate
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How to Talk With Kids When the News Is Disturbing
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The next mayor of San Francisco will lead the city's charge to build nearly 82,000 new state-mandated housing units by 2031.

UC Berkeley Family Housing Tenants Fight Rent Hike, New Parking Fees

The university recently hiked rents and imposed new parking fees at its family housing site, called UC Village, in Albany.

San Francisco Developers Have Mixed Feelings About Peskin’s Middle Income Housing Plan

SF Supervisor Aaron Peskin is creating a new funding program to build ‘middle-income’ housing. Some affordable housing developers are optimistic to get more funding, but others worry it could be making funding more complicated than needed.
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Unhoused Oakland Residents Win Order Delaying Eviction in Early Test of Supreme Court Ruling

After the Supreme Court granted cities broader power to clear homeless encampments, a new lawsuit filed by a group of unhoused Oakland residents over a sweep will test the ruling's limits.

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Half Moon Bay Farmworker Housing to Go Forward After Council Rejects Appeals

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More West Africans Making Risky Journey to US, Where an Uncertain Fate Awaits Them

As Europe cracks down on immigration and speeds up deportations, the U.S. has emerged as a destination for West Africans fleeing their countries. But getting here is only half the struggle.

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Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson Talks Democracy and Cheese Curds

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The dismissal of the classified-documents case rests on a ‘fringe theory’ targeting the attorney general’s right to appoint a special counsel, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says.

California Republicans Applaud Trump’s VP Pick of JD Vance at National Convention

California delegates praised Vance’s youth as KQED spoke to officials at the GOP convention, where Trump was nominated Monday.

'Never Felt as Much at Home as I Do Today': For Bay Area's Colombians, Copa América Loss Can't Dent Joy

This weekend, hundreds of Colombian families from all over the Bay Area gathered in San José to cheer on their national men’s soccer team in the Copa América.

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The senator from Ohio, a onetime San Francisco venture capitalist who became famous for his memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ was once a ‘Never Trump guy’ before changing his tune.
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