17+ hour, 15+ min ago   (687+ words) East Bay Times Byron Sher, veteran lawmaker who wrote many of California’s landmark environmental laws, dies at 98 Byron Sher, a collegial Stanford University law professor who ran for Palo Alto city council in the 1960s after losing a battle over the…...

23+ hour, 37+ min ago   (859+ words) By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and DIDI TANG While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative forces” he did not identify,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (250+ words) Today is Sunday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2026. There are 109 days left in the year. On Sept. 13, 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. In…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (575+ words) By Jim Brunner | The Seattle Times SEATTLE — A new PAC backed by President Donald Trump is reportedly wading into Washington’s hottest congressional race as Republicans try to keep a House majority loyal to the president. No Going Back PAC has…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (379+ words) By Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Skylar Woodhouse | Bloomberg News President Donald Trump said Iran-backed Houthis have asked the U.S. to abstain from targeting the militant group, as a worsening clash with Saudi Arabia inflames tensions in the Middle East. “The Houthis called…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (490+ words) The Department of Homeland Security has been quiet about its plans, saying in a statement Wednesday it would make an announcement “at an appropriate time” and that Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador would stay in effect until then. Its…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (498+ words) By MEG KINNARD and GARY FIELDS, Associated Press Bunch said in a news release Tuesday that he was departing the position he had held since 2019 “with very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude.” The Smithsonian said he would leave the post…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (453+ words) How did the rest of the world respond? NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels and immediately activated Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty for the first and only time, saying that an attack against one NATO member has to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (127+ words) East Bay Times 51-year-old engineer who started at Apple in 2001 as a product designer and helped oversee work on the iPad, iPods and the Apple Watch becomes CEO of the Cupertino tech giant, succeeding Tim Cook. PG&E CEO loses…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1021+ words) By Amir Vahdat, Toqa Ezzidin and Cara Anna | Associated Press CAIRO — U.S. forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with ballistic missiles, the American military said Saturday, warning that it would “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited…...