Watch your step: Aussie runner finds homemade spikes on popular trail
by By Leah Asmelash | CNN Police in Australia are urging the public to stay alert after a runner found homemade spikes methodically hidden on a …
Trump lawyers argue Democrats just want to overturn election
By Eric Tucker, Lisa Mascaro and Zeke Miller | Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s lawyers plunged into his impeachment trial defense Saturday by …
Coronavirus patients arrived in France without symptoms
By Geert De Clercq | Reuters PARIS — Two of the three Chinese nationals in France who have been diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus arrived …
Home sale prices from San Jose area and Peninsula, January 25
555 Laurel Ave. #102, San Mateo 95501; sold Dec. 20 for $2,517,000; 3116 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Two-story condo in Gramercy on the …
How Confucius loses face in China’s new surveillance regime
While conceived of and functioning differently in diverse contexts, ‘face’ describes a phenomenon that exists in every human society. Its most basic sense concerns the …
Photos: SNL alum Will Forte lands $6.25 million oceanfront contemporary home near Monterey
Actor and comedian Will Forte has splashed out $6.25 million for a dynamically sited contemporary in the rugged but ritzy and seriously expensive Carmel Highlands …
It’s 2020 and we still have a data privacy problem
There are only a few $100 billion dollar industries out there — yet Facebook and Google sell personal data to advertisers for more than this …
Bay Area Quidditch players find magic on an earthly plane
Shirley Yu owes Quidditch – the high-flying magical sport beloved by Harry Potter and Hogwarts fans – for a boost in her sports photography ambitions …
A former California doctor is extradited from Israel after $50 million cosmetic surgery scam
By Madeline Holcombe | CNN A former Southern California doctor is back in the US from Israel to serve his sentence for a $50 million …
Vine’s successor Byte is here to take on TikTok
Remember Vine? It’s much-awaited successor, Byte, is finally here. The app, developed by one of the Vine’s co-founders, Dom Hofmann, who has been working on …
Berkeley group’s video shows suffering at Republican lawmaker’s pig farm
By DAVID PITT | The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — An animal welfare group gained access to an Iowa state lawmaker’s hog farm and …
Rapper YG arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of robbery
By STEFANIE DAZIO | The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Rapper YG was arrested Friday at his Los Angeles home on suspicion of robbery just …
George Kittle explains his first-down celebration, borrowed from Mexican wrestler
George Kittle says he wants to take the souls of the defenders he blocks. Such a metaphysical goal is bizarre in the game of football, …
21 Bay Area beer festivals and wine events in February and beyond
From winery crab feasts and the big SF Beer Week to a zinfandel celebration, science-inspired cocktails and Valentine-inspired wine-and-chocolate pairings, here’s what’s happening on the …
Son of ‘OC Housewife’ charged in shooting ordered back to county lockup
An Orange County Superior Court judge on Friday temporarily stopped Santa Ana City Jail officials from moving the son of a former “Real Housewives of …
Dundas follows up ‘Champion of the World’ with another thriller
By Bruce Desilva | Associated Press “The Blaze,” Chad Dundas’ second novel following his critically acclaimed “Champion of the World,” is both a cleverly plotted …