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Trump Fires San Francisco’s Top Immigration Judge

McCleskey granted asylum to just more than 72% of the asylum seekers whose cases she heard, according to TRAC data. That figure is significantly higher

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Oakland Officials Are Preparing for Trump’s Possible National Guard Deployment

“He has targeted certain cities, he has talked about certain cities, including Oakland, and so we have to be prepared, and that’s what we’re doing,”

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Drought: ‘An Invitation’

The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team. In each segment, we feature a song from a

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Newsom Will Not Provide Stopgap Loan In Time to Prevent Cuts to Bay Area Transit, Lawmakers Say

“It’s essential that this loan happen,” Wiener and Arreguín wrote in the joint statement Saturday. “The state needs to step up and ensure we don’t

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San José Joins the Growing Call to Unmask ICE Agents

Legislators in California, New York and Pennsylvania and supervisors in Los Angeles County are among some of the electeds pushing similar policies sometimes referred to

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Voters Approved Tougher Penalties for Drug and Theft Crimes. Are They Working?

California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36 last year to increase criminal penalties for certain drug and theft offenses. But less than a year in, is

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Santa Clara Police Fatally Shoot Stabbing Suspect

Officers arrived and shot the suspect. The person was taken to a hospital and later pronounced deceased, police said in a press release on Wednesday.

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Former Acting Labor Secretary Calls Out Trump’s “War on Workers”

Former acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su is calling President Donald Trump’s actions on federal employees a “war on workers.” Those actions include mass firings of

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Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the Era of Climate Change

For the last 102 years, the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park has supplied millions of Bay Area residents with some of the cleanest

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Discos Resaca Collective & Mariposas Del Alma: ‘Cumbiafornia’

“It’s like, hey, we’re all representing these countries, but we’re here in the Bay Area and in Los Angeles and everywhere in between in California,”