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![A member of the Laguna Honda Hospital’s staff walks down the hallway in San Francisco on Sunday, July 24, 2022. Four or more patients have died after being transferred out of the hospital, the Chronicle has learned.]()
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![San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s decision to flood Union Square with police in November so luxury retailers could be protected from retail theft cost taxpayers $2.4 million between Nov. 20 and Dec. 10.]()
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![WASHINGTON, DC| January 17, 2023 President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris honored the 2022 NBA champion Golden State Warriors in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. The Warriors have won four championships in eight years, but they did not visit the White House while Donald Trump was president. Biden took a moment to recognize Paul Pelosi in the audience who stood and saluted in acknowledgment.]()
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![Ryan Nelson, 17, does his hair before school at his home in Concord, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Ryan came out to his parents as transgender shortly before the pandemic closed schools for in-person learning in 2020. Ryan, like a large majority of LGBTQ youth, experienced mental health challenges that continued after schools reopened.]()
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![From left, Tiffany Carter, a member of SF Black Wallstreet, and Ata'ataoletaeao McNealy, also known as “Afatasi The Artist,” an established local artist, chat it up at a recent SF Black Wallstreet gathering. The organization was established in 2020 and is part of a coalition of Black-led groups lobbying the city to explore reparations.]()
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Oakland says it needs to clear huge Wood Street homeless camp — or lose money for affordable housing
![A dwelling at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. The city is rushing to clear the huge homeless camp to avoid losing affordable housing funds.]()
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![Laurie Steves (right) hugs her daughter Jessica DiDia, 35, who a homeless a drug addict, outside of her tent on Seventh Street in San Francisco.]()
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![California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks in Walnut Creek, Calif. Bonta announced that California cities and counties could receive more than $2 billion as part of a national settlement with drug distributors and manufacturers for their alleged role in the opioid epidemic.]()
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![This slim parking lot at 1010 Mission St. in San Francisco is the subject of the latest housing debate.]()
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![San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins speaks to the audience after she was sworn in during a ceremony at Herbst Pavilion by U. S. Senator Alex Padilla in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. A public defender representing Troy McAlister filed a motion Tuesday to recuse her from the high-profile case.]()
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![Two wings of the modern section of Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco on July 20, 2022.]()
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![San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen speaks during a rally urging the city to establish wellness hubs in place of the now shuttered Linkage Center outside City Hall in San Francisco, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022.]()
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![Rep. Barbara Lee appears at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 2021.]()
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![Rep. Adam Schiff, D-CA, attends a Hanukkah holiday reception in the Grand Foyer of the White House on Dec. 19, 2022. Schiff is a likely contender in the 2024 California Senate race.]()
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![A tied City Council race in Richmond was determined Monday after the city clerk pulled a candidate’s name out of a bag. This Nov. 9 file photo shows boxes of ballots waiting to be counted at the Department of Elections at San Francisco City Hall.]()
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![Two wings of the modern section of Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco on July 20, 2022.]()
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![San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen speaks during a rally urging the city to establish wellness hubs in place of the now shuttered Linkage Center outside City Hall in San Francisco, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022.]()
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![Rep. Barbara Lee appears at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 2021.]()
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![Rep. Adam Schiff, D-CA, attends a Hanukkah holiday reception in the Grand Foyer of the White House on Dec. 19, 2022. Schiff is a likely contender in the 2024 California Senate race.]()
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![A tied City Council race in Richmond was determined Monday after the city clerk pulled a candidate’s name out of a bag. This Nov. 9 file photo shows boxes of ballots waiting to be counted at the Department of Elections at San Francisco City Hall.]()
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![Police commissioner Cindy Elias in a commission meeting at SF City Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in San Francisco, Calif.]()
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![California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivers his budget proposal in Sacramento, Calif., on Jan. 10, 2023.]()
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![On Oct. 26, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors will discuss its next steps on a proposal from the Oakland A’s for a $12 billion plan waterfront ballpark and development at Howard Terminal in Oakland, Calif.]()
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![California Gov. Gavin Newsom leaves the stage after delivering his budget proposal in Sacramento, Calif., on Jan. 10, 2023.]()
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![California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivers his budget proposal in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. California faces a projected budget deficit of $22.5 billion for the coming fiscal year, Newsom announced Tuesday, just days into his second term. It’s a sharp turnaround from last year’s $98 billion surplus. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas)]()
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![San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins gives a press conference on her updated policies regarding arrests of fentanyl drug dealers in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022.]()
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![Oakland Mayor-elect Sheng Thao converses with Oakland Firefighters as they stand backstage at the Paramount Theatre for her Inauguration Ceremony on Monday, January 9, 2023, in Oakland, Calif. Thao becomes Oakland’s first Hmong mayor.]()
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![The logo of the Israeli NSO Group company is shown on a building where they had offices in Herzliya, Israel, on Aug. 25, 2016.]()
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![Tents line Leavenworth Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Jan. 4, 2023.]()
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![Supervisor Aaron Peskin is seen in the Legislative Chamber during election of the Office of the President of the Board of Supervisors, for which he is nominated, at City Hall on Monday, January 9, 2023.]()
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![People gathered to hear presentations and debate plans for the Fillmore Heritage Center’s future in 2019. The building of the complex in 2007 was an effort to stimulate commerce in a historically Black neighborhood, however this goal was never achieved.]()
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![San Franciscans can finally ride from Chinatown to Bayview on the T-Third Street rail route.]()
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![Democratic Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman, right, shown here in 2017 talking with Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia of Bell Gardens, has been appointed to lead the Senate’s influential health committee.]()
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![A man walks by tents used by unhoused residents at the site of a planned tiny cabin community at 1979 Mission Street in San Francsico, Calif., on Thursday, January 05, 2023., Calif. The former “Monster in the Mission retail space could serve as a temporary tiny cabin location until permanent housing is built.]()
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![San Francisco Board of Education member Kevine Boggess and board president Jenny Lam are seen during a school board meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday March 22, 2022. This is also the first meeting in 2 years that the public was allowed to attend.]()
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![California Gov. Gavin Newsom smiles after taking the oath of office on Jan. 6, 2023, outside the California Capitol in Sacramento.]()
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![Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), left, is sworn into office for another term as he stands with his family onstage during his Inauguration Day on Friday, January 6, 2023, in Sacramento, Calif.]()
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![A new book by UC Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky seeks to describe the major decisions of the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term “in a neutral manner, without evaluating them or editorializing.”]()
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![An analysis of Gov. Newsom’s election history finds growing populariy among Democrats, waning appeal among Republicans and lackluster results compared to other California Democrats.]()
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![Following a 2020 state law, California landlords can no longer refuse to rent to Section 8 tenants. The state has filed its first lawsuit against homeowners who allegedly evicted a tenant based on her status as a Section 8 recipient.]()
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![Nurse practitioner Surani Hayre-Kwan, right, speaks with patient Mary Valesano, center, and her caregiver Georgia Manolakos-Fraley, left, during a check-up at the Russian River Health Center in 2020.]()
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![From jangled nerves to lost sleep, the rising onslaught of noise in California is harming bodies and minds — and prompting legislation to deal with it.]()
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![WASHINGTON, DC| January 4, 2023 On the second day of the 118th Congress, but before being officially sworn in as a member of Congress, member-elect Kevin Mullin (D-CA) has voted six times (for Jeffries) for Speaker of the House, learned the route from his office to the House Chamber, and posed for a lot of family photos (with his wife Jessica Stanfill Mullin and their twin boys Landon and Liam, 4. On a recess Wednesday evening, Mullin and his family stopped by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) office during an open house for freshman members of the House. (Photo by Melissa Lyttle)]()
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Black Tesla employees just came a step closer to forcing changes to end discrimination at Fremont...
![A Tesla Model 3 is seen on the assembly line at the Tesla factory on July 18, 2018, in Fremont, Calif.]()
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For sixth straight year, California police stopped and searched far more Black drivers, report shows
![A California Highway Patrol officer stops a motorist along Interstate 405 on April 23, 2020, in Westminster, Calif. California police officers are far more likely to stop, search and use force against Black and Latino drivers, according to a state report.]()
