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Trump's media machine-gun: How Karoline Leavitt is rewriting the White House rules

The new front line of American politics is young, female, and digital-first - and it is led by the youngest press secretary in the history of the White House.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt walks outside of the White House in Washington, DC, US, July 21, 2025
San Francisco city supervisor Scott Wiener comments on a pilot program to permit private commuter buses to use public bus stops in San Francisco, California, January 21, 2014

After debate backlash, California Democrat Scott Wiener says Israel carried out 'genocide' in Gaza

Cast member Jon Hamm attends a premiere for the television series Your Friends and Neighbors in Los Angeles, California, US, April 4, 2025.

Jon Hamm to host NFL Honors ceremony ahead of Super Bowl LX

An illustration of a woman checking a fuse box by candlelight during a power cut.

Power restored for about 110,000 customers after major outage hits San Francisco


Queen Elizabeth was almost assassinated in 1983 US visit, FBI reveals

An IRA member said he wanted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II while her yacht was sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge or at Yosemite.

 Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip stand with President and Mrs. Reagan at a state dinner during her 1983 visit to the US.

New Jewish chaplaincy program to start in San Francisco

The NorCal Board of Rabbis is looking to hire a Rabbi-Chaplain to direct the initiative, which will provide acute bedside pastoral care to unaffiliated Jewish patients in hospitals in San Francisco.

The San Francisco City Hall is seen lit up in blue and white.

Cash App founder Bob Lee stabbed to death in San Francisco, says father

The San Francisco Police Department said late on Tuesday that a 43-year-old man was stabbed early in the day and succumbed to injuries in the hospital.

The logo of Cash App is seen at the main hall during the Bitcoin Conference 2022 in Miami Beach, Florida, US April 6, 2022.

Researchers use tweets to analyze where people are angriest

Through the development and use of neural networks, researchers detected how emotions expressed in tweets were influenced by various factors.

Twitter app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022.

On This Day in 1900: Bubonic plague infects San Francisco

This was the first case of the plague in the continental US, and it hasn't left since. This event was defined by government denials of a pandemic, racism and discrediting medical officials.

A plague doctor and his typical apparel during the 17th Century Outbreak.

FBI investigates shooting inside San Francisco Russian Jewish center

It was not until word of the incident began circulating in the community that authorities became involved.

 FBI agents work outside the home of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi where her husband Paul Pelosi was violently assaulted after a break-in at their house, according to a statement from her office, in San Francisco, California, US, October 28, 2022.

Footage from attack on Paul Pelosi released by authorities

The surveillance footage showed the alleged attacker smashing through a glass window to get into the couple's San Francisco home.

 A screenshot from a police body camera video shows David DePape holding onto Paul Pelosi, the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in the couple’s house on October 28, 2022, in San Francisco

Five Chinese citizens killed in California shooting - consulate

The Half Moon Bay shooting on Monday, in which seven people died, was the second of two gun rampages in California in recent days in which a total of 18 people were killed.

 A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office vehicle is seen near where victims were found dead in a shooting in Half Moon Bay, California, U.S. on January 23, 2023.

In ‘Mapping Jewish San Francisco,’ a treasure trove of Bay Area Jewish history goes on display

Bay area Jews have a hidden cultural history to explore.

 The first part of a brochure advertising the House of Love and Prayer, 1968.

'It's just so tragic how it happened,' Pelosi says in first comments since attack on her husband

Nancy Pelosi made her first public comments since the attack on her husband in their San Fransisco home.

 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacts to the overturning of Roe v Wade during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, June 24, 2022.