Playgrounds pocked with toxic equipment would be replaced, rutted basketball courts would be resurfaced, and overgrown trails, worn swimming pools and funky public bathrooms would all be made functional under a plan...
One of the most emotional pieces of evidence in the domestic violence case against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, a video of his tearful wife that she fought strenuously to keep from public view, may now be used...
Stacey Lawson has never run for elective office before and has a spotty voting record for much of the past decade. But on Tuesday, the wealthy tech executive running for an open U.S. House seat on California's North...
A year ago it wasn't clear if Bay to Breakers footrace would make it much past its 100th anniversary year. Persistent partying had tarnished its reputation, and strict new rules designed to control the drunken...
A judge has declared San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White a deadbeat divorcee and ordered the city to start garnisheeing $3,300 a month from her paycheck for spousal support to her ex-husband. Hayes-White says...
The Oakland City Council unanimously expanded an aggressive blight program late Tuesday to include homes in the earliest stages of the foreclosure process. Banks would be required to register homes in a city blight...
Keywords: (05-16) 01:04 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Brian McNamee testified that Roger Clemens' lawyers pushed him from reluctant turncoat to angry accuser when they allowed details of McNamee's oldest son's illness to be revealed...
Keywords: (05-16) 05:00 PDT CANNES, France (AP) -- "The Dictator" knows how to make a scene. Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy character turned up at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday with two of his model bodyguards and a camel...
As our colleagues at the Fix , Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod and top Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom have had some notable debates in 140-character bursts. | The two senior aides publicly sparred over such high-level topics as what has in common with a TV show and a child’s toy and whether would eat his pet.
Opposition candidate Bidzina Ivanishvili has run into difficulties in the republic of Georgia, where the government has stripped him of his citizenship and questioned his allies about their political spending.
On MSNBC Wednesday, House Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (S.C.) accused House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and congressional Republicans of turning the raising of the country’s debt ceiling into “a made-up issue.”
Does JPMorgan Chase’s 2 billion loss show more regulation is needed? “Regardless, JPMorgan has already been punished for its mistakes — by the market. The company’s reputation has been damaged, and its share price has dropped roughly 10 percent since the news came out. Its executives, who are heavily compensated through stock options, have lost millions.
Top world leaders gathering in on Friday will confront renewed and a deepening quandary over how to bolster tepid economic growth in developed nations while controlling public debt.
A top strategist joins Obama’s super PAC, Mitt Romney endorses Connie Mack, Herman Cain endorses Mitt Romney, and Scott Walker’s job numbers cause contrversy. | Make sure to sign up to get “” in your e-mail inbox every day by 5 (ish) p.m!
GREENSBORO, N.C. — John Edwards’s defense team surprised a packed courtroom Wednesday by resting its case — after just three days — without calling Edwards or his former mistress to the stand, a decision that ensured that almost all the main characters in the 17-day drama remained offstage.
On a vote that fell largely along party lines, the House of Representatives has approved a GOP measure reauthorizing the expired Violence Against Women Act — the latest issue that was once the subject of broad bipartisan agreement in Washington to fall victim to election year politics.
This post has been updated. | Personally responding for the first time to Democratic attacks this week over his business record at Bain Capital, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday accused President Obama of being responsible for the elimination of more than 100,000 auto industry jobs.
In Nebraska, one Republican Senate candidate, Jon Bruning, savaged President Obama’s health-care plan and compared welfare recipients to . He established himself as conservative enough to lock down the backing of the .
Sarah Palin strikes again. | On Tuesday night, , chairwoman of the Nebraska state senate, beat GOP favorite Jon Bruning to win the Nebraska Republican U.S. Senate primary. Palin endorsed Fischer while former presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum supported Bruning.
The House is scheduled this week to take up a that would require the Pentagon to start work on a missile defense system to protect the East Coast from Iranian or North Korean long-range nuclear missiles.
SYDNEY — When Julia Gillard, Australia’s minister, arrives in Chicago for the NATO summit on Afghanistan this weekend, she’ll have left behind in Canberra a fragile coalition government and a federal budget under conservative fire for pushing “.”
The U.S. Senate formally rejected budget request Wednesday, along with a series of Republican alternatives, as Republicans forced votes on the competing budget plans to highlight Democrats’ failure to advance a formal budget resolution.
Efforts to create a sensible centrist alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties are weak because they misunderstand where true political insurgency comes from.
What can the president do to energize those groups who have supported him but are less enthusiastic, as well as those who were always skeptical of him?
Right-wing lauds Facebook co-founder’s decision to renounce U.S. citizenship: he’s ‘an American hero.’ () | Room for Debate asks: Can dual citizens be good Americans? () | “JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon’s admission last week that the bank blew $2 billion — maybe mor e — on a “terrible egregious” trading mistake isn’t just a warning that President Obama hasn’t fixed finance.