• CA Attorney General Rob Bonta has reached a settlement with Google/Alphabet and iHeartMedia over what he says was a misleading 2019 ad campaign for the Google Pixel 4 phone using influencers. The suit, brought in conjunction with the FTC, called out Google's direction of iHeartMedia DJs and influencers to tout the virtues of a smartphone they'd never used, using scripts in which they claimed to have used them. Google is now going to pay a $9 million fine and iHeartMedia is agreeing to pay $400,000. [KRON4]
  • A cashier at an Antioch gas station, who was shot in the head in a botched robbery on Saturday, has died from his wounds, and the gunman remains at large. [Chronicle]
  • The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is offering up to $1,200 to owners of cars made before 1999 in a buy-back program aimed at improving local air quality. [KPIX]
  • The strike by UC academic workers is now in its third week. [KPIX]
  • San Jose Mayor-elect Matt Mahan wants to hold a special election to fill two vacant city council seats including his own, but that will be expensive. [Mercury News]
  • The trial of former FCI Dublin warden Ray J. Garcia, who's been charged with sexually abusing three female inmates, began today, and sexually explicit photos of the women used in evidence will be sealed to protect their dignity. [KTVU]
  • 15-year-old 16th Street dive bar Gestalt is up for sale. [Mission Local]
  • A Sunday afternoon fire at the Buchanan YMCA in Japantown has now shuttered the facility indefinitely. [Hoodline]
  • A protester waving a rainbow flag and wearing a t-shirt that said "Save Ukraine" on the front and "Respect For Iranian Women" on the back ran onto the pitch at the World Cup today during the Portugal vs. Uruguay match. [TMZ]
  • Russian antiwar activists, who have crossed the U.S. southern border seeking asylum after speaking out about the war in Ukraine, say they are being detained in prison-like immigrant detention centers rather than getting any sort of asylum. [New York Times]
  • New York-based food critic Adam Platt took a cross-country journey to experience the highest of high-end cannabis cuisine. [NY Mag]

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