• City officials and the owners of Embarcadero Center are discussing a complete redo of Embarcadero Plaza and Sue Bierman Park, to make the area more inviting. That hideous, concrete-tubed Vallaincourt Fountain would get demolished along with the rest of the plaza, to create a five-acre, green park, twice the size of Union Square. [Chronicle]
• A deplorable dog owner left their pet dog inside a locked Jeep, with the windows up and sunroof slightly open, in 100-degree heat in a Costco parking lot in Livermore last week. Livermore Animal Services arrived to find the dog panting heavily, and they freed it by breaking the Jeep's window, and took the dog to a vet. [KRON4]
• A suspect was quickly arrested in a stabbing Wednesday morning on BART, which occurred on a train at Dublin/Pleasanton Station. [Bay Area News Group]
• Point Molate in Richmond, a bayshore park area that had been slated for a 1,260-unit housing development that faced a CEQA challenge, is now going to become a park, permanently, under an agreement with East Bay Regional Parks. [Chronicle]
• South San Francisco-based genetic testing company 23andme is expected to settle a class-action suit later this month relating to a 2023 data breach that impacted around 7 million customers. [SF Business Times]
• Biden is apparently preparing to announce his support for making major changes to the Supreme Court, like creating term limits for justices, and he reportedly supports a constitutional amendment — which would be a big lift — that would clarify the issue of presidential immunity. [Washington Post]
• New polling finds 70 percent of Americans don't believe Biden has the mental capacity to continue as president, including about half of Democrats, and only 37 percent of Democrats think he can win this election. [New York Times]
• And now Biden has COVID, testing positive today, a day after an event in Las Vegas. [CBS News]
• The Emmy nominations came out today, and The Bear Season 2 got a bunch. [ABC 7]

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