• Officials have announced that the 18-story San Francisco Federal Building near Mission and 7th will formally be renamed after Rep. Nancy Pelosi at a ceremony this Monday. [CBS]
• Former star quarterback Andrew Luck is returning to his alma mater Stanford to be their football team's general manager. [Mercury News]
• Conservative students and teachers have found success in seven cases since 2020 suing their community college, claiming that DEI initiatives have gone too far. [CalMatters]
• A self-professed "Oakdale Ninja" is currently facing life in prison, after being recently convicted of murdering his girlfriend with a three-foot-long samurai sword. [Chronicle]
• Key sponsors have pulled out of San Jose's annual Christmas in the Park festivities, leaving the event's organizers $100,000 short and hoping that the public will cover the shortfall with donations. [KRON]
• Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, recently hosted an event in downtown San Francisco that platformed 10 hopeful nonprofits pleading their case to an audience full of wealthy venture capitalists and philanthropists. [New York Times]

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