- A flower vendor at a kiosk on Market Street downtown is back at work after being violently assaulted by a mentally ill man last week. She says she has four staples in the back of her head where the man "wailed" on her after saying he wanted to kill her. [KPIX]
- There was a 3.9M earthquake recorded early Tuesday at 3:19 am, centered in San Benito County 13 miles southwest of Soledad, which was felt across Monterey County. [Bay City News]
- Mayor Daniel Lurie has hired a new head of the Mayor’s Office of Innovation, Eufern Pan, who will replace Florence Simon in leading City Hall in leveraging technology and data to modernize city processes. [Chronicle]
- San Francisco is far from alone in failing to meet the state's aggressive mandate for new housing, with every jurisdiction currently behind in building housing save for five. [CalMatters]
- First it was sugar workers in Crockett, and now workers at the Cargill salt facility in Newark are on strike. [KTVU]
- Pioneering SF photography gallery SF Camerawork is closing its doors after 52 years, with its last day at Fort Mason Center on August 16. [Chronicle]
- The New York Times has uncovered a weird ruse in which President Trump pretended to fly on the old Air Force One out of Turkey as he left the NATO summit last month, only to be smuggled onto a military jet using a catering truck, because of a credible threat on Air Force One by Iran — leaving multiple White House officials and the entire press corps as his unwitting decoys. [New York Times]
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