Business & Tech Jill Biden Arriving In San Francisco, Speaking Tuesday During JP Morgan Conference The infamously high-priced JP Morgan Healthcare Conference is underway at the Hyatt Regency, and expect motorcades and heavy security on Tuesday, as First Lady Jill Biden will be popping in to give a speech.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Regrets There Was No Open Primary, Points Finger at Biden For Not Stepping Aside Earlier The blame game among Democrats had already begun Tuesday night as election returns began signaling a return to power for the outraged orange egotist. And House Speaker Emerita has already given an interview to the New York Times revealing her feelings.
SF News Biden Announces $322 Million Package for Port of Oakland to Bolster Zero-Emissions Infrastructure The Biden Administration just announced a $3 billion package to make US ports more climate-friendly, and $322 million of that is going to the Port of Oakland to buy clean-energy, electric- and hydrogen-powered cargo handling systems.
SF Politics President Biden to Host Global AI Safety Summit In San Francisco In November In late November, when, god willing, we will have a new president-elect whose name is not Trump, President Joe Biden will be gathering AI experts together in San Francisco for a global AI safety summit.
SF Politics It's Happened: Joe Biden Drops Out of 2024 Race After weeks of stalling and denials, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race in a letter posted to his personal Xitter account.
SF Politics Pelosi, the Biden Whisperer? Former Speaker Reportedly Tells Biden He Won't Win House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi may be playing one of the most consequential roles of her career this week, that of tough-love confidant to the president at a pivotal moment in the 2024 race.
SF Politics Now Adam Schiff Is Calling For Biden to Drop Out Representative Adam Schiff, who is running for one of California's Senate seats in November, is joining the small but growing chorus of Democrats calling on Biden to step out of the race.
SF Politics Newsom Heads to Washington For Governors' Meeting With Biden Amid widespread talk of Governor Gavin Newsom being a potential replacement candidate should President Biden decide not to run again in November, Newsom and a group of Democratic governors are headed to D.C. for a Wednesday evening sit-down with the President.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Joins Chorus of Democrats Expressing Cautious Concern About Biden's Candidacy For the past few days, a number of prominent Democrats in Congress have been saying out loud the things that Americans have been saying to each other and to pollsters very openly for two years: Biden's age might be a problem!
SF Politics After Biden’s Debate Train Wreck, Both Newsom and Harris Insist They’re Not Replacing Him With President Joe Biden giving probably the worst debate performance in modern history Thursday night, the two leading “Break glass in case of emergency” candidates, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom, are both holding firm that they won't step into his spot.
SF Politics Vallejo’s Own E-40 Is Doing a Post-Presidential Debate Rally With Joe Biden While Fat Joe may be the headliner of the event, Vallejo native E-40 is also on the card for a Friday rally for Joe Biden in swing state North Carolina after Thursday night’s highly anticipated presidential debate.
SF Politics President Biden Returns to Bay Area Thursday for (Of Course) Fundraisers President Joe Biden has a two-day stint in San Francisco and Silicon Valley this week, attending fundraisers reportedly being hosted by Marissa Mayer and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla.
SF News Nancy Pelosi Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom Alongside Al Gore, Michelle Yeoh House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is receiving the highest civilian honor from President Biden at the White House Friday afternoon, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
SF News Biden Taking Another Crack at This Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Thing After his original plan to forgive $400 billion in student loan debt was shot down by the Supreme Court, President Biden is embarking on a renewed effort that would wipe out substantial amounts of student debt for 23 million Americans, and cancel that debt outright for some.
SF News Biden Meets With Widow and Daughter of Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny In San Francisco President Joe Biden, still in town after several days of big-money fundraising with California's wealthiest Democrats, met with the widow and daughter of Alexei Navalny in San Francisco, and posted a photo of the meeting.
Business & Tech Meta Oversight Board Rules Altered Biden Video Can Stay on Facebook, But Urges New Rules After the QAnon crowd widely shared an altered video clip of President Joe Biden last year, the Meta Oversight Board just ruled the video can remain on Facebook. But the board is also recommending a massive policy overhaul on manipulated content.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Biden Says Very Nice Things About San Francisco at Big APEC Speech PG&E got the green light to raise your bill by 13%; SF’s historic Haas-Lilienthal House just laid off all their staff; and President Biden talked up San Francisco flatteringly in his Thursday morning APEC CEO Summit address.
SF News Biden Called Newsom a 'Helluva Governor' at Exploratorium Event; Gwen Stefani Performed, and There Were Fireworks That VIP event for APEC week hosted by President Joe Biden happened at the Exploratorium on Wednesday evening, and you might have seen or heard the fireworks going off as it was winding down.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Traffic and Protests Continue as Biden and Xi Attend Dinners In SF Demonstrators laid out hundreds of children's shoes to symbolize child deaths in Gaza outside the Ferry Building; Presidents Biden and Xi reach an agreement on fentanyl; and both presidents headed to San Francisco for dinner events.
SF News Biden and Chinese President Xi Both In SF for APEC, Will Meet at Mansion From 80s TV Show ‘Dynasty’ It’s getting real for high-stakes APEC summit talks, as President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping both touched down in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon, and they’ll meet Wednesday at the Woodside mansion Filoli, which served as a setting on the old prime-time soap opera ‘Dynasty.’
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gwen Stefani Maybe to Perform at Biden's Exploratorium VIP Party for APEC It's rumored that Gwen Stefani will be performing at Biden's VIP event during APEC on Wednesday night; a barricaded suspect was causing a significant police response in the Western Addition Monday afternoon; and firefighters in Oakland were battling small blazes along Highway 13.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Throwing Big-Bucks SF Fundraising Event for Biden During APEC Don’t expect to be invited unless you’ve got ten grand laying around to spend, but Gavin Newsom is throwing a fundraising “super event” in SF for the Biden-Harris reelection campaign at some point during the APEC summit.
SF News Biden Will Indeed Meet In SF With Chinese President Xi Jinping at APEC, According to White House The biggest lingering international question about San Francisco’s upcoming, high-profile APEC summit was whether President Biden would meet face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the White House just announced Tuesday that “It’s happening.”
Business & Tech Biden Administration Issues Executive Order on AI Safety Requiring Testing of New Tools As has been expected for months, the Biden Administration on Monday issued an executive order laying out standards and basic regulations for safety and security around artificial intelligence.
SF News President Joe Biden Suggests He Might Meet With Xi Jinping In San Francisco During APEC President Joe Biden left open the possibility Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping may have a sideline meeting of some sort in November while both are in San Francisco for APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders's Summit.
