SF News Area Around Fairmont Hotel Closed to Cable Car and Vehicle Traffic Through Wednesday, Because Biden There will be some street closures and Muni interruptions on SF's Nob Hill through Wednesday due to a "VIP visit" which is obviously President Biden.
SF Politics President Biden Coming Back to SF and Bay Area This Week, Mostly For Fundraising Biden’s back in the Bay Area Tuesday, and is scheduled to swing into San Francisco on Wednesday, in what appears to largely be a fundraising swing with a smattering of technology policy thrown in.
SF News The Bidens Are In Tahoe, and Two F-16 Fighter Jets Just Had to Chase a Plane Out the Restricted Airspace There President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have been spending the week on vacation in Lake Tahoe, and this morning two fighter jets had to be deployed by NORAD to chase a private plane out of the temporarily restricted airspace around the lake.
SF Politics Saying the High Court 'Misinterpreted the Constitution,' Biden Pledges to Use Other Means to Provide Student Debt Relief California leaders were among those on Friday decrying the Supreme Court's ruling that does away with the Biden administration's intent to forgive portions of borrowers' student loan debts across the nation. But now, Biden says they will use the Higher Education Act to do something similar.
SF News Video: A Fighter Jet Had to 'Headbutt' a Single-Engine Plane Violating Protected SF Airspace During Biden Visit Hobbyist pilots around the Bay Area may not all have gotten the memo about President Biden's visit this week and the VIP Temporary Flight Restricted area around San Francisco. And one such pilot was paid a visit in the air on Tuesday by a fighter jet.
SF Politics Biden's In Town to Debate AI's Future With Tech Leaders; Meanwhile, AI Biden and AI Trump Are Debating on Twitch It's strange days, indeed! President Joe Biden is in San Francisco today, attending fundraisers for his re-election campaign and convening a forum with tech people to talk about the future of artificial intelligence. And meanwhile, someone has set up a video AI on Twitch with a chatbot Biden.
SF News President Biden Arriving In Bay Area Today For Multi-Day Visit Biden’s in the Bay Area starting this afternoon to tout a climate project and of course raise money for his reelection campaign, and oddly, Ron DeSantis will be here courting donors tonight too.
SF Politics Retired Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier Joins Local TV Station KGO As Political Analyst Longtime Bay Area House Rep. Jackie Speier, who just ended a 15-year stint in Congress, has revealed her next chapter, and it is going to keep her on local TV screens talking politics for the foreseeable future.
SF News President Biden Offers Condolences, Pledges Support For Half Moon Bay; First Victim Named President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden issued a statement early Tuesday expressing grief for the victims in the latest mass shooting in California — this one close to home for us on the San Francisco Peninsula. And we are beginning to learn the names of those who were killed.
SF News Video: President Biden Tours Storm-Ravaged Santa Cruz and Santa Clara Counties, Announces More Relief Funds President Joe Biden touched down in Santa Clara County just before noon, toured the wreckage in Watsonville, Santa Cruz, and Capitola, and announced more relief funds in a speech that’s already posted online.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Biden to Visit Capitola Pier and Santa Cruz President Biden is visiting the storm-damaged Santa Cruz area, an employee at Trick Dog is being hailed as a hero for saving two elderly people in last week's fire across the street from the bar, and two SF socialites gave money to George Santos.
Bay Area Sports Biden Took a Knee For Photo With Warriors; Curry Expresses Thanks for Britney Griner's Return As noted yesterday, the Golden State Warriors took a trip to D.C. to meet and get a photo op with President Joe Biden on Tuesday, to celebrate their 2022 NBA Championship win — something they did not opt to do for their 2017 and 2018 championship wins while Trump was in office.
SF News President Biden To Visit Storm-Battered Santa Cruz and Central Coast on Thursday As more Santa Cruz County roads and highways get pummeled by waves and reduced to rubble, President Biden will make a Thursday visit to the area to meet first responders, and likely announce more federal disaster relief.
SF Politics For the Umpteenth Time, Gavin Newsom Insists He Won't Run for President In 2024 Newsom seems to really want to tamp down the loud rumor that he's looking to replace Biden on the 2024 ticket.
SF Politics First Lady Jill Biden Coming to SF Thursday and Friday You may see a motorcade roaming about later this week, and that is because First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will in San Francisco for a couple of events.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's Own 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider Invited to White House for Transgender Day of Visibility Amy Schneider, the openly trans Oakland resident who made history earlier this year with her 40-game winning streak on Jeopardy!, made an appearance Thursday in the White House Press Briefing Room to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility.
SF Politics Trump Could Have Given Biden COVID At First Debate, Tested Positive Days Earlier According to New Account Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows details how Trump initially tested positive for COVID last fall days ahead of his first debate in Cleveland with Joe Biden, but went ahead with his schedule anyway.
SF Politics Biden Picks First Major Fight With California, Holds Back Billions In Transit Funding Over Pension Dispute President Biden worked for months to get his $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Now he’s holding back $12 billion of that money from California over an obscure public employee pension rule.
SF Politics CNN Reports on 'Exasperation and Dysfunction' Between Harris and Biden Teams; White House Responds Kamala Harris's first year as Vice President has apparently not gone particularly smoothly, says CNN — via what they say is intel from three dozen insider sources — and now the White House is trying to downplay the drama.
SF Politics Biden and Harris Are Headed to California to Campaign Against the Recall Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back to California this week to give a boost to the "No" campaign in the gubernatorial recall, and President Joe Biden is planning to do the same early next week.
SF Politics Breakthrough COVID-19 Cases Hit Pelosi’s Office, White House Staff A current total of two Washington staffers, one of Pelosi’s and one of Biden’s, have been infected with COVID after being fully vaccinated, but the President and Speaker themselves were reportedly not exposed.
Business & Tech Biden Backs Down Slightly From Saying Facebook Is 'Killing People' With Vaccine Misinformation President Joe Biden attempted to de-escalate a war of words he started last week with Facebook, walking back a statement he made about the platform "killing people" due to its failure to curb misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.
SF News San Jose Mayor at White House Today to Discuss Curbing Gun Violence San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and multiple other mayors from around the country are meeting President Biden at the White House for what's been described as a high-level strategy session on addressing the rise in gun violence nationwide.
SF News Biden Sends $37M In Wildfire Mitigation Funds to Sonoma, Promises Raises For Firefighters Sonoma County was one of the first in the country to apply for a grant under a new FEMA program dedicated to pre-disaster mitigation, and President Joe Biden announced today that they would be getting the aid immediately.
SF Politics Biden Tasks Special Commission With 'Studying' Potential Expansion of Supreme Court President Joseph Biden has put together a 36-member bipartisan commission, comprised mostly of academics, to "study" different potential changes to the Supreme Court including term limits and adding more justices.
