SF Politics VP Kamala Harris Being Put In Charge Of Thorny Migrant Situation President Biden announced Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris would be leading the administration's efforts to deal with the migration situation at the Mexican border — something which could end up being a politically awkward challenge for Harris.
SF Politics San Francisco Breathes Sigh of Relief and Gratitude as Biden Is Sworn In, Trump Departs With a Whimper The Bay Area was still quiet Wednesday morning after a couple of days of noisy wind, and as most of us woke up to the sight of a new Democratic leader taking office — without incident, and with a stirring rendition of the national anthem by Lady Gaga. Lots of you probably cried a little.
SF News Inauguration Day Headlines: Biden Takes Office Without @POTUS Followers Our long national Trump nightmare is over (for now), the @POTUS Twitter account is being transferred without any followers for the first time, and there was no Mega Millions winner so the jackpot rises to $970 million.
SF News Biden Taps UCSF Prof. David Kessler to Lead Vaccine Distribution Effort UCSF professor of pedriatics, epidemiology, and biostatistics, and former FDA head Dr. David Kessler will be President-elect Joe Biden's chief science officer of COVID response in charge of vaccine science.
SF Politics Biden Taps Buttigieg For Transportation Secretary Everybody figured 38-year-old former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg would get a job in a theoretical Biden administration, and of course he has.
Business & Tech Biden Press Secretary Lambasts Facebook Over Post-Election Misinformation Facebook continues taking it from all sides in this election year, with Democrats generally livid that President Trump continues to have a presence on the platform at all, and conservatives and Trumpists generally annoyed that Facebook has done what little it's done to curb the president's lies.
SF News Biden Names Three UCSF Docs to Pandemic Task Force The Biden Administration is beginning to take shape already, and the president-elect has said he wants to make tackling the COVID-19 pandemic his number-one priority.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Stocks Soar On Vaccine News, Biden Victory Lots of the Bay Area saw wind and even hail yesterday, Oakland saw three fatal shootings in less than 12 hours, and Bay Area Republicans admit that Trump's legal challenges to the election are likely empty and just for show.
SF News San Francisco Erupts in Celebration as Biden Wins Electoral College Vote In the minutes — not even a half-hour — after Biden was declared by news outlets as the winner of the 2020 presidential race, the streets across San Francisco exploded with a palpable sensation of liberation and deliverance from the past four years.
SF News Election Updates: Twitter Bans Bannon For Beheading Comments; Biden to Make Evening Speech Joe Biden pulled ahead in the Pennsylvania count today, and the final result of that count could potentially put him on the most immediate path to declaring victory. Biden's lead in Nevada also expanded on Friday.
Business & Tech Facebook Says It Is Restricting the Spread of an Inflammatory, Dubious Story About Hunter Biden Facebook claims it is restricting access to a New York Post story published Wednesday that suggests, via emails purportedly "obtained" by Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon, some new untoward business involving Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian oil company he sat on the board of, Burisma.
Business & Tech Will TikTok Youth Rock the Vote? Or Will Conservatives Game Facebook to Win Trump Another Four Years? Right-wingers have already won the fight to dominate Facebook engagement, but rival social media upstarts could blaze a new path, or go down in flames of election misinformation.
SF Politics Recalling Trump's Bizarre Behavior In 2016, Pelosi Says Biden Should Boycott Debates House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave some unprompted remarks during her weekly Thursday news conference suggesting that Joe Biden should skip all the scheduled debates with President Trump, saying that any event where Trump is included will be "an exercise in skulduggery."
SF Politics Former SF District Attorney Turned Senator Kamala Harris Picked As Biden's Running Mate Biden has announced Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, putting a Bay Area native daughter in the national spotlight once again. And she is the first Black woman ever to join a major-party ticket — in addition to being the first person of Indian descent to join such a ticket in our country.
SF Politics Biden Leads Trump By 39 Points In CA, As Trump Loses Support From His Base A new public opinion poll from UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) found that former Vice President Joe Biden's lead over President Trump in California has eclipsed Hillary Clinton's lead over Trump around this time four years ago by 9 percentage points.
SF Politics Local Experts Debate Whether We're In a Depression as Biden Preps FDR-Sized Recovery Programs Regardless of whether the current economic crisis is technically just a bad recession or if we are edging into depression territory is probably a matter of semantics.
SF Politics Biden Pops by Oakland Diner, Greeted by Protesters, Sex Toy Shop Owner Biden’s Super Tuesday swing through Oakland featured “Sully” Sullenberger, an encounter with a sex toy purveyor, and a few protesting Democratic Socialists.
SF News Super Tuesday Topline: Biden Swings Through Oakland Willie Brown says Biden should have done more campaigning in the Bay Area, cruise to Mexico breaks out in chaos after two people get the flu, and San Jose detectives dug up a Los Gatos parking lot for a cold case.
SF News ‘Biden Can’t Win Michigan’ Graffiti Goes Up On Highway 101 While Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren strategically wooed Bay Area voters this weekend, notably absent Joe Biden received some armchair analysis of his battleground state odds courtesy of a random graffiti artist.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Spike In Mosquitos Seen After Wet Winter Joe Biden has entered the 2020 race with a sweeping, oratorical video, Golden Gate Bridge anti-theft signs are deemed racist, and Scott Wiener's SB 50 cleared a committee.
SF News Calls For Justice, Words Of Support For Stanford Assault Victim Include Open Letters From NOW, Biden (And Witchcraft) As the national news media continues to unearth more details about the lenient sentencing of convicted Stanford rapist Brock Turner including evidence today that he lied about his earlier use of drugs and
SF News Would Joe Biden Pick San Francisco To Announce His Presidential Bid? So here's a rumor I'm going to float, and before I reveal the source, hear me out: Vice-President Joe Biden, who's all but expected to throw his hat in the ring for the
SF News North Korea Frees 85-Year-Old American (And Korean War Vet) Last night, North Korea deported the 85-year-old American tourist it had detained since October 28. Merrill Newman landed in Beijing and decided to take a direct flight to San Francisco (scheduled to arrive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Get Lit During Tonight's VP Debate Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will call upon their inner Hunter Pence tonight to summon some sort of motivation for the Vice Presidential debate. The tête-à-tête begins at 6 p.m. (PST). You
SF News Gaffe-Prone Vice President Cheers On the Wrong Giants in San Francisco Vice President Joe Biden, known for making delightfully dumb mistakes, was in town for a campaign event today, and — what do you know? He made a delightfully dumb mistake. In a speech today,
