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    Hamas video shows Bay Area-born hostage alive but with an amputated arm

    A video of Bay Area-born Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who has been held by Hamas as a hostage for more than six months, was released to the United States government on Monday, which in turn made contact with Goldberg-Polin’s family, according to CNN. Goldberg-Polin was abducted from the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, as reported previously by SFGATE. He was born in Berkeley before moving to Israel when he was in elementary school. He is a citizen of Israel and the United States, the Los...

  • Did John Cleese Just Cancel His Own Cancel Culture Show?

    Cleese couldn’t commit to combating censorship in comedy with so many other anti-woke projects on his schedule

  • Family Guy star reveals his mother tried to get the show cancelled: My parents ‘hate the show’

    Patrick Warburton said the money he earnt voicing Joe Swanson on the popular cartoon helped support his parents

  • Aboutaleb: fireworks smuggled into cup final in "intimate areas"

    Rotterdam’s mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb has said banishing flares from football matches is an almost impossible task because fans smuggled the explosives into the stadium in “intimate parts” of their body. The Dutch cup final on Sunday was twice suspended after fans of the two clubs, Feyenoord and NEC Nijmegen, set off fireworks and flares in Rotterdam’s De Kuip stadium. Referee Serdar Gözübüyük called the players off the pitch after 13 minutes after thick clouds of smoke billowed across the pitch

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    Bay Area now too expensive for annual dog surfing competition

    The annual dog surfing championship in Pacifica is in danger of being euthanized. Every year, people flock to the beaches of the San Mateo County city to watch canines catch waves for charity. But eight years after founding the event, its organizers worry that the competition might not happen, as costs for permits, fees and other requirements have increased more than 100% in the last three years. The group is asking for donations from the public to keep the event afloat. A GoFundMe page set up...

  • Multiple Earth Day events to be held across the Bay Area

    On Monday, the international community will celebrate the 54th anniversary of Earth Day with events across the globe. The first Earth Day took place April 22, 1970. A U.S. Senator from Wisconsin named Gaylord Nelson prompted a massive demonstration.. when he called for students to and communities to fight for the environment and oppose environmental degradation using the same energy and fervor that was shown during the Vietnam War demonstrations. An estimated 30 million people showed up and...

  • ‘The Kardashians’ Cancelled? Did Hulu End Reality Show After 5 Seasons?

    Did Hulu cancel The Kardashians or something? The streaming giant has lost a ton of Kardashian content and that’s made … ‘The Kardashians’ Cancelled? Did Hulu End Reality Show After 5 Seasons? was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

  • 38 arrested in connection with Gaza war protests in Bay Area

    Authorities used heavy equipment to free protesters who chained themselves to 55-gallon drums filled with cement.

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    Someone walked into a Bay Area sheriff's office with a skull. It's now been identified.

    In February 2001, someone walked into the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office in Santa Rosa holding a human skull. The person told deputies it was found on “Motorcycle Mountain” — a local nickname for a forested area off Duncan Road in Monte Rio, around 70 miles north of San Francisco. Sheriff’s deputies headed out to the woods, by the Russian River, but found no more remains. The skull had a gunshot wound to the forehead. Otherwise, it was in “good” condition, only missing a jawbone. Forensic...

  • Tesla laying off over 3,300 employees in CA with many in Bay Area

    More than 1,400 of the laid off Tesla employees work at the Fremont factory and several dozen work in Palo Alto.

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    Tesla lays off more than 3,300 California workers, mostly in Bay Area

    Tesla’s massive, companywide layoff round is set to slam California, with 3,332 workers across four cities losing their jobs in June. The Elon Musk-led automaker revealed the timing and scope of the layoffs in WARN filings with California on Monday; such documentation is required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act in the event of mass layoffs. Tesla’s cuts are hitting its Fremont locations hardest, with 2,267 layoffs across a dozen job sites. More than 1,400 of them are...

  • Express to close two Bay Area stores following bankruptcy filing

    Express, a modern casual clothing retailer once considered a staple in American malls, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company plans to close most of its stores, including two in the Bay Area. Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Ohio, Express announced Monday its intention to shut down 95 stores nationwide. The closures will include its outlets at Bay Street in Emeryville and Valley Fair Mall in Santa Clara. Sixteen Express stores are slated for closure across California....