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A substitute teacher berated a Utah fifth grader after he said during a pre-Thanksgiving lesson that he was thankful he’s finally going to be adopted by his two dads, the parents said. The boy’s classmates said the teacher told him, “that’s nothing to be thankful for” and lectured the 30 kids in the class about her views on homosexuality. She...

Consumers may think they’re avoiding the crush this holiday season by shopping online, unaware that as they’re trying to get through the digital doors, so too are hordes of bots. And they’re throwing elbows, NBC News reports. Up to 97 percent of all online traffic to retailer login pages this holiday shopping week comes from bots, largely operated by organized...

Security forces shot dead 40 anti-government protesters in over 24 hours amid spiraling violence in the capital and Iraq’s south, security and medical officials said, one day after an Iranian consulate was torched. Iran condemned the burning of its consulate in the holy city of Najaf as violence continued into the night across southern Iraq, where security forces had killed...

President Donald Trump has signed a bill that makes certain acts of animal cruelty a federal felony, saying it’s important for the nation to combat “heinous and sadistic acts of cruelty.” The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act prohibits extreme acts of cruelty when they occur in interstate commerce or on federal property. The legislation expands on a 2010 law...

Criminal prosecution and convictions of polluters have fallen to quarter-century lows under the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, deepening three years of overall enforcement declines, according to Justice Department statistics. And while the administration says it’s focusing on quality over quantity in pollution cases, using its enforcement resources to go after the biggest and worst offenders, an Associated Press analysis...

Billionaire and former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg filed official paperwork to run for president in the 2020 Democratic primary. It is a key procedural move and not a declaration that he is indeed running. A spokesman for Bloomberg explained that filing in the state of Alabama started a 15-day process to file with the FEC. “This is not an...

As conservative pundit Ann Coulter was set to speak at UC Berkeley on Wednesday night for an event named “Adios America” protesters and counter-protesters gathered outside the venue.

Hundreds of current and former police officers in San Francisco have filed a lawsuit involving the Hunter’s Point Shipyard, saying they were exposed to unsafe levels of hazardous materials when they worked in a SFPD building located at the old shipyard.

No criminal charges were filed Monday in the deadly shooting at an Orinda Airbnb rental on Halloween night, and the investigation is ongoing, according to the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office.

Santa Clara County sheriff’s detectives Monday were trying to trace several stolen items back to their owners after arresting six people in connection with a series of vehicle break-ins in Cupertino.

Two people were found dead Monday morning in a vehicle that had crashed off of northbound U.S. Highway 101 in San Jose, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.

A 28-year-old man was charged Thursday for allegedly stabbing to death his father, a 55-year-old park craft specialist with the East Bay Regional Park District.

Controversy at what cost? That’s what some UC Berkeley students are wondering about Ann Coulter’s visit next week.

Five people were arrested Thursday in four Bay Area cities in connection with the deadly Halloween night shooting at an Orinda house party, according to the mayor of Orinda.

Ford Motor is expanding its iconic Mustang franchise to include the automaker’s first-ever, all-electric SUV: the Mustang Mach-E. The vehicle, which will make its global debut Sunday in Los Angeles, marks the first time the Mustang name and badge have been used on a vehicle other than the two-door pony car since it debuted in 1964. Ford, prior to announcing...

The San Jose Earthquakes have signed the second-youngest player in Major League Soccer history to a professional contract.

A U.S. national who is a member of the Islamic State group has been deported home, a Turkish official said Monday, as Ankara began repatriating captured foreign IS fighters. Turkish Interior Ministry spokesman Ismail Catakli told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency that a German and a Danish national would also be deported later on Monday while seven German nationals would be...

Three Sonoma State University students were arrested by campus police Oct. 29 on suspicion of burglarizing dorms at the university while it was closed between Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 during the Kincade Fire and PG&E power shutoff, a SSU spokesman Paul Gullixson said.

The attorney for the artist who created a pair of controversial sculptures on a bicycle and pedestrian bridge over Interstate Highway 80 in Berkeley said on Thursday that he’s in discussions with the city to delay its plans to remove them.

One person is dead and another was taken to a hospital after a head-on crash on Pleasanton Sunol Road in unincorporated Alameda County early Thursday morning, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.