It’s a new season in a new home for the Golden State Warriors, moving across the Bay to the 18,064-seat Chase Center — a venue whose designers say they wanted to build a better fan experience from the ground up.

All kinds walk through the security checkpoints at the Frederick County Courthouse on any given day, but few manage to turn heads like Giuseppe, Welton, Zeke and Zoey. “We’re just the handlers. They call us ‘the dopes on the ends of the ropes,'” said Francina Baldi with a smile as she led Giuseppe, a 3-year-old mini goldendoodle, toward the stairwell...

Pacific Gas & Electric on Wednesday urged a federal bankruptcy judge to approve a key insurance settlement as it struggles to regain its financial footing and cover at least $20 billion in losses stemming from catastrophic wildfires in California tied to its equipment.

The Golden State Warriors kept it close for the better part of three quarters Wednesday night, but the Charlotte Hormets pulled away down the stretch, handing the Dubs their fourth straight loss, 106-91.

The popular home-sharing website Airbnb is heading to federal court Thursday to wage a legal battle against its hometown of San Francisco. The preliminary injunction hearing is part of a lawsuit filed by Airbnb in June that aims to block a new San Francisco ordinance that would force home-sharing websites, like Airbnb, to remove illegal rentals that are not registered...

Another win for the city of San Francisco, as a judge on Monday cleared the way for a planned homeless navigation center along the Embarcadero to move forward.

In 18th and 19th Century India, male rulers wore sparkling jewelry to show off their wealth and power. Now, a collection of those jewels is in San Francisco, the first time they’ve been displayed on the West Coast.

During more than a century before India proclaimed its independence in 1947, large jewels including diamonds, rubies and emeralds were worn almost exclusively by men — specifically, the kings and princes known as Maharajas who ruled over some 350 states ranging from small villages to territories the size of France.

The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been released from a Baltimore hospital where she had been treated for a possible infection. The 86-year-old Ginsburg has returned to her home in Washington, D.C., and is “doing well,” court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Sunday. Ginsburg spent two nights at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She was taken there Friday...

A woman hired to oversee the books and finances at a major Washington, D.C. ballet school founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon is charged with defrauding the school, including by using its credit cards at MGM National Harbor casino.

A federal court in Boston has ruled that warrantless U.S. government searches of the phones and laptops of international travelers at airports and other U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. Tuesday’s ruling in U.S. District Court came in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of 11...

Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry “definitely” plans to return this season from his broken left hand and is hoping to be back on the court at “some point in early spring.”

A Virginia doctor allegedly performed hysterectomies and tied a patient’s fallopian tubes without consent, federal authorities said in court documents, NBC News reported. Javaid Perwaiz, 69, was arrested Friday and charged with health care fraud and making false statements to federal investigators, according to papers filed in the Eastern District of Virginia. In one case, Perwaiz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Chesapeake,...

A former bank teller is suing Wells Fargo and the man who managed a San Francisco branch where she worked, alleging that he took the then-20-year-old woman out for drinks, then drugged and raped her in 2018.

The new Golden State Warriors, in their shiny, new jewel of an arena, lost big to the Los Angeles Clippers Thursday night in their 2019-20 regular-season opener at Chase Center in San Francisco.

Stephen Curry broke his left hand and became the latest injured Warriors player when he fell hard in the third quarter of another embarrassing defeat by Golden State, 121-110 to the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night.

The federal judge overseeing PG&E’s probation for federal safety law violations on Monday ordered the bankrupt utility to explain how a previously inspected jumper cable on a transmission tower could have failed in high wind, apparently sparking the 78,000 acre Kincade wildfire.

Felicity Huffman is paying her dues following her 11-day prison sentence. Nine days after being released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif. for her involvement in the college admissions scandal, the “Desperate Housewives” alum has begun carving away at her community service hours.

Is stealing a presidential portrait a prison-worthy crime? Or a laudable act of civil disobedience? Courts around France are grappling with this question in response to an unusual new environmental movement that’s aiming to push French President Emmanuel Macron to do more to fight climate change. One by one, environmental activists around France have removed Macron’s official portraits from more...