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By Farnoush Amiri | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to deliver on their stalled monthslong impeachment inquiry into the Biden family businesses.
Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to the Democratic president, inviting him to sit for a public hearing to “explain, under oath,” what involvement he had in the Biden family businesses. So far, the GOP-led inquiry has not produced hard evidence of wrongdoing while Biden was in public office ..read more
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First impressions matter, and for the 2024 San Francisco Giants, it was not a good first impression.
The Giants lost their season opener 6-4 to the Padres on Thursday despite Logan Webb’s strong start and a 3-2 lead in the seventh inning.
Still, it wasn’t all bad.
Let’s go over three positives and dwell on three negatives from the Giants’ Opening Day loss.
UP: Logan Webb was fantastic
» It wasn’t perfect, but it was the kind of performance we’ve come to expect from the Giants ace.
All those worries about his wickedly poor spring training were put to bed early as Webb was moving his sinker arou ..read more
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Before a federal judge sentenced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in a federal prison for stealing billions of dollars from his cryptocurrency exchange customers Thursday, it became clear that his loyal, steadfast parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, were living in a different reality.
As the Stanford law professors stared at the floor in front of them, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued a stinging rebuke of their beloved, first-born child, who was convicted in November in what has been described as “one of the largest financial frauds in history.”
The judge’s asse ..read more
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By Amy Cassidy | CNN
Dozens of worshippers died after a bus headed to an Easter conference plunged off a cliff in South Africa’s Limpopo province on Thursday.
The crash claimed the lives of 45 people and one is seriously injured, the country’s transport department said in a statement.
The sole survivor is an eight-year-old girl who has been airlifted to hospital, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reported.
According to the SABC, the passengers were pilgrims traveling from Gaborone – the capital city of neighboring country Botswana – to a church for an Easter conference.
The cra ..read more
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CalFresh meant to
help people in need
Re: “CalFresh setup causes a stink” (Page A1, March 20).
I found the article on CalFresh disturbing.
I was under the impression that programs like CalFresh were established to help those in real need: seniors on limited fixed incomes; people who, for reasons beyond their control, are in need of temporary assistance; people without family or other resources.
I do not see how a 24-year-old college graduate falls into any of these categories. She does not need assistance. She nee ..read more
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REDWOOD CITY — A former employee and former contractor for Caltrain have been charged with felonies after the transit agency uncovered a scheme in which they secretly spent taxpayer funds to build themselves small apartments inside two Peninsula train stations, according to authorities and court records.
Joseph Vincent Navarro, 66, formerly of the Bay Area and currently living in Newtown, Pennsylvania, and Seth Andrew Worden, a 61-year-old resident of the San Diego County city Oceanside, have been charged in San Mateo County Superior Court with misusing public funds in connection with the alle ..read more
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An Alameda County man pleaded guilty Thursday to selling millions of dollars in counterfeit parts for U.S. nuclear submarines, missiles and aircraft laser systems, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Steve H.S. Kim pleaded guilty to wire fraud and trafficking in counterfeit goods after federal prosecutors said he sold $3.5 million in counterfeit fan assemblies to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Logistics Agency, federal authorities announced Thursday. He faces up to 20 years in prison on one count and 10 years in prison on the other.
Kim, 63, had claimed the fan assembles he ..read more
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SAN FRANCISCO — A Concord man was convicted after he threw pipe bombs strapped to gasoline containers at police more than once during a high-speed chase from San Francisco to the East Bay last October, prosecutors said Thursday.
Daniel Garcia, 42, was found guilty by a jury of three counts of detonating an explosive device with intent to injure, four counts of possession of an explosive device and one count of evading an officer with willful disregard for people or property., according to San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins.
On Oct. 29, 2023, Garcia randomly attacked a man at St. Peter and Paul Ca ..read more
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Bills reflect failure
of PG&E, CPUC
If you are reading this in the Bay Area, then you were likely aghast at the size of your February PG&E bill.
In this moderate climate, our $600-plus bill belied how cold we kept the house. I asked friends in other much colder states how much they paid for electricity consumed in January, and our 46 cents per kilowatt hour delivered charge was the highest by a significant amount. It was four times higher than Rochester, Minn., three times higher than Aurora, Colo., and mo ..read more
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Seventeen months after a third-grader was hit and killed in a crosswalk on his way to school, parents, educators and a state lawmaker gathered at Castlemont Elementary School on Thursday to remember Jacob Villanueva whose death has become a catalyst to make school zones safer across California.
State Assembly member Marc Berman said 8-year-old Jacob’s death inspired the Menlo Park Democrat to introduce legislation that would lower speed limits in school zones from 25 to 20 mph or less.
“I want to take a moment to acknowledge that this is a deeply personal and painful subject for the Castlemont ..read more