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The Supreme Court just issued a unanimous ruling, and the case behind it has everything: Twitter, Saudi dissidents, federal prosecutors, and a fake invoice. The decision came down June 11, 2026, in Abouammo v. United States, No. 25-5146. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for a 9-0 Court, reversing the Ninth Circuit and sending the case back. Legal reporter Katie Buehler summed up the ruling this way: The defendant is Ahmad Abouammo, a former Twitter employee accused of giving confidential information about Saudi dissidents to a high-level Saudi official. According to the Court, the Saudi official wired Abouammo $300,000. Later, after Abouammo...

"When you embrace somebody for the job, you really want to embrace a winner" Ouch. Willie Brown made Kamala, gave her positions, introduced her to donors and moved her through the political system. It probably helped that Kamala, unlikely presumably Gavin Newsom, was his ‘side piece’. Now with Kamala polling behind AOC in a hypothetical Dem presidential primary, Willie just dumped her. Politically at any rate.

Southern California-based Hasan Piker, the communist darling of left-wing livestreaming, resorted to gay insults Tuesday night after being upset his “friend” lost to a gay state senator. SNIP “You know what it is? I know what it is,” Piker responded. “F–ing car-reliant infrastructure. The more cars you have, the more chuddy the f-ing city is. That’s it. No public transit. No f–ing people living close to one another.” SNIP He then made a sudden switch from ranting on public transportation to the gay community in his critique of the West Coast city. “It’s just f–ing rich liberals who just want...

San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener dominated early returns in the bitter showdown to replace retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi in Congress, claiming victory in the primary contest. Wiener won 43.4% of votes in the first batch of returns posted Tuesday night — with Pelosi’s pick Connie Chan and lefty tech millionaire Saikat Chakrabarti trailing behind at 28.5% and 13.5%, respectively. “The people of San Francisco sent a very clear message … San Franciscans are ready for bold forward looking leadership, for real results,” Wiener said at an election night party near the Castro neighborhood. The top two vote getters will...

It was a ride a San Francisco couple will never forget and will never want to take again. Elliot Slade and his fiancée took a Waymo from San Mateo, hoping to reach their Mission District home. Instead, the Waymo sped through a construction zone, was chased by police, then veered off the highway into a residential neighborhood. "The Waymo started freaking out as we got closer to the merge cause the lanes were kind of all merging," Slade said. "One lane was gone, another lane was, who knows where it was. Cars were all over the place going in." Slade...

Nancy Pelosi has taken the gloves off in the increasingly vicious race to succeed her nearly 40-year reign representing San Francisco in Congress. The 86-year-old took aim at Democrat Saikat Chakrabarti, a tech millionaire and former Alexandria Ocasio Cortez staffer, saying she’d never even met him during a withering radio interview in which she also took shots at a local newspaper, the San Francisco Democratic Party and even the journalist interviewing her. Pelosi has endorsed Connie Chan, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. “I’ve never seen him at a homeless shelter, or a food bank, or an...

In the latest air travel news, the Trump administration’s new Department of Homeland Security chief says his department is working on plans to halt processing of inbound international travelers at major airports in sanctuary cities run by “radical-left Democrats”; SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network wins another major U.S. carrier as a customer for its in-flight Wi-Fi; United Airlines’ CEO says his company won’t be pursuing any mergers in the foreseeable future; another major carrier plans to start flying out of Sonoma County; Southwest Airlines plans to boost its California operations next week; low-cost Breeze Airways starts three transcontinental routes from Los...

Donald Trump has plenty of support from one of the NFL’s top teams.The San Francisco 49ers have the most registered Republican voters, a new study reveals. Albert Breer on Bills Weapons, AFC West Outlook, 49ers Roster San Francisco is one of the most liberal cities in the United States. In fact, the city has voted Democratic in every United States presidential election since 1960. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won San Francisco over Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson II, en route to an easy victory in the election. But in terms of players who are registered Republican voters? The San Francisco 49ers...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (FOX26) — A San Francisco Superior Court judge has paused enforcement of new state cardroom regulations, finding the California Department of Justice’s gambling regulators likely overstepped their authority and that the rules could cause significant harm to cardrooms and the communities that rely on them.San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Darwin issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday that stops Attorney General Rob Bonta’s cardroom regulations from taking effect while a legal challenge brought by the California Gaming Association moves forward.The court ruled that Bonta’s Bureau of Gambling Control exceeded its authority by adopting regulations that effectively act...

San Francisco’s top prosecutor says a new California Supreme Court bail ruling will free the career criminals her office spent years locking up. The state’s high court ruled unanimously April 30 that judges must set bail at amounts defendants can actually afford and may only deny bail outright for violent or sexual offenses, CalMatters reported. Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero wrote the 7-0 opinion in a case born from a homeless man’s arrest for buying a $7 cheeseburger with a found credit card. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told the New York Post (NYP) the ruling will undermine her office’s...

San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi has finally weighed in on potential heirs to her nearly 40-year reign in Congress — giving a nod to a left-wing pol who’s trailing badly in polls. The longtime San Francisco rep and former House speaker lavished praise on Connie Chan, a member of the Board of Supervisors representing west side neighborhoods — though she stopped short of making an official endorsement. “She’d be a great member of Congress,” Pelosi said in a rare interview Thursday, per the San Francisco Standard.The powerful Den said it’d be “very exciting” to send an Asian American congressional rep...

San Francisco's BART rail system is facing the possibility of sweeping station closures and potentially an even wider shutdown, as officials warn the cash-strapped transit agency is running out of money. The Bay Area network, which operates 50 stations across five counties, is confronting a projected budget deficit of roughly $376 million next fiscal year as ridership remains far below pre-pandemic levels and federal relief funding expires. The cash-strapped transit agency is hurtling toward a financial cliff as ridership remains far below pre-pandemic levels and emergency federal funding dries up. Under a proposed emergency service plan, BART could eliminate rail...

New data shows 18%, or nearly 1 in 5, of tested students and staff at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco were diagnosed with either latent or active tuberculosis during an outbreak that started in November. New testing is scheduled to start today. In total, 96% of the school community was tested, seven people were diagnosed with active cases during the course of the outbreak and 241 latent cases were reported, according to data released by the San Francisco Department of Public Health on April 27 to the school community. In February, four active cases and three suspected active...

The National Park Service revealed the coyote is from Angel IslandThe origins of a coyote that drew international headlines after it was spotted swimming ashore to San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island have been revealed. Initially thought to have made the mile-and-a-quarter journey from San Francisco, which faces the southern edge of Alcatraz, the animal turned out to have made a much longer 2-mile swim from Angel Island State Park, according to new DNA evidence collected by National Park Service ecologists. The coyote’s whereabouts still remain unknown. “We are surprised by the coyote’s origin,” Park Service wildlife ecologist Bill Merkle said in...

San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain caught fire as it was being disassembled on Wednesday morning, sending plumes of smoke into the sky as flames licked the sculpture’s 10-ton cantilevered arms. The news comes just a couple of weeks after the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department announced it was preparing to take apart the controversial landmark ahead of a $40 million renovation of the Embarcadero Plaza and Sue Bierman Park. “Today, during torch cutting activity, debris inside the tubes ignited,” Coma Te, director of communications for the San Francisco Arts Commission, which owns the fountain, told SFGATE in an email. “The...

ATV and dirt bike riders took over the Bay Bridge early Sunday evening, according to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Mark Andrews. The incident caused a traffic jam and lane closures on the bridge. As of Monday afternoon, a total of nine people have been arrested by the Oakland Police Department. Approximately 50 to 60 suspects were riding either an ATV or a dirt bike, Andrews said. They first made their way into San Francisco from Oakland. Once they arrived in San Francisco, Andrews said they spent around 45 minutes to an hour there. The number of ATV and...

Overshadowed by the rise of the Roman Empire, the Etruscan civilization -- and their exquisite art, progressive society, and advanced engineering -- was largely forgotten by history. This film reclaims their story, revealing how Etruscan innovations and customs were the foundation upon which the entire Roman world was built, and how their legacy continues today. The Etruscans, the ancient world's greatest untold story | 11:12 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | 36.1K subscribers | 58,106 views | May 1, 2026

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, chimed in on the Saturday shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He released a statement through his attorneys condemning political violence in the wake of the shooting, according to The Hill. Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, issued a statement this week decrying political violence in the wake of an assassination attempt on President Trump. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, is accused of trying to assassinate Trump and members of his Cabinet at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner Saturday. The plot...

A 20 story tower in San Francisco valued at $320 million dollars went up for auction There wasn’t a single bidder. Not even for $1 The property is now vacant, because no one wants to make the investment in Democrat run San Francisco High crime rates and homelessness are cited reasons for office buildings like this to not see purchasers Bidding for the property started at $80 million, but no offers. A massive decline in value WeWork used to be a major tenant occupying nearly 200,000 sq ft in this same building

San Francisco health authorities are raising urgent concerns after a powerful synthetic opioid was detected in the city for the first time, and is already being tied to a fatal overdose earlier this month. Officials with the San Francisco Department of Public Health say the drug, known as cychlorphine, surfaced in a counterfeit pill, prompting alarm over its extreme potency and unpredictable presence in the illicit drug market. “We believe it is more potent than fentanyl. It was found we believe in someone using a counterfeit pill,” Daniel Tsai, director San Francisco Department of Public Health told ABC7. Law enforcement...