Kim Buck watched as test ballots zipped through a high-powered scanner to tabulate dummy results at Contra Costa County’s voting headquarters in Martinez. The mandatory equipment test was Buck’s latest lesson as a student of the...
The Jordanian men’s national team will make its World Cup debut at Levi’s Stadium next month, but you may notice a few empty seats where its fans should be. Jordanians can’t easily travel to the United States, as the U.S. war with Iran has made...
California’s insurance crisis came for Scott Ethersmith’s home in the Sunset last August. The problem? The shape of his roof. His insurer, Lemonade, wrote that one of its guidelines “prevents us from insuring homes with flat roofs since...
A little-known candidate for California governor was campaigning on a street corner in Alameda this spring when a middleaged man spotted the candidate’s name on a sign, climbed out of his pickup truck and snatched the candidate’s microphone.
