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A San Francisco school board’s decision to spend $600,000 to paint over a George Washington mural depicting the founding father as a slave owner is causing a feud among Democrats, with some who say moves like this are the reason President Donald Trump could win re-election in 2020.

Rap powerhouse and fashion mogul Kanye West is reportedly masterminding the design of low-income housing units — reminiscent of Luke Skywalker’s home in Star Wars — part of an effort to address the homeless epidemic in cities like San Francisco.

The Trump administration has agreed to delay its new rule protecting healthcare workers from being bullied into participating in procedures that violate their faith beliefs as a result of the barrage of lawsuits against it.

A former Wells Fargo executive who defended the bank to the city council of Vallejo after the fake account scandal will hold a fundraiser for Sen. Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential bid.

A group of Google employees published an open letter on Wednesday calling on San Francisco’s Pride parade organizers to ban the technology giant from participating in the annual event and cancel its sponsorship agreement. 

San Francisco may be the first city to outlaw e-cigarettes, pending a Tuesday vote from the city’s board of supervisors.

George Washington High School in San Francisco, California, plans to remove an “offensive” mural of George Washington. At a school board meeting this week, no board members spoke in defense of the historical art, which one speaker claims causes “visual offense.”

Juul CEO Kevin Burns told the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board Thursday that the vaping company plans to stay in the city — along with its 1,200 employees — even as the city considers banning the sale of e-cigarettes.

A new study published by the University of California Berkeley has found that the San Francisco Bay Area is more racially segregated today than it was in 1970, at the peak of the civil rights era.

The city of San Francisco will consider a proposal to provide free mental health care and substance abuse treatment to all residents in a referendum in November.

San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Chief Bill Scott apologized Friday for a raid earlier this month on the home of a journalist who would not reveal his sources — and the local police union is calling for his resignation as a result.

San Francisco continues to struggle with homelessness, with a population count revealing last week that the local homeless population had risen by 17% since 2017 — though youth and veteran homelessness had dropped.

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted this week to outlaw facial recognition surveillance technology that they say could have been used by the city government to invade on the privacy of its citizens.

San Francisco authorities have cracked down on journalist Bryan Carmody for refusing to reveal the source or sources who leaked damaging information about the death of a popular public defender.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg is planning five fundraisers across Silicon Vally on Friday, in an effort to bring more tech donors to his campaign, according to Recode.

George Washington High School is considering removing two 83-year-old murals that depict moments in American history involving president George Washington and other found fathers, as well as black and Native Americans. According to reports, critics argue that two of the murals “traumatizes students.”

President Donald Trump criticized a San Francisco judge for blocking his policy to require migrants requesting asylum to remain in Mexico, rather than be released into the United States to await their court hearing.

An Ohio music shop owner placed a sign in front of his shop turning away supporters of President Trump, saying he felt “unclean and dirty” from doing business with them.

“As I predicted, 16 cities, led mostly by Open Border Democrats and the Radical Left, have filed a lawsuit in, of course, the 9th Circuit! California,” Trump wrote.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced this week that it is selling a $35 million painting by Mark Rothko in order to buy artwork by non-white artists.

The owner of a San Francisco-area eatery is apologizing for stating that he would ban customers sporting “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hats inside his restaurant.

San Francisco has more intravenous drug users than high school students, according to a San Francisco news outlet. “Injection drug users” outweigh high schoolers by more than 50 percent according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The owner of a San Francisco-area eatery announced Sunday that he would refuse service to any customers who walk into his restaurant wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat.

A pro-abortion employee kicked pro-life students out of an art gallery on Saturday in San Francisco, California, shouting “you are pro-death” before closing the door on them.

Tens of thousands of pro-life marchers packed the streets of downtown San Francisco on Saturday to partake in the 15th annual Walk for Life on the West Coast against abortion.

The City of San Francisco will decide whether to make an exception to its “sanctuary city” laws in one case, after the federal government refused to allow an accused rapist to be extradited from Canada to face trial unless local law enforcement cooperated to ensure he would not be released into the U.S.

Starbucks has moved into delivery, partnering with Uber Eats to deliver coffee across the United States and worldwide.

A man brought a dead raccoon into a San Francisco McDonald’s Sunday, leaving it on a table for all to see as blood dripped from the carcass, according to a video of the incident.

Crime in Los Angeles, California has fallen for the first time in five years — with a particularly noteworthy drop in homicides, which are on track to reach their lowest level in 50 years.

Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown has declined a request by San Francisco Mayor London Breed to grant clemency to her brother for a manslaughter conviction for which he was sentenced to 44 years in prison in 2000.

London Breed’s brother pushed a woman from a getaway car after an armed robbery in 2000, and the woman was subsequently hit by an oncoming vehicle driven by a drunk driver.

California State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has introduced a bill that would guarantee a “right to shelter” and provide housing for every homeless person in the state.

This is not the first time the Unforgiving Church of Woke called for a ban on the clever and romantic “Baby It’s Cold Outside.”

Vision shared to social media shows thousands of commuters sitting in gridlock traffic on Los Angeles’ 405 Freeway ahead of Thanksgiving Day.

President Donald Trump reacted to an order from a federal judge on Tuesday to halt enforcement of his order to deny asylum to the migrant caravan crossing into the United States illegally at the Southern border.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff celebrated the victory of the controversial “Proposition C” homelessness tax in San Francisco, which tore Silicon Valley leaders apart leading up to election day.