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OAKLAND — Sick of struggling with homelessness under a system they say hasn’t helped them, two Oakland mothers took matters into their owns hands Monday — by taking control of vacant West Oakland house. In front of a crowd of supporters, community members and media, 34-year-old Dominique Walker and 41-year-old Sameerah Karim moved their belongings […]

By Lindsey Tanner | Associated Press Mailing free home HIV tests to high-risk men offers a potentially better strategy for detecting infections than usual care. That’s according to a U.S. government study that resulted in many more infections found — including among friends with whom recipients shared extra kits. The experiment recruited 2,600 men from […]

It looks like Elon Musk can be a good sport about his rivals when he wants. That was the sentiment Musk expressed about Ford’s new Mustang Mach-E, the first all-electric version of Ford’s legendary line of Mustang vehicles. Ford unveiled the new Mustang, which is also the first four-door vehicle to have the Mustang name […]

HP has, at least for now, put an end to the possibility that it will be acquired by Xerox. In a letter sent to Xerox Chief Executive John Visentin on Sunday, HP unanimously rejected Xerox’s unsolicited offer to acquire HP for $33.5 billion, $22 a share, saying that the proposal “significantly undervalues HP and is […]

SUNNYVALE — Every December, 57-year-old Ana Chaverri looks forward to setting up a big Christmas tree, decking out her apartment in lights and having her whole family over. But this year, she can’t do any of that because she won’t have a home. Chaverri and the other residents of her four-unit building in Sunnyvale recently […]

STANFORD — It felt like an Apple Store opening. Sunday marked the first day of operation for the new Stanford Hospital, a $2 billion, seven-story facility spilling over with the modern, clean, light-filled design ethos endemic to Silicon Valley, and the energy was palpable. Some workers lined the sides of the sky bridge connecting the […]

A recall. A lawsuit. A sudden political resignation. Near-daily blasting in the canyon. And now the closing of a local landmark. It is the autumn of Nederland’s discontent, where the Carousel of Happiness keeps spinning — even if the accumulating cares of the world have made it harder for some folks to crack a smile, […]

Disney threw its hat into streaming Tuesday with the debut of its Disney Plus service. It is hoping the $7-a-month service, years in the making, will attract millions of subscribers with its mix of Marvel and Star Wars movies and shows, classic animated films and new series. There’s a lot riding on the gamble, as […]

Google’s acquisition of wearable pioneer Fitbit may be a bold plunge into health and fitness technology. But it’s also just the latest step in the internet giant’s often-halting effort to become a force in consumer hardware. Once a pure software company known for its search engine, apps such as Gmail and its Android software for […]

WASHINGTON — In the 2017 fiscal year, FedEx owed more than $1.5 billion in taxes. The next year, it owed nothing. What changed was the Trump administration’s tax cut — for which the company had lobbied hard. The public face of its lobbying effort, which included a tax proposal of its own, was FedEx’s founder […]

Denver is a trendy place to be these days. Ask all the millennials. It could be argued that fellow-urban-district-going-by-an-abbreviated-nickname, RiNo, has taken the trendiness crown in recent years, but there are few areas of Denver as concerned with what’s cool as LoDo. After all, it was renewed interest in Lower Downtown’s old commercial buildings and […]

Q: I bought a new Kenmore 70819 Top-Freezer Refrigerator from Sears. At the time, a Sears representative told me that I can return the refrigerator within three months, no questions asked, for a full refund. Christopher Elliott The refrigerator was a little larger than I wanted, so I called Sears for a return. A week […]