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Michelin honors 19 Bay Area restaurants as ‘new discoveries’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 GMT

The dining world’s prestigious Michelin Guide on Wednesday named 19 Bay Area restaurants as “new discoveries” — a prelude to the release later this year of its California stars.The finds include Mexican heritage cooking and a plant-based cafe in Oakland, a San Mateo noodle specialist, an Ethiopian restaurant in San Jose, a barbecue pitmaster on the coast, the sister restaurant of San Jose’s Michelin-starred Adega and an innovative San Francisco seafood restaurant.Will the praise for these restaurants, which are listed as “new additions” on the guide’s website, be elevated to Michelin stars come this fall? Or become Bib Gourmand honors, the Michelin awards given to restaurants that offer “excellent food at reasonable prices” to diners? It’s a wait-and-see situation for these chefs.Here is the list of the additions, along with dining notes from the Michelin inspectors:Auro, Napa: “Soak up the bucolic splendor of Napa’s northern reaches in the Four Seasons resort, the ideal...

Tupac Shakur to be honored with a street name in Oakland

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 GMT

OAKLAND  — The late Tupac Shakur will have a stretch of an Oakland street renamed for him after a unanimous vote by the city council Tuesday.Rapper Tupac Shakur. On September 7, 1996. (Gary Reyes / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives) Shakur was born in Harlem and later lived in Baltimore, Maryland; and in Marin City, California, but credited Oakland as the location where he got his “game” and launched his career, according to legislation authorizing the commemorative street renaming.A stretch of MacArthur Boulevard by Lake Merritt where Shakur once lived will keep its existing name, but also receive the additional, honorary name of Tupac Shakur Way. Commemorative plaques and signs signaling the change will be paid for by the Tupac Shakur Foundation.Related ArticlesMusic | Reviews rip Johnny Depp’s big-screen comeback as ‘gone-to-seed’ French king Music | Harry and Meghan say they survived ‘near catastrophic car chase’ with paparazzi in N...

Holmes granted new prison date following rejection of bail request

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Attorneys for convicted Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes filed a motion Wednesday asking a federal judge to set May 30 as the date on which she will have to surrender to federal prison authorities. The court has officially accepted her request, according to court documents. The motion, which is not opposed by federal prosecutors, cites Holmes' need to "make preparations," including "medical and child-care arrangements in anticipation of beginning her 135-month sentence." ‘Death over candy cannot be the way’: Group urges SF DA to prosecute guard in Banko Brown killing Wednesday's filing followed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Tuesday rejecting Holmes' bid to stay out of prison while she appeals her conviction for wire fraud. In a one-page order, the 9th Circuit wrote that Holmes had not raised a "substantial question" regarding the conduct of her trial or shown that any trial errors were likely to result in reversal or a shorter prison sen...

Walgreens to pay San Francisco $230 million for its role in opioid epidemic

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 GMT

(KRON) -- Walgreens will pay the City of San Francisco a $230 million settlement after city officials brought a suit against the pharmaceutical company. The settlement is the largest award provided to a local jurisdiction from an opioid defendant since the onset of the opioid epidemic. Holmes granted new prison date The announcement was made on the steps of San Francisco City Hall Wednesday morning. Payments from Walgreens will come in stages over the next eight years, completing in 2030. The first $57 million will be paid by June of 2024, according to San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu. A federal court found that Walgreens "substantially contributed" to the opioid epidemic, and has heavily impacted San Francisco, Chiu said. "Extremely dangerous and addictive opioids were marketed to patients as safe. We now know that was a blatant lie." -- David Chiu This resulted in millions of Americans ultimately becoming dependent on opioids. Walgreens is one of the largest pharmaceutica...

San Jose day care has dangerous lead levels in water

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Recent reports ordered by the state reveal children at an East San Jose day care center are drinking lead-infected water. Kidango-Linda Vista Center is one of more than 14,000 licensed child care centers in California being ordered to test its drinking water for lead under Assembly Bill 2370. The law mandates that licensed child care facilities built before 2010 must test their water for lead levels. Tests revealed the child care center in the Alum Rock neighborhood has 120 times the amount of lead legally allowable at a licensed day care. Oakland police asking for public’s help in locating possible kidnap victim The Environmental Protection Agency has dictated that no amount of lead in water is safe for a child. The recommended quantity of lead in water is zero, but the EPA legally allows up to 15 parts per billion of water in public waterways. Licensed day cares are not permitted to have anything higher than five parts per billion (ppb), but data shows the Linda Vista Center...

How Progressives Won — and Lost — in Purple Pennsylvania

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Progressive candidates in Pittsburgh won two key races on Tuesday. Reform candidate and chief public defender Matt Dugan ousted a longtime tough-on-crime incumbent to win the primary for district attorney in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County. State Rep. Sara Innamorato won the Democratic primary for Allegheny County executive. Both will advance to general elections in November. Dugan is currently running unopposed, and Innamorato will face Republican candidate Joseph Rockey. The wins add to a recent body of progressive success in a crucial swing state where Republicans have made inroads in recent years. Since 2018, progressives have surged in Pennsylvania races from Congress to state legislature and local government, picking up key seats in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia along the way. Conventional politics in swing states have typically shunned progressives in favor of moderate candidates. Tuesday’s results are evidence that candidates who prioritize issues facing working peop...

Prince Harry and Meghan pursued in their car by photographers; incident stirred memories of Diana

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, were pursued in their car by photographers after a charity event in New York, an incident that the mayor and the couple’s office described Wednesday as potentially dangerous and stirred memories of the 1997 car crash that killed Harry’s mother, Princess Diana.With the help of police, the couple was eventually able to switch to a taxi cab and be whisked away, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter and did so on condition of anonymity.The cab driver, Sukhcharn Singh, instantly recognized his passengers when they scooted in. “They were following us the whole time,” he said of the paparazzi, though he said he wouldn’t call it a chase.The New York City police department confirmed the incident involving photographers and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex but said no injuries, collision or arrests took place after Meghan accepted an award from the Ms. Foundation.New York City Mayor Er...

Lanzan el Museo de la Mentira, un proyecto de verificación informativa en México

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 GMT

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO – El Museo de la Mentira, un proyecto virtual de verificación informativa en México, ilustra mediante inteligencia artificial (IA) la imagen mental de las noticias falsas que se crean los consumidores de este tipo de información.Coronavirus detectado por “bluetooth”, eutanasia en niños deprimidos, la decisión del director de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) de no vacunarse o la erupción de un volcán en Iztapalapa (en el este de la Ciudad de México) son algunas de las noticias falsas que Animal Político ha desmentido a través de “El Sabueso” -el espacio de “fact-check” de este medio mexicano- y que podrán ver ilustradas los visitantes de este museo.Animal Político, por su “vocación de servicio”, describió el director del medio, Daniel Moreno, desarrolló junto a Weber Shandwick (WS) y McCann México este museo virtual. Sentencian a más de 6 años de prisión a mexicana que mató al hombre que la ...

Fewer Venezuelan arrivals lead to drop in illegal entries to US after pandemic asylum limits

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 98% drop in Venezuelans arriving at the U.S. southern border has help lead to a steep decline in migrants crossing illegally from Mexico since pandemic-related asylum limits expired last week, U.S. officials said Wednesday.The Border Patrol has stopped migrants an average of 4,400 times a day since Friday, when a public-health rule known as Title 42 ended. The average includes the less than 4,000 migrants each of the last two days, said Blas Nuñez-Neto, assistant homeland security secretary for border and immigration policy. That’s down from a daily average of more than 10,000 in the four days leading to the end of Title 42.“We continue to see encouraging signs that the measures we have put in place are working,” Nuñez-Neto told reporters, adding on a cautious note, “It is still too soon to draw any firm conclusions here about where these trends will go in the coming days and weeks.”The Biden administration has been promoting a carrot-and-stick strategy that...

Philadelphia mayoral primary returned Democrats to familiar themes of crime, inequality

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Democrat Cherelle Parker turned back challenges from the left Tuesday to win Philadelphia’s mayoral primary, a contest that serves as the nation’s latest barometer of the mood of big cities in dealing with issues such as crime, poverty and inequality.Her primary win in the heavily Democratic city puts Parker on track to become the first woman elected mayor of Philadelphia. It is the latest local election to represent a clash between moderates and progressives on concerns such as policing and education and to show the power of union support in big city politics.In Chicago, progressive Democrat Brandon Johnson began serving as mayor this week, promising the city will “grow by rerouting the rivers of prosperity to the base of disinvestment.” In Los Angeles, new Democratic Mayor Karen Bass wants to spend more than $1 billion to get unhoused people into shelter and treatment programs.And in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Allegheny County’s top public defender, Matt Dugan, ran some 11 perce...