In a news conference outside the Hall of Justice, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, Mayor London Breed, City Attorney David Chiu and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins blasted U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar’s February order, which gained new significance this week after Miyamoto cited it as the reason his office would suspend its monitoring program. Breed called the ankle monitoring an “important reform tool” that allows defendants that would otherwise be jailed have a second chance in their community while...

Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever has proven to be a sensation in the WNBA, breaking countless records and bringing more eyes to women's basketball than any other athlete in the game. Clark blew fans and experts away this season, especially after she averaged 19.2 points, 8.4 assists, and 5.7 rebounds per game and led the Fever to their first 20-win season in nine years. Now, the former Iowa Hawkeye has been officially named the WNBA Rookie of the Year for the 2024 season after reports have...

Former first lady Melania Trump is drawing heat from pro-life advocates over an excerpt in her memoir where she suggests a woman's right to choose an abortion is a "fundamental right of individual liberty," according to a report Wednesday. Melania Trump wife of Republican presidential candidate and former President Trump, wrote the memoir entitled "Melania" that is scheduled to come out on Oct. 8, per the Amazon release date. In the book, according to a preview by The Guardian, Melania...

This could get hairy. A high-tech company is confident that extinct beasts as far back as the ice age — like the woolly mammoth — can be resurrected by 2028, all thanks to a bankroll by Hollywood A-listers like Paris Hilton and Chris Hemsworth. Start-up Colossal Biosciences, which bills itself as “the world’s first de-extinction company,” is developing a way to revive “core” genes from longtime extinct animals including the mammoth, the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger, The Independent reported....

The leading union for firefighters said Thursday it would not be endorsing anyone for president this year, even though the union backed Democrat Joe Biden for the White House in the 2020 election. The International Association of Fire Fighters’ executive board voted narrowly against making an endorsement, by a margin of just 1.2%, according to Edward Kelly, the union’s president.

Oct 3 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have charged ten individuals in connection with the unlawful sale of nearly 70 million opioid pills in what the Justice Department called the largest-ever criminal enforcement action targeting distributors of opioids and commonly abused prescription drugs, with a black-market value of $1.3 billion. The charged individuals are associated with the pharmaceutical industry, including sales representatives and brokers, the U.S. Justice Department said in a...

U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down Tuesday when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. Workers began walking picket lines early Tuesday, picketing near ports all along the East Coast. Workers outside the Port of Philadelphia walked in a circle and chanted, “No work without a fair contract.”

The ongoing union dockworkers' strike has left several U.S. ports on the East and Gulf coasts at a standstill for days, halting trade at the hubs that collectively handle about half of U.S. imports.