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CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Megan Fox, 39; Tori Spelling, 52; Janet Jackson, 59; Pierce Brosnan, 72. Happy Birthday: Follow through. Stop talking and start turning your ideas into a reality. Educate yourself in areas that can help you speed …

America’s dangerous maritime decline threatens our security as international competition for trade, commerce and military power in the Pacific grows. In 2024, the United States built only five merchant vessels. China built 1,400 and three times as many naval warships. China …

As Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a revised 2025-26 budget Wednesday, he blamed a “Trump slump” from President Donald Trump’s tariffs and other economic moves as the major factor in increasing the state’s deficit by another $12 billion. “California is under assault,” Newsom told reporters …

As former Oakland school board members with 51 years of combined service dating back to 1995, we can no longer remain silent. The current board majority, driven by political allegiances, is demonstrating a level of incompetence that we have not …

The Golden State Valkyries are set to play their very first WNBA regular season game against the Los Angeles Sparks Friday at the Chase Center in San Francisco. Tipoff is at 7 p.m. Pacific Time. They split their two preseason …

San Jose calls itself the “Capital of Silicon Valley” and was ranked by WalletHub this year as the second happiest city in the United States. But, like much of the Bay Area, California’s third-largest city also struggles with housing affordability, …

ANTIOCH — The Antioch Historical Society is working to bring new life to the historic First Congregational Church bell through a new fundraising campaign. The 700-pound bell was originally cast in bronze by the Meneely Bell Foundry of West Troy, …

RICHMOND — Strapped for cash, the West Contra Costa Unified School District is preparing to pursue the renewal of a parcel tax that officials say is needed to maintain existing programming. Measure T, first approved in 2004 by voters living …

A Mayan artifact is set to return to Mexico after being held by a Chicago family for nearly 40 years, the National Museum of Mexican Art announced Friday. The artifact is a limestone frieze that depicts a likely male figure …

When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ram, it wasn’t because she had committed a crime. Nor was there a warrant for her arrest. It was because she’d fallen so …

DEAR ABBY: My dear friend, “Sandra,” is married with two children. She and her husband have a 4-year-old son together and another son from her husband’s first marriage who is 14. The 14-year-old’s life is tough, much like Cinderella’s. Sandra …

I hope Donald Trump pushes forward on tariffs. Hear me out. He has already backtracked faster than a hiker who spies a rattlesnake. Trump spent the first weeks of his second term spitting out tariff rates in a twitchy staccato. …

Lisa Osborne-Siefert became a consumer advocate shortly after her worst day as a parent, in 2011. She had walked into her 2-year-old son’s room to wake him from his afternoon nap and found his little body pinned under a tipped-over …

A 41-year-old man is accused of fatally shooting a man outside a South Shore gas station early Wednesday, Chicago police said. Jonathan Robinson allegedly got into an argument with the still-unidentified 40-year-old man and shot him several times around 1:15 …

Dear Eric: My wife and I uprooted from our rural community and bought a home to be nearer our grown children who had both settled near the city. Soon after, our son and his family of four and a dog …