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☆ San Francisco sues Oakland to stop it from changing the name of its airport
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Jeffrey Kopp | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

San Francisco CNN —San Francisco is suing its neighbor across the Bay over a plan to change the name of Oakland’s airport. “People do not know that Oakland is by the San Francisco Bay. San Francisco filed suit in federal court Thursday, requesting the court prohibit Oakland from using the name, alleging that Oakland plans to “intentionally and knowingly capitalize off of confusion.”The City of San Francisco owns a trademark on “San Francisco International Airport,” commonly referred to by its three-letter code, SFO. It does not need the same San Francisco as part of its airport to stand out,” she penned in a letter to the Port of Oakland. We will vigorously defend our right to claim our spot on the San Francisco Bay.

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The situation was so dire last year at one Walgreens store in San Francisco, employees resorted to padlocking frozen foods. The effort to undo some aspects of Prop 47 comes amid a broader check on some other liberal crime enforcement policies in America. Police data shows that larceny theft, which includes retail theft and car break-ins, is down 37% from this time last year. On Tuesday, San Francisco voters approved two ballot measures spearheaded by Breed. Last September, the state announced it would be sending $267 million to law enforcement agencies throughout the state to tackle organized retail theft.

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San Francisco CNN —President Joe Biden hopes to walk away from his closely watched summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday having put the US-China relationship on steadier footing after months of tension between the two superpowers. Biden administration officials have been working ever since to restore the channel, but those efforts were hampered by the tense episode involving a Chinese spy balloon that Biden ordered shot down earlier this year. And American officials have watched carefully as China scales up its military exercises in the water and air around the island. A political tight ropeAs Biden was preparing for Wednesday’s summit, Republicans questioned his decision to seek a meeting with Xi. The deal, which has been a priority for the Biden administration, would target companies that produce and export the source material to make the deadly synthetic opioid.

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☆ Inside the remarkably intricate planning for Biden’s meeting with Xi
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Mj Lee | Kevin Liptak | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

That included the timing and location of the summit, which is occurring amid a larger gathering of Pacific leaders in San Francisco. “China – normally, if they come to United States, they want everything. San Francisco and the Bay Area are home to one of the largest populations of Chinese or Chinese-Americans in the United States. One-fifth of the population of San Francisco has Chinese roots, according to US census data. “Chinese officials will want to project to their domestic audience that Xi is received by Biden with dignity and respect.

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☆ Biden preparing to discuss Israel and Ukraine wars with Xi – and make case to Beijing for containment
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Mj Lee | Kevin Liptak | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The global unrest ratchets up the stakes of Biden’s sit-down with Xi, their first face-to-face meeting in a year. As Biden confronts two presidency-defining conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, he is eager to improve ties with Beijing and prevent another crisis from exploding on his watch. Still, US officials believe there might be a limited role Beijing can play in the Ukraine war, notwithstanding China’s deep economic alliance with Russia. Since the earliest stages of the Ukraine war, Biden has sought to convince Xi to withhold support for his ally in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin. Like Iran, Russia shares China’s aims of reshaping what they see as an American-led world order hostile to their aims.

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☆ San Francisco Twitter complaint: City says flashing 'X' sign put up without a permit
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Jamiel Lynch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

San Francisco CNN —In a complaint, the city of San Francisco says they have visited Twitter headquarters twice since Friday regarding the new flashing “X” sign on top of the building. He tweeted video of the building with the new flashing “X” logo on Saturday saying, “Our HQ in San Francisco tonight.”“NOV issued for work without permit. I explained to all representatives that the NOV requires the structure to be remove with a building permit or legalize,” the complaint reads. An aerial view shows a newly constructed X sign on the roof of the headquarters of the social media platform previously known as Twitter, in San Francisco, on July 29, 2023. CNN has reached out to the City of San Francisco and X for comment.

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☆ Taste testing the space food of the future
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The competition led the Astra Gastronomy team at Nonfiction, a design and innovation firm based in San Francisco, to develop the Space Culinary Lab. Bringing that level of agency to astronauts is where designers like us start.”The Space Culinary Lab made it through the first phase of the Deep Space Food Challenge in October 2021. This rendering shows what the Space Culinary Lab might look like inside a spacecraft. Time for a taste testThe futuristic space food prepared using the culinary lab was available for a taste test at Nonfiction during CNN’s visit in March, including space coffee and algae mixed with different flavors. The fruit powders masked the algae flavor and made it taste more like a slightly sweet treat without added sugars.

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☆ A mother was raising her son in a city she loved. Then San Francisco changed and stole her boy
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Sara Sidner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

And her son got caught up in a scene you can almost not avoid in the city: the drug scene. “When I got out of the BART station, the first thing that I was asked is if I wanted to buy drugs,” Tilghman said. “All the tents started going up in the city,” Tilghman said. “What makes me sad is that I see my son’s face in everybody’s faces … out on the streets,” Tilghman said. The Tenderloin Linkage Center, which was later renamed to just the Tenderloin Center, closed last December.

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