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2 weeks ago | 
mercedsunstar.com | Jessica Flores |Anna Bauman
The Trump administration announced Friday that it is restoring legal status for international students in the United States, reversing the abrupt terminations of visas for more than 1,000 students, including dozens in California. The Justice Department first announced the reversal Friday in federal court on the East Coast after weeks of legal pressure from judges who have issued temporary restraining orders in several cases throughout the country.
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2 weeks ago | 
modbee.com | Jessica Flores |Anna Bauman
The Trump administration announced Friday that it is restoring legal status for international students in the United States, reversing the abrupt terminations of visas for more than 1,000 students, including dozens in California. The Justice Department first announced the reversal Friday in federal court on the East Coast after weeks of legal pressure from judges who have issued temporary restraining orders in several cases throughout the country.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
fresnobee.com | Jessica Flores |Ko Lyn Cheang
Immigrant rights advocates and their allies, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, were feverishly reviewing their strategy for the incoming Trump administration Friday in San Francisco, a week after federal immigration raids sent shockwaves through the Central Valley's farmworker community.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
modbee.com | Jessica Flores |Ko Lyn Cheang
Immigrant rights advocates and their allies, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, were feverishly reviewing their strategy for the incoming Trump administration Friday in San Francisco, a week after federal immigration raids sent shockwaves through the Central Valley's farmworker community.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
modbee.com | Jessica Flores
Post offices in the Bay Area are among the federal closures planned Thursday to observe the national day of mourning for former President Jimmy Carter, who died last month. President Joe Biden on Dec. 30 ordered "all executive departments and agencies of the federal government," except employees needed for "national security, defense or other public need," to be closed on Jan. 9 as a sign of respect for Carter. Federal workers will still receive pay for the day. Carter died Dec.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
mercedsunstar.com | Jessica Flores
Officials in Santa Cruz County on Monday launched a disaster fund for merchants devastated by the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf closure, a week after powerful swells bashed the structure and caused part of it to fall in the sea. The wharf, and the businesses lining it, have been closed ever since.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
fresnobee.com | Jessica Flores
A man was found dead in a recreational vehicle that burned in a fire Monday in West Oakland, fire officials said. Firefighters responded to a report of a fire at 3:18 a.m. at 34th and Wood streets, at one end of a "long row of encampments" that stretches down Wood Street along the Amtrak fence line to where it becomes Beach Street, said Oakland Fire Department spokesperson Michael Hunt. When crews arrived, they found the RV fully engulfed in flames, Hunt said.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
fresnobee.com | Jessica Flores
Two people were injured in a shooting late Sunday on Highway 24 in Orinda, according to the California Highway Patrol. The shooting was reported around 10:30 p.m. on the eastbound lanes of the highway, east of the Wilder Road exit in Orinda, CHP officials said Monday in a statement. Two occupants of a gray Chevrolet Camaro were taken to a hospital for minor injuries, the CHP said. Detectives were working to find a suspect and motive and vehicle involved in the shooting.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
modbee.com | Jessica Flores
The National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory for a large portion of the Bay Area, where residents in interior areas could see temperatures drop as low as 32 degrees on Tuesday morning. The frost advisory was issued for several inland East Bay areas (including Concord and Livermore), Sonoma and Napa county interior valleys, Santa Clara Valley, the eastern Santa Clara hills and the interior mountains in Monterey and San Benito counties, according to the weather service.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
fresnobee.com | Jessica Flores |Jessica Flores
Two trails at San Francisco's Twin Peaks overlook, one of the city's most popular outdoor attractions, have reopened after months of renovation work, according to city officials. The trail at Noe Peak and the switchback trail south of it reopened Nov. 27 following approximately six months of renovations, the city's Recreation and Parks Department said on social media.
