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News Articles: San Francisco

Guests get cozy in a vintage machine at the Photo Booth Museum by Photomatica in San Francisco.

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  • Photography

Squeeze into a photo booth for a Valentine's Day smooch

In honor of Valentine's Day, we stop in at the new Photo Booth Museum in San Francisco to find out how people are using the booths to celebrate their love.

February 14, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
A view of <em>Moving Objects: Learning from Local and Global Communities</em> on show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

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  • Art & Design

A museum's confession: Why we have looted objects

An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
This renovated jeepney, built in 1946, tours people around the Filipino Cultural District in San Francisco.

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  • Arts & Life

Here's one of the only places you can ride in a Filipino jeepney

The popular, brightly painted minibuses are being phased out in the Philippines, but you can still tour San Francisco's Filipino Cultural District in one.

October 27, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
Republican primary challenger for Rep. Richard Pombo's seat, former Rep. Pete McCloskey, is shown at his law office in Redwood City, Calif., March 16, 2006. Former California Rep. McCloskey, who ran as a Republican challenging President Richard Nixon in 1972, died on May 8 at age 96.

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  • Politics

Pete McCloskey's life reminds us how politics long in the past live on in the present

McCloskey's story has both deep roots and burgeoning relevance. He died this month at 96 and had long been out of the limelight, but the issues he had been willing to champion are as salient as ever.

May 18, 2024
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By:
  • Ron Elving
David DePape is seen, Dec. 13, 2013, in Berkeley, Calif.

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  • Law

Federal prosecutors request 40-year sentence for man who attacked Pelosi's husband

Prosecutors are asking a judge to impose a 40-year prison sentence for the man who broke into ex-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband.

May 13, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
San Francisco Mayor London Breed (left) and Wu Minglu, secretary general of the China Wildlife Conservation Association, hold up an agreement to lease giant pandas for the San Francisco Zoological Society and Gardens during a signing ceremony in Beijing on Friday.

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  • Animals

The San Francisco Zoo will receive a pair of pandas from China

San Francisco is the latest U.S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing's famed "panda diplomacy."

April 20, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
David Johnson in 2023 with one of his photographs, "Clarence," at an award luncheon at UC Berkeley honoring the photographer.

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  • Obituaries

Photographer David Johnson, who chronicled San Francisco's Black culture, dies at 97

Johnson studied with Ansel Adams in the 1940s and became known as one of the foremost photographers of San Francisco's Black urban culture.

March 18, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
Cruise autonomous vehicles sit parked in a lot in June 2023 in San Francisco, Calif. The company's fleet of robotaxis have not been operating for the past few months, after the company's response to a crash in October raised concerns with regulators.

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  • Business

GM's driverless car company Cruise is under investigation by several agencies

Cruise hired a law firm to investigate the startup's interactions with regulators after a Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian on Oct. 2. Multiple government agencies are now examining the crash.

January 26, 2024
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  • Camila Domonoske
Cruise rolled out hundreds of its robotaxis in San Francisco this year.

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  • Business

Driverless car startup Cruise's no good, terrible year

After rapidly expanding its self-driving car program, things took a disastrous turn for Cruise when one of its robotaxis struck a pedestrian.

January 02, 2024
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By:
  • Dara Kerr
Batkid Miles Scott, center, received a key to the city from San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, left, on Nov. 15, 2013.

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  • Arts & Life

10 years ago, Batkid was battling bad guys and cancer — now he's 15 and healthy

On Nov. 15, 2013, Miles Scott, a 5-year-old with leukemia, won hearts around the world when he became a superhero for a day with help from the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

November 15, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Threatened by rising sea levels, San Francisco is considering drastic measures to save its historic shoreline. Above, the Ferry Building pictured in 2009.

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  • Climate

San Francisco considers lifting the Ferry Building by 7 feet to save it from the sea

The Ferry Building has been a beacon to incoming ferry riders since the late 1890s. Threatened by rising sea levels, the waterfront city is considering drastic measures to save its historic shoreline.

September 13, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
Back in March, four or five goats scrambled along the streets of San Francisco and became instantly famous as videos of their runabout were posted on social media. What became of the runaway ruminants?

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  • Animals

Whatever happened to the runaway goats of San Francisco?

Hmm, it's still a bit of a mystery. Here's what is known about the small herd of goats who went running through the streets in March.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Marc Silver
E-40, Lil B, Too $hort and Kamaiyah. Collage by Jackie Lay / NPR.

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  • Music Features

How the Bay Area became a rap incubator with a chip on its shoulder

Though the vibrant Bay Area rap community lit the fuse on many of the stars, styles and innovations that have blown up across the map, the region might still be best known for being underestimated.

August 09, 2023
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By:
  • Andrew Nosnitsky
D'Arcy Drollinger, the country's first drag laureate, poses with the Pride flag outside San Francisco City Hall on June 2, 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

Nation's first 'drag laureate' kicks off Pride in San Francisco

A nightclub owner, artist and newly elected government official is joining Pride festivities as other U.S. cities consider appointing drag laureates.

June 12, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
The Golden Gate Bridge is seen in an aerial view in San Francisco, Wednesday, April 9, 2008.

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  • National

Nine people have been wounded in a mass shooting in San Francisco's Mission District

Nine people were wounded in a mass shooting in San Francisco's Mission District on Friday night in what police said appeared to be a "targeted and isolated" incident.

June 11, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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