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A researcher who took refuge in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco after allegedly lying to investigators about her Chinese military service was arrested and will appear in court on Monday, according to a senior Justice Department official.

Tensions between the world’s two largest economies ratcheted up Friday as China ordered the U.S. consulate in Chengdu to close. The move comes after the U.S. ordered the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston this week.

China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades.

The FBI alleges that a researcher focusing on biology who lied about her connection to the Chinese military in order to receive a U.S. visa has avoided arrest by taking refuge in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco.

San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler made the decision to kneel during the national anthem during his team’s summer camp game against the Athletics.

Twitter says the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its most high-profile users targeted 130 people.

A San Francisco woman who went so far as to hire a plane to fly a banner as part of an effort to find her stolen dog has been reunited with her beloved pet following a months-long search.

Mack Watson had clearly seen a lot in his century of life. He’d witnesses changes in San Francisco’s Fillmore neighborhood where he’s known as Daddy Mac. But even with 99 birthdays under his belt, he hadn’t seen anything like the birthday reception he got on Friday when he hit 100 years.

Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco are teaming up to help form a pilot effort patterned after South Africa’s post-apartheid truth and reconciliation commission to confront racism in the criminal justice system

The BET Awards paid tribute to Willie Brown, the very much alive former mayor of San Francisco, during the show’s tribute Sunday night to notable African Americans who have died in the past year.

Video that has exploded and gone viral online shows an exchange between a San Francisco resident and a woman who appears to take issue with him writing “Black Lives Matter” in front of his home.

The CEO of a cosmetics company has issued an apology after a video was widely shared online showing her and her husband threatening to call police on a man because he stenciled “Black Lives Matter” in chalk on his San Francisco property

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian resigned from the San Francisco company’s board and is urging his colleagues to fill the seat with a black candidate.

Firefighters in San Francisco are battling a four-alarm fire at Pier 45 Saturday morning, the fire department tweeted.

A fit 43-year-old nurse from San Francisco didn’t think he was in danger from COVID-19 when he attended a music festival back in February. He was wrong.

Ride-hailing pioneer Uber plans to lay off 3,700 employees, according to a report from CNBC citing a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday.

Two women have been charged with stealing items from a Walgreens in San Francisco and escaping by coughing at employees and claiming to have the coronavirus

The plywood boards sealing-up many closed San Francisco businesses are to many, a painful reminder of what is at least temporarily gone. But a group of artists is now transforming those drab plywood storefronts into colorful art.

Just two days after Santa Clara County issued a ban on all mass gatherings over 1,000 people due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, San Francisco followed suit.

The captain of a cruise ship hit by the coronavirus told passengers it’s headed to the port of Oakland, California