Katia Nesper had to be on top of her pitching game Saturday as The King’s Academy aimed for its first Central Coast Section softball championship. As expected, there was no margin for error in the Division I final at West Valley College, not against a Gilroy team that had allowed just one run in two … Read more
By Stephen Smith and Jack Brook | Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century. On Saturday, a multifaith memorial service, including a jazz funeral — one of … Read more
By Arne Delfs | Bloomberg News German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Washington for his inaugural meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump next week, almost a month after starting his term leading Europe’s largest economy. The 69-year-old conservative, who became Germany’s chancellor on May 6, will meet the U.S. leader at the White House … Read more
Delta is included in a heat advisory issued by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 12:17 p.m. The advisory is in effect until 11 p.m. “Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures of 99 to 107 degrees. Moderate HeatRisk with areas of Major HeatRisk expected. Limited overnight relief with low temperatures in the 60s to low … Read more
By Skylar Woodhouse | Bloomberg News President Donald Trump returned to office promising to easily fix generationally intractable problems, from quickly brokering peace in Ukraine and the Middle East to overhauling the federal government and rewriting the global trade order. But this week showed just how far he is from solving any of them. Russian … Read more
Anyone who’s lived in San Jose within the past 50 years has probably had the experience of driving on Highway 87 or Almaden Expressway, looking up and wondering, “What’s that round building with a globe and a cross on top of it?” The smart-aleck — but correct — answer is the Church on the Hill. … Read more
China has two Long March missions tentatively scheduled in June. VCG/VCG via Getty Images After a packed spring season, the space industry is easing into summer with a relatively slow start. Only a handful of missions are confirmed for June, though the month could see more activity as tentative launch windows solidify. SpaceX remains the … Read more
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ NEW YORK (AP) — When Angelina Rivera was a third grader, she wanted to be a scientist and was excited by bugs, rocks and everything in the natural world. But a family trip to visit relatives in Honduras changed her perspective. Police stopped her family’s car and aggressively questioned her father about … Read more
HAYWARD — Dozens of cities and counties across the Bay Area landed on a list of so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions” published by the Trump administration this week. For at least one city, the move changes nothing. “Federal courts have ruled in favor of sanctuary cities — prohibiting the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use … Read more
By Renuka Rayasam, KFF Health News Brian Rigsby was lying with his right wrist shackled to a hospital bed in Montgomery, Alabama, when he learned he didn’t have long to live. It was September 2023, and Rigsby, 46, had been brought to Jackson Hospital from an Alabama state prison 10 days earlier after complaining of … Read more