San Jose Sharks have nowhere to go but up after entering break with NHL’s worst record Sharks general manage Mike Grier listens to questions during a season ticket holder event at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) SAN JOSE – What we’ve learned unequivocally about the San Jose Sharks through the first four months of the season is that they’re not one player away from being a playoff contender. Related Articles San Jose Sharks | Bay Area has bright history of all-star game moments San Jose Sharks |…
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The victim, Joshua Hopkins, 22, was shot and killed in front of his 3-month-old son. OAKLAND — Police here have arrested a suspect in a 2023 homicide, where the 22-year-old victim was reportedly shot in front of his 3-month-old son. Last December, prosecutors charged 21-year-old Matthew John with murdering his acquaintance, 22-year-old Joshua Hopkins, on Feb. 22, 2023. But John was not arrested until Feb. 6, and is now being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without bail, records show. Hopkins was shot and killed on the 2200 block of Seminary Avenue, at a second-floor apartment there. He was…
Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but without capturing and measuring the night-flying creatures, proof has been elusive. Researchers say they now have a way to tell the endangered species apart from other bats by analyzing saliva the nocturnal mammals leave behind when sipping nectar from plants and residential hummingbird feeders. Bat Conservation International, a nonprofit group working to end the extinction of bat species worldwide, teamed up with residents from southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and west Texas for the saliva swabbing campaign. The samples of saliva left along potential migration routes were…
A group of investors led by Elon Musk says it is offering more than $97 billion to buy OpenAI, escalating a legal dispute with the artificial intelligence company that Musk helped found. Musk and his own AI startup, xAI, and a consortium of investment firms say they want to buy the ChatGPT maker and revert it back to its original charitable mission as a nonprofit research lab, according to Musk attorney Marc Toberoff. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly rejected the deal on Musk’s social platform X, saying “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you…
President Donald Trump on Monday will pardon Democratic former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to a person familiar with his plans. Trump commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence for political corruption charges during his first term. The Republican president planned to sign the pardon on Monday, according to the person, who was not authorized to discuss the pardon publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on charges that included seeking to sell an appointment to then-President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children’s hospital. Blagojevich, who appeared…
Over the weekend, some staff members at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau saw a sign of trouble to come. Windows in two basement conference rooms were covered with brown paper and blue painter’s tape, concealing their occupants. Voices could be heard inside discussing cuts to government agencies. When the door was cracked open, there were young people with temporary badges. It was fresh evidence that the agency, which was created to protect Americans from financial fraud, abuse and deceptive practices, was the newest target of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE. Now the Washington headquarters…
A dairy worker in Nevada was infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has been spreading in U.S. herds since last year, federal health officials said Monday. The illness was considered mild. The person’s main symptom was eye redness and irritation, similar to most bird flu cases associated with dairy cows. The person wasn’t hospitalized and has recovered, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The newer strain had been seen before in more than a dozen people exposed to poultry, but this is the first time an infection was traced…
The U.S. Agency for International Development has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid following the Trump administration’s foreign funding freeze and idling of staffers, a government watchdog warned Monday. The new administration’s rapid dismantling of the agency has left oversight of the humanitarian aid “largely nonoperational,” the agency’s inspector general’s office said. That includes a greatly reduced ability to ensure no aid falls into the hands of violent extremist groups or goes astray in conflict zones, the watchdog said. The Trump administration’s actions have “significantly impacted USAID’s capacity to disburse and safeguard its humanitarian…
President Donald Trump has fired the federal government’s top ethics official as well as the leader of the agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers — the latest moves by the Republican to push out officials in his quest to overhaul the government. Hampton Dellinger filed a lawsuit Monday claiming he was illegally removed as the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which is responsible for protecting the federal workforce from illegal personnel actions, such as retaliation for whistleblowing. Also on Monday, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics posted on its website that Trump had removed its director, David Huitema. Dellinger…
President Donald Trump and key members of his administration are lashing out at judges who have halted some of his second-term agenda.
President Donald Trump and key members of his administration are lashing out at judges who have halted some of his second-term agenda.
President Donald Trump and key members of his administration are lashing out at judges who have halted some of his second-term agenda.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered an immediate pause on gender-affirming care for all active duty service members in a memo to senior Pentagon and military leaders.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered an immediate pause on gender-affirming care for all active duty service members in a memo to senior Pentagon and military leaders.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered an immediate pause on gender-affirming care for all active duty service members in a memo to senior Pentagon and military leaders.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered an immediate pause on gender-affirming care for all active duty service members in a memo to senior Pentagon and military leaders.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered an immediate pause on gender-affirming care for all active duty service members in a memo to senior Pentagon and military leaders.
Two men were fatally drugged as their bank accounts were being drained. The killers lurked outside Manhattan clubs near closing time. Two men were fatally drugged as their bank accounts were being drained. The killers lurked outside Manhattan clubs near closing time. Two men were fatally drugged as their bank accounts were being drained. The killers lurked outside Manhattan clubs near closing time. A Manhattan jury on Monday convicted three men of murder in the drugging and robbing of patrons of gay bars and clubs, two of whom were killed as their bank accounts were being drained. One of those…
The artifacts, which included amulets and a sculpture, smelled like earth when they spilled out of his suitcases, according to court papers. The artifacts, which included amulets and a sculpture, smelled like earth when they spilled out of his suitcases, according to court papers. The artifacts, which included amulets and a sculpture, smelled like earth when they spilled out of his suitcases, according to court papers. A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty on Monday to smuggling hundreds of precious artifacts, including ancient Egyptian talismans, gold amulets and a sculpture with the carving of a king from the Ptolemaic dynasty. The man,…
BOSTON — Attorneys general from 22 states filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration for slashing funding for medical and public health research at universities nationwide. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston challenges the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health over efforts to reduce funding that goes to so-called indirect costs — including lab, faculty, infrastructure, and utility costs. The states argue that research into treating and curing human disease “will grind to a halt” and people would lose access to “modern gene editing, vaccines such as flu…