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Carole Vernier had a smoky voice, a throaty laugh and an extra-dry wit, a combination that made her the perfect backstop for Herb Caen. Ms. Vernier, who served as The Chronicle columnist’s assistant until his death in 1997, was found deceased in her Bush Street apartment in San Francisco this week. The cause of death was heart failure complicated by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to her sister, Darryl Cole. During two stints — 1971 to 1979 and 1989 to 1997 — Ms. Vernier sat outside Caen’s office... Читать дальше...

Expect a bold move out of Toronto during or after All-Star weekend. Carpe Diem.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A blowout at a natural gas well that leaked uncontrollably for 16 weeks and drove thousands of residents from their Los Angeles homes was plugged Thursday, a utility said.

If the plug holds and all goes according to plan to seal the well, the upscale Porter Ranch community in the San Fernando Valley could begin to return to normalcy after schools were closed and 6,400 families were uprooted as they complained of headaches, nausea, nosebleeds and other symptoms as an intermittent stench wafted through the area. Public health officials blamed their woes on an odorant added to gas so it can be detected and have said they don't expect long-term health impacts. At its peak... Читать дальше...

Patriarchal press service head Alexander Volkov that the meeting of Russian Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis in Havana, Cuba, will focus on a range of issues, including persecution of Christians in the Middle East, falling birth rates as well as euthanasia.

The United States, Russia and other powers have reached agreement on a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria's civil war that allows for immediate humanitarian access to besieged areas, Secretary of State John F. Kerry announced here early Friday morning.

TOKYO - A financial data monitor in Tokyo shows the Nikkei Stock Average falling below 15,000 for the first ...

About half a year ago, Bernie Sanders's campaign was off to a rough start with racial justice activists — Black Lives Matter protesters were interrupting his rallies, demanding that he speak out about criminal justice issues, and characterizing the supposedly progressive candidate as weak on an increasingly important issue in the Democratic coalition.

As expected, Taylor Swift's squad is closing ranks. Kanye West premiered his seventh studio album, The Life of Pablo, today at Madison Square Garden during his Yeezy Season 3...

Facebook founder Marc Zuckerberg distanced himself on Thursday from director Marc Andreessen's controversial tweet on India. “I found the comments deeply upsetting, and they do not represent the way Facebook or I think at all.

Unite Here has been trying to organize the cafeteria workers at Intel for years. Back in 2014, when workers were at risk of losing their jobs, the union organized a protest on the tech company’s campus. But the workers ultimately didn’t win a union contract.

Two years later, though, the people who serve food to Intel’s employees are still on unhappy. There are around 75 cafeteria workers at Intel, according to a Unite Here spokesperson — and as of yesterday, they were picketing once more. Читать дальше...

A quarterback who’ll turn 40 next month apparently is leaning toward retiring. A quarterback who’ll turn 41 later this year is leaning toward not retiring. Colts quarterback Matthew Hasselbeck, who started eight games in 2015, could be back again in 2016. “I haven’t really I guess made up my mind completely on it,” Hasselbeck told…

The group was part of the Fight for $15 movement.

Social media giant Facebook finally pulled the plug on its controversial zero-rated platform `Free Basics' in India, days after telecom regulator Trai rejected differential pricing on data and a few hours after Reliance Communications (RCom) - its mobile partner in the country - decided to make the service paid.

Most people infected with Zika don't show symptoms, according to the CDC.

LATEST: VICTORIA’S Health Minister has confirmed a Victorian woman has been diagnosed with Zika virus after returning from overseas.

President Jacob Zuma's son, Duduzane, has a stake in the company that, with the Gupta family, is buying Glencore's Optimum Coal mine, says the competition regulator.

ANC and EFF supporters almost came to blows in Cape Town before President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation speech last night.

Australia is not only benefiting from South Africa's brain drain, it is getting our women's eggs too.

Italian police have swooped in on a Mafia clan in Sicily, arresting dozens in an international operation to dismantle a powerful crime group run by women.

A 15-year-old Durban boy is being billed for using his school's landline phone to contact his guardian when he was ill last week.

In a landmark discovery for physics and astronomy, scientists said yesterday they had glimpsed the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time that Albert Einstein predicted a century ago.

The National Prosecuting Authority is sitting on more than 300 cases involving slain anti-apartheid victims.