The San Francisco store that inspired the movie Toy Story will close next month, with the owner citing crime as one reason for its demise. An attorney representing the Luhn family, which owns Jeffrey’s Toys—told SFGATE that “the perils and violence of the downtown environment, inflation, the decrease in consumer spending, and the demise of retail across
A former contractor for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service was sentenced by a judge on Monday to five years in prison on Monday for leaking the tax records of former president Donald Trump and thousands of other wealthy Americans to media organizations. Charles Littlejohn, 38, in October had pleaded guilty to a charge of disclosing
Roughly 10 percent of staffers with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the international body’s aid group for Palestinian refugees, have ties to terrorist groups, according to a Monday Wall Street Journal report. About 1,200 employees, 10 percent of the agency’s 12,000 Gazan workers, are linked to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the
New York congressman Jamaal Bowman is touting an endorsement from an anti-Israel group that blamed the Jewish state for provoking Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack, a move that comes as he attempts to fend off intense criticism from his district’s Jewish community over his response to the attack. Bowman on Thursday posted a photo with
Biden’s support for pseudoscience goes international Hindou Oumaraou Ibrahim (Bay Area Air District/YouTube). The Biden administration hosted a lecture in Egypt on the virtues of “indigenous knowledge,” a pseudoscientific theory that posits Native Americans possess secret wisdom solely by virtue of their ethnicity, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The November
‘It would not be appropriate for me to make public comments at this time,’ Derek Penslar says in statement Derek Penslar (Twitter/University of Washington) The head of Harvard University’s anti-Semitism task force backed out of a panel on anti-Semitism he was scheduled to participate in Sunday, citing an unwillingness to answer questions publicly “about goings
Three U.S. service members were killed and many wounded during an unmanned aerial drone attack on U.S. forces stationed in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden said on Sunday, blaming Iran-backed groups for the attack. “While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by