The 52nd annual Black Cowboy parade kicked off at West Oakland’s DeFremery Park on Saturday.

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

Chiara Towne in conversation with Meredith Whittaker is president of the Signal Foundation.

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

We asked the Oakland Observer to explain what is going on.

1) Fife’s Data Center Moratorium Forwarded to Full Council But Wang Fails to Add Legislative Imprimatur Lots of details the others have missed: according to the OCA, passage will require an almost unanimous 7 votes. And Wang tried very hard to get her amendments into the legislation, but even

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

People aged 50 and older have grown from about 10 percent of the homeless population to half. That's according to the most recent federal data.The increase is being driven by a number of factors inclu...

Nearly a year after approving the $2.25 million surveillance tech, OPD hasn’t signed a contract, raising questions about how the city can enforce data protections.

At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

Experts are unsure why this sea turtle has chosen California to lay her nest.

The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.