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Why the power of Barbie, Taylor and Beyonce should worry Trump

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Diablo Valley College student Zhenaleigh Doldol isn't sure how she'll vote in her first election in 2024, but she's inspired by the messages of female empowerment that radiated around her beloved summer movie "Barbie" and the blockbuster global concert tours of Taylor Swift and Beyonce. "This year has been such a pivotal point for women and women's rights," said Doldol, 19, of Pittsburg. During a break between classes, she and a friend, Christian Ebonia, 20, agreed that "Barbie," Swift's Eras tour and Beyonce's Renaissance concerts have given American women an unexpected foc...

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San Francisco Bay Area scientist says he ‘left out the full truth’ to get climate change wildfire study published in prestigious journal

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A new study by a team of mostly San Francisco Bay Area scientists that found human-caused climate warming has increased the frequency of extremely fast-spreading California wildfires has come into question from the unlikeliest of critics — its own lead author. Patrick T. Brown, climate team co-director at the nonprofit Breakthrough Institute in Berkeley and a visiting research professor at San Jose State University, said his Aug. 30 paper in the prestigious British journal Nature is scientifically sound and “advances our understanding of climate change’s role in day-to-day w...

Feeling sexy? Stanford scientists find where lust lives — in mice

The source of desire has long been elusive, the stuff of poets and musicians. Now, Stanford University researchers have found it doesn’t live in the heart but in a very specific set of cells in the brain. They have located the cellular circuitry that drives the passion of male mice, and learned how to turn it on and off – a discovery that could lead to new treatments and deepen our understanding of this most primal force. “It’s a fundamental behavior that is central to our personal satisfaction, and also the propagation of our species,” said Nirao Shah, Stanford professor of psychiatry and neu...

Tech companies, bank chop hundreds of Bay Area jobs in fresh layoffs

SAN RAMON, Calif. — A bank and some high-profile tech companies have chopped hundreds of Bay Area jobs in a fresh round of layoffs — although the pace of tech sector layoffs has greatly eased. In the most recent spate of job cuts, nearly 250 banking jobs are being eliminated in the Bay Area, while four different tech companies have revealed their plans to chop a combined 211 jobs, based on filings posted in August by state labor agency officials. Here are the details for the most recent rounds of tech and banking industry job cuts in the Bay Area that various companies reported to the state Em...

Prince Harry's Silicon Valley startup to lay off workers as he and Meghan try to 'reinvent' themselves: reports

Over the last week, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, have returned to the spotlight in an effort to reportedly "reinvent themselves" and prove to the world that they're not "grifters" who need to exploit their fraught connections to the British family to keep people's attention and maintain their wealthy, A-list lifestyle. But they hit a possible snag with the news Thursday that one of Harry's projects, the San Francisco-based mental health startup, BetterUp, "missed its financial targets" last year and needs to lay off 16% of its workforce, or some 100 employees. The Daily Beast cite...

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Ivanka Trump distances self from dad's election fraud claims as her own legal jeopardy grows

Ivanka Trump is among a growing number of President Donald Trump’s close advisers who want nothing to do with his legal efforts to subvert the results of the Nov. 3 election, according to a new report.These advisers may publicly act as though they believe Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani can pull some kind of courtroom miracle to prove widely debunked claims of election fraud, Axios reported.“But talk to them privately, and many say Rudy Giuliani and his team are on a dead-end path,” Axios writers Jonathan Swan and Alayna Treene said.“Even Jared and Ivanka think this is going nowher...

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Kamala Harris faces intense pressure, double standards leading into vice presidential debate

SAN JOSE, Calif. — With Donald Trump’s positive coronavirus test casting uncertainty on the final two presidential debates, the pressure is on for Kamala Harris to make the case to American voters that she and Joe Biden belong in the White House when she faces off Wednesday night with Mike Pence in the only vice presidential debate of the election.Suddenly, this debate matters much more than it did prediagnosis. And those who know and study the California senator say Harris will arrive at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City having done her homework.“I can tell you she is studious and prep...

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Why the power of Barbie, Taylor and Beyonce should worry Trump

San Francisco Bay Area scientist says he ‘left out the full truth’ to get climate change wildfire study published in prestigious journal

Feeling sexy? Stanford scientists find where lust lives — in mice

Tech companies, bank chop hundreds of Bay Area jobs in fresh layoffs

Prince Harry's Silicon Valley startup to lay off workers as he and Meghan try to 'reinvent' themselves: reports

Ivanka Trump distances self from dad's election fraud claims as her own legal jeopardy grows

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