The impacts of Covid-19, rising global inequality and soaring food prices caused by the war in Ukraine are set to send more than a quarter-billion more people into poverty this year, according to charity group Oxfam International. The combined hit may result in a total of 860 million people living below the $1.90 a day…Continue Reading
More than 18,000 Etsy sellers have pledged to join a strike protesting a 30% increase in fees that takes effect today. In a petition signed by nearly 50,000, the organizers are demanding that Etsy CEO Josh Silverman cancel the fee increase to 6.5% from 5%. About 18,400 people who signed the petition as of Monday…Continue Reading
April 11, 2022Updated: April 11, 2022 12:56 p.m. A Ukraine flag flies outside a suburban home in Lafayette, Calif., March 23, 2022. Gado via Getty Images A Bay Area homeowner’s Ukrainian flag was vandalized and defecated on, Palo Alto police said, an incident that police are now investigating as a hate crime. The incident took place last…Continue Reading
April 11, 2022 Crime scene tapeMark Winema / Getty Images / Mark Wineman / Getty Images A teenage girl was shot and killed Saturday evening at a home in East Oakland, officials said. The 15-year-old girl from Antioch was visiting a friend, the East Bay Times reported. The Oakland Police Department said officers responded to…Continue Reading
April 11, 2022Updated: April 11, 2022 2:04 p.m. A beachwalker came across a lancetfish at Drakes Bay in Point Reyes National Seashore on April 5, 2022.Adam Neale/The West Marin Feed Experts say a bizarre-looking fish that a beachwalker discovered on April 5 at Drakes Bay in Point Reyes National Seashore, about 60 miles north of San…Continue Reading
The cities and towns that make up the great San Francisco Bay Area have seen remarkable changes in recent decades. Tech parks and multimillion dollar homes have replaced farmland once dotted by orchards, and chain stores have overtaken main streets once lined with small businesses. We asked SFGATE readers to answer this question after spotting…Continue Reading
TOKYO – Honda Motor Co., in the midst of a radical corporate makeover, said it will invest 5 trillion yen ($39.91 billion) over the next 10 years in electrification as it rolls out 30 full electric vehicles globally and builds production capacity for 2 million EVs annually by 2030. In announcing the new push on…Continue Reading
Ford Motor Co. said on Monday it has signed a preliminary deal to buy lithium from a Lake Resources facility in Argentina, marking the first time the automaker has publicly announced where it will procure the electric vehicle battery metal. The deal is a major bet by Ford on direct lithium extraction, or DLE, a…Continue Reading
SHANGHAI — Contemporary Amperex Technology has implemented a so-called “closed-loop management” system at its main factory to keep production going as the country battles an Omicron wave of the coronavirus. The southern Chinese city of Ningde, where CATL is headquartered, has tightened prevention and control efforts because of a spate of COVID-19 cases, the company…Continue Reading
Del Grande Dealer Group, of San Jose, Calif., has expanded in the Golden State by purchasing three rooftops in the past eight months, adding Hyundai-Genesis, Hyundai and Honda dealerships. The group said that in September it bought Hanlees Fremont Hyundai from Hanlees Automotive Group. That dealership was renamed Fremont Hyundai. On Jan. 19, the Del…Continue Reading
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