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Photos: New space telescope shows Jupiter's auroras, tiny moons

Webb NIRCam composite image of Jupiter from three filters – F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green), and F150W2 (cyan) – and alignment due to the planet’s rotation. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt.

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Jury awards $8.25M to Black mother, daughters handcuffed outside Castro Valley Starbucks

CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. - A federal jury awarded a mother and two sisters $8.25 million after they were unlawfully searched and handcuffed by Alameda County sheriff's deputies at a Castro Valley Starbucks on their way to taking one of the young women to a college test in Berkeley. The women were not physically harmed by law enforcement but the dollar amount of the award signals that jurors felt the family's constitutional rights had been stripped from them because of the color of their skin. "I think that everybody recognizes we all have implicit bias," their attorney, Craig Peters of San Francisco, said in an interview on Monday. "I have it.

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Massive rent hikes may finally be coming to an end, economist says

sweeping inflation. In the 50 largest metro areas, median rent rose an astounding 19.3% from December 2020 to December 2021, according to a Realtor.com analysis of properties with two or fewer bedrooms. Rents are still at an all-time high in the U.S. but data shows asking rent prices have been consistently slowing for the past several weeks. According to Redfin, the average cost of rent during July 2022 in the U.S.

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Humanity 'not ready' for potentially 'serious' Covid variant, warn concerned scientists

Scientists are warning over a potential new Covid variant that they believe could be a "serious problem" due to us not being prepared.Although the virus seems to be here to stay, vaccines and milder variants mean hospitalisation and death rates have plummeted and many countries have dropped most or all restrictions that kept the virus at bay.But scientists keeping an eye on the disease expect there to be more variants in future, and some will almost certainly be more dangerous than the likes of Omicron and its BA.5 subvariant. READ MORE: Long Covid causes erectile dysfunction and hair loss, new research shows John Swartzberg, a professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology at the University of California-Berkeley's School of Public Health, said: "The virus always figured out a way to survive. I see nothing that suggests it’s not going to continue to do that."Researchers believe more Covid waves are inevitable as different genetic mutations of the virus battle it out in a bid for dominance.Which one comes out on top will determine the course of the next wave.The best-case scenario is if a milder mutation of the virus wins out next time, giving boffins time to prepare for a worse form of the virus that will eventually follow.Worst case is that a stronger mutation of Covid comes sooner and we're left unprepared to deal with it.So far two possible new variants have been identified.

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China says it may have detected signals from alien civilization

China’s science ministry says they’ve picked up signals on one of their telescopes that could be signs of an alien civilization.

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Amazon shuttering multiple Whole Foods stores

FILE IMAGE - An independent contractor wearing a protective mask and gloves moves shopping carts with Amazon Prime grocery bags to a car outside a Whole Foods Market in Berkeley, California, U.S., on Oct. 7, 2020.

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Kenneth Tsang, 'Rush Hour 2' and 'Die Another Day' actor, dies at 87

Actor Kenneth Tsang Kong poses with his trophy backstage during the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards on April 19, 2015, in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) HONG KONG - Veteran Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang has died while in a COVID-19 quarantine hotel in the southern Chinese city, local media reported.Tsang was best known internationally for his action roles in the 2002 James Bond film "Die Another Day," John Woo’s "The Killer" in 1989, "Rush Hour 2" in 2001 starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, and 1998′s "The Replacement Killers" alongside Chow Yun-Fat and Mira Sorvino.Tsang had been undergoing seven days of quarantine after returning from Singapore on Monday and was found collapsed on the floor of his hotel room by staff on Wednesday, according to the South China Morning Post and other media.The South China Morning Post said Tsang was 87 but other sources gave his age as 86.No cause of death was given and the paper said he had tested negative for the virus and had no underlying medical conditions.In all, Tsang had some 237 acting credits, mainly in Hong Kong film and television productions, and especially in detective and martial arts movies, according to his IMDb page.Born in Shanghai, Tsang began acting after obtaining an architecture degree at the University of California, Berkeley, making his debut in 1955.

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US cities with the worst traffic congestion, according to GPS data

FILE - Traffic moves along Interstate 80 on Feb. 16, 2022 in Berkeley, California.

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Your brain may live up to 15 seconds in the past, study finds

A picture of a human brain taken by a positron emission tomography scanner, also called PET scan, is seen on a screen on January 9, 2019. (Credit: FRED TANNEAU/AFP via Getty Images) BERKELEY, Calif. - A new study shows that the human brain may actually live up to 15 seconds in the past.Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Aberdeen discovered that the brain shows images from seconds in the past, instead of an updated real-time picture.According to the study, published in Science Advances, researchers analyzed the mechanism of "change blindness," which is when people fail to notice small changes over time."The brain automatically smooths our visual input over time.

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Here's why California's population growth is slowing

BERKELEY, Calif. - A new report shows California's population growth is slowing, but it's not because of a mass exodus. The study from the California Policy Lab in Berkeley shows that fewer people are moving to the Golden State. The rate is down 38% since the start of the pandemic and, it's even higher in the Bay Area where there was a drop of 45%.Meanwhile, the number of people leaving the state went up 12% since March 2020 but that increase over a period of 18 months, was about the same before the pandemic. MORE: Mass 2020 exodus from California did not happen, study says"The public’s attention has been focused on the so-called "CalExodus" phenomenon, but the reality is that the dramatic drop in "CalEntrances" since the pandemic began has

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California's population growth is slowing but mass exodus is a myth

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2021 Nobel prize for economics awarded to 3 US-based economists

STOCKHOLM - Three U.S-based economists won the 2021 Nobel prize for economics on Monday for work on drawing conclusions from unintended experiments, or so-called "natural experiments."David Card of the University of California at Berkeley was awarded one half of the prize, while the other half was shared by Joshua Angrist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Guido Imbens from Stanford University.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three have "completely reshaped empirical work in the economic sciences.""Card’s studies of core questions for society and Angrist and Imbens’ methodological contributions have shown that natural experiments are a rich source of knowlege," said Peter Fredriksson, chair of the Economic

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Study: Farmworkers at 4 times risk of COVID-19

A study today in JAMA Network Open that found quadruple the risk of COVID-19 in California farmworkers reveals risk factors for current or previous SARS-CoV-2 infection in the group, including outdoor work exposures, crowded living conditions, and high body mass index (BMI).

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Lightning strike at New Jersey beach kills lifeguard, injures 7

SKYFOX flew over the scene Monday afternoon. SEASIDE PARK, N.J. - A young lifeguard was killed and seven other people, including three other lifeguards, were injured when lightning struck a Jersey Shore beach Monday afternoon, authorities said.New Jersey Gov.

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Lifeguard killed, others injured after lightning strike on New Jersey beach, Gov. Murphy says

SEASIDE PARK, N.J. - A lifeguard was killed and multiple others were injured after a lightning strike on a beach in Ocean County, New Jersey, according to Governor Phil Murphy.It happened on 23rd Avenue in South Seaside Park around 4:45 p.m. Monday."Our hearts are with the family and friends of the young lifeguard killed by today’s horrific lightning strike on the beach in Berkeley Township, and we pray for a full recovery for those injured," Murphy said in a statement.This is a developing story.

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Police arrest 12-year-old girl suspected of setting four separate fires in the Berkeley Hills

BERKELEY, Calif. - The Berkeley police department says they've arrested a 12-year-old girl who is responsible for lighting four separate fires in the Berkeley Hills on Friday.Police say the first fire was set around 10:22 a.m. on the 1600 block of La Vereda Road.

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California bagels better than New York's?

BERKELEY, Calif. - The California bagel scene is booming and apparently is better than New York's. That's according to New York Times critic Tejal Rao, who has lived on both coasts and therefore declared herself the bagel connoisseur. According to Rao, the best bagels are in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.She said that West Coast Bakers are driving a great bagel boom. For example, Boichick Bagels in Berkeley opened just three months before the pandemic began and had a roaring following from day one."It took off from the get-go," said owner Emily Winston. "And we had two-hour lines when we opened and everyone has been super receptive.

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Riot charges reinstated against California white supremacist

A man wears a Donald Trump mask after conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos spoke to a crowd of supporters on the University of California, Berkeley campus on September 24, 2017.Although a student group cancelled plans for Free Speech Week, Yian SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday reinstated rioting charges against the leader of a white supremacist group involved in violent California clashes with foes of then-President Donald Trump.The Ninth U.S.

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Hundreds of vaccine appointments canceled at Golden Gate Fields following protest

BERKELEY, Calif. - A protest at Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley led by animal rights activists has forced the cancellation of hundreds of COVID vaccine appointments, officials with the racetrack said.About two dozen people from the organization Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) gathered at the racing facility Thursday at around noon to protest the alleged abuse of animals at the racetrack, the Berkeley Police Department told KTVU.Four of the activists, all of whom are Bay Area residents, lay on the racetrack, connected by PVC pipes in a move the activists called a sleeping dragon. They lit purple flares as they were lying in place. Four activists on the track were detained shortly before 7 p.m.

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Outdoor exercise banned in UC Berkeley COVID-19 lockdown

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA - JULY 22: A cyclist rides his bike on the U.C. Berkeley campus on July 22, 2020 in Berkeley, California.

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Tatum, Celtics hold off Curry and Warriors for 111-107 win

SAN FRANCISCO – Jayson Tatum had 27 points in picking up the offensive slack for Boston without injured Marcus Smart, and the Celtics withstood another scoring spree by Stephen Curry to beat the Golden State Warriors 111-107 on Tuesday night.

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How to commemorate MLK Day while staying at home

Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a speech to a crowd of approximately 7,000 people on May 17, 1967 at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, California.

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University of California plans to reopen for in-person classes fall 2021 across its 10 campuses

File photo of the University of California, Berkeley campus and main library. (Photo by David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images) LOS ANGELES - The University of California announced Monday that it is planning for a return to primarily in-person instruction systemwide starting fall 2021.The announcement was made in order to enable prospective and current students, as well as their families, to understand UC's goal well in advance "amid the uncertainties of the pandemic," the office of UC President Michael V.

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US safety agency rejects petition to recall Tesla vehicles

DETROIT – The U.S. government’s auto safety agency has rejected a request to investigate unintended acceleration in Tesla electric vehicles, saying the acceleration was caused by drivers pushing the wrong pedal.Brian Sparks of Berkeley, California, petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in January of 2020 asking for an investigation.

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'NorCal rapist' sentenced to 897 years in prison for rape of nine women

This undated photo released by the Sacramento Police Department shows Roy Charles Waller.

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Childhood friend sang Jackson 5 on school bus with Kamala Harris in Berkeley

BERKELEY, Calif. - Kamala Harris went to elementary school in Berkeley Hills and the school is filled with so much pride over her historic win.Harris is featured in a mural at Thousand Oaks Elementary School. Families were out taking pictures a day after her historic victory to become the first woman and first person of color vice president.“It was incredible,” said Harris’s childhood friend Carole Porter. “I just started crying.

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Mum and son, 4, forced to live in car after she lost her job in Covid lockdown

coronavirus pandemic. Mum-of-one Shelby Hughes made a life for herself in Berkeley, California but life turned upside down when the pandemic hit.

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CRISPR, the revolutionary genetic "scissors", honored by Chemistry Nobel

Science News StaffThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to the two scientists who transformed an obscure bacterial immune mechanism, most commonly called CRISPR, into a tool that can simply and cheaply edit the genomes of everything from wheat to mosquitoes to humans. The award went jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier of Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens and Jennifer A. Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley "for the development of a method for genome editing." But the Nobel committee did not include Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, who led the work that resulted in the first published evidence that CRISP could edit DNA in mammalian cells.

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AP FACT CHECK: Kamala Harris meets constitutional requirements to serve as VP

THE CLAIM: Harris is ineligible to serve as vice president or president because her mother is from India and her father is from Jamaica. Trump said Thursday that he “heard” the California senator doesn’t meet the requirements, adding, “I have no if idea that’s right.”THE FACTS: That’s false.

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Slain attorney devoted years to public service in Orange County

A 33-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with her murder.Hartigan graduated in 2000 from University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.She had high honors in political science and made the dean’s honor list for the last two years of her undergraduate career.She attended the University of North Carolina where she gradated with her law degree and a master’s degree in city and regional planning.

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Kamala Harris' political star rose from Bay Area background

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No graduations and no business in Harvard’s backyard

But this week, instead of a half dozen cooks crammed into the kitchen until 2 a.m. and a line stretching out the door into JFK Street, a skeleton crew of two has been working until 10 p.m. every night

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Empathy in the age of misinformation: An open letter to healthcare and science professionals

Dr. Yenting Chen is a board certified emergency medicine physician practicing at the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center emergency departments in Berkeley and Oakland, California. In this opinion piece, he discusses the importance of empathy when tackling misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fear of the future: Class of 2020 enters a world in crisis

Tyler Lyson watched his parents’ financial collapse in the Great Recession, a decade ago. He vowed he’d find the security they never had: He would get a college degree.

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Study: Men less likely to wear masks in public because it is ‘not cool’ and ‘a sign of weakness’

The CDC offers steps on how to make your own cloth face covering, regardless of whether or not you know how to sew.

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Amoeba Music’s Sunset Boulevard store will not re-open following the coronavirus pandemic

The owners of the beloved Hollywood music store say they are "heartbroken" that they will not be returning to the same premises

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Amoeba Music Record Stores Launch GoFundme: 'We Don't Know That We Can Weather the COVID-19 Storm'

Beloved California independent record store chain Amoeba Music has launched a GoFundme campaign in an effort to keep its Berkeley, San Francisco and Los Angeles outlets afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. The effort to raise $400,000 comes as the 30-year-old chain faces its hardest times to date."30 years ago, Amoeba Music founders Dave Prinz and Marc Weinstein had a crazy idea.

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Stars and Execs Rally to Feed the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Epidemic

All around the same time in late March — as novel coronavirus outbreaks worsened around the United States — Westworld actor Jeffrey Wright started a nonprofit in Brooklyn, New York; in Berkeley, California, novelist-producer couple Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon sprang into action with a like-minded initiative; and in Los Angeles, a group of execs — including Discovery’s Erin Arend, HBO senior vp Nora Skinner, Hello Sunshine CEO Sarah Harden, and Magnet Companies’ Jeff Berman — came together with a similar idea. In all three cases, the organizers hit upon a plan to help struggling local restaurants and overworked health care workers.

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