The idea that the president could help David Duong avoid bribery charges has cropped up in recent articles, including on a ...

Sheng Wang will return to Netflix with another stand-up special in 2026. The comedy hour will be directed by Ali Wong, who also directed Wang’s 2022 special “Sweet & Juicy.” The special will ...

The suit, filed in 2023 by the Alameda County Taxpayers Association and attorney Marleen Sacks, alleges that the Oakland city clerk allowed now-former mayor Sheng Thao and two other candidates to file ...

Thursday, May 8, 2025, marked the election of the worldwide Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, the 267th Pontiff, was elected Pope and Archbishop of Rome and from ...

Grant to financier J.P. Morgan — his biography of Alexander Hamilton inspired the long-running Broadway musical — and is an expert chronicler of fame’s highs and lows. But in taking on Twain ...

Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. On Thursday, he ...

The taxpayers’ association filed its lawsuit in February 2023, alleging that three candidates, including Sheng Thao, failed to make the 5 p.m. deadline that day. For this reason, Sacks demanded that ...

Oakland will pay more than $200,000 and implement a series of election reforms to settle a lawsuit alleging that former Mayor Sheng Thao and several other candidates missed the filing deadline to be ...

IT’S DIFFICULT TO PINPOINT just when all of this began to unravel, but Oakland’s downturn coincided roughly with Sheng Thao’s entry onto the political scene. Commercial shipping ceased to be ...

Interim Oakland Mayor Kevin Jenkins delivered a nearly $4.4 billion, two-year budget proposal to the City Council Monday, emphasizing the need to protect police and fire services while ...

The complex life of Mark Twain, a writer dubbed “the Father of American Literature”, is told expertly in Pulitzer winner Ron Chernow’s comprehensive 1,100-word biography Mark Twain (Allen Lane).