A local icon. A symbol of San Francisco politics. A speaker emerita. A matriarch. A badass. So when retired Chronicle librarian Bill Van Niekerken found 1972 photos of the former speaker of the House ...

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Former Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris holds a substantial lead over other potential ...

Safeway bought this San Francisco lot at a discount decades ago. Now it is poised to sell it to a developer with big plans.

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It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too ...

A spokesperson for the former Senate leader said he was fine and the "lingering effects of polio" won't disrupt his work.

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Amid scrutiny over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s pledge to divest his financial stake in vaccine lawsuits to his family, legal ...

After Senator Mitch McConnell suffered yet another fall Wednesday, the question of whether members of Congress should have ...