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By Dominic Fracassa Updated 8:47 am PDT, Wednesday, July 11, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-8', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 8', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle Image 1of/8 CaptionClose Image 1 of 8 Then-Board of Supervisors President London Breed (left) chats with Diane Carr during a last-minute campaign stop in downtown San Francisco on election day, June 5. Then-Board of Supervisors President London Breed (left) chats with Diane Carr during a last-minute campaign stop … [Read more...] about This time around, London Breed becomes SF mayor and gets to keep the job

Erin Blakemore, The Washington Post Published 2:51 pm, Monday, May 7, 2018 'Natural History' symphony PBS documentary If you've ever been to Crater Lake in southern Oregon, you know all about its grandeur. The United States' deepest lake, its brilliant, pure waters are often obscured by clouds. But when it peeks out from beneath the fog, the lake's unforgettably blue waters are a reminder of nature's most potent wonders. Now those marvels have been captured in song by composer Michael Gordon, whose symphony "Natural History" was inspired by and performed next to Crater Lake. It took Gordon a year to compose the work, which evokes the lake's unique majesty and tumultuous story. Crater Lake was formed about 7,700 years ago when Mount Mazama, a volcano, collapsed into a massive circular crater. Then, rain and snowfall filled the bowl with water, creating a kind of scientific curiosity. Because Crater Lake has no inlets or outlets, it's nearly pristine. That makes it an incredible … [Read more...] about Oregon’s spectacular Crater Lake

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are forecasting nightmarish Democratic "mob rule" to amp up GOP voters for next month's critical midterm elections. That is flipping the script from complaints that it's Trump and the tea party movement who've boosted rowdy and divisive tactics to dangerous levels. Less than a month from voting in which GOP control of Congress is dangling precariously, Republicans are linking comments and actions by Democratic politicians, raucous protesters opposing Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination and even a gunman who shot targeted GOP lawmakers. The message to Republican voters: Democrats are employing radical tactics that are only growing worse. … [Read more...] about GOP decries Dems’ ‘mob rule,’ flipping the script

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri's Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley is taking a cue from President Donald Trump and decrying what he describes as "mob behavior" by Democrats. Hawley said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that Missouri voters are motivated by "mob behavior that we're seeing all over the country." Trump and Senate Republicans are forecasting Democratic "mob rule" to amp up GOP voters before the midterms. Republicans view Hawley's race against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill as one of their best chances of flipping a Senate seat. McCaskill is one of 10 Senate Democrats up for re-election in states Trump won. The president won Missouri by 19 percentage points in 2016. Hawley is campaigning on McCaskill's vote against the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. … [Read more...] about Hawley: Democrats’ ‘mob behavior’ motivating Missouri voters

Until recent years, many Jews in America believed that the worst of anti-Semitism was over there, in Europe, a vestige of the old country. American Jews were welcome in universities, country clubs and corporate boards that once excluded their grandparents. They married non-Jews, moved into mixed neighborhoods and by 2000, the first Jew ran for vice president on a major party ticket. So the massacre Saturday of 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, by a man who told police when he surrendered that he "wanted all Jews to die," was for many a shocking wake-up call. "This kind of evil makes me think of the Holocaust and how people can be so cruel, that there is so much evil in the world, still," said Moshe Taube, 91, a retired cantor from Congregation Beth Shalom in Pittsburgh and a survivor of the Holocaust. But it did not come out of nowhere, said experts in anti-Semitism. At the same time that Jews were feeling unprecedented acceptance in the United States, the climate was growing … [Read more...] about Growing anti-Semitism stuns American Jews