21+ hour, 38+ min ago   (408+ words) The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao was established under a 2014 peace deal in which the largest Muslim rebel group gave up its goal of a separate Muslim state in the south of the largely Roman Catholic country in exchange…...

12+ hour, 38+ min ago   (765+ words) The long-term sustainability of Chicago's prolific offensive performance in Week 1 might be more about who was along for the ride on Sunday than the Bears' biggest stars in a 59-37 victory at Carolina. Loveland, Odunze and Burden were mostly quiet against…...

13+ hour, 9+ min ago   (688+ words) Cooper Rush's performance in the Falcons' 20-13 loss to the Steelers on Sunday had some fans wondering why undrafted rookie Jack Strand wasn't given an opportunity and more fans asking when Michael Penix Jr. and Tua Tagovailoa will be ready to…...

8+ min ago   (546+ words) San Francisco’s Diamond Heights neighborhood, with its vertiginous landscape near Twin Peaks, was one of the last neighborhoods in the southern part of the city to be developed. As late as the 1950s, most of the area was still open land,…...

5+ hour, 44+ min ago   (420+ words) As Eduardo Machado's "The Cook" at Berkeley Repertory Theatre hopscotches through 40 fraught years in slightly less than two hours--starting with Fidel Castro's triumphant, imminent arrival in Havana in 1958 and concluding (inconclusively, of course) with the devastating blockade that has…...

10+ hour, 45+ min ago   (574+ words) As artificial intelligence reshapes Silicon Valley, Latino leaders are pushing for a bigger role in deciding who benefits from the technology and who might get left behind. "We aren't just consumers of this technology," Gabby Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the…...

8+ hour, 33+ min ago   (287+ words) Kyle Teel hit a two-run double and Miguel Vargas connected for a two-run homer following Peters' lengthy plate appearance — the longest in MLB this season, and tied for the third longest since 2000. “I felt like I was fighting for my…...

8+ hour, 27+ min ago   (263+ words) Judge had been 3 for 20 with 11 strikeouts since returning last week after missing 84 games because of a fractured rib. Judge hit a cutter from A.J. Minter 415 feet into the second deck in left field for his 18th home run this season, his first…...

11+ hour, 50+ min ago   (212+ words) Four people and their pets escaped a fire that tore through a Petaluma duplex on Sunday, fire officials said. The fire was first reported about 4:30 p.m. at a two-story duplex on Park Place Drive, where firefighters found heavy fire on the…...

21+ hour, 41+ min ago   (280+ words) The Spanish club has restructured its soccer operations after a fourth loss in five matches to start the league season this weekend. Valencia fell 1-0 at Sevilla on Friday to remain winless and in last place in La Liga. Valencia on…...