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Cruise car drives into San Francisco construction site

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:41:11 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A troubling traffic incident caused by a driverless Cruise car happened again on Wednesday -- this time at a construction site on Mission Street.A witness recorded video of the Cruise car driving past hazard signs reading "road closed" and a construction worker holding a "stop" sign. Video uploaded on X shows the car driving through the construction site, slowly veering onto the wrong side of the yellow line, and "bricking" with its hazard lights on. Two San Francisco Police Department officers followed the car.The witness wrote on Twitter, "Watched a self-driving car freeze in a Mission Street intersection this morning. Then (the car) eventually abandon its otherwise safe left turn to drive into a construction site on the wrong side of the road. Police resources then get spent figuring out what the hell to do about it."Cruise and Waymo's driverless cars are "baffled" by construction sites, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officials told KRON4.Wh...

Starbucks no longer offering disposable cups at these North Bay locations

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:41:11 GMT

(KRON) -- You may want to bring your reusable Starbucks cup the next time you get coffee. Starting Tuesday, 12 Starbucks locations in Napa and Petaluma will prepare drinks in either a personal cup or a reusable "Borrow A Cup," a company spokesperson said in an email. The coffee chain said it is expanding its "100% reusables model" by testing this program out.The program will be tested out in Petaluma and Napa from Aug. 14 until Oct. 22. Last year, Starbucks announced it plans to further reduce single-use cups by 2025. Starbucks says it wants to cut landfill waste in half by 2030. Starbucks moving away from single-use coffee cups, introducing a more communal model What if you forget to bring your reusable cup?The Starbucks barista will give you your beverage in a reusable borrowed cup for both hot and cold drinks. The company says when you are done with the drink, you scan and return it to a participating store's return bin. It is professionally washed and meant to be used again. S...

2 Bay Area cities have most costly commutes in US: study

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:41:11 GMT

(KRON) -- Some companies are making their employees return to in-person work after working from home became common during the COVID-19 pandemic. For many workers in the Bay Area, that is bad news. According to a new study from the Chamber of Commerce, the two cities with the most costly commutes in the United States are in the Bay Area. 4-year-old girl killed, parents injured in crash near Oracle Park, driver arrested Over a year, it costs San Francisco commuters $12,650.56 on average to get to and from work. The second-priciest city is Fremont, which costs its commuters $12,048.32 per year. The study says the average round-trip commute for someone living in San Francisco is 58.4 minutes daily. In Fremont, that number is 55.2 minutes. Based on the median hourly wage in those cities, it costs San Francisco commuters $48.66 per day to get to and from work, and $46.34 for Fremont commuters. Washington D.C., Jersey City and New York City rounded out the list's top five. Other Bay Are...

Maryland firefighters, doctors and engineers on their way to Hawaii to help

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:41:11 GMT

Members of Maryland Task Force prepares to travel to Hawaii. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service) Members of Maryland Task Force prepares to travel to Hawaii. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service) Maryland’s premier urban search and rescue team is bound for Hawaii to join the massive recovery effort from the wildfires on Maui.Maryland Task Force 1 has been tapped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assist teams that are working to get the community back on its feet after wildfires a week ago killed more than 100 people and devastated the historic town of Lahaina.“We’re rostering in about 70 people, 50 from Montgomery County Fire and Rescue and then ...

U.S. women’s national team coach Vlatko Andonovski has resigned after early exit from World Cup, AP source says

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:41:11 GMT

SYDNEY (AP) — U.S. women’s national team coach Vlatko Andonovski has resigned after early exit from World Cup, AP source says.Source

The Hunt: The coup in Niger is hampering counterterrorism efforts in West Africa

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:41:11 GMT

In this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, said terror groups are definitely trying to take advantage of the instability. toggle audio on and off change volume download audio What needs to be done to not empower terrorist groups? $(function () { $('.wtop-audio-container .fa-play').on('click', function(){ var audio_filename = $('div.wtop-audio-file').data("mp3-url"); ga('send', 'event', 'Audio', 'play', audio_filename); }); }); SIGN UP TODAY for J.J. Green’s new national security newsl...

Cuba welcomed at Little League World Series and holds Japan to a run but gets no-hit in 1-0 loss

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:41:11 GMT

SOUTH WILIAMSPORT, Pa, (AP) — A long way from home and playing in its first Little League World Series game ever, Cuba allowed just one hit Wednesday, but got no-hit in a 1-0 loss to Japan in an opening round game.The Cuban team received a polite reception from the nearly 8,000 people in Volunteer Stadium, typical of the appreciation international teams receive at the LLWS. But the Cubans didn’t have many true fans.Opposite the packed section of Japanese families sat a mere two rows along the first-base side adorned in the red, white and blue of Cuba.As Japanese players embraced their parents after the win, most Cubans had only themselves for support. No families of players made the trip directly from Cuba to South Williamsport for the game, manager Vladimir Vargas said postgame.“The kids are very proud of what they’ve done here knowing that their parents were watching the game on TV,” Vargas said through a translator. “So, the parents are very proud of that and are happy beca...

Partido Comunista de México protesta por nombramiento de nueva junta directiva en su par de Venezuela

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:41:11 GMT

(CNN Español) — Activistas del Partido Comunista de México se manifestaron este miércoles en la embajada de Venezuela en Ciudad de México en rechazo a lo que llamaron ilegalización del Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV).Consideran, según su comunicado, que la acción de nombrar una junta directiva en el PCV, vía resolución judicial, demuestra una medida reaccionaria y anticomunista del gobierno de Nicolás Maduro.Partido Comunista de Venezuela dice que Maduro asaltó su junta directivaAgregan que esa acción es una “agresión a los comunistas y trabajadores del mundo”.CNN ha solicitado reacciones a las autoridades diplomáticas o del gobierno de Venezuela, sin respuesta aún.Al respecto, los dirigentes del Partido Comunista de México se manifestaron ante la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México “en demanda a la aplicación de un extrañamiento al estado venezolano por violación a los derechos políticos y electorales de los trabajadores venezolanos por la ile...

Britney Spears se separa de su esposo, Sam Asghari, tras un año de matrimonio

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:41:11 GMT

La estrella del pop Britney Spears, y su esposo, Sam Asghari, se separaron después de poco más de un año de matrimonio, dijo a NBC News una fuente familiarizada con la situación.“Están separados y es lo mejor para Britney”, dijo la fuente. No hubo detalles adicionales disponibles de inmediato.Spears, de 41 años, y Asghari, de 29, se conocieron en el set del video musical “Slumber Party” de la cantante en 2016, y comenzaron a salir poco después. La pareja anunció su compromiso en septiembre de 2021 y celebró una ceremonia repleta de estrellas dentro de la casa de Spears en Los Ángeles en junio de 2022.Asghari le dijo a “Good Morning America” en una entrevista el año pasado que la boda fue íntima, con aproximadamente 50 a 70 invitados para celebrar con ellos.“Es simplemente surrealista”, dijo Asghari en una entrevista con ABC el año pasado. “Estaba muy atrasado para nosotros y nos imaginamos que esto era un cuento de hadas y así fue”, ag...

Appeals court backs abortion drug limits, pending Supreme Court approval

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:41:11 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mail-order access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S. would end under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday that cannot take effect until the Supreme Court weighs in.The decision by three judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned part of a lower court ruling that would have revoked the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of mifepristone. But it left intact part of the ruling that would end the availability of the drug by mail, allow it to be used through only the seventh week of pregnancy rather than the 10th, and require that it be administered in the presence of a physician. 16 downtown Denver office buildings considered for housing conversions Those restrictions won’t take effect right away because the Supreme Court previously intervened to keep the drug available during the legal fight. The panel’s ruling would reverse changes the FDA made in 2016 and 2021 that eased some c...