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Belief that human bondage in the United States was the main event of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is common but false.

Celebrities born on this day, today's birthday horoscope and numbers and the daily horoscope for each zodiac sign.

TODAY’S WORD — WORKFORCE (WORKFORCE: WURK-forse: The workers engaged in a specific activity or enterprise.)Average mark 27 wordsTime limit...

Plus: My wife calls my expression of love "creepy."

Plus: Now that I'm in my 40s, I'm worried about traveling to this city.

He says she wasn't nice about our engagement. I don't blame her.

A long friendship has turned unpleasant since I returned to my hometown.

During the March on Washington, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech before an estimated 250,000 people in...

Former FC Barcelona Femeni star Asisat Oshoala scores against old team, Spanish giants take until late into the second half to take the lead...

Led by a trifecta of home runs from Max Schuemann, Lawrence Butler and Zack Gelof, the A's began their three-game set against the Reds with...

After dropping two of three games in Seattle, all decided by one run, the Giants homered 3 times to rebound with their own one-run win.

“Nobody was there to do anything about it," the boy's mother said. “There are no heroes in this story.”

The suit filed Aug. 19 in Contra Costa Superior Court is just the latest development in a months-long dispute over the shuttered Rich City R...

The property located in the 1200 block of Fruitdale Avenue in San Jose was sold on July 30, 2024.

The judicial overhaul proposal, suggested by the Mexican president during his final weeks in office, includes having judges elected to offic...

The fatal shooting happened around 4 p.m. in the 2400 block of International Boulevard.

Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, the state's top election official, had warned moving operations could slow the processing of ma...

The Niners roster is, again, a mile high and an inch deep

East Bay Times Letters to the Editor for Aug. 28, 2024

Mercury News Letters to the Editor for Aug. 28, 2024

Former San Jose Fire Capt. Sam Seibert has donated many items to the San Jose Fire Museum, where his birthday party was held Tuesday.

Jorge "Yogi" Rodriguez, 35, has been wanted for months on charges of assaulting an Alameda officer with his van, but police only arrested hi...

The statewide ballot initiative would reform parts of Prop 47, a 2014 measure that classified theft crimes under $950 as misdemeanors with t...

Despite support from State Superintendent of Instruction, Tony Thurmond, the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California and the Anti-Defa...

The vegan health-food eatery Kitava is opening in Albany. Will it make you live longer?