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BERKELEY — Cal’s football season seemed ready to take a turn for the worse late Friday night when defensive back Brent “Paco” Austin came to the rescue. The senior transfer from South Florida punched the ball out of the grasp of North Carolina wide receiver Nathan Leacock just before he was ready to cross the…

Over the next decade, the U.S. economy will face two big challenges: higher interest rates and AI-generated disruption. Each invites the same solution: policies to keep rates below their market level. The strategy, also known as yield-curve control, is tempting, and it may even provide an immediate boost to the economy. But messing with rates…

SAN JOSE – At least two major Bay Area airports have opted not to play a video of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem saying Democrats are to blame for the federal government shutdown. The video is intended to play at security lines, with Noem stating, “It is TSA’s top priority to make sure that…

TAMPA, Fla. — Here is how the 49ers (4-2) graded in Sunday’s 30-19 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (5-1) at Raymond James: PASS OFFENSE: C- Mac Jones, already battered through three starts, was sacked six times and intercepted twice but threw for 347 yards with a sore oblique and knee. Coach Kyle Shanahan didn’t…

Space portal Sixth-graders at Columbia Middle School were given a portal into space exploration Oct. 3 by Dr. Pascal Lee, a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute and NASA Ames Research Center. Lee spoke to students about his Mars research and what it would take to travel to the red planet, including…

By DOUG FEINBERG A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces are in rarified air. The franchise won its third WNBA championship in four seasons, completing a sweep of Phoenix in the best-of-seven Finals with a 97-86 victory on Friday night. Only Houston has done better over a four-season span, winning the first four titles in…

By KOSTYA MANENKOV, REGINA GARCIA CANO and GEIR MOULSON, Associated Press OSLO, Norway  — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” The former opposition presidential candidate was lauded for being a “key, unifying…

It was late Sunday evening when President Donald Trump got thumped with a court loss — again — by California. No, a federal judge ruled, Trump cannot command the California National Guard to invade Portland, Ore. At the request of California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and others, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut broadened a temporary…

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Tuesday said she will soon issue a ruling in a case that could potentially give a Livermore father deported to Mexico a path back to the U.S. to be reunited with his family. For Miguel Lopez, who was deported this past summer, the decision in the U.S. District…

Welcome back to Monday Morning Lights, our weekly feature that sheds more light on the high school football weekend and peeks ahead to the new week. If you haven’t already, please subscribe. Your contributions keep us going. The high school football season had reached the midway point. So at the Bay Area News Group, we’re recognizing…