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TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — A man has died after Torrance police shocked him with a Taser. Police say officers were called to a Crate & Barrel store in the Los Angeles suburb Monday afternoon by a report of a man in the parking lot holding a knife and throwing items. When officers arrived, the man refused their commands and ran off. Police say officers tackled the man and during a fight, he tried to grab an officer's gun and was shocked with a Taser. His arms and legs were then restrained. Police... Читать дальше...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police are investigating after a giant star at the top of Boise's official Christmas tree vanished on New Year's Day. Downtown Boise Association Executive Director Lynn Hightower said the association reported the theft to police Tuesday morning after a video surfaced. She said the star will cost $500 to replace. "Hopefully whoever took it will find it in themselves to return it," she said in an email. KTVB-TV reports that Darrin Walton was staying in a nearby hotel and shot video... Читать дальше...

1 Senator retires: Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the longest-serving Senate Republican, announced Tuesday he will retire at the end of the year, rebuffing the pleas of President Trump to seek an eighth term and paving the way for Mitt Romney to run for the seat. Hatch, 83, was under heavy pressure from Trump to seek re-election and block Romney, who has been sharply critical of the president. But Hatch, who emerged as one of the president’s most avid loyalists in the Senate, decided to retire after discussing... Читать дальше...

Mendocino property owners whose homes were damaged or lost in the fires last October have been receiving bills for the removal of the post-fire debris. The problem? These bills are fraudulent.

This weekend, the Resident Artist Workshop program at SafeHouse for the Performing Arts presents two unique shows. The first, featuring the work of Zoe Donnellycolt and Alley Wilde, is on view at SafeHouse on Thursday-Friday, Jan. 4-5. Donnellycolt’s “Queener” takes inspiration from the four queens in the tarot deck to explore queer identities, while Wilde’s new work “Exorcise” presents a startling combination of elements, joining “horror noise, poetry, coffin-building” with dance. The program continues Saturday-Sunday, Jan. Читать дальше...

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Bitcoin is losing its luster with some of its earliest and most avid fans — criminals — giving rise to a new breed of virtual currency. Privacy coins such as monero, designed to avoid tracking, have climbed faster over the past two months as law enforcers adopt software tools to monitor people using bitcoin. A slew of analytic firms such as Chainalysis are getting better at flagging digital hoards linked to crime or money laundering, alerting exchanges and preventing conversion into traditional cash.

Joaquin Jr. Ontiveros was born just two minutes before the strike of midnight on December 31, 2017. His twin sister, Aitana de Jesus Ontiveros, arrived the next year.

1 No age limit: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a bill that removes a presidential age limit from the constitution and allows him to run for election again, deputy spokeswoman Linda Nabusayi confirmed Tuesday. Museveni, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders and a U.S. ally, is 73 and would have been ineligible to run in 2021. Now he could rule until 2031. Critics in the East African nation saw the bill as an attempt by the president to rule until the grave. The age limit had prevented... Читать дальше...

What vehicle is most strongly associated with Republican voting districts? Extended-cab pickup trucks. For Democratic districts? Sedans. Those conclusions may not be particularly surprising. After all, market researchers and political analysts have studied such things for decades. But what is surprising is how researchers working on an ambitious project based at Stanford University reached those conclusions: by analyzing 50 million images and location data from Google Street View... Читать дальше...

Ray “Bones” Bandar, a biologist and high school science teacher who kept 6,000 animal skulls in his basement and moose antlers in the bathtub of his San Francisco home, has died at 90. Bandar died Dec. 23 at home at his request among his bones, said his niece Faylene Bandar. Cause of death was congestive heart failure, she said. For 60 years Bandar was a volunteer field associate in the department of ornithology and mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. Читать дальше...

SEATTLE (AP) — Officials say Washington State Republican Party Chair Susan Hutchison will step down from the post next month. Multiple news outlets reported Tuesday that the former TV news anchor who was elected party chair in 2013 will resign as of Feb. 5. Hutchison's statement didn't give a reason for her departure but her name has been floated as a possible candidate for an ambassadorship or other Trump administration appointment. Her announcement also comes after the GOP lost its majority in the state Senate in November. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said Tuesday he will not seek re-election after serving more than 40 years in the Senate, opening the door for 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to run for his seat. The 83-year-old Hatch, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, opted for retirement despite a full-court press from President Donald Trump to stay in Washington, particularly as Romney's ambition for the seat became apparent. Romney was a vocal critic of Trump's during... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday threw the weight of the U.S. government behind the protesters taking to the streets of Iran, rooting them on despite the risk of helping Iranian authorities dismiss a week of major demonstrations as the product of American instigation. As Iran's supreme leader accused "enemies of Iran" of trying to destabilize his country, the State Department pressed Tehran to unblock social media sites used by the protesters. It even offered advice to tech-savvy... Читать дальше...

A Northern California man got lost on his way to an early-morning drug deal and stopped to ask cops for directions. The rest of the scenario played out just as you might suspect.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Sen. Orrin Hatch's announcement that he won't seek re-election (all times local): 5:30 p.m. President Donald Trump is congratulating Utah Republican Orrin Hatch on an "absolutely incredible career" after Hatch announced he will not be seeking re-election after more than 40 years in the Senate. Trump says via Twitter that Hatch "has been a tremendous supporter" and says he "will never forget the (beyond kind) statements he has made about me as President." Trump adds... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening to cut off U.S. aid money to the Palestinian Authority and acknowledging that the Middle East peace process appears to be stalled. Trump says in a pair of tweets that, "we pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect. They don't even want to negotiate a long overdue ... peace treaty with Israel." He adds that, "with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California's legal pot economy was supposed to operate under the umbrella of a vast computerized system to track marijuana from seed to storefronts, ensuring that plants are followed throughout the supply chain and don't drift into the black market. But recreational cannabis sales began this week without the computer system. Instead, businesses are being asked to document sales and transfers of pot manually, using paper invoices or shipping manifests. That raises the potential... Читать дальше...

DENVER (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy in Colorado (all times local): 3:35 p.m. A man who shot and killed a Colorado sheriff's deputy says he was drinking in a video streamed online before the shooting. Denver's KUSA-TV obtained the footage , one of several videos that Matthew Riehl broadcast on Periscope on Sunday. He is seen holding a glass in his hand and says he's had two scotches. He is heard saying that drinking would help him defend himself if someone bothers him. Читать дальше...

Nearly halfway through the regular season, Warriors forward Draymond Green leads the NBA with 10 technical fouls. It is a troubling development for a team that recognizes how much more daunting of a matchup it is when Green is on the court. League rules dictate that a player receives an automatic one-game suspension once he gets assessed his 16th technical foul of the season, with him getting another one-game suspension for every two additional techs thereafter. At this rate, Green would pick up his 16th tech Feb. Читать дальше...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — At least 36 people were killed when a bus tumbled down a cliff onto a rocky beach Tuesday along a narrow stretch of highway known as the "Devil's Curve," Peruvian police and fire officials said. The bus was carrying 57 passengers to Peru's capital when it was struck by a tractor trailer shortly before noon and plunged down the slope, said Claudia Espinoza with Peru's voluntary firefighter brigade. The blue bus came to rest upside down on a strip of shore next to the Pacific, the... Читать дальше...

COPENHAGEN — A Danish biotechnology company is trying to fight climate change — one laundry load at a time. Its secret weapon: mushrooms like those in a dormant forest outside Copenhagen. In the quest for a more environmentally friendly detergent, two scientists at Novozymes trudge through the mud, hunting for oyster mushrooms that protrude from a fallen beech or bracken fungi that feast on tough plant fibers. They are studying the enzymes in mushrooms that speed up chemical reactions or natural processes such as decay. Читать дальше...

Twice a week, The Chronicle features a home on the market that caught our eye for its architecture, history or character. More photos: www.sfgate.com/columns/walkthrough. Address: 208 Peninsula Ave., Burlingame. Asking price: $1.698 million. Description: This remodeled three-bedroom home in Burlingame includes high-tech features, modern infrastructure and enticing outdoor areas. The public rooms have wide-plank floors... Читать дальше...

On Target? Last year, Amazon.com shook up the retail world with its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods. Another big purchase will happen in 2018, predicts a well-known technology analyst. Loup Ventures co-founder Gene Munster believes that Amazon will acquire discount retailer Target this year, drawn to its customer demographics and “manageable but comprehensive” number of stores. “Getting the timing on this is difficult, but seeing the value of the combination is easy,” Munster wrote in his report... Читать дальше...

There’s a good reason Hoda Kotb looks so comfortable in Matt Lauer’s former “Today” show chair: she’s a lot better-liked than he was, according to the main metric networks use to gauge the popularity of their stars. Kotb was named as Lauer’s replacement on Tuesday, just over a month after NBC fired him over sexual misconduct accusations. Everyone seems pretty stoked about the team of Kotb and Savannah Guthrie — and with good reason. According to the Q Scores Company, Kotb’s most-recent (September 2017) Positive Q Score was a 16... Читать дальше...