After years of delays, major affordable housing project finally breaks ground in the Mission

After years of delays, major affordable housing project finally breaks ground in the Mission

By Laura Waxmann, Staff Writer April 9, 2026 (SFChronicle.com) Gift Article A rendering of the nine-story building that is under construction as part of the Marvel in the Mission project in San Francisco.MEDA As commuters stream through the 16th Street Mission BART Station, a familiar corner has given way to change: A… Continue reading

Inside ICE detention centers, medical misdiagnoses and delays prove deadly

By St. John Barned-Smith and Ko Lyn Cheang | April 9, 2026 (SFChronicle.com)  Gift this article Ismael Ayala-Uribe was in agony. The pain started soon after immigration agents seized the bespectacled 39-year-old man, who had lived in the United States since he was 5, at the Orange County car wash where he worked last August…. Continue reading

DNC Panel Rejects Resolution Condemning AIPAC’s Spending on Elections

Pro-Palestinian Jewish American demonstrators rally outside the Manhattan headquarters of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on February 22, 2024 in New York City.  (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images) The resolution was “’out of step with the policies of the Democratic Party’ while being… Continue reading

‘Truly Insane’: Pentagon Threatened Pope After He Condemned Trump’s Military Attacks

Pope Leo XIV leads his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Squarein Vatican City on April 8, 2026.  (Photo by Maria Grazia Picciarella/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) The US “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world,” a top official told the Vatican’s US representative. “The… Continue reading