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A rare floating home in San Francisco’s Mission Creek has returned to the property market, with the three-bedroom residence listed for $1.749 million. The unusual sale was reported by SFGATE and CBS San Francisco, while the current listing from City Real Estate confirms the asking price and specifications. Scroll down to read more…The home at…

US President Donald Trump speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping . China’s ambassador to the US has outlined four “red lines” that Beijing expects Washington not to cross ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day state visit to the US, as President Donald Trump prepares to host him amid tensions over Taiwan, human rights and…

Indian-origin entrepreneur Gagan Biyani launches Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an alternative to the traditional college for future founders. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Gagan Biyani, best known as a co-founder of online learning platform Udemy, is now taking on an unusual education venture: a new San Francisco academy backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. Biyani…

Town officials have voted to move toward dissolving a North Carolina town founded in 1907, based on advice from the NC Local Government Commission. Ronda, a small town situated along the Yadkin River in Wilkes County, has been on the North Carolina Local Government Commission’s Unit Assistance List for just over a decade. In that…

Can Pakistan afford to be the Muslim world’s ‘security guard’? Pakistan is betting that military muscle can buy it a bigger seat at the global table. Islamabad has deepened defence ties with Saudi Arabia and Turkey through the Mecca pact, sought a larger role in Gulf security, marketed its fighter jets and drones abroad and…

Expelled Chinese military generals Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli (File photo) The Chinese military’s mouthpiece on Wednesday hailed the recent expulsion of two top generals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), saying their removal would promote the “purity and honour” of the military and enable it to accomplish its…

Woman says she was forced to sit next to man who was masturbating, was later given $100 flight credit; United Airlines launches probe A 25-year-old woman, a pediatric crisis therapist, has complained that she was forced to sit next to a man who was masturbating on his seat while staring at her during an early…

Pic credit: Bonhams Skinner Every thrifter dreams of it: buying something for less than a pizza, discovering it’s actually valuable, and walking away with a fortune. For Tracy Donahue, a New Hampshire resident, the dream happened to be real.In 2017, she picked up a painting at a thrift store for $4. She hung it in…

In 2020, George Floyd’s memorial GoFundMe raised $14.7 million; six years later, three of his siblings are asking brother Philonise for a full accounting of the fundraiser and its distributions (Image Credit: ANGELA WEISS/ Getty Images) When George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in May 2020, donations quickly poured into a GoFundMe campaign created to…

32-year-old Foster City resident Anuj Kumar, an Uber driver, has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a teen passenger during a ride. A 32-year-old rideshare driver in California has been arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting a teenage passenger during a ride in San Jose, with investigators now warning that there could be additional victims.Police said…