Smoke, oracles, a drum and a walking stick helped monks discover the Dalai Lama. Why will superpowers one day wrangle over his successor?

The news of President Trump’s executive order Wednesday night to eviscerate the Presidio Trust, the federal agency that runs the Presidio National Park, rang alarm bells about the fate of one of San ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at women in business, education, government and sports who have broken through the glass ceiling and become the first in their respective positions in the United States. 1739 - ...

The Senate confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s pick for labor secretary offers a critical test for the ...

Below is the text of Gov. J.B. Pritzker's State of the State and Budget Address. *Remarks as Prepared for Delivery* Speaker Welch, President Harmon, Minority Leader McCombie, Minority Leader Curran, ...

As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed liberties and global capitalism laced with some measure of welfare state ...

Democrats don’t just lack a message — they also lack a messenger. While the focus is on the former, the latter is forgotten, ...

Both are species of cowardice.” The right cared nothing for either Jennifer or Melissa, or for their mothers. Their pain only ...

In the 1990s, there was reason to hope that Russia was moving toward democracy and that China, despite the Tiananmen Square ...

A local icon. A symbol of San Francisco politics. A speaker emerita. A matriarch. A badass. So when retired Chronicle librarian Bill Van Niekerken found 1972 photos of the former speaker of the House ...