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FDA to investigate Juul over SF ads claiming vaping is safer than cigarettes

The FDA will investigate whether Juul is illegally claiming that vaping products are safer than cigarettes in political ads for Proposition C — the SF ballot measure seeking to overturn the city’s e-cigarettes sales ban — without having received the agency’s authorization to make such claims.

Walid Rahman holds a Juul cartridge container while working behind the counter at The Town Smoke Shop in the Mission district of San Francisco, Calif. Thursday, March 21, 2019.

Climate change is a complex problem requiring urgent action — just the type of thing that confounds Washington. Between President Trump and a Republican majority in the Senate, climate activists have few friends in positions of power in the nation’s capital.

Rick Bulan makes headboards, coffee tables and other furniture out of steel from the Golden Gate Bridge removed in 1993 as part of a renovation project on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 in San Francisco, Calif.

Interactive: Danger zones for earthquakes, fires, floods
California’s natural cycles of drought, wildfire and flash flooding will only continue to intensify as climate change disrupts our land and oceans. This map highlights the risk areas for three major natural disasters.

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Pop-up Magazine: The Escape Issue

Paramount Theatre, Oakland

San Francisco Latino Film Festival

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Tribute to Clara

Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose

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Patriots to Antonio Brown: Bye-bye
AL SARACEVIC: Just days after the New England Patriots signed troubled wide receiver Antonio Brown, after he was cut by the Oakland Raiders, his new employer decided to cut him loose.

Sports Columnists

Historic San Francisco bar Redwood Room closes for renovations
The entire Clift Hotel is closed until January 2020.

Food & Wine Critics

Guides

The 20 best food trucks in the Bay Area
This is the best street food in the Bay Area, from chaat to tacos.

Sweeping, troubling murals of Pacific Islands history at de Young Museum
"Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique" ("Native Peoples of the South Pacific") takes so much space it is generally shown only half at a time. It is currently on view in its entirety at the de Young Museum for the first time in nearly two decades.

Datebook Columnists

Vanessa Hua
Just the right person can save a little boy
Swab your cheek, save a life

Interactive Map
Mapping cinematic wrath, from 'Godzilla' to 'San Andreas'
Nearly a movie per year in the 21st century has featured S.F. under attack. We mapped out all the damage —see if your house would survive.

Arts and entertainment
The Bay Area fall fun guide
While most of the world is getting into chill mode, San Francisco heats up in the fall. Check out our seasonal events guide.

California mountain lions dying on highways, but face an even bigger threat
About 100 mountain lions are killed every year on California highways, and 35 deaths have been documented since 2008 on roadways in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Wildlife advocates are calling on the state to build more wildlife crossings on highways so they can roam freely and mingle safely.

How isolated are California Republicans? Let’s go to the map
California is known as a deep-blue Democratic state, one where Republicans are little more than an afterthought. But a map of voter registration by county shows just how isolated California Republicans have become. While there’s plenty of red on that map, it’s almost all concentrated in the state’s far north and the Sierra, home of tiny counties with far more trees than people.

Newsroom Voices

Political Columnist

Joe Garofoli
Beto O’Rourke wants to legalize marijuana and help those...
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke rolls out his marijuana legalization plan, which goes further with efforts to help those...

California approves controversial tropical forest offsets plan
As tropical rainforests around the world burn, the California Air Resources Board voted on a controversial carbon-offset standard that would let companies buy carbon credits to stop deforestation.

Business Columnists

How Bay Area sellers are cashing in on the online resale boom
What happens when the high cost of living meets our desire to declutter? A new generation of secondhand-shopping apps is tapping into the ecommerce market, and for Bay Area resellers, business is booming.

Outdoors

Tom Stienstra
Now is the perfect time to visit Lake Tahoe
If timing is everything at Lake Tahoe, now is that time. Tahoe’s fall shoulder season provides a rare chance to make the region your own at the...

Guides

Tom Stienstra
The Ultimate Bay Area Hikes and Outdoors Guide

A freeway through the Sunset District? Roots of a San Francisco revolt
Most of the vast freeway system that was planned for San Francisco in the 1950s was stopped by a strange-bedfellows coalition of neighborhood activists, media figures, politicians and business people. What came to be known as the Freeway Revolt was the first, most prolonged and most successful such battle in the U.S.

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Explore the stories behind classic front pages
The San Francisco Chronicle came into existence more than 150 years ago. See classic newspaper pages from our archive for every day of the year.

Editorial: Americans need to know what whistle-blower said
A potentially Earth-shattering complaint from a whistle-blower in the intelligence community has created another standoff between the White House and Democratic members of Congress. The formal complaint was submitted by an intelligence official to the inspector general for the intelligence community. That Trump-appointed inspector general determined the complaint was both credible and...

Opinion Columnists