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23+ min ago (334+ words) SUNNYVALE " A Southern California group has bought its second Santa Clara County hotel this week at a low price that points to ongoing tough times for the Bay Area hotel market. The Sonesta ES Suites Sunnyvale, a 138-room hotel, has been bought for $15 million, documents filed on Dec. 18 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office show. San Diego-based Kalthia Group Hotels acted through an affiliate to buy the all-suites hotel, at 900 Hamlin Ct. in Sunnyvale, according to the county real estate records. The day before the Sunnyvale transaction, Kalthia Group Hotels bought an all-suites hotel in north San Jose, paying $16 million for a Sonesta ES Suites at 1602 Crane Ct. Hospitality Properties Trust was the seller in both South Bay hotel transactions. Both deals were completed at what appears to be an exceedingly low price for a Bay Area hotel. The…...

24+ min ago (312+ words) (Bloomberg/Echo Wong and Min Jeong Lee) " ByteDance Ltd. is on track for profits of roughly $50 billion in 2025, capping a record year for a Chinese social media leader making major inroads into e-commerce and new markets. A ByteDance spokesperson didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. TikTok's success has come under scrutiny after the Biden administration led an effort to ban the Chinese-owned social media phenomenon from the US, citing national security concerns. ByteDance is now close to finalizing a plan to hive off the video service in the US, which will ensure the platform survives while loosening the Chinese company's control. TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew told employees that ByteDance signed binding agreements to create a joint venture majority-owned by American investors including Oracle Corp., according to an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg. Chinese regulators have yet to…...

25+ min ago (504+ words) Delta was placed under a flood watch by the National Weather Service on Friday at 8:24 a.m. The watch is valid from Saturday 4 p.m. until Friday Dec. 26, at 4 p.m. Delta was placed under a flood watch by the National Weather Service on Friday at 8:24 a.m. The watch is valid from Saturday 4 p.m. until Friday Dec. 26, at 4 p.m. According to the NWS Sacramento CA, "Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible." "Excessive runoff will result in rises along area rivers, creeks, streams. Small streams and creeks may rise out of their banks. Flooding may occur in low-lying, poor drainage, and urban areas. Mudslides and rockslides may occur in mountain and foothill areas," according to the NWS. "You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared to take action should flooding develop." The full list of…...

30+ min ago (371+ words) By ELLIOT SPAGAT and HALLIE GOLDEN | Associated Press President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post Thursday on the social platform X that, at Trump's direction, she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program. "This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country," she said of the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente. Neves Valente, 48, is suspected in the shootings at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others, and the killing of an MIT professor. He was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said. Neves Valente had studied at Brown on a student visa beginning in 2000, according to…...

39+ min ago (403+ words) Breaking PG&E's monopoly with cheaper, greener energy is a compelling vision offered by MCE (aka Marin Clean Energy) and other community choice aggregators. However, as Contra Costa County residents are learning, MCE is no longer delivering on the promise of local government-controlled community choice aggregators, or CCAs. In fact, they may be better off with PG&E after all. Although it has "Marin" in its name, MCE is now largely a Contra Costa County operation. Fifteen of Contra Costa's 19 municipalities, along with the county on behalf of its unincorporated areas, have joined MCE, supplying more customers than the other three counties in which it offers service: Marin, Solano, and Napa. Meanwhile, the Orange County Power Authority, or OCPA, has faced'criticism'from the county's civil grand jury report over its lack of transparency, overreliance on highly-compensated contractors and poor hiring practices....

54+ min ago (207+ words) TODAY'S WORD " VACUOUSNESS (VAK-yoo-us-ness: Lacking content.) Average mark 25 words Time limit 45 minutes Can you find 40 or more words in VACUOUSNESS? The list will be published tomorrow. YESTERDAY'S WORD " ECCENTRIC: enter entice entire erect erne cent center centric cite nice nicer niece niter teen tern tier tine tire tree trice recent [] TODAY'S WORD " VACUOUSNESS (VAK-yoo-us-ness: Lacking content.) Average mark 25 words Time limit 45 minutes Can you find 40 or more words in VACUOUSNESS? The list will be published tomorrow. YESTERDAY'S WORD " ECCENTRIC: enter entice entire erect erne cent center centric cite nice nicer niece niter teen tern tier tine tire tree trice recent recite rein rent retie rice rite inert inter To purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last! RULES OF THE GAME: 1. Words must be of four or more letters. 2. Words that acquire…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago (960+ words) Milpitas" Pranavram Krishnan (20) makes a shot against San Ramon Valley High during a nonleague boys basketball game at Milpitas High School in Milpitas, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) MILPITAS " Undefeated in its first seven games, Milpitas hadn't faced a team with San Ramon Valley's history and pedigree. So the Trojans were looking forward to the cross-sectional matchup. "This is a game we all had circled on the calendar," said 6-foot-5 junior Pranavram Krishnan. Milpitas trailed by nine at the end of the first quarter, but turned it around and led by as many as 10 early in the fourth quarter before holding on for a 73-67 victory. "I thought Berkeley was really good, but this team is a lot better, very, very skilled," said Milpitas coach Champ Wrencher, whose team defeated Berkely 53-43 in its third game of…...

1+ hour, 24+ min ago (1893+ words) There isn't a nook or cranny in the Almaden Valley that Ali Henry hasn't spent time in. She grew up here, camping, boating and fishing with her dad and her grandparents. Those long, sun-drenched days on the water often finished with fresh-caught trout sizzling over a campfire. Today, Henry is devoting her life to preserving and celebrating some of her favorite childhood hangouts as Santa Clara County Parks' first-ever woman chief park ranger. But as much as she loves the outdoors, it wasn't the places itself that motivated her to a life of service in the parks system. It was the people she explored those places with. "Looking back," she said, "it was the time spent with those family members outside. And now I want to give that to my kids." Henry's childhood memories are shaping the ones she hopes…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago (87+ words) With Christmas less than a week away, Santa Claus still needs help from the local communities. Radio station holds annual toy and food drive in San Leandro With Christmas less than a week away, Santa Claus still needs help from the local communities. KMEL radio's morning show is broadcasting live at San Leandro's Bayfair Mall for the station's annual Santa Claus Food & Toy drive, hoping the community turns out with a toy or canned food to donate. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago (408+ words) Q:" I've been an Amazon customer for 20 years, but after changing my phone number, I'm locked out of my account because two-factor authentication (2FA) still uses my old number. Amazon updated the phone number on my account, but 2FA remains broken. One agent claimed my account was "terminated," which isn't true. For weeks, I couldn't order essentials or manage my Echo devices. How can a company this large fail to sync a simple phone number? What else can I do? " Bruce Gerencser, Ney, Ohio" A: Amazon should have either ensured your two-factor authentication settings were updated when your phone number changed or provided clear steps to resolve it. The company's own security protocols require accurate contact information, and its support team should have escalated this promptly. You did everything right: You contacted customer service, submitted documentation and reached out to executives using the Amazon…...