A new report says the internet challenge, which usually comes with a "grotesque bird-head with warnings about children being encouraged to harm or kill themselves," has been overhyped.
The breakdown sent shivers through financial markets in Asia, with South Korea's stock market falling sharply just before the close of trading to end down 1.8 percent. The South Korean won also slipped, and Japan's main Nikkei 225 share index ended down 0.8 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average was down on Wall Street.
Erik Karlsson will miss the rest of the week as the Sharks await test results.
Landmark Palo Alto deli expands to San Jose, plans to franchise
Events this month explore the topic of genealogy through the books of authors Bill Griffeth and Paula Williams Madison.
The San Francisco Giants will not feature Bryce Harper in their outfield. The superstar is instead headed to Philadelphia.
By Noah Smith | The Washington Post Sam Haberern, 20, was playing Call of Duty on Xbox at his family’s house in Connecticut, and he was on a roll. After several dozen high-scoring rounds, other gamers started to take notice. He began receiving invites from players asking him to play with them. He accepted one […]
Trump wants Congress (and the media) to leave us in the dark -- but this isn't North Korea.
The Obama portraits have catapulted the Smithsonian museum to the top tier of the city's attractions by dramatically increasing attendance.
Health inspectors found live and dead cockroaches inside the San Francisco Creamery earlier this week, prompting a closure of the popular Walnut Creek ice cream shop for a day.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who met with Warner on Capitol Hill as part of a lobby day for statehood, said she'd been courting him for a long time and that his reversal "completes the Democratic Virginians that are supporting D.C. statehood."
A man who ran from police suffered non life-threatening wounds after being shot by a Richmond police detective Wednesday , police said.
Instead of talking to the Steelers about Antonio Brown, the 49ers brass is talking up their options, including high hopes for Dante Pettis.
Some actors complain about having to carry their co-stars, but not when it comes to Cardi B. No, not that Cardi B.
André Previn, who died Feb. 28 at 89, was a musical polymath who began composing for Hollywood at 16 and won a quartet of Oscars, and had additional careers as a jazz piano phenomenon and major symphonic conductor. All the while, he forged a public identity as a jet setter who counted actress Mia Farrow among his five wives.
The Warriors will sit Kevin Durant (rest) and Andre Iguodala (illness) for Thursday's game in Orlando
Google worker advocates throw support behind FAIR Act, which would give employees and consumers rights to sue employers and businesses, and related bills.
Median sale prices for existing Bay Area homes surged 4.9 percent year over year in January,
The former face of the Tampa Bay Rays explained his 2018 struggles and shared what's different entering his second season with the Giants.
Guerneville remains inundated as skies clear to reveal flood damage.
Under most circumstances, airlines are prohibited from allowing domestic flights to remain on the tarmac for longer than three hours, and international flights for more than four hours, without giving passengers an opportunity to deplane.
President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen in dramatic testimony before Congress this week called his former boss a racist and a con man who lied about business dealings in Russia and directed him to hide his affair with Stormy Daniels.
Gruden said Derek Carr is "our franchise quarterback" at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on Thursday.
An SUV carrying four siblings crashed into a big rig early Thursday, killing three of them and sending the fourth to a hospital with critical injuries, the California Highway Patrol said.
Jeanine Tesori's less-known musical "Violet" portrays a scarred young women on a bus trip the 1960s South; it's playing at the Alcatraz Theatre in S.F.