Sunrise's Sam Armytage replaced by Sarah Harris!

Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris and New York Theatre Workshop – the Off Broadway company where he developed the acclaimed work – announced today the establishment of two $50,000 commissions for new theatrical works, keeping a pledge the author made when he signed a two-year overall deal with HBO last March.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has officially joined the ranks of public officials who have been busted for breaking their own coronavirus guidelines. A Tuesday report from the San Francisco Chronicle says that the mayor dined at the upscale French Laundry restaurant the day after California Gov.

Mayor Sam Liccardo, of San Jose, Calif., apologized Tuesday for spending Thanksgiving with his family in apparent violation of state coronavirus rules and said he will “commit do better.” NBC Bay Area first broke the news of Liccardo’s Thanksgiving Day visit to his parent’s home in Saratoga – about 15 miles southwest of San Jose.

Jake Tapper will interview President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in their first joint interview since the election.

San Jose, Calif., Mayor Sam Liccardo reportedly visited his elderly parents' Saratoga home for Thanksgiving in apparent disregard of the county's COVID-19 holiday travel warnings, according to NBC Bay Area. The mayor's press team initially told NBC Bay Area that Liccardo was staying home for Thanksgiving but later said a spokesperson "misspoke" and that the mayor spent the holiday with his parents.

San Jose officials have pushed for a change to Santa Clara County’s sanctuary city policy after learning that a suspect in a stabbing spree was undocumented and had been deported multiple times, according to reports. Mayor Sam Liccardo and Police Chief Eddie Garcia have appealed to Santa Clara County regarding its policy for the second time in little more than a year, the San Jose Spotlight reported.

An already difficult National Football League season just got tougher for the San Francisco 49ers.

San Francisco’s surge in coronavirus cases placed the city back in the state’s most restrictive “purple tier,” signaling new rules starting Monday, Mayor London Breed announced on Twitter Saturday.  A limited stay-at-home order will mean all nonessential indoor businesses will close and members from different households will not be permitted to gather between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.

Aeko Brown just turned 1, and he’s already growing up so fast! Ammika Harris, 27, couldn’t help but share new photos of her and Chris Brown’s precious little boy wearing matching holiday PJs with her from PatPat. Mom and son looked adorable in red, green, and white pajamas with polar bears and snowflakes.

A former San Francisco rookie police officer who killed an unarmed Black man just weeks into the job has been charged in connection to the death.

Mark David Rich and famous folk are notorious for their itchy real estate feet, buying and selling multimillion-dollar homes with the same ease and alacrity as mere financial mortals might, say, buy a new pair of shoes or change out the baking soda box in the fridge. One exception, at least in San Francisco, is Hollywood veteran Winona Ryder, who’s owned the same home in the city’s affluent Cow Hollow neighborhood for 25 years.

Kamala Harris made history several times over in being projected the next vice president of the United States. Her parents emigrated to the U.S.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterAwkwafina has joined the cast of “Swan Song,” an upcoming Apple Original film starring Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali and Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG nominee Naomie Harris.Benjamin Cleary, also an Oscar winner for his short film Stutterer, wrote the screenplay and is directing the pic.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will bend the knee to Black Lives Matter, author Candace Owens argued Wednesday, reacting to the organization calling on Newsom to appoint a Black woman to fill the Senate seat that will be vacated by Kamala Harris.

Montel Williams once dated Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, but news of their past romance shook the Internet.Earlier this week, a picture circulated via Twitter of Williams, 64, and Harris, 56, with his daughter Ashley at the Race to Erase Multiple Sclerosis gala in Los Angeles in May 2001. At the time, Harris was working at the Office of the City Attorney of San Francisco.Some people were shocked to discover that the pair used to be an item.

Convicted killer Scott Peterson will remain in California’s San Quentin State Prison as a judge weighs whether or not he’ll get a retrial in connection with the 2004 murders of his pregnant wife and their unborn son. There was a chance the judge could have sent him to the San Mateo County Jail to make it easier for his attorneys to meet with him.

Sunrise host Samantha Armytage has said her final goodbyes to her mother, Libby, who passed away 10 days before her 69th birthday. The 44-year-old delivered a moving eulogy in Wagga Wagga, NSW on Friday after sharing that her death had left a “huge, irreparable” hole in her heart.“Mum used to say often, you're only as happy as your unhappiest child. She knew we had all finally found happiness, and so she left,” she said, tears flowing.“She was very kind and very, very polite.

The race is on to succeed Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the Senate. Fox News has been told for months that California Secretary of State Alex Padilla is the odds-on favorite to step into Harris’ seat.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe full ensemble cast of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s star-studded drama “The Lost Daughter” has come into focus, as the film has just successfully wrapped production in Greece.Ed Harris and “The Haunting of Hill House” breakout star Oliver Jackson-Cohen are among the additions to film, Variety has learned exclusively, adapted from the acclaimed novel by Elena Ferrante.