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sfgate.com — Yoenis Céspedes will have a new style of hitting when he returns from the disabled list. Céspedes said Wednesday morning that he no longer will grip the bat with the knob nestled in the palm of his hand. There is...

sfgate.com — (05-23) 19:38 PDT SAN FRANCISCO, (AP) -- The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro had some blunt words Wednesday for Cuban-Americans who support economic and travel restrictions between the U.S. and her country, saying "a Cuban Mafia" made up of émigrés "who have no scruples" are holding the American people hostage.

blog.sfgate.com — President Obama is swinging through the Bay Area, money net in hand, for three fundraisers in about 14 hours. And no, as we pointed out, he won't be interacting with anyone who doesn't have a checkbook in hand. But you can still enjoy the President's visit from afar - at least his sold-out "rally" at the Fox Theatre in Redwood City tonight.

blog.sfgate.com — Here's the White House transcript of President Obama's speech tonight at the Atherton fundraiser in the Goldman home: REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT CAMPAIGN EVENT Private Residence Atherton, California 8:03 P.M. PDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you, everybody. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you, everybody. Please, please have a seat.

blog.sfgate.com — President Obama's big $40,000 per person Asian American business round table fundraiser planned for Thursday has been moved from Palo Alto to downtown San Jose "for logistical purposes," the campaign said today.

blog.sfgate.com — It's a special joint edition of the Politics Blog tonight as President Obama hits the Bay Area for a fundraising drive. The White House has released a list of expected attendees at tonight's Redwood City fundraiser at the Fox Theatre: actor Don Cheadle, singers Graham Nash and David Crosby, Jan Brandt, vice chair emeritus of AOL, Dennis Troper, product management director of Google, Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora Media, and Susan Wojcicki, Senior Vice President of Google.

blog.sfgate.com — I don't know the whole story. I'll admit that straight off. I can only go by what the locals told me, and they told me that National League Most Valuable Player Ryan Braun has done a lot of kvetching about the odd shadows at Miller Park caused by the array of windows and panels and slats that can create a mosaic of light and shadow on the field.

blog.sfgate.com — Portal A, the much-lauded ad creators who gave California the "Ed Lee's 2 Legit 2 Quit" video is now taking on Big Tobacco with a new pro-Prop 29 ad. As Comrade Lagos has been reporting, that's the prop that would add a $1 a pack tax on cigarettes primarily to fund tobacco-related illness and cancer research.

blog.sfgate.com — When an interviewer asked Mitt Romney the other day about his comments back in February about President Obama, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and religion in America, the prospective Republican presidential candidate replied that he couldn't quite recall, though not exactly in those words. He may have had a good reason for his memory lapse.