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Two blocks north of Oakland’s 19th Street BART Station are a shuttered burger stand, a public parking garage and short commercial buildings. The barren site at 2100 Telegraph Ave. could turn into one of the largest developments the city has ever seen. Named Eastline by its backers, the 1.57 million-square-foot office project would be bigger,…
Photo “The whole birther movement was racist,” Colin Powell wrote in an email to a former aide that has been leaked. He noted that Donald J. Trump once questioned the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate. Credit Kazuhiro Nogi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who served as…