Sunni Khalid
News EditorSunni M. Khalid is a veteran of more than 40 years in journalism, having worked in print, radio, television, and web journalism.
He has worked for Time magazine, USA TODAY, The Wilmington News-Journal,The Baltimore Sun, and National Public Radio, where he was a diplomatic correspondent and the Cairo bureau chief.
During his career, Sunni has reported from more than 35 countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean on a number of breaking international stories. These include Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, the U.S. military intervention in Haiti, Israel’s Operation Grapes of Wrath in Lebanon and South Africa’s historic, first all-race elections in 1994.
Over the years, Sunni has also been a guest on several television and radio programs, including CNN, Al-Jazeera, ITN, Sky News and the Voice of America. He attended Howard University in Washington D.C. and graduated cum laude, majoring in print journalism. He also studied at the Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C., majoring in African studies and international economics.
More recently, Sunni helped establish the award-winning news department at WYPR-FM in Baltimore, where he served as managing news editor for nine years. Mr. Khalid was born in Detroit and raised in Highland Park, Michigan.
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The Bay Area Rapid Transit announced this week that crimes against riders have dropped significantly since the end of 2024, even though the number of passengers has increased. -
CrosscurrentsLast month Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent a memo to UC Berkeley that impacted thousands of their students here on visas. ICE sent a warning to the school letting it know that it risked losing government approval to take foreign students, if it did not close a temporary work authorization program called Course Credit Curricular Practical Training, or CPT. -
State Senator Scott Wiener recently joined calls from legislators around the country demanding more safeguards on artificial intelligence following a cyberattack led entirely by AI bots. -
Three murals painted on an iconic stretch of San Francisco’s Mission District were recently erased, prompting an angry reaction from some community members. -
As fights about data centers erupt nationwide, California lawmakers have approved a pair of bills to make data center developers disclose how much water they really use. -
Smoke drifting into the Bay Area from wildfires near Big Sur prompted air district officials to issue an air quality advisory for wildfire smoke through tomorrow. -
$125 million was earmarked by state lawmakers to fund the proposal. -
The city of San Francisco, led by Mayor Daniel Lurie, had launched the Curbside Electric Vehicle Charging Program, which unlocks curbside charging at different locations across the city. -
CrosscurrentsA recent trove of court documents has shed new light on the case prosecutors plan to present in the federal corruption trial of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, her former live-in partner, and a prominent local father-son team of businessmen, appears set to begin in October. -
Meta reached a landmark settlement with California and 46 states and territories yesterday, over allegations that its social media platforms were designed to keep teens hooked. And, California and two-dozen other states are launching a new legal battle against the White House.
