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Video shows masked thieves raiding art museum artifacts in bold overnight heist: officials

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November 14, 2025

Video shows masked thieves raiding art museum artifacts in bold overnight heist: officials

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The Oakland Police Department and the FBI are asking for the public’s help in identifying two suspects caught on camera in a museum heist in which over 1,000 historical items were stolen.

The incident occurred at an off-site storage facility maintained by the Oakland Museum of California at around 3 a.m. on Oct. 15, according to officials.

In a statement released by the museum, officials said a preliminary investigation revealed that the heist was likely “a crime of opportunity, not a targeted theft.”

LOUVRE MUSEUM THEFT CASE EXPANDS AS 2 MORE SUSPECTS FACE CONSPIRACY CHARGES IN ONGOING INVESTIGATION

Authorities are searching for two suspects wanted in connection with an overnight museum heist in Oakland on Oct. 15, 2025. (Oakland Museum of California)

“There is no indication that the perpetrators specifically identified the facility as museum storage or sought particular artworks or artifacts,” the statement said. “Instead, it appears they gained access and took items that were most easily available.”

In an Oct. 31 update, museum officials revealed that some of the items stolen consisted of historic memorabilia, including political pins, souvenir tokens and award ribbons – along with several Native American items.

NEW VIDEO PURPORTEDLY SHOWS LOUVRE THIEVES IN ACTION DURING BRAZEN DAYTIME HEIST

One of the suspects has been described by authorities as having a thin build, wearing a plaid long-sleeve shirt, black hoodie, blue jeans and black shoes, according to KTVU. (Oakland Museum of California)

“Additional stolen artifacts of particular sensitivity include six Native American baskets, several 19th-century scrimshaw objects, and a number of daguerreotypes and modernist metalwork jewelry pieces,” the statement said.

Surveillance video shows two masked men entering through an interior hallway of the storage facility before exiting into an outdoor area enclosed by a metal fence.

One of the suspects has been described by authorities as having a thin build, wearing a plaid long-sleeve shirt, black hoodie, blue jeans and black shoes, according to KTVU. The second suspect reportedly has a heavy build, and was wearing a blue sweatshirt, blue pants, black gloves and white shoes.

‘BRAZEN’ LOUVRE THIEVES MADE TARGETED HEIST, JEWELS COULD BE MELTED DOWN: EXPERT

The suspects allegedly stole more than 1,000 historical artifacts from the museum, in what officials are calling a “crime of opportunity.” (Oakland Museum of California)

Across the country, 19-year-old Joshua Vavrin was arrested in New York City after he allegedly hurled water at two priceless paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday, according to the New York Post.

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Vavrin allegedly damaged the 16th century canvas piece, “Madonna and Child with Saints” and the 19th-century oil-on-canvas painting, “Princesse de Broglie,” the outlet reported. He also allegedly ripped two tapestries off the wall, causing over $4,000 in damages.

The FBI, Oakland Museum of California, Metropolitan Museum of Art and NYPD did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Julia Bonavita is a U.S. Writer for Fox News Digital and a Fox Flight Team drone pilot. You can follow her at @juliabonavita13 on all platforms and send story tips to julia.bonavita@fox.com.

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San Francisco, CA

Alice Wong, San Francisco disability justice activist and writer, dies at 51

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November 16, 2025

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Alice Wong, San Francisco disability justice activist and writer, dies at 51

Alice Wong drinks out of a paper cup at a cafe in San Francisco in 2019. Wong opposed the elimination of single use cups, noting that ceramic mugs were heavy and could be difficult for some people to hold.

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Alice Wong, a visionary disability justice advocate whose writing helped people understand what it was like to live with a disability, died of an infection Friday at a San Francisco hospital. She was 51.

“I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist and more,” Wong wrote in a posthumous message on social media. “We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment.”

Wong was born with muscular dystrophy. She used a powered wheelchair and a breathing device and said doctors had not expected her to live past 18.

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Her early experiences navigating medical and social barriers shaped her life’s work — turning personal struggle into a public campaign for equity, visibility and change.

Rooted in San Francisco’s vibrant disability justice movement, Wong pushed to reshape how the Bay Area — and the nation — understood equity, spotlighting barriers to access in the city’s universities and restaurants.

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When Bay Area coffee shops moved to ban paper cups, Wong told the Chronicle how the decision would burden those in the disabled community with limited mobility or decreased sensation in their hands. For them, glass and ceramic mugs were often too heavy and slippery.

Alice Wong drinks out of a paper cup at a cafe in San Francisco in November 2019. Wong wrote of the hardships faced by people with disabilities as they navigated everyday life — and campaigned for change.

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Wong also worked to establish accessible resources for disabled students at UCSF, where she earned a master’s degree in medical sociology in 2004 and later worked as a staff researcher for more than a decade.

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She had moved to San Francisco in 1997 to attend the university, which at the time, she said, didn’t have any accessible places for her to live. The university built her a one-room unit in the garage of a professor’s house, Wong said in her memoir, “Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life.” She worked with UCSF’s Office of Student Life to change access for disabled students.

Wong said she struggled at university and pushed off work for her classes. Around 2001, she stopped being a student before returning to finish her degree. Years later, Wong said one of her professors apologized, saying he was sorry the department hadn’t done more to support her.

“Disabled people have resisted for millennia efforts to eliminate us and erase our culture,” Wong said in 2024 during an alternative communication research summit. “Doctors told my parents I wouldn’t live past 18, so I grew up never imagining what grownup old ass Alice would look like, and this is why visibility, being able to tell our stories and controlling our own narratives, is why I do what I do.”

Disability rights activist Alice Wong, shown at Rutherford Hill Winery in Napa County, has died at age 51.
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The founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which collects oral histories of Americans with disabilities in conjunction with StoryCorps, Wong has been at the forefront of chronicling how COVID and its unparalleled disruption of lives and institutions have underscored challenges that disabled people have always had to live with.

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Though Wong often jokingly described herself as an “angry disabled Asian girl,” she brought sharp humor and insight to her activism. In “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century,” she edited authors exploring inequities within the disabled community and how society values certain bodies over others.

“There is a cyborg hierarchy,” disability activist Jillian Weise wrote. “They like us best with bionic arms and legs. They like us Deaf with hearing aids, though they prefer cochlear implants. It would be an affront to ask the Hearing to learn sign language. Instead they wish for us to lose our language, abandon our culture, and consider ourselves cured.”

Wong wrote about her own experience transforming into what she calls a cyborg in an article for Literary Hub.

“Doctors advised me to get spinal fusion surgery when I was around twelve, but I was too freaked out by the thought of it because it was a serious-ass procedure,” Wong wrote. “By eighth grade my parents told me I was near the final window for this surgery, which could improve my breathing and alleviate the deep fatigue I experienced every day. I relented — with no idea how it would turn me into a cyborg inside out.”

Wong’s achievements brought national recognition. In 2013, then-President Barack Obama selected her for a two-year seat on the National Council on Disability, which advised Congress and the president. In 2024, she received the prestigious MacArthur Foundation genius grant.

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It was also the year, after decades of sharing a home with her parents, she moved into her own apartment in San Francisco with her cats, Bert and Ernie, according to the New York Times.

Wong is survived by her father, Henry, and her mother, Bobby, both immigrants from Hong Kong, as well as her sisters, Emily and Grace Wong.

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Denver, CO

Short on starters, Nuggets take down Timberwolves again for 7th straight win

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November 16, 2025

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Short on starters, Nuggets take down Timberwolves again for 7th straight win

Two win streaks collided in the Twin Cities this weekend. Something had to give.

In the end, it was Minnesota’s four-game surge that snapped. The Nuggets were too much to overcome, even without starters Christian Braun and Cam Johnson. With a 123-112 victory on Saturday, they’ve won seven in a row, including three straight on the road.

Denver (10-2) hosts the Chicago Bulls on Monday before hitting the road again.

Without Braun and Johnson

In their first game navigating what will be at least a six-week absence for Braun, the Nuggets had to replace two starters, not one. David Adelman went with Peyton Watson and Tim Hardaway Jr., and both contributed in their own ways.

Hardaway reached 20 points for the second time this season, punctuated by a contested corner 3-pointer while falling into Minnesota’s bench as Denver pulled away in the fourth quarter. Watson had a fairly erratic night offensively, but Denver doesn’t need much from him at that end of the floor when he plays with the starters. His defensive effort will determine how he fills the Braun void, and it was largely up to standard in Minnesota.

The Nuggets started the game in their 2-3 zone defense, which was effective at forcing turnovers and above-the-break 3s early, then Watson was the primary matchup on Anthony Edwards when they played man-to-man. The star guard struggled to make shots as Denver played solid team defense against him. Watson was at the head of the snake, and behind him, his teammates tried to show Edwards a crowd.

The short-handed Nuggets played Spencer Jones and Julian Strawther to patch together a nine-man rotation. How they approach Braun’s spot in the lineup whenever Johnson returns will be fascinating. Hardaway has been stellar all season, but the starting unit might call for more of a defense-first player against opponents with an elite guard.

The Aaron Gordon factor

The Nuggets have tweaked how they prefer to use Gordon under Adelman. He’s working out of the dunker spot less often in the early part of the season. He’s handling the ball more and playing in a lot of three-man actions with Jokic and Jamal Murray (or other combinations).

Adelman staggered Gordon along with Murray on the second unit and managed to win the non-Jokic minutes by a sturdy margin. Gordon hit a pair of key shots during a fourth-quarter run, first from the midrange off the dribble, then from the 3-point line off the catch.

His defense has also been living up to his preseason promise to “turn up.” Opponents are shooting 43 for 113 (38.1%) with Gordon defending, and it’s a testament to his value that Denver’s coaching staff feels comfortable enough with him guarding Edwards to switch Gordon onto him when Watson or another primary defender gets screened.

Appointment viewing Christmas Day

This rivalry is alive and well. Even the Nuggets’ newcomers are embracing it. After Jonas Valanciunas battled Naz Reid for a feisty offensive rebound Saturday, they got in each other’s faces and Reid earned a technical foul.

In the second half, Rudy Gobert picked up a flagrant for bulldozing through a cross-screen set by Hardaway under the basket — Hardaway had words for Gobert after the foul. The Nuggets didn’t even have time to inbound the ball for the ensuing play because Gordon and Julius Randle were grappling for positioning. It wasn’t much, but it was enough for the nearest official to call a rare double tech, trying to get a chippy game under control.

This was a physical, messy, awesomely competitive game that should portend more popcorn entertainment on Christmas, when the Wolves visit Ball Arena in prime time. The two franchises are fittingly trading blows in an increasingly layered rivalry. They’ve both taken a playoff series from the other. Minnesota swept the season series last year. Now, the Nuggets have already stolen both head-to-head matchups in Minneapolis this season.

Former coach Michael Malone used to be reluctant to label Nuggets vs. Timberwolves as a rivalry. But it’s abundantly clear these teams don’t like each other.

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Seattle, WA

Grubauer stars in relief as Seattle Kraken beat Sharks 4-1

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November 16, 2025

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Grubauer stars in relief as Seattle Kraken beat Sharks 4-1

SEATTLE (AP) — Philipp Grubauer stopped all 19 shots he faced in relief of injured Matt Murray, and the Seattle Kraken got two goals from Jaden Schwartz to help beat the San Jose Sharks 4-1 on Saturday night.

Seattle Kraken 4, San Jose Sharks 1: Box score

Adam Larsson and Eeli Tolvanen scored 38 seconds apart late in the second period to give the Kraken a 3-1 lead. Jamie Oleksiak and Chandler Stephenson each had two assists for Seattle, which lost 6-1 to the Sharks in the same building 10 days earlier — its worst defeat of the season.

Alexander Wennberg scored for the Sharks, and Alex Nedeljkovic made 19 saves. San Jose has dropped two straight after winning four in a row.

Murray exited with a lower-body injury with 18 seconds left in the first after allowing a goal. Grubauer, who made 23 saves Thursday in a 5-3 victory over Winnipeg, came off the bench and earned his third straight win.

Seattle is already without goalie Joey Daccord, on injured reserve with an upper-body injury.

Larsson scored his first of the season from the top of the right circle to put Seattle in front with 3:55 left in the second. Tolvanen made it 3-1 on a slap shot from the right circle, his second consecutive game with a goal.

Schwartz added his seventh on an empty-netter with 3:29 remaining in the third.

Schwartz opened the scoring at 8:14 of the first, deflecting in Stephenson’s feed. Wennberg tied it with a power-play goal, tipping in Macklin Celebrini’s 17th assist with 18 seconds to play in the period.