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San Francisco city officials plan to pull its offices from a downtown building near City Hall due to high rent and a bad real estate market, The San Francisco Standard reported Friday. The 11-story building in downtown San Francisco was initially leased to city and county officials back in 1999 and has over the years served as office space for many municipal departments like the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector, the Mayor’s Office of Disability and the Department of the Environment, the outlet reported.

President Obama played a holiday weekend round of golf on Saturday, but on the return trip the motorcade ditched the press pool that traditionally travels with the president. Obama's motorcade left the White House shortly before 1 p.m. ET for Andrews Air Force Base, a course he plays at frequently. The press pool trailed the president to the base in Maryland, as usual, and this weekend's reporter, National Journal's George Condon, held at the food court to wait for the presidential foursome's round to end. In a breach of long-held tradition, however, Obama's motorcade left Andrews without the reporters in...