Black renters raise tensions in Bay Area

As more and more black renters began moving into mostly white Antioch, Calif., a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.

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Mothers against Facebook breast-feeding ban

Facebook has sparked a massive online debate - and protests - and after removing photos that expose too much of a mother's breast.

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O.J. Simpson faces spartan desert prison

O.J. Simpson's future was clear Saturday. His new home will be a prison cell in the Nevada desert, with freedom hinging on an appeal of a trial that his lawyers say was filled with errors.

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Young voter turnout likely sets new record

Young Americans can finally shake off their reputation for civic apathy. Young people appear to have voted in higher numbers than ever before, preliminary reports show.

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Rights groups challenge new gay-marriage ban

Gay-rights advocates went to court Wednesday to press for same-sex marriages a day after California voters dealt them a stunning setback by approving a ban on such unions.

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Top Ky. court clears way for child killer's death

The Kentucky Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the execution of a child killer who asked to be put to death so that delays would not "drag out the misery" for himself and victims' families.

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Texas executing 12 inmates over 6 weeks

The steady stream of executions in Texas is relieving a logjam created when the U.S. Supreme Court effectively halted lethal injections around the country while it weighed? the killing method.

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Space toilet goes on the fritz ... again!

The master bathroom for three astronauts aboard the international space station is on the fritz again, just days before a trio of new spacefliers are due to launch toward the lab, NASA said.

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Retirement account losses near $2 trillion

Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday.

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End of road for driver with $1.9 million in fines

Brazilian police reportedly have caught up with a motorist who owes the equivalent of nearly $2 million in unpaid traffic fines.

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Acting legend Paul Newman dies at 83

Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario, has died, a spokeswoman said Saturday. He was 83.

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How about a double scoop of mama's milk?

Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.

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TV anchor who resembles Palin gets 'hate mail'

A television news anchor in Maine who looks a lot like Sarah Palin says she's been getting "hate mail and nasty phone calls."

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Obama rejects McCain call to delay debate

Barack Obama rejected John McCain's call Wednesday to delay Friday's debate because of the economic crisis.

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Mine yields one of world's largest diamonds

Miners in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho have found one of the world's largest diamonds, a near-flawless white gem weighing nearly 500 carats, mining group Gem Diamonds said on Sunday.

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Mom finds hungry stranger snoring in son's bed

A man was charged with burglary after he allegedly broke into a home, ate cheese from the refrigerator, made a mess in a bathroom and fell asleep on a child's bed.

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States sue EPA to move on global warming

A coalition of states is suing the Bush administration to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked what justices called inaction on global warming.

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Student, city fight for Olympic Web site

A 29-year-old MBA student is countersuing the Chicago Olympic committee for rights to Chicago2016.com.

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Lawyer suspended for accepting nude dances

An Illinois attorney was suspended for more than a year for accepting nude dances from a stripper as partial payment for the legal fees she owed him.

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'Big bang machine' study halted for 2 months

The $10 billion "big bang" particle collider has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said on Saturday.

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Amid scary rescue, window installer calls mom

A window installer plucked from a scaffold that teetered about 70 stories above a Manhattan street says he called his mother while he was waiting to be rescued.

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Happy 113th birthday for world's oldest man

The world's oldest man celebrated his 113th birthday on Thursday, telling reporters at his home in southern Japan about his joyful life and healthy appetite.

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World's shortest man meets leggiest woman

Trafalgar Square routinely serves as a stage for mimes, jugglers and other acts, but the tourist attraction drew an exceptionally curious crowd Tuesday when the shortest man who can walk met the woman with the longest legs.

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French troops storm yacht, rescue hostages

French troops stormed a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates, killing one, capturing six others and freeing their two French hostages in a raid that France's president said Tuesday was a warning to criminals on the high seas.

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