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Same-Sex Parents Lobby Congress for Equal Rights

In explaining his support of same-sex marriage, President Obama invoked staff members and friends who are in same-sex relationships and raising children. Thursday, dozens of same-sex families rallied in Washington to ask Congress to allow same-sex parents to adopt nationwide.

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NASA, SpaceX Aim To Launch Private Era In Orbit

A new mission plans to send the first commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station.

U.S. Serves Up New Food Security Effort In Africa

The hope is to lift millions out of poverty, partly by using billions in private-sector investments.

Coming Up Sunday: A Ring of Fire in Afternoon Sky

People in a wide area of Northern California are in for a rare show Sunday afternoon: an annular eclipse that will obscure most of the sun's disk.

Planners to Vote on Future of Bay Area Development

A meeting tonight in Oakland may decide where you live, where you work, and how you get around the Bay Area for decades to come.

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The California Report

By Stephanie Martin

Chief Justice Warns of Court Budget Cuts

California's chief justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye is calling her colleagues to Sacramento today for an emergency meeting of the state Judicial Council. She says the cuts called for in the governor's budget proposal jeopardize the courts' ability to deliver justice in a timely way.

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Dolores Huerta Looks Back on 50 Years of the UFW

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The New Politics of Extremism

Political scientists Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein join us to discuss their new book "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism."

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Does Coffee Help You Live Longer?

New research shows that coffee might actually prevent some diseases. The largest study on the connection between coffee and health found that people who drank several cups a day were less likely to die prematurely.