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SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor in SF: on affirmative action, “terror” on the job — and witchcraft

Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, on a book tour, wowed a full house in San Francisco Monday — speaking frankly about her “terror” in handling her first case there, defending affirmative action, and talking about forces that guided her journey from the South Bronx to the highest court in the land. Sotomayor was greeted […]

San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro — “the next Obama?” — a hot ticket in San Francisco (VIDEO)

He’s been called the “Latino messiah,” and “the next Obama” — and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, at 38, hasn’t even been elected to a statewide or federal office yet. But if his hot-hot appearance Monday in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club of California is any indication, he may be one to watch. Castro, […]