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In California, long jail sentences pack prisons, but a Supreme Court ruling and a hunger strike may improve conditions.
US state asked to free tens of thousands of prisoners or take other steps to prevent suffereing in overcrowded prisons.
Supreme Court decision rules that race cannot be a factor in determining school.
A sharply divided US Senate has confirmed Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, backing a second conservative nominated by George Bush, the US president, in his effort to move the nation's highest court to the right.
The US Senate is set to approve Samuel Alito, George Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, after opposition Democrats failed to block the move with a last-minute procedural manoeuvre.

Samuel Alito, the US Supreme Court nominee, has faced more aggressive questioning from Democrats at his Senate confirmation hearing.

George Bush's conservative Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has begun what is likely to be a contentious week of Senate confirmation hearings.
US President George Bush has nominated conservative judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in a move likely to set off a partisan battle with Democrats as he tries to right his struggling presidency.
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