Hundreds of thousands of commuters who rely on Bay Area Rapid Transit -- the nation's fifth-largest rail system -- had to find alternate routes to work. Traffic heading to San Francisco on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was jammed.

Lines for ferries and buses appeared even longer than on Monday, and BART said charter buses it was running at four stations reached capacity before 7 a.m. and could not accommodate additional passengers.

Tolu Adeoye, 19 watched as an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District bus cruised past his stop in Berkeley. It was full, leaving him and more than 20 others stranded and looking for other options to get to San Francisco.

"I guess I'm not going to work today," said Adeoye, a Santa Clara University student who works for Xerox.

Workers representing two of BART's largest unions went on strike after talks with management broke down on Sunday. No new talks have been scheduled.

The striking unions and management reported being far apart on key issues including salary, pensions, health care and safety.

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Monday was the first chance for all but a handful of California's same-sex couples to wed since 2008, when about 18,000 couples got hitched in a brief window before a voter-approved ban.

Last week, the high court ruled that backers of Proposition 8 didn't have standing to defend the measure in court, and late Friday the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay, allowing some weddings that afternoon.

The Los Angeles County clerk-recorder's office logged 600 online marriage license applications over the weekend and posted extended hours Monday to deal with the crush.

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On Friday, the Ninth Circuit lifted its injunction against same-sex marriages, which had been put in place pending a Supreme Court ruling on the legal challenge to Proposition 8. Last week, the Supreme Court held that it did not have jurisdiction to decide the case on the merits, as the supporters of the measure, which banned same-sex marriage in California, did not have standing to appeal a District Court ruling that the law was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court's decision vacated the Ninth Circuit's ruling, meaning that the only barrier to same-sex marriage in the state was the injunction.

Since the Ninth Circuit's decision, same-sex couples have already begun marrying in the state. But supporters of Proposition 8 argued that the injunction could not be lifted until the Supreme Court decision was finalized, which occurs 25 days after a decision is handed down.

Kennedy had dissented from the majority opinion on the ruling, which was written by Chief Justice John Roberts.

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"I believe that the members of Congress, many more than are directly affected themselves by the number of Hispanics in their district, will do what is right for our country,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. “And it’s certainly right, for the Republicans, if they ever want to win a presidential race.”

The immigration reform measure that passed out of the Senate last week is currently under consideration by the House, where it is unpopular among conservative Republicans. Republican leadership has indicated that they may not pass the full Senate version, but could pass legislation piecemeal instead.

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Instead of feeling melancholy about the life she was leaving behind, Mare was brimming with excitement. The Beast, Len’s old green Chevy, was loaded down with their belongings and ready to carry them north. Six years earlier, Mare had arrived in San Francisco with her new husband, Gene. When her marriage fell apart a year later, she fled to the Haight-Ashbury. What a refuge the Haight had been. The neighborhood was brimming with creativity and hope. The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane all called it home. The Diggers served free soup down the Panhandle from Mare’s apartment. The Haight was famous the world over. During that summer they called Love, even more dreamers flocked to San Francisco. There was such a spirit of freedom and communalism to the place that, for a moment, Mare really believed love could conquer all.

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“Our goal is to have marriage equality, that is guaranteed by the United States constitution, enforced in every single state in the Union,” Boies said on CNN's State of the Union.

“There isn't any state we're giving up on,” he added.

From CNN:

Boies argued Sunday that the decision made by the Supreme Court can be applied on a national scale, rather than just California. Earlier this week, he told CNN’s Gloria Borger that proponents of same-sex marriage plan to get marriage equality in all 50 states within the next five years. Currently, 13 states plus the District of Columbia approve same-sex marriage.

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Reuters reports:

In their application asking the Supreme Court to overrule the 9th Circuit and reinstate the gay marriage ban, opponents argued the appeals court had jumped the gun in lifting its stay.

The Arizona-based group Alliance Defending Freedom argued that the 9th Circuit lacked authority to act when it did, and that it violated the terms of its own stay requiring the ruling remain in place "until final disposition by the Supreme Court."

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Pelosi was speaking on USA Today's "Capital Download," and said that though she's "not making endorsements right now, because I don't think that's appropriate," among Democrats "[t]here's a great deal of excitement about the prospect that she would run."

As USA Today points out, at the end of the 2008 primary campaign, Pelosi had a slightly different take:

In 2008, Pelosi was House speaker and stayed officially neutral in the primary battle between Clinton and Barack Obama. She drew ire from Clinton's campaign with a comment that it would be "harmful" for unelected "superdelegates" to determine the nomination. At that key moment, support from superdelegates was seen as the only way Clinton might prevail.

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Though wedding bells may be weeks away, same-sex couples and their supporters filled city blocks of San Francisco and West Hollywood on Wednesday night to savor the long awaited decisions as thumping music resounded.

"Today the words emblazoned across the Supreme Court ring true: equal justice under law," said Paul Katami, one of the plaintiffs who challenged California's gay marriage ban, as he celebrated in West Hollywood.

In one of two 5-4 rulings, the high court cleared the way for gay marriages to resume in California, holding that the coalition of religious conservative groups that qualified a voter-approved ban for the ballot did not have the authority to defend it after state officials refused. The justices thus let stand a San Francisco trial court's ruling in August 2010 that overturned the ban.

In the other, the court wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law, the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, putting legally married gay couples on equal federal footing with all other married Americans, allowing them to receive the same tax, health and pension benefits.

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In  a 5-4 decision in Windsor v. United States, the court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, the majority ruling that  Section 3 of the 1996 law — which denied federal recognition and benefits to same-sex couples married under state law — is unconstitutional.

In a subsequent 5-4 decision, the court dismissed the second same-sex-marriage case, Hollingsworth v. Perry – dealing with whether or not marriage rights can be removed by a vote of the people. The majority argued the coalition of anti-marriage-equality advocates did not have standing to appeal a broad trial court decision from 2010, which found that California’s Proposition 8 was unconstitutional.

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Perry and Stier were soon joined on air by fellow plaintiffs Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami to listen in on the celebratory call.

You can watch the surprising moment here:

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The justices are expected to decide their first-ever cases about gay marriage Wednesday in their last session before the court's summer break.

The issues before the court are California's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which denies legally married gay Americans a range of tax, health and pension benefits otherwise available to married couples.

The broadest possible ruling would give gay Americans the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. But several narrower paths also are available, including technical legal outcomes in which the court could end up saying very little about same-sex marriage.

If the court overturns California's Proposition 8 or allows lower court rulings that struck down the ban to stand, it will take about a month for same-sex weddings to resume for the first time since 2008, San Francisco officials have said.

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The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found that the iPad was the least expensive option that met its specifications.

The initial order is for more than 31,000 iPads, Apple said. The Los Angeles Unified School District has more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

The textbooks will be delivered through an application from Pearson, a major publisher, rather than through Apple's own iBooks. Apple and its publisher partners launched a suite of textbooks for iBooks in early 2012.

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Rohrabacher first argued that some researchers are “very skeptical of some of the research that has been going on" that links human action to climate change. He then objected to OFA's use of the term "climate denier."

“The only other use of that term is a ‘Holocaust denier,’” Rohrabacher said, according to Politico. “Do you use that term ‘denier’ for those people who disagree with you on climate science, and do you think that term is appropriate in engaging in a civil discourse over a scientific issue?”

“I much prefer a civil discourse, and that’s what I hope we’re engaging in," Moniz replied.

From Politico:

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In a lawsuit being filed Tuesday, the lawyers said the spying has hindered the ability of residents to freely practice their religion. It is the third significant legal action filed against the NYPD Muslim surveillance program since details of the spy program were revealed in a series of Associated Press reports in 2011 and 2012.

The lawsuit said that Muslim religious leaders in New York have modified their sermons and other behavior so as not to draw additional police attention. The suit is expected to be filed against Mayor Michael Bloomberg, police commissioner Raymond Kelly and the deputy commissioner of intelligence, David Cohen.

The lawsuit, which accuses the city of violating the First and Fourteenth amendments, is the latest legal challenge to the activities of the NYPD Intelligence Division. A year ago, the California-based civil rights organization Muslim Advocates sued the NYPD over its counterterrorism programs. Earlier this year, civil rights lawyers urged a judge to stop the NYPD from routinely observing Muslims in restaurants, bookstores and mosques, saying the practice violates a landmark 1985 court settlement that restricted the kind of surveillance used against war protesters in the 1960s and '70s.

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"There has been movement across the board," Dave Kanevsky, the research director for the Republican polling outfit American Viewpoint, which was involved in the survey, told the Los Angeles Times. "Every group has moved" in favor of same-sex marriage, he said.

The Times reports that one of the most significant shifts has been among older voters:

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What started as domestic violence led to a chaotic street shooting spree and ended less than 15 minutes later in a college library where the gunman was killed Friday by police as students studying for finals ran for cover or hunkered down to avoid whizzing bullets.

Investigators were looking at family connections to find a motive because the killer's father and brother were the first victims, an official briefed on the probe who requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly told The Associated Press.

The killer, who died a day shy of his 24th birthday, was connected to the home that went up in flames after the first shootings, said Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks. She refused to elaborate or name the suspect because a surviving family member was out of the country and couldn't immediately be notified.

At an afternoon news conference next to the weapons and ammo found at multiple crime scenes, Seabrooks said the "cowardly murderer" planned the attack and was capable of firing 1,300 rounds.

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Xi's senior foreign policy adviser, Yang Jiechi, said the two leaders "talked about cooperation and did not shy away from differences" in about eight hours of talks Friday and Saturday. The gathering at the sprawling Sunnylands estate was their first meeting since Xi took office in March.

"The two presidents agreed to build a new model of major country relationship between China and the United States based on mutual respect and win-win cooperation," Yang said.

"We have to stay each other's partners, not rivals," Yang said.

Yang said the international community expects relations between the world's two largest economies to steadily improve and grow, and that they are committed to working more closely together. He called it "a strategic, constructive and historic meeting."

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Trena Johnson, a longtime administrative assistant working in the dean's office, looked out the window around noon Friday and saw a man with a "very large gun."

"We saw a woman get shot in the head," said Johnson. "I haven't been able to stop shaking."

Before the rampage was over five people, including the gunman, were killed and five more were injured, police said.

The violence, which lasted just about 20 minutes, started about mile away when the gunman opened fire at a house where two bodies were found, police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said.

Two officials said the killings began as a domestic violence incident and the victims in the home were the gunman's father and brother. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case.

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Police Sgt. Rudy Flores said those believed to be down included the shooter. He did not elaborate on the extent of their wounds.

Flores said numerous witnesses called to report that the shooting began with a man on a street corner firing shots at vehicles, including a bus.

The gunfire took place about three miles from where President Barack Obama was attending a fundraiser Friday afternoon.

Secret Service spokesman Max Milien said the agency was aware of the shooting and it's not affecting the president's event.

Santa Monica College is a two-year college with about 34,000 students. The campus in the coastal Los Angeles suburb spreads out over 38 acres.

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