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Conservative activist and journalist Milo Yiannopoulos was forced to cancel a speaking engagement at the University of California-Berkeley Wednesday night after violent protests broke out, Trace Gallagher reported on "Tucker Carlson Tonight." The college's police department placed the campus on lockdown. (TWEETS-AT-LINK)Yiannopoulos, a Breitbart News editor, called into "Tucker Carlson Tonight," and told Carlson that college liberals have a "big free speech problem" and that they "hate any libertarian or conservative" viewpoint. He said that shortly after he arrived at the facility at which he was to speak, other people began arriving in black clothes and masks....

Symbols of communism and marijuana and a prediction that "capitalism will fail" aren't exactly the sort of end-of-year messages you'd expect from an eighth grader. But that's precisely what some students at the Black Pine Circle School, a private school in Berkeley, Calif., chose to include in their "Class of 2007" mosaic. The symbols, which are prominently displayed outside the school, have prompted questions about the appropriateness of images like a hammer and sickle and a marijuana leaf on school grounds — and have led critics to say they are blatant proof of political indoctrination of young children. Black Pine...

BERKELEY Council passes plan to stop bad street behavior Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, June 13, 2007 Berkeley's City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to pass most of a sweeping plan to clear the streets of aggressive and disruptive behavior. The Public Commons for Everyone Initiative passed 9-0 after months of debate among the council, homeless advocates, merchants and residents. The council instructed City Manager Phil Kamlarz to develop details of the implementation, which he will bring back to the council for further approval. "This is a tolerant and caring community, but we do have our boundaries,'' said Mayor...

Wired Magazine co-founder Louis Rossetto Jr. is embroiled in a bitter fight with his Berkeley hills neighbors over his elderly mother's attempt to put an addition on a home she owns near his. Opponents want to have the home, built in 1937 and designed by famed architect William Wurster, declared a landmark -- blocking 87-year-old Marguerite Rossetto's wishes to add a ground-floor bedroom so that she won't have climb stairs. Critics contend the house at 1650 La Vereda Road should be protected because it is an early modernist masterpiece designed by Wurster, a former dean of UC Berkeley's architecture school...