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Occupy Wall Street Court Showdown This Week

Manhattan's criminal courthouse will be occupied this week by more than 700 men and women who are charged with a committing a range of minor crimes while participating in the ubiquitous Occupy Wall Street protests.
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Civil rights groups want FCC to open an investigation

The percentage of women and people of color running television and radio companies is falling, despite the rise in minority populations, and civil rights groups want the Federal Communications Commission to do something about it.
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House Ethics Panel Continues Probe Into Jesse Jackson Jr.

A 2009 report from the Office of Congressional Ethics said there was probable cause to believe Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois agreed to raise campaign money for Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for a Senate seat.
Police clear the street of protesters near the Occupy Los Angeles encampment at City Hall Park after the midnight deadline for eviction from City Hall Park passes in Los Angeles

LAPD Dismantles Occupy Encampment at City Hall

Police in riot gear and biohazard suits began removing anti-Wall Street activists from an encampment outside the Los Angeles City Hall early Wednesday in a belated enforcement of an eviction order from the mayor.
The Occupy Los Angeles encampment at City Hall Park is seen before the midnight deadline for eviction from City Hall Park passes in Los Angeles

Police Begin Evicting Occupy LA Camp

Police in riot gear closed in on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles early Wednesday, determined to enforce the mayor's order to evict protesters who have camped outside City Hall for the past eight weeks.
Protesters march with a large banner outside a Bank of America office at an Occupy LA protest in Los Angeles, California

Eviction of Occupy LA Camp Seems Imminent

Throngs of anti-Wall Street protesters braced for eviction Tuesday night from their encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall, as word spread by broadcast news reports and the Internet that a police raid was imminent.
The Occupy Los Angeles encampment at City Hall Park is seen before the midnight deadline for eviction from City Hall Park passes in Los Angeles

Police hold off on Los Angeles Occupy camp eviction

Police in riot gear closed in before dawn on Monday on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles who defied a midnight deadline to vacate a camp outside City Hall, but stopped short of clearing the encampment.
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Police hold off on eviction of Los Angeles Occupy camp

Police in riot gear closed in before dawn on Monday on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles who defied a midnight deadline to vacate a camp outside City Hall, but stopped short of clearing the encampment.
Protesters celebrate after they evaded eviction at the 12.01am deadline outside City Hall at the Occupy LA encampment in Los Angeles

Police and Occupy LA protesters skirmish

Police in riot gear closed in before dawn Monday on anti-Wall Street activists who defied a midnight deadline to vacate an 8-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall, but the police later pulled back.
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Police and Los Angeles protesters skirmish

Police in riot gear closed in before dawn Monday on anti-Wall Street activists who defied a midnight deadline to vacate an 8-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall, but the police later pulled back.
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New York Times columnist Tom Wicker dies at 85

Tom Wicker, the New York Times reporter who covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for the paper before moving on to become the Times' Washington bureau chief and a columnist for 25 years, died at his Rochester, Vermont, home on Friday, the Times reports.
An Occupy Wall street protestor gestures in front of New York City Police inside Zuccotti Park as protests moved through the streets of lower Manhattan near the New York Stock Exchange during what organizers called a ''Day of Action''

Consensus, Human Mic Become Part of 'Occupy' Culture

When police ordered anti-Wall Street protesters out of a vacant lot in Oakland this week, the group responded as it does to nearly every challenge it has faced -- with a lively debate.
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Provincial court upholds ban on polygamy

A Canadian provincial court on Wednesday upheld the country's ban on polygamy, saying the harm that plural marriage causes to women and children outweighed any infringement of religious freedoms.
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Occupy Wall Street's First Federal Civil Rights Suit Against NYPD Filed

Two Occupy Wall Street protesters filed the first federal civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD in connection with the OWS movement on Monday, claiming they were falsely arrested and subjected to excessive force last month during a protest at a Manhattan bank.
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Remembering President John F. Kennedy

It has been said that the U.S. lost its innocence on November 22, 1963. Forty eight years have passed since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on that horrific day in Dallas. And in some sense, the nation has never fully recovered.
UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike dousing seated students with pepper spray

Occupy UC Davis Protesters to Sue Over Pepper Spray Incident

Occupy UC Davis has annpunced that it plans to pursue legal action as the fallout continues to grow in the wake of UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike's pepper-spraying of nonviolent student protesters seated in the school's quad on Friday.
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Proposition 8 Ruling: Rights Are Not Subject to Popular Vote

When California's Proposition 8 has its day in court, any judge who respects the U.S. Constitution will strike it down as a violation of the 14th Amendment, because civil rights cannot be subject to popular vote.

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