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A slim majority Americans still have a favorable opinion of the Supreme Court, but support has declined over the last three years.

The two industries spent a combined $112.9 million on lobbying fees during the first three months of 2012.

Richard Grenell, presumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney's first openly gay spokesperson, quit amid backlash by anti-gay conservatives after just two weeks on the job.

At the turn of the 20th century, German sociologist Werner Sombart asked: ?Why is there no socialism in the United States??

During a tense and chaotic standoff with protestors during the May Day Occupy protests, Oakland police threw flashbang grenades to scatter demonstrators at the intersection of 14th street and Broadway.

Charles Taylor's conviction at the Hague was important for Sierra Leone, but it represents only a single step in the country's long journey toward lasting peace.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous told reporters both sides were responsible for creating an atmosphere of appalling violence and that despite the bloodshed, the small UN presence was having a dampening effect.

Former opposition leader Tzipi Livni announced her resignation Tuesday from the Israeli parliament weeks after losing the leadership of the centrist Kadima Party.

Livestream Occupy Oakland's May Day protest in downtown Oakland.

A stand-off between police and protesters is currently underway in Oakland, where the use of of tear gas, smoke and flashbang grenades has been reported.

The new, multi-party Constitutional Reconciliation Commission met in the capital of Ankara on Monday and Tuesday to begin reworking and simplifying the country's 30 year old constitution, a document which gives the military broad and potentially oppressive rights over individuals and minority groups.

President Barack Obama will address the nation at 7:30 p.m. EDT to announce an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the role of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Critics complain that the minimum wage will hurt small business owners and the country?s competitiveness.

The U.S. House of Representatives was introduced to a new bill on Friday, called the Social Networking Online Protection Act 2012, or SNOPA, which would ban employers from requiring job candidates to provide their username or password to Facebook, or any other social networking account for that matter.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney ignored a heckler shouting Mitt Romney you're a racist! while he and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani criticized Barack Obama for politicizing the killing of Osama bin Laden.

In spite of organizers providing free coffee and bagels, planned May Day demonstrations across New York convened by the loosely organized movement against social and economic inequality known as Occupy Wall Street got off to a wet, slow, sleepy start. Much like the day itself, however, the street actions began warming up into the late afternoon and, by lunchtime, seemed to be close to going into full swing.

Various Brooklyn-based contingents of Occupy Wall Street poured across the Williamsburg Bridge and into the Lower East Side on Tuesday morning, part of a New York City-wide effort to display the movement's vitality in commemoration of May Day.

The United States condemned the alleged mistreatment of jailed politician Yulia Tymoshenko in Ukraine on Tuesday and called for her release.

Sanctions, if approved by the Security Council, would mean asset freezes and bans on foreign travel.

All the May Day General Strike online live streams are compiled here for you to watch as the protests sweep the United States today, May 1.

Nina Rhodes-Hughes, a key witness to the RFK assassination, has come out and said she believes that convicted RFK murderer Sirhan Sirhan did not act alone in the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Rhodes, a long overlooked witness to the murder, tells CNN in an exclusive interview that she heard two guns firing during the 1968 shooting and that authorities altered her account of the crime.

Hopeful First Lady Ann Romney continues to play the humanizer in Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, claiming her husband can be wild and crazy despite his seemingly uptight demeanor.

A small riot took place last night, Monday April 30, in the Mission district of San Francisco a day before plans headed by the Occupy Wall Street movement to bring May Day general strikes and celebrations to the US. The riot was carried out by around 50-100 protesters who marched through the trendy neighborhood smashing windows, throwing paint at store fronts and tagging signs with Anarchist slogans.

International Workers' Day, also known as May Day or Labor Day, is observed on May 1 and recognizes labor movements around the world.

There was no mention of the massive May 1 General Strike protests sweeping New York City and the world on the New York Times homepage as of 11:20 Tuesday morning.

A diplomat from the Kingdom said Egyptian forces had detained three Iranian men after uncovering the plot to kill ambassador Ahmed Kattan, but that the Saudis had opted to keep quiet about the plot for fear of stoking anti Saudi-demonstrators in the country.

During their historic first meeting, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon praised Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as a real leader (who) demonstrates flexibility for the greater cause of the people of a country.

The damning conclusion by parliament's Culture, Media and Sport committee went further, accusing the 81-year-old News International tycoon of being willfully blind to the phone hacking scandal at his News Of The World paper.

As the May 1 General Strike sweeps the world, drawing thousands of protesters out of the cubicle and into the street, they are marching in solidarity with the world's economically aggrieved. But many folks around the world are unable, or unwilling, to find common ground with the movement, and with Occupy Wall Street as a whole.