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A heated custody battle has broken out between Texas Judge William Adams and his former wife, Hallie Adams. Adams' attorney, William Dudley, filed a motion Monday to block a temporary restraining order that was granted Thursday.

A friend of Mike McQueary at Penn State released an email Tuesday that describes McQueary's reaction and actions taken after he witnesses the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy by former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky in the university's locker room showers. The email sent by McQueary to his friend in 2002 makes it clear that the graduate assistant stopped the assault and also contacted police. He says, however, he was hammered for the way he handled the situation.

A high-tension standoff between the protesters and police dragged on for hours, leading to arrests and violence against protesters. Cops tried to keep sidewalks around Zuccotti clear and the park itself was filled with dozens of police officers as well. At its peak, the showdown was between thousands of protesters and hundreds of police officers, many of whom were in riot gear.

In a recent tour of Capitol Hill and New York City, Alberta Premier Alison Redford stated Tuesday she hopes the Keystone Pipeline will play part of a larger integrated North American energy strategy.

NYPD police officers resorted to violence and arrests of Occupy Wall Street protesters while attempting to keep them from entering Zuccotti Park Tuesday morning.

Occupy Wall Street protesters planned to take back Zuccotti Park when an NYC court ruled in favor of Mayor Bloomberg, making the OWS ousting permanent. As demonstrators take to the streets to protest the ruling, relive the day after the NYPD raid, with photos of and conversations with Occupiers at Canal Street, Duarte Park and Liberty Square.

Following a police raid of Occupy Wall Street in the early hours of Tuesday morning, lawyers have filed in lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court to protect the First Amendment rights of Occupy Boston protesters.

The Occupy Wall Street movement in still images.

From the front lines of the Occupy Wall Street protest on the day New York evicted participants from their encampment in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, it became clear that the effort which may or may not be a movement is at a defining moment.

Judge's order follows a NYPD raid of the Occupy Wall Street encampment early Tuesday morning at 1 a.m. EST.

Oakland Deputy Mayor Sharon Cornu resigned from her position only hours after Mayor Jean Quan's legal adviser announced his resignation on Twitter.

The U.S. involvement in the Middle East has spiked since the 9/11 attacks. However, there are two big arguments for scaling it back.

Occupy Wall Street activists vowed to take back Zuccotti Park Tuesday afternoon, hours after New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered police to clear the park.

There is an attempt to change the State of Israel, this is what Netanyahu wants to do, she said.

Baby Lisa's family is moving back into their home in Kansas City Tuesday for the first time since Lisa's disappearance on Oct. 4. Parents Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, as well as her two half-brothers, moved out of their home following Lisa's disappearance. The family's home and surrounding area has been thoroughly searched in the past month by police and the FBI.

Although dowries are illegal and a criminal offense, the act is still widely practiced in South Asia.

Yarsagumba has been hailed as the “Himalayan Viagra.”

Experts detailed New York's economic, social and environmental challenges on Tuesday in Zoning the City, an urban planning conference held in midtown.

Libya's National Transitional Council is furious that Niger offered amnesty to Moammar Gadhafi's son Saadi Gadhafi.

Jon Huntsman's father is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an ad campaign in New Hampshire in a last-ditch attempt to save his son's presidential campaign.

Opponents of Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., have reportedly organized 8,000 volunteers to gather signatures for a petition to oust the GOP governor from office. If they succeed, Walker will be the third governor in U.S. history to be recalled.

Erdogan’s comments followed a call by the King of Jordan, Abdullah, for Assad to step down

The numerous crackdowns on Occupy Wall Street protests from coast to coast have many wondering if the moves by several U.S. cities were coordinated. A BBC interview with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has added to speculation that U.S. mayors worked together in organizing against the two-month old movement.

Support is growing for one of the more controversial aspects of the Affordable Care Act, which mandates that most Americans carry health insurance.

A remote-controlled bomb blew up a police vehicle escorting a U.N. convoy in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp near the border with Somalia on Tuesday, the second such incident in the camp this month.

Coke has enjoyed double-digit growth in India in 15 of the last 21 quarters.

A sharp slowdown in world growth would increase the risk of recession in poorer countries, whose budgets have barely recovered from the last economic slump just two years ago, the IMF said on Monday.

Cholera has broken out in the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, home to nearly 500,000 Somali refugees, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has indicated to parliament he is not likely to delay approval of Tullow Oil's long proposed partnership with Total and CNOOC further, because it would diminish his government's credibility in future negotiations.