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Los Angeles - Los Angeles police officers, scores of them in riot gear, dismantled an Occupy encampment at around 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, after allowing hundreds of protesters to …

London - Public sector workers on Wednesday began Britain’s biggest strike in a generation to protest austerity measures, a day after the British government said that it was falling …

London - Britain’s hacking scandal was reported on Tuesday to have broadened significantly into areas of national security, with the police investigating whether private detectives working for the Murdoch …

Occupy the Capitol, Olympia, Washington. (Photo: Trevor Griffey) Roughly two thousand people descended upon the Washington state capitol yesterday to expand the Occupy Wall Street movement to …

A civil rights complaint filed by Occupy Los Angeles Monday seeks to keep police from evicting the occupation from its home on the south lawn of City Hall. …

Monday was a day of action for university students on both coasts angered by the rising cost of tuition and the crackdowns on their recent protests. In California, students …

For months, major banks have been dealing with the fallout of the “robo-signing” scandal, following reports that the banks were improperly foreclosing on homeowners and, in many instances, falsifying …

Cairo - Polls opened for a second scheduled day of voting on Tuesday after unexpectedly large crowds of Egyptians defied predictions of bedlam and violence a day earlier to …

American Airlines' parent company, AMR Corp., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday morning and its chief executive Gerard Arpey has retired. The Fort Worth-based carrier said …

This week, the Washington state legislature is holding a special session to deal with issues related to the state’s budget. Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) has called on the legislature …