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New York Times: Emergency-service trucks rumbled up Broadway to positions on two sides of Zuccotti Park. Powerful klieg lights blinked on, illuminating about 220 protesters in tents and sleeping bags. The one-square-block plaza was as bright as day. But it was only 1 a.m. Voices of the police, booming from loudspeakers, echoed through the financial [...]

(CNET News) The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in an online dating profile at a site like Match.com. In a statement obtained by CNET that’s scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, the Justice Department argues [...]

CNN: White Americans give Obama a thumbs down by a 61%-36% margin, with non-white Americans give the president a thumbs up by a more than 2-1 margin. Read the whole thing…

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — When you get right down to it, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was able to evict Zuccotti Park protestors because he faked them out. Once he knew he had to evict the protesters Kelly reached into his NYPD playbook and pulled out his trick play. He had been running regular drills every [...]

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New York Times: But late Tuesday afternoon, the judge ruled for the city, saying the protesters could go into Zuccotti Park but could not take their tents and sleeping bags. The judge, Justice Michael D. Stallman of State Supreme Court, said that the demonstrators “have not demonstrated that they have a First Amendment right to [...]

NBC News: Don’t bring your dogs to Justin Herman Plaza, Occupiers. Three dogs residing at the Occupy SF encampment by The Embarcadero have tested positive for a highly contagious disease called the parvovirus, according to the San Francisco Examiner. The San Francisco SPCA and city Animal Care and Control visited the camp on Monday to [...]

Fox Nation: Bill Maher probably thought he was going on ‘The View’ (weekdays, syndicated on ABC) to talk about the comically inept field of Republican presidential candidates, and maybe to plug his book, ‘The New New Rules.’ Instead, his segment was sidetracked by Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who seemed hurt and outraged by a joke Maher told [...]

New York Times: The city has filed papers opposing the restraining order blocking the city’s eviction of Zuccotti Park. Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway wrote in the motion that giving the protesters full run of the park would lead to re-creation of the “unsafe and unsanitary conditions and the substantial threat to public safety” that the [...]

Fox Nation: The Obama administration urged officers of the struggling solar company Solyndra to postpone announcing planned layoffs until after the November 2010 midterm elections, newly released e-mails show. Solyndra, the now-shuttered California company, had been a poster child of President Obama’s initiative to invest in clean energies and received the administration’s first energy loan [...]

LA Times: On the heels of New York City officials’ decision to clear Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said Tuesday that protesters and officials are working on a timeline for closing down the camp. He declined to discuss specifics but told The Times he hopes the Occupy L.A. encampment [...]