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There were 388,000 first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week.

As Wall Street employees make their way to work, the conflict at the center of the protest is on full display.

Law enforcement officials tell several news outlets that Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez had told others of his anger toward President Obama and Washington.

Director Alexander Payne finds comedy in the crises of his flawed protagonists: a struggling writer in Sideways, a retired widower in About Schmidt and now a family man who must reassess his life in The Descendants.

Kevin Whitehead says this Davis quintet was consistently amazing, not least on its last big tour.

From New York to California and places in between, Occupy protesters are in the streets Thursday, exactly two months after the movement began. Police in riot gear were deployed in lower Manhattan Thursday morning as hundreds of demonstrators marched with the aim of shutting down Wall Street.

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is accused of firing shots at the executive mansion. Authorities say one bullet struck a window, but did not penetrate the protective glass.

The STOCK Act, a bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stock based on nonpublic information they get because they're lawmakers, has 61 co-sponsors and counting. What's remarkable about this is the STOCK Act had just nine co-sponsors last week.

Melissa Block and Guy Raz read emails from listeners about an effort in Congress to get pizza counted as a vegetable in schools and R.E.M. calling it quits.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi poked fun at GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry when she responded to his challenge to debate her next Monday. Pelosi said she had three other engagements that day — but forgot the third. In response, Perry's campaign referenced a recent 60 Minutes piece, tweeting that perhaps she had forgotten about ongoing insider trading.