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As police dismantle more of the remaining Occupy camps, protesters in Washington staged sit-ins at congressional offices. Now they're targeting corporations and lobbying firms on K Street.

The Food and Drug Administration had decided that a version of the morning-after emergency contraceptive pill could be sold without a prescription to buyers of any age. But the head of the Department of Health and Human Services overruled the FDA.

A New Jersey teacher posted comments on Facebook against a gay history exhibit at her school. Another teacher could lose her job for a post in which she called her students future criminals. Incidents like this around the country spark heated debates over privacy and free speech.

In 1411, the count of Namur banned the use of stilts in the Belgian city. Over the past 600 years, the elevated footwear has been used for everything from putting up drywall to fishing and even jousting.

The Weather Service chief said he has never seen a year like this in terms of extreme weather. The 12 disasters alone also killed 646 people.

The university president called the shootings a "wanton act of violence" that brought back "difficult memories of the past." In 2007, a student there killed 32 others before taking his own life.

Reacting to widespread protests across the country, Dmitry Medvedev said that "people should have an opportunity to express their opinion."

Russian lawyer and blogger Alexei Navalny is the darling of protesters and the bete noire of the Kremlin. His fight against economic corruption made him famous — as did his nickname for the allies of Vladimir Putin: "the party of crooks and thieves." And his arrest this week for protesting against alleged fraud in the recent parliamentary election is likely to raise his profile even higher.

The supersize instrument tracks motion via cameras and creates tones and prerecorded sounds.

Eric Holder faced scrutiny from the Republican-dominated House Judiciary Committee on Thursday regarding the "Fast and Furious" initiative meant to keep guns from reaching Mexican cartels. Holder denied misleading Congress when hundreds of weapons were found at border town crime scenes.