Ashley Portero

Six protesters associated with the Occupy D.C. and Stop The Machine movements were arrested for demonstrating inside the Hart Senate Office building on Tuesday.

The city council in Topeka, Kansas is scheduled to vote Tuesday night on a proposal to repeal the part of the city code that bans domestic battery.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement gains momentum across the U.S., here's a look at other, major U.S. protests that have occurred within the last decade.

A new study found that vitamin supplements were associated with a slightly higher risk of death among older women, even though those women tended to be healthier than others while they were living.

Herman Cain told CNN's Candy Crowley that under his 9-9-9 economic plan, food would be subject to a 9 percent national sales tax that he claims would not negatively impact low-income Americans.

At least one town in Alabama has warned undocumented immigrants that their water supply will be cut off if they cannot prove they are U.S. citizens.

Rep. Ron Paul won the Values Voter Summit's presidential straw poll, which was sponsored by the Christian conservative American Family Association and the Family Research Council.

The Topeka City Council is considering a move to repeal the section of it's city code that deals with domestic violence disputes.

For two years, Herman Cain has had his opinion columns published on a conservative Web site that often questions whether President Barack Obama was born in the U.S.

More than 2,000 Hispanic students in Alabama missed school on Monday following a judge's decision to uphold the state's strict immigration law, which requires schools to verify the citizenship status of their students.

Maggie Phelps used an iPhone to announce the Westboro Baptist Church's intention to picket Steve Jobs' funeral.

Former President Ronald Reagan, often considered the hero of the modern Republican Party, said 'crazy' tax loopholes allowed millionaires to pay a lower tax rate than bus drivers.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said he and Jobs' mutual love for electronics, pranks and introspective discussion led to their friendship and ultimately, the creation of a multibillion-dollar company.

City Commissioners in Dayton, Ohio, approved an initiative that will make it easier for immigrants to live and thrive in the city.

Although Senate Democrats and Republicans had come to a deal to fund the extension of the Refugee Protection Act, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blocked the bill by demanding an investigation into whether the money could be used to fund domestic terrorists.

Sources affiliated with the hacker group Anonymous claim a video that says the hackers' plan to erase the New York Stock Exchange from the Internet in a move to support the Occupy Wall Street Movement is a hoax.

The FDA announced that the drug Avastin may impair fertility in some women. The drug's manufacturer has been battling the FDA for months to keep the agency from revoking its approval of Avastin's ability to treat breast cancer.

Conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter derided the Occupy Wall Street protesters by saying the movement is simliar to the Nazis' rise to power in Germany in the 1930s, and that the protesters also represent the start of totalitarianism in the U.S.

Major U.S. corporations often increase executive pay to ensure it is higher than the median in their industry, according to a report.

Investigators from the Government Accountability Office report that thousands of Medicare beneficiaries are doctor shopping to receive huge bulks of prescription drugs.

Nearly 12,000 California inmates are participating in a hunger strike to call attention to the inhumane treatment of prisoners housed in solitary confinement.

Imagines of Saturn's Moon Enceladus captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest it may have a liquid ocean underneath its snowy surface that could make it possible to support alien life.

The Facebook pages of Kim Jong-Il's exiled son and grandson show the pair has a strong interest in American culture.

A union representing New York City bus drivers filed a lawsuit to stop the police department from making drivers leave their routes to transport detained Occupy Wall Street protestors.

A series of emails released by the House Of Representative's Energy and Commerce committee show that Solyndra investors as well as White House officials questioned Solyndra's financial stability as early as December 2009.

Research from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) found that Big Tobacco was aware of the presence of carcinogenic radiation in cigarettes decades before it was announced to the public.

As several U.S. states fight to enact stricter immigration laws, several sources have reported a shocking practice that has occurred in more than one state: shackling pregnant women to their hospital bed during childbirth.

The CDC's Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project, funded by the Affordable Care Act, aims to develop programs to combat childhood obesity in low-income areas.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's 80-year-old definition of forcible rape excludes several examples of sexual assault that are typically considered rape by police departments across the country. Critics say it is an extremely narrow and archaic definition of rape that results in an under-reporting of the crime.