Connor Adams Sheets

As the Occupy Wall Street movement moves into a new phase following the Nov. 17 international Day of Action, a host of new groups and old voices are cropping up to protest the protesters.

Miley Cyrus's Poverty in the USA parody video is a depressing rehash of her hit 2009 song Party in the USA, set in the Occupy Wall Street era.

City Comptroller John Liu's troubles keep growing as new allegations of improper fundraising practices continue to surface in connection with his budding 2013 mayoral campaign, but Queens political types offer varying appraisals of his political future.

Two Occupy Wall Street protesters filed the first federal civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD in connection with the OWS movement on Monday, claiming they were falsely arrested and subjected to excessive force last month during a protest at a Manhattan bank.

The narrator of a new unlisted YouTube video describes the beautiful world that Occupy Wall Street is helping to turn people on to, setting his philosophical treatise to artistically-shot clips of the OWS movement and its supporters.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo predicts New York state will lose about $5 billion in federal funding now that the U.S. Congress's deficit-reduction super committee has failed to reach a compromise, as its co-chairs announced Monday evening.

Famed street artist-cum-celebrated-printmaker Shepard Fairey is backing the Occupy Wall Street movement with a new poster that turns his iconic 2008 campaign poster in support of Barack Obama into a plea for him to join the 99 percent.

A UC Davis programs director and associate professor has released a heartfelt statement apologizing on behalf of the school's faculty for not doing more to stop UC Davis police officers from pepper spraying nonviolent student protesters in the face as they sat on the school's quad Friday afternoon.

The NYPD arrested a homegrown lone wolf terror suspect on Saturday, who is charged with plotting to use pipe bombs that he was allegedly building in his Manhattan apartment to kill U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday night.

A man has been arrested within the past 24 hours on allegations that he planned to build and explode a bomb in New York City, the New York Times reports.

Israel stepped up the rhetoric against Iran Sunday, as Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the time has come to deal with the country and its nuclear program.

An unidentified NYPD officer is currently live on Reddit, answering the websites' users' live questions about Occupy Wall Street and other issues.

Two UC Davis police officers connected to the pepper-spraying of nonviolent student protesters on Friday were put on administrative leave on Sunday.

Occupy UC Davis has annpunced that it plans to pursue legal action as the fallout continues to grow in the wake of UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike's pepper-spraying of nonviolent student protesters seated in the school's quad on Friday.

Much has been made of the protesters themselves, but this gallery is an intriguing look at the reactions of ordinary New Yorkers as Occupy Wall Street protesters march along Broadway during the group's Day of Action Nov. 17, 2011.

As Libyan's celebrate Saif al-Islam's Friday capture, it brings to mind the question of what happened to all of Gaddafi's children.

In the wake of the international Day of Action, the quandary that faces Occupy Wall Street--and by default the rest of the world--is, what exactly comes next?

Former Pennsylvania State University football coach Joe Paterno has lung cancer, his son said in a statement. Scott Paterno told The Associated Press in a statement that his father has a treatable form of the pulmonary disease and that he is currently being treated.

More than 150,000 New York City public school students could be taking public transit to school for the first time if the local school bus union follows through on a plan to strike immediately.

Thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched their movement across a large swath of Lower Manhattan Thursday morning and afternoon.

Occupy Wall Street went underground Thursday afternoon, as a number of the movement's protesters took to the subway system to spread their message that the United States needs to do something about growing economic injustice.

New York City's legislative branch is crawling with politicians who are under state and city investigations, accused of various corruption and fraud crimes or allegedly engaged in unethical behavior.

Occupy Wall Street protester Randy Credico is one of the estimated 200 protesters who were arrested as part of the NYPD's early Tuesday morning raid of the movement's encampment in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.

New York City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez has cuts on his face and hand, but he is out of jail, and is spreading the harrowing tale of his violent arrest early Tuesday morning during the police raid of the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.

A high-tension standoff between the protesters and police dragged on for hours, leading to arrests and violence against protesters. Cops tried to keep sidewalks around Zuccotti clear and the park itself was filled with dozens of police officers as well. At its peak, the showdown was between thousands of protesters and hundreds of police officers, many of whom were in riot gear.

NYPD police officers resorted to violence and arrests of Occupy Wall Street protesters while attempting to keep them from entering Zuccotti Park Tuesday morning.

As quickly as Occupy Wall Street protesters swept into Manhattan's Duarte Park Tuesday morning, scaling a wall and cutting their way through a chain-link fence to gain access to a private section owned by a nearby church, the NYPD cleared them out.

Occupy Wall Street protesters stormed Manhattan's Duarte Square Tuesday morning, hours after being kicked out of Zuccotti Park by the NYPD. Hundreds of protesters descended on the square, where they quickly assembled, erected several wooden makeshift tent-like structures, and began planning their next moves.

Hours after being evicted from New York's Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, Occupy Wall Street protesters were setting up in a new location pledging amid religious prayers to continue the movement with a new occupation.