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  • Chicago Braces For Final Day Of NATO Protests

    May 21, 2012 8:16 AM

    CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago braced for more demonstrations Monday, with protesters vowing to march to the Boeing Corp. headquarters a day after police clashed with a group of demonstrators at the end of a march protesting the NATO summit. Many downtown businesses have told their employees to stay home during... more »
  • Troops Fire On Yemen Protest, 6 Killed, 30 Wounded

    April 4, 2011 8:12 AM

    SANAA, Yemen (AP) - Security forces and plainclothed gunmen opened fire on crowds of Yemenis marching through a southern city Monday, killing at least six and wounding more than 30, in an intensifying crackdown against the uprising against the 32-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Witnesses described troops and... more »
  • Egypt's Interior Ministry Set Ablaze Amid Protest

    March 22, 2011 11:22 AM

    CAIRO (AP) - An Egyptian security official says police protesting in front of Egypt's Interior Ministry have set fire to part of the downtown complex. TV footage shows flames licking up the building's top floors and a huge plume of black smoke filling the sky. The official says protesters lit... more »
  • Exiled Opposition Leader To Return To Bahrain

    February 21, 2011 1:29 PM

    MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - A rights activist says a prominent opposition figure is making plans to return to Bahrain from London in a move that could bolster protesters and put authorities into a difficult spot. The activist says Hassain Meshaima is scheduled to arrive late Tuesday. Meshaima, who... more »
  • Egypt Army Backs Mubarak; Protesters March

    February 11, 2011 8:03 AM

    CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's powerful military backed President Hosni Mubarak's plan to stay in office until September elections, but massive crowds outraged by his refusal to step down packed squares in Egypt's two biggest cities Cairo and Alexandria on Friday. They marched on Mubarak's presidential palaces and blockading state television... more »
  • Thousands Converge In Cairo To Demand Mubarak Go

    February 1, 2011 6:54 AM

    CAIRO (AP) - Tens of thousands of people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square as a call for a million protesters was answered by the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in... more »
  • Security Protest Could Disrupt Thanksgiving Travel Play Video

    November 22, 2010 5:31 AM

    CHICAGO (AP) - As if air travel over the Thanksgiving holiday isn't tough enough, it could be even worse this year: Airports could see even more disruptions because of a loosely organized Internet boycott of full-body scans. Even if only a small percentage of passengers participate, experts say it could... more »
  • Dancers From Strip Club Protest At Church

    August 9, 2010 10:24 PM

    WARSAW, Ohio (AP) - The owner of an Ohio strip club and some of his dancers have been protesting at a church that has done the same to them for four years. Women in bikinis sat in camp chairs Sunday outside the New Beginnings Ministries church in Warsaw, about 60... more »
  • Black Balloons Set Out For Inmates Disciplined In Wake Of Riots

    April 21, 2010 12:38 PM

    DANVILLE (AP) - Family members of inmates in a central Kentucky prison where a fiery riot last year caused extensive damage protested Wednesday outside a courthouse while a grand jury decided if some prisoners would be criminally charged. Family members sat outside the Boyle County Courthouse, many holding signs, surrounded... more »
  • Mongiardo To Protest Sen. Bunning Play Video

    March 2, 2010 6:17 AM

    (AP) - Kentucky Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo, a candidate for Kentucky's U.S. Senate, will campaign in front of two of Sen. Jim Bunning's offices in Lexington and Louisville on Tuesday. Mongiardo and Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, both candidates for the Democratic nomination, have been critical of the Republican senator... more »
  • Mongiardo To Lead Protests Of Bunning's Funding Hold Play Video

    March 1, 2010 2:26 PM

    Lt. Governor Daniel Mongiardo, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, will lead two public protests of Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning’s decision to single-handedly stop the funding of unemployment and health insurance benefits for more than 119,230 Kentuckians. Two thousand federal transportation workers were furloughed without pay on Monday. Federal reimbursements... more »