Hundreds of sign-carrying, flag-waving demonstrators jammed downtown streets Wednesday in a series of May Day marches and rallies -- some at the peak of afternoon rush hour -- protesting capitalism, promoting worker rights and pushing for changes in ...

NEW YORK (AP) - A civil liberties group asked the Organization of American States' human rights commission Tuesday to investigate the U.S. government for what it says are violations of the rights of convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla. The Ameri ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Several hundred people marched in Northeast Portland in a protest rallythat led to a clash with police who used pepper spray. The Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/SpcQlC ) that Saturday afternoon's protest by a coalition of grou ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Whenever Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comes to New York, protesters pay attention. They know where he's staying. They stand outside the building when he makes a speech, holding signs calling him a dictator and comparing him t ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Police say more than 100 people have been arrested as Occupy Wall Street protesters march in small groups around Manhattan's financial district to mark the anniversary of the grass-roots movement. Police also removed four protesters i ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Ten people who identified themselves as illegal immigrants have been released from a Charlotte jail after they were arrested while protesting for immigration reform near the Democratic National Convention. A Mecklenburg County ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Protesters blocked an intersection near the Democratic National Convention for about two hours on Tuesday, attracting hundreds of police officers, before they were allowed to keep walking toward the heart of Charlotte's central ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Police surrounded a group of protesters Monday who began an unauthorized march and sat down blocking an intersection near the Democratic National Convention. At least one person was in handcuffs. The group of as many as 200 pro ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Hundreds marched Sunday through Charlotte's central business district ahead of the Democratic National Convention to protest corporate greed in a demonstration that was lively but smaller than organizers had touted. About 600 m ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The three dozen chanting anti-GOP protesters hit a lull of silence as they marched through a low-income neighborhood in west Tampa. "What are you guys doing? Taking a nap?" shouted one protester to his cohorts, exhorting them to ye ...