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(Reuters) – A man who was arrested in the Supreme Court’s museum corridor for wearing a jacket emblazoned with the slogan “Occupy Everywhere” is suing the federal government over the incident.

Fitzgerald Scott was looking at exhibitions in the court in Washington, D.C., in January when a police officer asked him to remove the jacket, according to a suit filed in federal district court in Washington on Wednesday.

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(BELFAST, Northern Ireland) — The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland opened Thursday in downtown Belfast, unleashing angry protests on the street and uniting Catholic and Protestant politicians in calls to investigate the new facility.

The clinic, run by the British family planning charity Marie Stopes, will be permitted to provide abortions only in exceptional circumstances to women less than nine weeks pregnant.

But the opening caught Northern Ireland’s socially conservative politicians off guard, and …

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The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on behalf of people who say they were denied bail for minor offenses after being flagged by immigration authorities.

British filmmaker Duncan Roy, who says he spent nearly three months in L.A. County jails without a chance to post bail, is one of the five plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which will be filed today in U.S. District Court.

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“. . . no part of my experience—not the uncertainty of when I would be free again, not the tortured screams of other prisoners—was worse than the four months I spent in solitary confinement. What would he say if I told him I needed human contact so badly that I woke every morning hoping to be interrogated? Would he believe that I once yearned to be sat down in a padded, soundproof room, blindfolded, and …

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(Reuters) – Environmental groups sued the state of California on Tuesday in an effort to stop hydraulic fracturing as regulators attempt to devise new rules for the controversial oil and gas extraction practice.

The lawsuit accuses the regulator, the California Department of Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources, with failing to evaluate the risks, even though fracking was used for more than 600 wells in the state last year.

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SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Uruguay’s Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that allows women to have abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy for any reason, opening the way for one of the most sweeping abortion rights laws in Latin America.

The bill, approved by Uruguay’s 31-member Senate by a 17-to-14 vote, had been narrowly approved in September by the country’s lower house. While some prominent political leaders in Uruguay have opposed the measure, President José …

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A Los Angeles city panel on Tuesday took another step toward a city services card, a photo identification card to be issued by the library department that could also serve as debit card.

“The federal government has failed on immigration and we have hundreds of thousands of people living in the shadows,” said Councilman Richard Alarcon, who authored the proposal with support form Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

The Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee asked that the Library …

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SAN FRANCISCO — Next month, California voters will be asked to consider 11 ballot propositions whose passage would carry the full force of law, an exercise in direct democracy that traces back to the Progressive Era of the early 20th century.

This time around, though, four of them are initiatives of single rich individuals, while others are being challenged by equally wealthy critics pouring in millions of dollars to defeat them — a sign, in …

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President Barack Obama and his GOP rival, Governor Mitt Romney faced off for a second time last night at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. The debate was moderated by CNN’s Candy Crowley and formatted as a town meeting, with Americans asking questions of the candidates directly on domestic and foreign topics. The audience, which was overwhelmingly white, asked questions …

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