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The park's owner says it thinks it can work out an arrangement with protesters to keep the site clean. Protesters had feared the scheduled cleaning was a ruse to evict or arrest them. They've been there for a month.

This week, the European Union imposed new sanctions against Syria's government, freezing the assets of the Commercial Bank of Syria. But despite how economic pressure is hurting ordinary Syrians, many say the sanctions are unlikely to change government policy.

Port Authority police say Nelson Vaquiz tried an ingenious way to avoid the toll for trucks crossing the George Washington Bridge into New York. They say as Vaquiz drove through a gateless toll lane, he pulled on a cable that flipped up his license plate so cameras couldn't read it.

Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state worker union, the Public Employees Federation, are going down to the wire over a deal to forge a new contract…

It was the best gain since February and was driven by higher car sales.

Cleanup of park in Manhattan is postponed, meaning the protesters can stay put. InItaly, the premier survives a confidence vote.

The Assad regime's use of "excessive force to crush peaceful protests" has led to a "devastatingly remorseless toll of human lives," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says.

Some folks have declared this to be "Steve Jobs Day," and are encouraging others to "Sport your black turtleneck, jeans, tennis shoes, and glasses and snap a pic!"

A new report from Food and Water Watch turns up the heat on how we feed farmed fish and the environmental toll it takes. It takes three pounds of wild fish to feed one pound of farmed salmon, so scientists are looking for alternatives.

Those drumlike sounds some of the fish can make mean they're about to chow down, researchers say. They've identified at least three distinct sounds.