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At first, the complaint from the left was that news organizations had ignored the movement. But as they swung their gaze, journalists weren't quite sure how to characterize what they saw. Lacking easy labels, Occupy Wall Street proved difficult for the media to categorize — and to cover.

Support for the death penalty in the United States is at its lowest level since 1972, when the Supreme Court issued a moratorium on existing capital cases. Still, 61 percent of Americans support the death penalty.

Ian Szalinski is trying to jump from a one-man mixing and packaging operation to a specialty foods company that could sell its cereal to major supermarket chains. The product and its packaging are key for bigger buyers, and with already small margins, he's feeling the pinch in the transition.

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.

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.

The annual enrollment period for privately run Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug benefits starts Saturday, rather than in mid-November as in past years. The deadline for enrollment has also been pushed up — to Dec. 7 from Dec. 31.

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.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has spread across the country and put income inequality on the political agenda. But the process of converting this expression of dissatisfaction into real policy changes is going to take a long time.

For first time since the 17th century, judges there can go without their traditional tops. It's part of a modernization and cost-saving effort.

After Sarah Palin called the Republican Presidential candidate a flavor the week, Cain shot back that he was like Häagen-Dazs' Black Walnut ice cream, which "lasts longer than a week." Turns out, Black Walnut had a limited run.