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Serious crimes more than doubled in the area around Occupy Los Angeles during the first 45 days since the protesters began their encampment, Los Angeles Police Department officials said.

The Republican Party and the tea party seemed to be a natural political pairing. But what may have seemed like another politically beneficial alliance — Democrats and Occupy Wall Street — hasn't happened.

Occupy Wall Street protesters hope to show there is life left in their movement with a mass rally later in New York and other US cities.

A judge upheld New York City's legal justification for evicting Occupy Wall Street protesters from a park on Tuesday after police in riot gear broke up a two-month-old demonstration against economic inequality.

Hundreds of supporters of Occupy Wall Street vowed Tuesday to keep up their protests, convening at a busy corner for a meeting to discuss their next move; the city, meanwhile, appeared headed for a legal showdown over its eviction of protesters from the group's encampment.

New York police early on Tuesday sought to clear Zuccotti park in the city's financial district, where protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement have been camped since September, officials and protesters said.

Police in riot gear assembled in Oakland, California, on Monday in an apparent preparation to clear a downtown encampment of Occupy Oakland protesters.

An Oakland police officer raises his hands to his head at the scene where a man was shot and killed near an Occupy Oakland encampment Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in Oakland, Calif.

Dozens of protesters were arrested on the campus of UC Berkeley, where university police moved in to break up an Occupy Berkeley encampment.

Occupy Wall Street is going on the road – a two-week walk to Washington. A small group of activists plans to leave Manhattan's Zuccotti Park at noon Wednesday and arrive by the Nov. 23 deadline for a congressional committee to decide whether to keep President Barack Obama's extension of Bush-era tax cuts. Protesters say the cuts benefit only rich Americans.