OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protesters tried to mount a blockade of major West Coast ports on Monday in a move seen as a test of their momentum, but fell short of imposing a large-scale disruption of commerce. The protesters marched on ports from California to Alaska, hoping to call attention to U.S. economic inequalities, high unemployment and a financial system they say is unfairly skewed toward the wealthy. ...

OAKLAND (Reuters) - U.S. Marine veteran Scott Olsen, who became a face of the Occupy movement after he was badly wounded in an October demonstration, joined marchers in Oakland on Monday for the first time since he was injured. Wearing a neck brace, the Iraq War veteran led more than 1,000 demonstrators from downtown Oakland to the city's port as part of marches intended to bring cargo traffic to a halt there and across the West Coast. "Hi Occupy Oakland. ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. home improvement chain Lowe's Monday defended its decision to pull advertising from reality TV show "All-American Muslim" amid charges the company had given in to bigotry. "All-American Muslim," which airs on TLC, follows several Muslim families in and around the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, which is home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the United States and its largest mosque. It has been accused by one Florida group to be propaganda. But the decision by Lowe's sparked an outcry by defenders of the show. ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) - A federal judge temporarily blocked a part of Alabama's tough new immigration law on Monday that requires residents to show proof of citizenship when registering mobile homes with the state. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson of the Middle District of Alabama wrote in a 108-page opinion that the law leaves illegal immigrants "between a rock and a hard place. ...

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania judge eased courtroom rules on Monday for reporters covering a preliminary hearing for Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant coach accused of sexually abusing boys.