Eric Lach

Former Vice President Al Gore on Wednesday offered his support for the Occupy Wall Street protests taking place in New York City and around the country. In a blog post, Gore wrote that he has been following news of the protests for several weeks “with both interest and admiration.”

A group of protesters stormed into Goldman Sachs’ Milan office on Thursday, Reuters reports.

As part of the release the oral history of President George H.W. Bush by The Miller Center at the University of Virginia, the center has put online audio clips of its interviews with more than 50 senior officials from the elder Bush’s administration. Among the choice tidbits: Clint Eastwood’s name was tossed out as a possible running mate during the 1988 campaign.

Google announced Friday that it will shutdown its Google Buzz social network. In a blog post, the company said it was making the move in order to focus on the more recently launched Google+.

Seven al-Qaeda-linked militants, including the son of the US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, were killed in an American drone strike in southern Yemen on Friday night.