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Calgary Herald | Canadian media is reporting on Premier Alison Redford's attendance at this year's globalist confab.

Paralysed rats have been able to walk again when their spinal cords were bathed in chemicals and zapped with electricity, scientists have shown.

Strong chemical smell outside a building to a trained officer was probable cause for issuance of a search warrant for the house for meth. United States v. Collins, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74639 (W.D. Okla. May 30, 2012):

The officer reporting the smell in this case, Undersheriff King, had attended both DEA and OBN schools regarding methamphetamine laboratories. Although it could have been more specific, the search warrant affidavit did state that the undersheriff was able to identify the odor because of his "training [and] experience with methamphetamines lab." Search Warrant, Attachment "B." As noted by defendant Smith, the affidavit did not specify the exact source of the odor. However, it is apparent that the smell was coming from a building on the Smith property and not a field ("drove by described residence in Attachment "A," and detected an very strong odor of Anhydrous Ammonia and Ether"). The affidavit also was not defective for failing to explicitly link the odor to a crime, since the specific chemical odor that is identified is commonly linked to the manufacture of methamphetamine. While the affidavit submitted to the state judge was certainly bare bones, the court concludes it was sufficient, in light of the flexible standard referenced above, to support issuance of the warrant.

Three Gwynedd men are jailed for a total of 26 years for an armed robbery at a property in Bangor.

As final preparations are made ahead of this Sunday's Diamond Jubilee river pageant, Prince Charles has been to visit some of those involved.

A US appeals court in Boston rules that key parts of a federal law denying benefits to same-sex couples are unconstitutional.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The setup of the 17-country euro currency union is unsustainable, the head of the European Central Bank has told EU leaders, warning they must quickly come up with a broad vision for the future to get the bloc through the current financial crisis....

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The setup of the 17-country euro currency union is unsustainable, the head of the European Central Bank has told EU leaders, warning they must quickly come up with a broad vision for the future to get the bloc through the current financial crisis....

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Archdiocese of Milwaukee and a former priest who received money to leave the ministry following allegations of sexual abuse say the payment was a form of charity meant to help men transition to a new life following the priesthood....

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Archdiocese of Milwaukee and a former priest who received money to leave the ministry following allegations of sexual abuse say the payment was a form of charity meant to help men transition to a new life following the priesthood....

The Knights reasonable suspicion standard applies to persons on federal supervised release. The USPO had RS, too. United States v. Lykins, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74655 (E.D. Ky. May 30, 2012):

Knights is also applicable despite Defendant's status as a supervised releasee. Knights specifically addressed the warrantless search of a probationer's home. However, other court's have applied Knights' reasonable suspicion analysis to the search of a supervised releasee's residence. See, e.g., United States v. Krug, No. 3:09cr257, 2010 WL 2196607, at *4-5 (M.D. Tenn. May 26, 2010). Moreover, other circuits have recognized that supervised releasees and probationers have similar expectations of privacy. See United States v. Stewart, 532 F.3d 32, 36 (1st Cir. 2008) (recognizing that probation and supervised release are different forms of conditional release, and courts have not distinguished among conditional releasees for Fourth Amendment purposes); United States v. Weikert, 504 F.3d 1, 12 (1st Cir. 2007) (refusing to distinguish the privacy interests of a supervised releasee from a probationer); United States v. Zimmerman, 514 F.3d 851, 855 (9th Cir. 2007) (treating probationer's Fourth Amendment challenge to DNA Act as foreclosed by prior precedent addressing challenge by supervised releasee); Banks v. United States, 490 F.3d 1178, 1187 (10th Cir. 2007) (supervised releasees and probationers fall into the "category of felons on release who are not entitled to the full panoply of rights and protections possessed by the general republic"). In fact, the Second Circuit has held that supervised release places the most severe limits on expectations of privacy, greater than those of both parole and probation. United States v. Balon, 384 F.3d 38, 44 (2d Cir. 2004). Therefore, Defendant, as a supervised releasee, had the same, if not less, expectation of privacy as did the probationer in Knights. As a result, Knights' holding that the Fourth Amendment requires "no more than reasonable suspicion to conduct a search" of a probationer applies to the search of Defendant's residence. See Knights, 534 U.S. at 121.

nbcwashington.com | A police officer in Virginia faces a murder charge in the February shooting death of an unarmed motorist.

The Australian | The attack was aimed at a large gathering for a televised song contest in Baku Crystal Hall.

Education Minister Leighton Andrews fears universities will struggle to attract international students because of the UK government's immigration policy.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is sharing a stage with former President George W. Bush, the predecessor he often inveighs against, in a friendly White House welcome for the unveiling of the 43rd president's official portrait....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is sharing a stage with former President George W. Bush, the predecessor he often inveighs against, in a friendly White House welcome for the unveiling of the 43rd president's official portrait....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is sharing a stage with former President George W. Bush, the predecessor he often inveighs against, in a friendly White House welcome for the unveiling of the 43rd president's official portrait....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is sharing a stage with former President George W. Bush, the predecessor he often inveighs against, in a friendly White House welcome for the unveiling of the 43rd president's official portrait....

KANO, Nigeria (AP) -- Kidnappers stabbed a captive German engineer to death Thursday as soldiers unaware of the hostage's presence raided a home in northern Nigeria, officials said, five months after his abduction by proclaimed al-Qaida-linked terrorists....

KANO, Nigeria (AP) -- Kidnappers stabbed a captive German engineer to death Thursday as soldiers unaware of the hostage's presence raided a home in northern Nigeria, officials said, five months after his abduction by proclaimed al-Qaida-linked terrorists....