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After a college student is bitten by a snake, he is shocked over the hospital bill. KGTV's Ariana Duarte reports.

Matt Lauer, host of NBC's "Today," talks about his infamous interview with actor Tom Cruise.

Frida Ghitis says the al-Assad regime is maintaining power in Syria by enforcing a balance of terror.

Prime Minister David Cameron's former director of communications Andy Coulson is to "vigorously contest" a perjury charge.

The Queen will visit Northern Ireland on June 26 and 27 as part of the Diamond Jubilee tour of the United Kingdom.

BAE Systems is planning to cut 105 jobs at its Glascoed munitions factory in Monmouthshire, blaming "very challenging" market conditions.

UK digital music revenue overtakes sales of physical formats such as CDs and records for the first time.

Ireland second row Paul O'Connell is ruled out of the forthcoming three-match Test series against New Zealand with a knee injury.

Paul Joseph Watson | Washington Post fails to mention the fact that dozens of hugely influential power brokers are meeting in their own back yard.

The American Dream | Over the next several days, more than a hundred of the most powerful people on the planet will attend a secret conference at a hotel in Chantilly, Virgina.

North Korea proclaimed itself a "nuclear state" this week following a revision of its constitution earlier this year.

The Washington Times | Chantilly's Westfields Marriott hotel is the site of an “unprecedented” security crackdown as the world’s richest and most powerful arrive for the annual Bilderberg conference.

RT | For a little over 50 years, an elite organization has met all around the world in total secrecy with nearly zero press coverage.

EDMONTON JOURNAL | Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith attacked Premier Alison Redford on Wednesday for attending the elite Bilderberg conference.

The Economic Collapse | The way that we tax people in the United States is fundamentally broken and should be completely discarded.

Infowars.com | Engineer and blogger Jon Corbett joins host Rob Dew to discuss the out of control TSA.

Astronauts on board the International Space Station have released the unmanned Dragon cargo capsule.

Kevin Pietersen announces his retirement from international limited-overs cricket with immediate effect.

From Crim Prof Blog:

The AALS Section on Criminal Justice will hold a panel during the AALS 2013 Annual Meeting in New Orleans entitled: Technology and Crime: The Future of the Fourth Amendment in Public.

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New mass surveillance technologies are changing Fourth Amendment protections in public. Enhanced video cameras, GPS location devices, license plate readers, mobile body scanners, backscatter x-ray vans, facial recognition technology, drones, and satellite imaging, in combination, can all be directed at targeted geographic areas. Combined with, or replacing, traditional “stop and frisk” or police surveillance tactics, these technologies have the potential to alter Fourth Amendment protections. At the same time, intelligence-led policing strategies involving crime mapping and analysis have allowed law enforcement to identify areas of crime for targeted police intervention. This panel looks at the constitutional implications of these developments on the expectation of privacy.

In what has been described as a humanitarian gesture, the Israeli government on Thursday began handing over the remains of 91 Palestinians killed in attacks against Israeli targets over the last four decades.