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Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is "deeply concerned" about continuing clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- European officials proposed Wednesday a new system of financial regulations that aims to keep bank failures from costing taxpayers billions and bankrupting governments....

Ilyse Hogue says after huge GOP spending push, Walker won, no doubt about it, but it's no rout of the left: Exit polls show most Wisconsin voters still strongly support unions, Obama.

KnoxNews.com: Lawsuit filed over OR man's warrantless cavity search by Bob Fowler:

An Oak Ridge man who says he was forced in June 2011 to submit to a digital rectal exam for suspected drugs — and no drugs were found — has filed a lawsuit in Anderson County Circuit Court.

Wesley Antwan Gulley's legal action contends his constitutional rights were violated and he was subjected to false arrest and imprisonment, assault and battery and medical battery.

The lawsuit alleges Gulley was in shackles and reluctantly consented to the exam, but only after Dr. Michael A. LaPaglia ordered an injectable sedative and threatened to use it "in performing the digital rectal exam …"

The defendants used coercion and "undue influence" to force Gulley's consent, and police officers didn't have a warrant, it continues.

No drugs were found, and he was released after having been shackled for the ride to the hospital. It started because of a dog alert on a $20 bill in the car, which everyone in law enforcement should know by now (since it's been public knowledge for over 25 years) that virtually all currency that goes through money counting machines has microscopic traces of cocaine.

I normally don't include lawsuits because so many fail on qualified immunity or the merits of the Fourth Amendment claim. Based on the news article, this one states enough to get to trial. Forced warrantless digital exams are unreasonable even with probable cause, except for a convict in prison or a jail inmate, thanks to Florence.

h/t to a reader

Uefa president Michel Platini says players will be yellow-carded if they walk off the pitch due to racist abuse.

SAINTE-MARIE-DU-MONT, France (AP) -- With World War II-era military planes darting overhead and Normandy's Utah Beach visible in the distance, a bronze statue emerged from beneath a camouflage parachute, in tribute to a man whose quiet leadership was chronicled in the book and television series "Band of Brothers."...

Washington's Blog | Radioactive water is being dumped into the Pacific at an alarming rate.

Kurt Nimmo | Escalation of cyber war as official enemies engage in retaliation against U.S. government and its proxies.

Ray Bradbury, author of science fiction classics Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, dies in Los Angeles, his daughter confirms.

Relying on Edmond, United States v. Yousif, 308 F.3d 820 (8th Cir. 2002), and United States v. Prokupek, 632 F.3d 460 (8th Cir. 2011), the Tenth Circuit holds that stopping cars that pulled off at an exit by ruse checkpoint was not based on reasonable suspicion. Pulling off was a factor in RS, but more is required. United States v. Neff, 10-3336 (10th Cir. June 5, 2012):

We agree with the Eighth Circuit that a driver's decision to use a rural highway exit after seeing drug checkpoint signs may serve as a valid, and indeed persuasive, factor in an officer's reasonable suspicion analysis. See, e.g., Carpenter, 462 F.3d at 987; United States v. Klinginsmith, 25 F.3d 1507, 1510 n.1 (10th Cir. 1994) (listing as one valid factor that "the defendants took an exit which was the first exit after a narcotics check lane sign, and an exit that was seldom used"). But standing alone, it is insufficient to justify even a brief investigatory detention of a vehicle. Here, of course, the government points to a number of other factors that the trooper relied on in forming reasonable suspicion, including: (1) Neff's car had a Shawnee County license plate but was driving in Wabaunsee County; (2) the exit was in a rural area without highway services such as restaurants or gas stations; (3) Neff pulled into a private driveway where he did not seem to have any reason to be; (4) Neff had a startled look on his face when he saw the trooper.

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These facts, when taken together, do not fairly suggest that Neff was attempting to evade police. To be sure, an officer is “entitled to make an assessment of the situation in light of his specialized training and familiarity with the customs of the area’s inhabitants.” Arvizu, 534 U.S. at 276. But even considering the totality of the circumstances, Neff’s conduct conformed to the patterns of everyday travel. ...

TORONTO (AP) -- Body parts mailed to two Vancouver schools were sent from Montreal and are thought to be linked to the killing and dismemberment of a Chinese student there, police said Wednesday....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The fast-moving jury selection for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse trial could wrap up quickly as lawyers try to fill the seven remaining slots on the panel....

FRANKFURT (AP) -- The European Central Bank has left its benchmark interest rate unchanged as it increases the pressure on eurozone leaders to tackle a government debt crisis that threatens the global economy....

A bomb goes off outside the US embassy offices in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, causing minor damage to its outer gate.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Three suicide attackers blew themselves up in the largest city in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50 others in a dusty marketplace that was turned into a gruesome scene of blood and bodies....

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Three suicide attackers blew themselves up in the largest city in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50 others in a dusty marketplace that was turned into a gruesome scene of blood and bodies....

David Cameron says he wants the euro to succeed but the UK will not take part in further integration which the EU deems "necessary" to help it continue.

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) -- The White House is denying claims from Republican Sen. John McCain that it orchestrated leaks of classified information to news organizations to boost President Barack Obama's national security reputation and re-election chances....

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) -- The White House is denying claims from Republican Sen. John McCain that it orchestrated leaks of classified information to news organizations to boost President Barack Obama's national security reputation and re-election chances....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ray Bradbury, the science fiction-fantasy master who transformed his childhood dreams and Cold War fears into telepathic Martians, lovesick sea monsters, and, in uncanny detail, the high-tech, book-burning future of "Fahrenheit 451," has died. He was 91....