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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House played political hardball with drug industry honchos to get a 2009 deal that helped keep health care overhaul legislation from bogging down in Congress, according to internal emails released Thursday by House Republicans....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Jurors have reached a verdict in John Edwards' campaign corruption trial....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Jurors have reached a verdict in John Edwards' campaign corruption trial....

An appeals court today struck down a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act banning federal recognition of same-sex marriage.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing a ban on the sale of large servings of soda and other sugary drinks in the city's restaurants, delis and movie theaters in one of his most aggressive efforts yet to fight obesity....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing a ban on the sale of large servings of soda and other sugary drinks in the city's restaurants, delis and movie theaters in one of his most aggressive efforts yet to fight obesity....

FREMONT, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney is assailing President Barack Obama's green energy record, standing outside the shuttered offices of a solar energy company that went bankrupt after receiving government loans....

FREMONT, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney is assailing President Barack Obama's green energy record, standing outside the shuttered offices of a solar energy company that went bankrupt after receiving government loans....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant....

Infowars.com | The Fed wants to print more money to "help" the euro-zone crisis, but it's going to take some crafty Hegelian dialect to pacify public opinion.

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) -- A Canadian porn actor suspected of mailing body parts to the headquarters of two major political parties after making a video of the killing might have fled North America, police said Thursday....

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) -- A Canadian porn actor suspected of mailing body parts to the headquarters of two major political parties after making a video of the killing might have fled North America, police said Thursday....

State officers seized a camera and memory card from defendant’s apartment based on statements from two witnesses that they saw images on defendant’s camera of him raping two young girls. Even if the state officials unlawfully seized the camera, the search warrant for what was held was reasonable. The federal search warrant warrant was executed four days after it expired, but probable cause still existed so the search was still reasonable. United States v. Ahmad, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74325 (W.D. N.Y. May 29, 2012):

Courts have declined to order suppression of evidence seized pursuant to belatedly-executed warrants where probable cause still existed at the time of the execution and the police did not deliberately disregard the terms of the warrant. E.g., United States v. Sims, 428 F.3d at 955 (one-day delay in executing search warrant does not justify suppression because warrant was executed within the period prescribed by Rule 41, probable cause to search still existed and police did not intentionally disregard warrant's terms; "[because] non-prejudicial and unintentional violations of Rule 41 do not result in suppression, then a fortiori technical violations of the warrant itself compel the same result"); United States v. Gerber, 994 F.2d at 1561 n.4 (denying suppression where search was conducted three days after the warrant's expiration; "inadvertent, technical violation of Rule 41 should not preclude key incriminating evidence for which a valid warrant based on abundant probable cause was obtained"); United States v. Huslage, 480 F. Supp. 870, 875 (W.D. Pa. 1979) (denying suppression where warrant expired at 5:00 a.m., police conducted second search at 10:00 a.m. and probable cause to search still existed).

In this case, the evidence was seized by the Brighton Police on June 6, 2011, and remained in their possession since that date. The federal warrant was issued on August 25, 2011, and directed its execution by September 2, 2011. Couch executed the warrant on September 6, 2011, four days after the expiration date and twelve days after it was issued. Despite the warrant's expiration, probable cause to seize the items had not lapsed — the items were still in police custody and were as likely to constitute or contain relevant evidence on September 6 as they were on August 25, 2011. Ahmad has made no showing or even suggestion of prejudice resulting from the belated execution and no evidence exists that Couch intentionally disregarded the terms of the warrant. Indeed, Couch has explained that the delay resulted from his mistaken belief that he had sixty days to execute it. On this record, I find that the delay in executing the warrant did not constitute an unreasonable seizure within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.

Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych has downplayed fears of racist attacks during the Euro 2012 football championships in the country.

A retired Russian colonel is jailed for 12 years on charges of passing thousands of images of maps to the United States.

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.