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Sarah Palin reacts to Rush Limbaugh "slut" comments and responds to whether she'd participate in an open convention.

NEW YORK — A group of expert hackers who attacked governments and corporations around the globe has been busted after its ringleader — one of the world's most-wanted and most-feared computer vandals — turned against his comrades and secretly became an informant for the FBI months ago, authorities said Tuesday.

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CNN's John King looks at the whether Ohio conservatives are satisfied with the presidential candidates.

Mitt Romney won most of the 10 Super Tuesday states in the GOP nomination race, but didn't get strong staunch-conservative support. Rick Santorum won three states; Newt Gingrich grabbed one.

President Barack Obama will deliver a high school commencement address in Joplin, Missouri, nearly a year after a killer tornado ravaged that city, the White House said Monday.

LZ Granderson says President Obama's re-election bid vastly complicates the tense situation with Iran and Israel

President Barack Obama will hold a news conference Tuesday shining a light on his administration for a moment on a day the nation will mostly be focused on the Republican Party and Super Tuesday.

A day after meeting with President Barack Obama about the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will sit down with U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday to emphasize his country's urgent fears.

Ari Fleischer says Republicans want a candidate who fits the mould of the tea party but their choices served in a big-government era

Defendant used a buddy’s work computer to do internet searches on “how to kill a baby, how to have a miscarriage, and how to find a missing person.” He was told before the search that the company could see it. The computer was password protected but the search history was available to IT. He was convicted of arranging the murder a 14 year old he impregnated. He had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the internet search history after the computer was turned over the police after the murder. State v. Robinson, 2012 Kan. LEXIS 149 (March 2, 2012). [The court did not have to go this far to show a lack of REP in the search history. It was somebody else's computer, and he assumed the risk it would be found and turned over to the police. That's all it had to say.]

An officer approached a van parked too long in a McDonald’s parking lot and he saw the occupants “moving frantically as if they were trying to hide something or retrieve something.” He yelled, “‘Show me your hands,’ and moved toward the front of the van; neither individual complied.” He pulled his gun, and ordered them from the vehicle and then searched for a weapon. This did not constitute an arrest, and was for officer safety. State v. Walker, 2012 Ohio 847, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 739 (2d Dist. March 2, 2012).*

The fact that defendant was a little slow in responding to an officer’s command to put his hands on the steering wheel does not justify a protective weapons search of the car. The officer first called him "reluctant," then qualified it. In addition, the government used every innocuous fact to attempt to show reasonable suspicion and came up short [damaging its credibility in the meantime; like a lawnmower and weedeater in the trunk must have meant the defendant was trading for drugs]. United States v. James, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 28355 (E.D. N.C. January 19, 2012).*

Trash pulls and a records check of the resident showing a drug history was probable cause for issuance of a search warrant for drugs in the house. State v. Mooney, 2012 Ohio 852; 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 745 (5th Dist. February 23, 2012).*

Police responded to a shooting call and asked for permission to look in defendant’s house to see if anyone was shot. Defendant let them in. The officer could see marijuana and scales in plain view in the kitchen and, through a floor heating vent, he saw marijuana in baggies. The officer removed the vent grill and pulled out what he could. Then he went to the basement to get the rest by removing the ductwork. All this was reasonable. State v. Smith, 2012 Ohio 845, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 737 (2d Dist. March 2, 2012).*

There are no pure "winner-take-all" contests on Super Tuesday, but almost all of the 10 states holding contests on the biggest day of the primary season offer candidates some chance of shutting out their opponents in the all-important race to amass delegates.

WASHINGTON — More than 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or cases referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or African-American, according to an Education Department report that raises questions about whether students of all races are disciplined evenhandedly in America's schools.

Black students are more than three times ...

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Barack Obama is obsessed with words, and he never learned to make a short speech. The Israelis understand that, however well-meaning he may be. The president may even believe most of the stuff he hears himself say.

Mr. Obama made another pretty speech to the American Israel Public Affairs ...

President Obama comments on Rush Limbaugh's apology to Sandra Fluke and explains why he called the Georgetown student.

President Obama directly addresses GOP comments made about him on the campaign trail on Super Tuesday.

Based on a CI’s tip, the details of which had panned out completely, as soon as defendant was stopped, the officer reached for the center console and found a gun where the CI said it would be. Also, there was cocaine there. Defendant was not secured at the time it happened, and it “cleanly” fit within the Michigan v. Long protective weapons search exception. United States v. Ware, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 4425, 2012 FED App. 0244N (6th Cir. March 1, 2012) (unpublished).

It was a reasonable condition of supervised release in a child pornography case to submit to searches of any computers or devices which may access the internet. United States v. Grigsby, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 4423 (9th Cir. February 27, 2012) (unpublished)*:

The district court did not abuse its discretion by imposing a condition of supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d) requiring that Grigsby submit to searches and seizures of computers and related devices. "Subjecting computers and other devices able to access the Internet to monitoring, search and seizure is critical to preventing [Grigsby] from viewing or obtaining child pornography." United States v. Goddard, 537 F.3d 1087, 1090 (9th Cir. 2008). This condition of supervised release is sufficiently narrow because it applies only to those devices connected to the Internet. See United States v. Quinzon, 643 F.3d 1266, 1272-74 (9th Cir. 2011) (analyzing an identically-worded condition of supervised release).

The United States and other countries agreed Tuesday to resume negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich discusses his concerns about Iran's nuclear capabilities at AIPAC.

At Andy's Café, Lynda Meineke says she speaks for a lot of people here -- she's unenthusiastic about the Republican presidential candidates and disgusted with the way they've run their campaigns.