VoteKansas.org

A lack of support and opportunity for young people contributed to the outbreak of rioting in England last year, an independent report concludes.

The young professionals in Germany's neo-Nazi movement

The Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV channel decides not to air video material of the deadly attacks carried out by Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah.

Business Week: Big Brother Wants Your Facebook Password by Claire Suddath:

If you want to become a state trooper in Virginia, you should probably delete any indelicate information you have on Facebook. During the job interview process, the Virginia State Police requires all applicants to sign into Facebook, Twitter, and any social-networking site to which they regularly post information in front of an administrator.

“You sign a waiver, then there’s a laptop and you go to these sites and your interviewer reviews your information,” says Corinne Geller, spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police. “It’s a virtual character check as much as the rest of the process is a physical background check.” Geller says the practice has been around for only three months and is just one of many ways the state makes sure its law enforcement officials are ethically sound. (Potential troopers also have to submit to a polygraph test).

Officers came to defendant’s house for a knock-and-talk about child pornography traced back to his IP address. He wasn’t home but his parents were. Because the computers were used by all, sitting in the dining room, and his parents paid the internet bill, his parents had apparent authority to consent to a search of the computers. The fact he had an individual profile was not enough to create a reasonable expectation of privacy because it was not password protected. United States v. Trejo, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 6113, 2012 FED App. 0315N (6th Cir. March 22, 2012) (unpublished).

Officers found a marijuana patch outside defendant’s curtilage and followed footprints in the mud to defendant’s house. Officers came close to the curtilage, in making their observations, and they actually entered an outbuilding within the curtilage arguing protective sweep because of fresh footprints. That incursion, however, never was revealed to the issuing magistrate, so it was valid under inevitable discovery. United States v. Witherspoon, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 6115, 2012 FED App. 0321N (6th Cir. March 23, 2012) (unpublished).*

Art critic and former museum curator Julian Spalding predicts the conceptual art of Damien Hirst will soon become "worthless".

A former Turkish military chief, Gen Ilker Basbug, walks out of his terrorism trial in protest at the use of taped phone calls.

A flame is still burning above an evacuated North Sea platform from which gas has been leaking for three days.

Syria's government agrees to accept the peace plan put forward by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, as the UN says the death toll has hit 9,000.

PARIS (AP) -- Al-Jazeera decided Tuesday not to air a video that appears to show the attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school in southwestern France from the killer's point of view, including the cries of his victims....

David Orentlicher says that court decisions since the 1940s provide ample support for the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

Conservative US Supreme Court justices sharply question whether the US government has the power to make Americans buy medical coverage.

Ed Miliband says he is "very happy" to make public details of meetings he has had with major Labour Party donors after David Cameron did the same on Monday.

Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland says the past year has seen the number of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan plummet

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Material that can be used to make nuclear bombs is stored in scores of buildings spread across dozens of countries. If even a fraction of it fell into the hands of terrorists, it could be disastrous....

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Germany's new president praised Poland as a land of freedom and expressed remorse over the cruelty inflicted by Germany on the country during World War II, in a first foreign visit heavy with symbolism....

Baroness Grey-Thompson calls for better public transport services for disabled people after revealing she had to crawl off a train in London because assistance failed to arrive.

A public enquiry into the death of a four-year-old boy at the Royal in Belfast hears that his care lacked structure which resulted in serious and numerous omissions.

Sri Lanka close the second day of the first Test against England in Galle on 84-5, leading by 209.

The PSNI spent more than £4m on the first so-called supergrass trial here for more than 25 years, it is revealed.