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Filipino Christian group protests Lady Gaga shows

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Scores of Christian youths in the Philippines chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally Friday calling for the pop diva's shows here to be canceled despite assurances from authorities that they won't allow nudity and lewd acts....

Filipino Christian group protests Lady Gaga shows

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Scores of Christian youths in the Philippines chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally Friday calling for the pop diva's shows here to be canceled despite assurances from authorities that they won't allow nudity and lewd acts....

Filipino Christian group protests Lady Gaga shows

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Scores of Christian youths in the Philippines chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally Friday calling for the pop diva's shows here to be canceled despite assurances from authorities that they won't allow nudity and lewd acts....

Spain seeks financial calm

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
Spain's government called for calm Friday, a day after rating agency Moody's downgraded 16 Spanish banks in the latest sign of distress in Europe.
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D.N.J.: Standing was found in one's office desk and computers

FourthAmendment.com - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06

In a search of business’s desks and computers, the individual defendants had standing under Mancusi v. DeForte. Also, one password protecting her computer supported standing as to her computer. The warrant limited seizure of records to 2007, and the government's seizure of records before that violated the terms of the warrant, and the motion to suppress is granted to that. United States v. Shellrock, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68962 (D. N.J. May 17, 2012):

The Court finds both Meloney and Bryan have standing to challenge the search of the Harbor House premises. First, Bryan is a co-owner of Harbor House and Defendant Meloney worked directly for Bryan and was his personal assistant. As co-owner of the corporation, Bryan had an ownership and possessory interest in Meloney's workplace computer and as Meloney's direct supervisor, he had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the work she completed on the computer at his direction. Therefore, the court finds that Defendant Bryan has standing to challenge the search of Harbor House's premises.

Defendant Meloney also has standing to challenge the search of her computer. Though Meloney did not have a private office and her workspace was in a common area, is not conclusive of whether Meloney had an expectation of privacy in this area. The area searched was Meloney's personal desk and workspace where she worked for more than ten years. She did not share this desk, computer, and workspace with other employees. Other employees did not use her computer or her desk to complete their work. Meloney also kept personal items on her desk in her workspace.

The Supreme Court has clearly held that even where a person's workspace is located in a room shared with others, the person's expectation of privacy in their own desk and files is not diminished. See Mancusi, 392 U.S. at 369 (holding that a union officer has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his workspace which was located in one large room which was shared with several other union officials and therefore had standing to successfully challenge the warrantless search therein). Here, the court is satisfied that the area searched was Meloney's personal workspace which she did not share with other employees and was used as her workspace on a regular basis for more than ten years.

In addition, Meloney's computer was password protected. While her password was commonly known at the work place among her fellow employees, it was not known to the public and could not be accessed by anyone outside this small, closely held corporation. This is sufficient to show her intent to exclude members of the public and maintain privacy in the documents kept on her computer, an expectation shared with the business owner. The electronic documents were retrieved from Meloney's "My Documents" folder and it is unclear from the record whether this folder was part of the network or an independent folder on Meloney's desktop. However, these documents were found on Meloney's computer and there is no evidence that these documents were found in any of the other computers searched by the government. This leads to the conclusion that the "My Documents" folder was not part of the general corporate network. While Meloney's standing is a closer question than Bryan's, the court is satisfied that society would recognize that Meloney has a reasonable expectation of privacy in her personal workspace and that subjectively, Meloney intended to keep her workspace private as she did not share or allow others to use her desk or computer.

Therefore, both Meloney and Bryan have standing to challenge the execution of the search warrant at Harbor House.

Ticketus deal 'being terminated'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
Charles Green says administrators at Rangers have told Ticketus they are terminating its contract over future ticket sales.
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Ainslie takes sixth world title

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
Britain's three-time Olympic champion Ben Ainslie wins a record sixth Finn world title at Falmouth Bay in Cornwall.
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Same-sex marriage: Empathy or right?

There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy...

Report into smoke in cabin flight

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
EasyJet and Belfast International Airport respond to a report by the Air Accident Investigation Branch into an emergency evacuation.
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Kids' cardiac service criticised

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
An independent panel says cardiac services at Glasgow's Sick Children's Hospital "may be unsafe if critical staffing problems are not addressed".
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Portugal extradition bid dropped

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
An extradition request for a Kent man wanted in Portugal for a crime he was cleared of in 1995 is dropped.
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Obama unveils US Africa food plan

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
US President Barack Obama announces a $3bn (£1.9bn) plan to boost food security in Africa ahead of a G-8 summit near Washington.
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Facebook shares see modest debut

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
Facebook shares end a volatile first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing, having initially jumped more than 10%.
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Putin gives top job to tank factory worker

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
MOSCOW (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin on Friday gave a senior government post to a tank factory worker who had offered to come to Moscow with fellow laborers to disperse opposition protests....

Putin gives top job to tank factory worker

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
MOSCOW (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin on Friday gave a senior government post to a tank factory worker who had offered to come to Moscow with fellow laborers to disperse opposition protests....

Putin gives top job to tank factory worker

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
MOSCOW (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin on Friday gave a senior government post to a tank factory worker who had offered to come to Moscow with fellow laborers to disperse opposition protests....

Putin gives top job to tank factory worker

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
MOSCOW (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin on Friday gave a senior government post to a tank factory worker who had offered to come to Moscow with fellow laborers to disperse opposition protests....

Violent double murderer jailed

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 17:06
A man is jailed for life for two murders and a string of "senseless" assaults in north London.
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How the gay-marriage mob slimed Manny Pacquiao

Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is guilty -- of being true to his Catholic faith.
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