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Malmo suspect denies shootings

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
A 40-year-old Swedish man, Peter Mangs, pleads not guilty to a series of attacks targeting mainly immigrants as his trial starts in Malmo.
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Fraser children 'will forget' mum

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
A man accused of murdering his wife said their children would soon forget her, a trial has heard.
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E.D.Ky.: Apparent authority is different from actual authority

FourthAmendment.com - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06

Apparent authority is different from actual authority. One is not the other. United States v. Wilburn, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66301 (E.D. Ky. May 11, 2012)*:

Wilburn argues the finding of actual authority was erroneous for two reasons. First, he ties what he concludes is a shaky basis for apparent authority to what he argues must correspond to a finding of no actual authority, "if her apparent authority was questionable the officers certainly could not rely on actual authority." [R. 426 at 2]. Like all of Wilburn's arguments, he cites no legal authority to support this proposition. Indeed, Wilburn's argument is at odds with the clear legal principles present in this situation. Apparent authority is present when "the facts available to the officer at the moment warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that the consenting party had authority over the premises." United States v. Campbell, 317 F.3d 597, 608 (6th Cir. 2003) (quotation omitted). Thus, apparent authority, as an idea, concerns what information the officers knew at the time of the search and whether it would be reasonable to conclude that the consenter had authority.

This is very different from actual authority. The concept of actual authority is concerned with whether the consenter had actual dominion over the object he authorized to be searched.

South Sudan refugees flown home

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
The first planeload of refugees stranded for months in a camp in Sudan is flown to South Sudan - among 500,000 who may be forced to leave.
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Apple drops '4G' from iPad ads

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
Apple has stopped using '4G' in adverts for its latest iPad following complaints about which technologies the phrase stood for.
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Key House figure refuses meeting with prostitute

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is refusing to meet with a Colombian prostitute involved in the U.S. Secret Service scandal....
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Merkel: Election loss won't alter Europe policy

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
BERLIN (AP) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel is insisting that a heavy state election defeat for her party in Germany's most populous region won't weaken her as she grapples with a deepening European debt crisis....

Britain bedeviled by binge drinking

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
LONDON (AP) -- The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks....

Britain bedeviled by binge drinking

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
LONDON (AP) -- The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks....

Britain bedeviled by binge drinking

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
LONDON (AP) -- The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks....

Lee makes 1st SKorean trip to Myanmar since attack

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar tightened security for a visit by President Lee Myung-bak on Monday, the first by a South Korean leader since an assassination attempt by North Korean commandos nearly 30 years ago....

Obama seeks to undercut Romney's record on jobs

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival's candidacy: his business credentials....
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Romney won't say he'll overturn immigration order

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
TROY, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney in an interview aired Sunday repeatedly refused to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. He claimed Obama's decision was political, while senior White House adviser David Plouffe said the move wasn't motivated by politics....

Yemeni raids kill 16 al-Qaida militants in south

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni government forces pounded al-Qaida targets on Monday, killing at least 16 militants in the troubled south where the army is trying to uproot the terror group, military officials said....

VIDEO: Plane crashes in northern Nepal

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
A plane with 21 people aboard crashes in northern Nepal, killing at least 15.
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Arab Gulf leaders in union talks

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss plans for a regional political, economic and security union.
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Cellist wins Young Musician prize

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
Fifteen-year-old cellist Laura van der Heijden wins the BBC's Young Musician Of The Year prize.
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No time to run from marriage issue

Republicans usually stand to benefit whenever cultural issues arise in an election campaign. But they too often run away from debates over issues related to marriage, life and religion.

World stocks drop as worries over Greece intensify

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
MILAN (AP) -- World stock markets dropped Monday as worries intensified over the condition of the eurozone and whether Greece is edging towards leaving the single currency union....

Schools 'should learn from Japan'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 22:06
The shadow education secretary says English schools should take lessons on teaching from Japan.
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