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Aimee Copeland is scared and confused, but she's staying strong in her battle, her dad says. "We see the miraculous survival."

Julian Zelizer says Mitt Romney is facing a challenge in determining what his relationship should be with the tea party Republicans

Ilyse Hogue says Republicans continue to wage a war on women by attacking Obama campaign's ad about a fictional cartoon character Julia

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Roberto Mancini tells BBC Sport in an exclusive interview that Manchester City's stunning Premier League title success is "probably the best moment" of his football career.

A 13-year-old boy has died days after a house fire in Derby that killed five of his younger siblings.

Ex-Manchester United defender Gary Neville joins Roy Hodgson's coaching staff as England get ready for Euro 2012.

Chancellor Angela Merkel admits her party suffered a "bitter, painful defeat" in Germany's largest state election in North Rhine-Westphalia.

A retinal implant - or bionic eye - which is powered by light has been invented by scientists at Stanford University in California.

CNN | NY's police have been praising their "stop, question and frisk" policy as contributing to historically low murder rate.

Kurt Nimmo | She also called for “candidly” killing more people in faraway places.

Two UK servicemen shot dead in Afghanistan on Saturday by members of the Afghan national police force are named by the Ministry of Defence.

Italian police say they are "fairly confident" a body found in a river near Lake Como is a holidaymaker from Derbyshire who went missing last year.

The trial court erred in summarily dismissing defendant’s post-conviction petition. He alleged various grounds that the warrantless search was invalid and defense counsel was ineffective for not challenging it. Essentially, the defendant was charged with misdemeanor driving offenses and the trunk of the car was searched incident to the arrest. Hoffman v. State, 2012 Ida. App. LEXIS 34 (May 11, 2012).*

Officers had reasonable suspicion when they sent a wired CI to the defendant’s apartment and defendant said “Okay” and “hold on” and he left from another door. State v. Durham, 2012 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 311 (May 9, 2012).*

A Welsh Guardsman shot dead in Afghanistan along with an RAF corporal is described as a "formidably talented team commander" by a senior officer.

Nurses are still unhappy despite giving the Health Secretary a dignified reception, the leader of the RCN has said.

Greek President Karolos Papoulias has been holding talks with leaders of the country's smaller parties, including the extremist right-wing party, Golden Dawn.

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.

A man accused of murdering his wife said their children would soon forget her, a trial has heard.

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.