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5:05 PM ET, June 1, 2012

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Associated Press:
Judge revokes George Zimmerman bond in Trayvon Martin killing  —  April 20, 2012: In this file photo, George Zimmerman, left, answers a question from attorney Mark O'Mara during a bond hearing in Sanford, Fla.AP/ORLANDO SENTINEL  —  SANFORD, FLA - URGENT: A judge on Friday revoked the bond …
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Orlando Sentinel:
George Zimmerman's bond revoked in shooting of Trayvon Martin  —  In a new motion, prosecutors accused Zimmerman and his wife of lying to the judge during a bond hearing about money they collected for his defense.  —  Prosecutors allege Zimmerman's wife knew about the donations her husband …
Scott Hiaasen / MiamiHerald.com:
Judge orders Zimmerman back to jail
Discussion: Examiner
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran  —  WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's …
Bill Clinton / CNN:
TRENDING: Bill Clinton, predicting Obama win, calls Romney's business career ‘sterling’  —  (CNN) - Former President Bill Clinton, a stalwart backer of President Barack Obama who's already helped the incumbent Democrat raise funds for his re-election bid, said Thursday that Mitt Romney had a …
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Romney Just THRASHED Obama On The Jobs Report On CNBC
Bill Clinton / CNN:
TRENDING: Romney smiles at Clinton compliment
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, GOP 12 and Politico
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney: Jobs report is ‘harsh indictment’ of Obama's presidency
Discussion: CNN
First Read / msnbc.com:
President Barack Obama speaks before signing the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Politico
Brian McGrory / The Boston Globe:
Warren: 'I won't deny who I am'  —  Elizabeth Warren, outside her childhood home in Norman, Okla., last year.  She said her parents had to elope because her father's family disapproved of her mother's Native American ancestry.  —  She has given clumsy answers, evaded questions …
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Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: ELOPED?  ELIZABETH WARREN'S PARENTS MARRIED IN RELIGIOUS CEREMONY  —  Last night, in an interview with the Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren claimed that her parents were forced to elope because her father's family objected to her mother's Native American heritage:
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Weasel Zippers
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Warren: My parents had to elope because my mother was 1/16th Cherokee, or something; Update …
BuzzFeed:
The Number That Will Matter In Wisconsin  —  In the epic showdown between Big Blue and Big Red, Walker's margin may be the number being watched from Chicago and Boston.  A Walker blowout means trouble for the president.  —  Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (L) and Republican Wisconsin Governor …
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Scott Walker Supporter Arrested At Bill Clinton Rally
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Althouse and Moe Lane
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Bill Clinton rallies Wisconsin Democrats to vote Walker out in next week's recall
Discussion: Politico
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
Miserable May jobs report suggests U.S. in recession red zone  —  [THIS POST WILL UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF PAGE AS EVENTS UNFOLD ...]  —  The May jobs report was a complete and utter disaster for the economy and, perhaps, President Obama's chances for reelection.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US Creates 69,000 New Jobs, Unemployment Rate 8.2%
Dareh Gregorian / New York Post:
DC Comics Green Lantern relaunched as gay superhero  —  One of DC Comics oldest heroes is super-coming out.  —  The original Green Lantern - a DC Comics mainstay for the past 70 years - will be revealed to be a gay man in next week's issue of “Earth 2.”  —  Alan Scott - formerly …
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David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement:
Exclusive: One Million Moms Deletes ‘Green Lantern Is Gay’ Post After Flood Of Pro-Gay Comments
Tom Curry / msnbc.com:
Risk of non-citizen voters at center of election year struggle in Fla. and Colo.  —  Risk of non-citizen voters at center of election year struggle in Florida and Colorado  —  The Justice Department entered the long-running struggle over voter eligibility Thursday, warning Florida …
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Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMMuckraker  —  Justice Department Demands Florida Stop Purging Voter Rolls
BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Wins Over The Right By Confronting Obama  —  Behind his confrontational strategy: A bet that the base cares more about grit than policy, and doesn't want him to apologize for Donald Trump.  “This is right out of Breitbart's playbook,” says Thor.  —  Romey, in front of Solyndra Thursday.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:   Mitt the “Fighting Moderate”
ABCNEWS:
Jeb Bush Proves He Won't be VP  —  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush emphatically told reporters today he is not going to be a candidate for vice president.  —  “It's not in the cards for me,” Bush said.  “I don't know how many times I have to repeat this.  I have been repeating it for the last two years.
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Democrat Van Hollen tells Jeb Bush he should be criticizing his brother
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
The Charts That Should Accompany All Discussions of Media Bias  —  They are the ones presented this morning by John Sides, drawing on Pew analyses of positive, negative, and neutral press coverage of all Republican candidates and of President Obama through this past year.  —  Here's the trend in coverage of Mitt Romney.
Alan B. Krueger / White House.gov Blog:
The Employment Situation in May  —  Problems in the job market were long in the making and will not be solved overnight.  The economy lost jobs for 25 straight months beginning in February 2008, and over 8 million jobs were lost as a result of the Great Recession.
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Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
The road not taken  —  About a year ago, the job market looked …
Rory Cooper / National Review:
President Obama Shuns Lech Walesa  —  Lech Walesa was once a trade-union activist.  He was often arrested for speaking his mind against Communist oppression behind the Iron Curtain in Poland and for defying the Soviet Union.  He was an electrician who, with no higher education …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama apologizes in writing for ‘Polish death camp’ verbal gaffe
Frank Newport / Gallup:
In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins  —  Highly religious Americans most likely to believe in creationism  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.
Paul Krugman:
The Breakeven Point (Wonkish But Terrifying)  —  A number of us have been saying for some time that the euro crisis is, at its root, a balance of payments problem.  During the careless years, capital flooded from the core to the periphery, leading to big trade deficits and overvalued real exchange rates …
Wall Street Journal:
Holder's Racial Incitement  —  When looking for the Attorney General's motives, think lower.  —  The United States of America has a black President whose chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Eric Holder, is also black.  They have a lot of political power.  So how are they using it?
 
 
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are
Chris Francescani / Reuters:
NY mayor blasts sugar ban critics: “That's a lot of soda”
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Campaign 2012
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Austerity Agenda  —  “The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity.”
Discussion: Daily Kos and Seeing the Forest
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Big Paychecks, Tiny Tax Burdens: How 21,000 Wealthy Americans Avoided Paying Income Tax
David Jolly / Yahoo! Finance:
Euro Zone Unemployment Rises to a Record 11%
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Tensions Inside John Edwards Jury Room
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WHBF-TV:
Controversial family book in Erie schools
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Joe. My. God.
Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Obama Tells Donors Health-Care Fight May Loom After Court Rules
Brian Z. Tamanaha / New York Times:
How to Make Law School Affordable
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