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2:35 PM ET, June 15, 2012

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Alicia A. Caldwell / Associated Press:
AP sources: Immunity offered to certain immigrants  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives.  The election-year initiative addresses …
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John H. Cushman Jr / New York Times:
U.S. to Stop Deporting Some Illegal Immigrants  —  WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children will be able to obtain work permits and be safe from deportation under a new policy announced on Friday by the Obama administration.
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Why Obama's Decision To Stop Deporting DREAM-Eligible Youth Is Good For The Economy  —  President Obama will announce a new immigration policy today that will allow some undocumented youths to avoid deportation and receive work permits to remain in the United States.
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Rep. Steve King to sue Obama administration over new immigration policy
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Secret report: Catch and release for low-priority illegals proposed
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama makes election-year change in deportation policy
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Skip the falsehoods, Mr. President, and give us a plan  —  I had high hopes for President Obama's speech on the economy.  But instead of going to Ohio on Thursday with a compelling plan for the future, the president gave Americans a falsehood wrapped in a fallacy.
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New York Times:
The Political Contrast  —  President Obama sometimes forgets that an important speech does not have to be endless.  On Thursday, appearing before supporters at a Cleveland community college, he spent 53 minutes on the stark contrast between his goals and the failed Bush-era policies that Mitt Romney is trying to resurrect.
Hunter Walker / Politicker:
President Obama's Speech Gets A Thumbs Down From Political Press Corps  —  President Obama on stage in Ohio.  (Photo: Getty)  —  Prior to President Barack Obama's marathon 54 minute speech in Ohio today, the Obama campaign sent our several statements promising the speech would be a major address framing the campaign going forward.
New York Post:
Running on empty  —  Man, is Barack Obama running dry.
Discussion: Pundit & Pundette
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John Lauinger / NY Daily News:
President Obama visits Sarah Jessica Parker's Manhattan brownstone for elaborate fund-raiser
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Althouse
Ruschell Boone / NY1.com:
NY1 Exclusive: School Prohibits Fifth-Grader From Giving Speech On Same-Sex Marriage … Kameron Slade worked on his speech with his mother and his teacher after winning a class competition.  He was slated to deliver it in a school-wide contest at PS 195.  —  That's no longer going to happen.
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Sally Goldenberg / New York Post:
It's a ‘trick’ question  —  They're not hookers — they just look as if they could be!  —  A dozen scantily clad women rallied outside City Hall yesterday, decrying a bill they say prevents beauties wearing skimpy clothes from getting a fair shot at hailing a yellow cab.
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
McCain: Adelson funding Romney Super PAC with ‘foreign money’  —  Senator and Romney presidential campaign surrogate John McCain (R-AZ) said Thursday that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is indirectly injecting millions of dollar in Chinese “foreign money” into Mitt Romney's presidential election effort.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney mum on immigration change as he embarks on six-state bus tour  —  Mitt Romney began his five-day, six-state bus tour on Friday with renewed criticism of President Obama, blasting his opponent as “a detached and distant president who never seems to hear” the voices of the American people.
Discussion: Indecision Forever
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Could Pennsylvania Go Red?  —  When Mitt Romney's bus tour pulls …
Discussion: CNN and ABCNEWS
New York Times:
Europe Braces for Greek Vote — and Maybe More  —  FRANKFURT — Greek elections on Sunday could bring urgency to a debate that has been largely academic: whether the euro zone can withstand the departure of one of its members.  —  With a good chance that the elections will produce either …
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Obama ‘creates the contrast’ in Cleveland
CNN:
Michigan lawmakers barred from floor after ‘vagina,’ ‘vasectomy’ remarks  —  (CNN) - Two state representatives in Michigan were barred from speaking on the floor of the legislature in Lansing Thursday after colleagues deemed their language “failed to maintain the decorum” of the legislative body.
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Politico:
Inside the Koch World convention  —  The Koch brothers' political operation has increasingly come to resemble its own political party — and later this month in San Diego, it will hold what amounts to its most ambitious convention to date.  —  Many of the dozens of rich conservative invitees …
 
 
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David Sirota / Salon:
Obama chief's anti-gay secret
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Allen West On New Obama Immigration Rule: ‘Backdoor’ Way Of Letting Undocumented Immigrants Vote?
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Geraldo On Politics: ‘All The Black And Brown People On The One Side, All The White People On The Other’
Discussion: The Raw Story
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Nik Wallenda Is Set to Cross Niagara Falls Friday
David Maraniss / Washington Post:
How Obama became black
Robert Wright / The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran
ABCNEWS:
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Less Talk, More Stimulus
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