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9:50 AM ET, July 6, 2012

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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
June Job Creation at 80,000; Rate Holds Steady at 8.2%  —  The U.S. economy created just 80,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.2 percent, reflecting continued slow growth in the economy with the presidential election just four months away.
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Eric Platt / Business Insider:
JUNE JOBS REPORT MISSES EXPECTATIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT 8.2%  —  UPDATE:  —  U.S. payrolls expanded by 80,000 net jobs in June keeping the unemployment rate flat at 8.2 percent, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows.  —  The report, which follows several months of weak economic gains …
Mike Allen / Politico:
Mitt Romney sets GOP fund-raising record  —  The Romney campaign, along with its Romney Victory fund, raised more than $100 million in June, obliterating the campaign's goal and setting the one-month record for any Republican campaign, according to a GOP official.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
American Bridge hits Mitt's jobs rhetoric  —  Turns out it's not just health care where President Barack Obama sounds a lot like Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.  —  Ahead of the June unemployment numbers release this morning, the Democratic reserach group American Bridge is circulating video …
Discussion: Washington Wire
Alexander Burnsand Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Conservative griping about Mitt Romney grows
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and Hot Air
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Obama's Super-PAC Advantage
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP official: Romney raised $100 million for the month of June
Discussion: Politico and Jammie Wearing Fools
BuzzFeed:
Obama: Turn Off Fox News  —  Obama suggests patron ask bar owner to switch off the conservative-leaning cable network.  —  Image by KEVIN LAMARQUE / Reuters  —  PARMA, Ohio — At an unscheduled stop at Ziggy's Pub and Restaurant, an Amherst, Ohio bar, President Barack Obama suggested …
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Emily Goodin / Ballot Box:
Voter to Obama: Let's arm wrestle for vote  —  A voter in Amherst, Ohio, offered to arm wrestle President Obama in exchange for his vote.  —  The president responded he'd prefer a basketball game instead, according to a White House pool report.  —  Obama was in Ohio wrapping …
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
Politico:
Sobbing woman thanks Obama for health care law  —  SANDUSKY, Ohio — An emotional Ohio voter personally thanked President Obama for passing a health care overhaul, relating the story of her late sister's battle with cancer.  —  After Obama's speech in Sandusky, he encountered a sobbing Stephanie Miller …
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Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
Morgan Freeman: Obama Isn't America's First Black President  —  President Barack Obama told his compelling life story during the campaign leading up to his election in 2008.  Upon his inauguration, many Americans took pride in their country having elected their first black president …
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NPR:
Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet … Morgan Freeman is an Oscar-winning actor, philanthropist and recent recipient of the Lincoln Medal of Honor.  —  Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman joined Tell Me More host Michel Martin to discuss his new movie, The Magic of Belle Isle.
Discussion: theGrio and New York Magazine
Brandon Blackwell / Plain Dealer:
Clash breaks out at GOP rally supporting Mitt Romney in Parma  —  PARMA, Ohio — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sent two GOP heavyweights to northern Ohio Thursday to beat President Barack Obama's similar bus tour to the punch.  —  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Minnesota …
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Erin McPike / Real Clear Politics:
Romney's VP Short List: It May Be Down to Four
David Hogberg / Capital Hill:
‘Great Day For The First Amendment’: Walker Wins Appeal Vs. Kimberlin Peace Order  —  Back on May 29, Judge C.J. Vaughey of District Court of Maryland for Montgomery County signed a peace order against attorney Aaron Walker, preventing him from writing anything about convicted Speedway Bomber Brett Kimberlin.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Three Makes A Trend … - If Paul Clement Is So Good, How Did He Lose the Term's Two Biggest Supreme Court Cases?
Discussion: New York Magazine
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Santigold's ‘The Keepers,’ ‘Mad Men’ and Race  —  This last season of Mad Men heightened the debate about the show's approach to race and the 1960s, bringing Dawn, a young secretary, into the office as Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's first African-American employee.
Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Texas Lawmakers Try To Criminalize ‘Intrusive’ Patdowns But Mandate Ultrasounds  —  One bill criminalizes workers who touch people in inappropriate places as part of their job.  One bill mandates they do exactly that.  In Texas, they even have the same sponsor.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Yaakov Lappin / Jerusalem Post:
'Polonium found on Arafat's clothing was planted'  —  Analyst tells ‘Post’ high levels of radioactive poison reportedly found on Arafat's belongings likely placed there much later.  —  The high levels of the radioactive poison polonium reportedly found on the belongings …
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and Israel Matzav
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
HBO Not Proceeding With Fox News' Roger Ailes TV Movie Produced By MSNBC Rivals: “CNN Affiliation” Cited As The Reason  —  EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: I scooped yesterday that HBO had done a secret deal for an Untitled Roger Ailes Project being executive produced by Fox News rivals from MSNBC.
Letitia James / The Huffington Post:
Why the Soda Ban Won't Work  —  Michael Bloomberg , Childhood Obesity , New York Politics , Bloomberg Soda Ban , Soda Ban , New York News  —  There are few who would criticize Mayor Bloomberg for working towards the goal of a healthier New York.  Unfortunately, there are many who would …
Discussion: New Yorkers …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / City Room:
At Movies and Beaches, Soda Industry Makes Its Case
 
 
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Kate Andersen Brower / Bloomberg:
Obama To Hammer Romney'S Bain Record On Campaign Bus Trip
Discussion: Reuters, USA Today, Plain Dealer and ABCNEWS
Joshua Miller / Roll Call:
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Yoav Zitun / Ynetnews:
‘Next Lebanon war will be different’
Discussion: Israpundit and Israel Matzav
Lateef Mungin / CNN:
Florida lifeguard fired after saving drowning man
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Zack Colman / E2-Wire:
Napolitano on weird weather and climate change: 'There's a pattern here'
Discussion: Associated Press
Adele Hampton / The Hill:
Rep. Joe Walsh gets into shouting match with CNN host over ‘true hero’ remark
Discussion: Politico
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