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12:35 PM ET, June 3, 2011

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Bob Woodruff / ABCNEWS:

John Edwards to Face Indictment Today — Unless a last-minute deal comes through, John Edwards will be indicted today on criminal charges after a two-year investigation seeking to connect the former senator to an allegedly illegal scheme to cover-up his extra-marital affair, ABC News has learned.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, CBS News, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Ben Smith's Blog, The Politico, The Hill, americanthinker.com, TalkLeft and Simply Left BehindThe …

WTVD-TV:

John Edwards indicted — john edwards, andrew young, rielle hunter, local/state — ABC11 has learned that a federal grand jury has indicted former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate John Edwards. — The case of United States of America v. Johnny Reid Edwards contains six counts …

Discussion: Fox Nation, Runnin' Scared, Towleroad News #gay and Pirate's Cove

Jerry Markon / Washington Post:

John Edwards indicted on campaign finance charges — View Photo Gallery — Former Sen. John Edwards launched his second bid for the presidency in Dec. 2006. In launching his 2008 bid, Edwards returned to the issue of poverty in America, using New Orleans as a backdrop to underscore …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Taylor Marsh, Althouse and Unfogged

Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:

Edwards Indicted in Campaign Fund Case — John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina and presidential candidate, was indicted Friday morning by a grand jury in Raleigh on charges that he violated campaign finance law during his 2008 presidential campaign.

Discussion: Gothamist and Fausta's Blog

WRAL-TV:
Edwards indicted; arrest warrant issued

Discussion: Pajamas Media and Patterico's Pontifications

Raleigh News & Observer:
Prosecutors indict John Edwards

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Salon and Hot Air

The Hill:
Edwards indicted by federal prosecutors

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog

Associated Press:
John Edwards Indicted: Charged With Conspiracy, Campaign Finance Violations By Federal Grand Jury

Discussion: Associated Press, Weasel Zippers, New York Magazine, The Political Carnival and Patterico's Pontifications

Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
John Edwards indicted by grand jury

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Sister Toldjah

New York Post:

Lewd-pic recipient worn out by Weiner scandal — By REUVEN FENTON in Seattle and JEANE MacINTOSH in NY — “Weinergate” has put a Seattle college cutie through the wringer — jeopardizing her academic dreams, embarrassing her family and shattering her privacy.

Discussion: Proof Positive, Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool

Skschust / CBS New York:

Weiner's Office Calls Police After CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer Asks For An Interview — WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork) — Congressman Anthony Weiner said Thursday he's finished talking about the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account. — But he still wouldn't say whether he's the one in the picture.

Roger Simon / The Politico:

Anthony Weiner and the law's peril — If you smell something burning, it is Anthony Weiner's future going up in smoke. — Weiner is a brash and bright Democratic congressman who represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Until recently, he was considered a leading contender to become …

Discussion: Top of the Ticket

Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Weiner Now Silent Over Lewd Photo

Discussion: The Other McCain

The Politico:

Sarah Palin's bus tour leaves GOP cold — As it played out on TV this week, Sarah Palin's “One Nation” road trip of U.S. historical sites was a masterpiece of political mischief-making - a wild dash up the East Coast that delighted her fans and cornered the market on 2012 coverage for days on end.

Discussion: CNN, Althouse, Pirate's Cove and Conservatives4Palin

Kasie Hunt / The Politico:

'It's like following Princess Diana' — SEABROOK, N.H. — Sarah Palin's bus is plastered with a mockup of the U.S. Constitution. But her entourage — both the three-vehicle motorcade that includes the bus and the smaller, two-SUV version she uses for smaller events — hasn't been very respectful of the traffic laws.

Discussion: William K. Wolfrum Chronicles, The Political Carnival and National Review

Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Amid media circus, Palin lays out policy positions

Discussion: Conservatives4Palin, Liberty Pundits Blog and Boston Herald

Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:

Employment growth slows sharply in May — Case worker Jessica Yon discusses eligibility for unemployed people at a jobs center in San Francisco, California February 4, 2010. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers hired far fewer workers than expected …

Discussion: Power Line, Michelle Malkin, Don Surber, Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway, Scared Monkeys and Zandar Versus The Stupid

Catherine Rampell / New York Times:

Hiring in U.S. Slowed in May With 54,000 Jobs Added — After several months of strong job growth, hiring slowed sharply in May, raising concerns once again about the underlying strength of the economic recovery. — The Labor Department reported on Friday that the United States added 54 …

Wall Street Journal:
Jobless Rate Rises as Pace of Hiring Slows

Discussion: Washington Wire, TalkLeft, The Foundry, Real Time Economics and The Lonely Conservative

Keith Schneider / New York Times:

Dr. Jack Kevorkian Dies at 83; Backed Assisted Suicide — Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the central figure in the tumultuous national drama surrounding assisted suicide, died Friday in a Michigan hospital. He was 83 and lived in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. — The cause of his death was not immediately known …

Discussion: Above the Law, Runnin' Scared and The Powers That Be

Detroit Free Press:
Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian dies

Discussion: Law Blog, Balloon Juice, Gothamist and Towleroad News #gay

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Andrew Breitbart Did Not Run ‘Weinergate’ Evidence Which Turned Out To Be Fake — The “Weinergate” story has been a veritable clinic in the pitfalls of new media-influenced journalism, and one such pitfall has come to a head. Andrew Breitbart has been repeatedly accused of engineering …

Discussion: Hot Air, POWIP, YID With LID and Big Government

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

The Mistake of 2010 — Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a blog post about the “mistake of 1937,” the premature fiscal and monetary pullback that aborted an ongoing economic recovery and prolonged the Great Depression. As Gauti Eggertsson, the post's author …

Discussion: The Politico, Northern Reflections and Arkansas News, more at Mediagazer »

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

On the Maddeningly Inexact Relationship Between Unemployment and Re-Election — Make no mistake: The higher the unemployment rate in November 2012, the less likely President Obama is to win a second term. — But we should be careful about asserting that there is any particular threshold …

Discussion: Hamilton Place Strategies, americanthinker.com, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Prairie Weather, Outside the Beltway, The Confluence and JustOneMinute

Political Punch:

Speaker Boehner Throws Down the War Powers Act Gauntlet On Libya — In the immortal words of the vice president, this could be a big $%^ing deal: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is throwing what one Republican calls “a legal and political hot potato at the President.”

Discussion: The Hill, Booman Tribune, Washington Post, Fox Nation, americanthinker.com, ThinkProgress, Open Congress, Taylor Marsh, Weasel Zippers and Left Coast Rebel

New York Times:
House Sets Votes on Two Resolutions Critical of U.S. Role in Libyan Conflict

Discussion: The Note, msnbc.com, Reuters, The Caucus and American Power

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

Obama Won't Extend Bush Tax Cuts Again: Pledge To House Dems … WASHINGTON — In a meeting with House Democrats on Thursday, President Obama stressed that his administration would draw a firm line on taxes and revenues both in the deficit- and debt-reduction debates and in the buildup to the 2012 elections.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Politico, The Mahablog, Washington Post, Money & Company, Comments from Left Field, AMERICAblog News and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*

Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Obama Rebuffs Democratic Plea To Be More Forceful

Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla

Frances Martel / Mediaite:

Watch CNN Anchor's Deadpan Reaction To Sarah Palin's Version Of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride — Sarah Palin is in Boston today, meeting with supporters and other curious elements. She is also chatting about how meaningful being in such a historic region is to her on her One Nation tour.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Lydia Saad / Gallup:

Americans Divided on Taxing the Rich to Redistribute Wealth — Public is split over enacting heavy taxes on the rich to redistribute wealth — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans break into two roughly evenly matched camps on the question of whether the government should enact heavy taxes on the rich …

Discussion: The Blaze, UrbanGrounds, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:

Michele Bachmann fires up Republican base at DC conservative conference — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on Friday fired up a gathering of conservative activists in Washington as she prepares to announce whether she'll run for president. — Bachmann, a Tea Party favorite …

Discussion: The Note

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Bachmann swipes at Pawlenty over individual mandate

Discussion: ThinkProgress, New York Times, The Daily Caller and Swampland

Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:

Huntsman Bags Some Big Bundlers — As he mulls jumping into the presidential race, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. is corralling some big GOP fund-raisers—and even a few who helped Hillary Clinton in 2008. … A list of prominent Huntsman bundlers obtained by Washington Wire includes Georgette Mosbacher …

Discussion: The Note, Ben Smith's Blog and AmSpecBlog

New York Post:

Who'll save us from this ‘recovery’? — Private-sector job growth is ane mic, new jobless claims are still well over 400,000, the unemployment numbers are grim, manufacturing has slowed to a crawl, home prices are falling again, the dollar keeps sinking, 44 million people are now on food stamps …

Discussion: Pundit & Pundette and National Review

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

THANKS BARACK... WOMAN FREAKS OUT IN AIRPORT AFTER BEING MOLESTED BY TSA (VIDEO) — THANKS BARACK— THANKS FOR TURNING AMERICA INTO A POLICE STATE where innocent women and children are molested so that the far left loons can feel good about not profiling. — After all, it would be racist to profile.

Discussion: Alex Jones' Infowars, Scared Monkeys, Fox Nation and HotAirPundit