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3:25 PM ET, June 3, 2011

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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: TalkLeft, ThinkProgress, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Associated Press, AmSpecBlog, The Maddow Blog, Washington Post, Gothamist and Fausta's Blog

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, News Desk, Wall Street Journal, Ben Smith's Blog, TalkLeft, americanthinker.com, The Politico, Taylor Marsh, The Hill and Simply Left BehindThe …

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: News Desk, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Outside the Beltway, Michelle Malkin, Taylor Marsh, The Volokh Conspiracy, Althouse and Unfogged

WRAL-TV:
Edwards indicted; arrest warrant issued

Discussion: Associated Press, Pajamas Media and Patterico's Pontifications

WTVD-TV:
John Edwards indicted

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

Associated Press:
John Edwards Charges Appear Likely Friday

Discussion: msnbc.com, Indecision Forever, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine and Patterico's Pontifications

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: Gothamist, The Other McCain, American Spectator, Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, Proof Positive, Althouse and JammieWearingFool

Roger Simon / The Politico:
Anthony Weiner and the law's peril

Discussion: Top of the Ticket

Skschust / CBS New York:
Weiner's Office Calls Police After CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer Asks For An Interview

Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:

Sarah Palin's History Lesson: Paul Revere Warned The British — In what is somehow “not a publicity seeking tour,” Tea Party maven Sarah Palin is traipsing around the nation's historic landmarks in her “One Nation” bus to “take Americans back to their roots.”

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune and Gawker

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:

Paul Revere redux — All Palin knows about history is what she learned from Disney cartoons. — Posted By: All Palin knows about history is what she learned from Disney cartoons. June 03, 2011 at 12:55 PM — Palin is not helping our cause at all. Please, Sarah take a deep breath and lay low until after Romney defeats Obama.

Discussion: GOP 12

Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Sarah Palin Reveals Fascinating New Account of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

Discussion: The Note

Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Watch CNN Anchor's Deadpan Reaction To Sarah Palin's Version Of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

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

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 …

Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
Employers add fewest jobs in eight months; unemployment jumps to 9.1 percent

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Hamilton Place Strategies

Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Employment growth slows sharply in May

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

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, Stop The ACLU, Althouse and Conservatives4Palin

Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
'It's like following Princess Diana'

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

Edward Morrissey / CNN:
Media chase Palin, and her sway grows

Discussion: Hot Air and Datechguy's Blog

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Republicans demand TV station yank ad claiming GOP plan would ‘end Medicare’ — Attention, people, this is important: The battle over whether it's true that the Republican plan would “end Medicare” is about to play out in a critical way in New Hampshire. — The National Republican …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Ben Smith's Blog, Paul Krugman and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

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: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, YID With LID, Big Government, POWIP and Hot Air

Gschwarzcnn / CNN:

Huntsman: Announcement very soon — Washington (CNN) - Jon Huntsman's official entry into the race for the White House won't happen before the June 13 GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire, but it could happen soon after the debate. — Speaking to reporters Friday after addressing …

Discussion: GOP 12

Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN announces 7 candidates in June 13 debate

Discussion: Fox News, The Washington Independent, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED and The Political Carnival

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, Prairie Weather, Outside the Beltway, americanthinker.com and Lawyers, Guns & Money

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, The Washington Independent, Balloon Juice, Gothamist and Towleroad News #gay

Daily Mail:

Did a pork-coated bullet kill Bin Laden? Yes, says firm who claim its pig fat gun oil is bought by U.S. military personnel — Was Osama bin Laden shot with a bullet soaked in pork fat, denying him a place in paradise? — Yes, if one rather shady website, that peddles gun oil containing liquefied pig fat, is to be believed.

Discussion: The Jawa Report and iOwnTheWorld.com

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Wisconsin Dems to announce that they will try to recall Scott Walker — There's a long way to go, and the goal seems like a very tough one to reach, but Wisconsin Democrats are set to go for it: They will announce at their annual convention later today that they intend to launch an effort …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos

The Huffington Post:

Haley Barbour Breaks With Eric Cantor On Disaster Relief … Eric Cantor , Haley Barbour , Budget Cuts , Video , Politics News , Barbour Disaster , Barbour Eric Cantor , Barbour Faith And Freedom , Barbour Tornadoes , Cantor Disaster Relief , Disaster Relief , Disaster Relief Budget Cuts …

Discussion: Washington Monthly and ThinkProgress

Dan Hirschhorn / Reuters:
Haley Barbour: ‘Purity’ will lose 2012 race

Discussion: The Note

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: Left Coast Rebel, Scared Monkeys, Fox Nation and HotAirPundit

Alex Jones' Infowars: VIDEO: Woman Screams For Help After TSA Molestation

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

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, Marginal Revolution and Arkansas News, more at Mediagazer »

The Note:

Herman Cain Confident His Campaign Can Raise Enough Money to Beat Romney, GOP Candidates — ABC News' Huma Khan reports: Former pizza chain head turned presidential contender Herman Cain today expressed confidence that he'll have enough money and support to challenge Republican establishment favorites …

Discussion: ABCNEWS and The New Republic

CBS Minnesota:

Police: Woman Stabs 2 Outside Bloomington Library — BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (WCCO) — Two people were stabbed in a seemingly random attack at a Twin Cities library. — After the incident Wednesday night at the Oxboro Library in Bloomington, 35-year-old Samira Abdalla Salim was arrested.

Discussion: The Jawa Report and Jihad Watch

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:

Joel Rosenberg, RIP — One of Minnesota's heroes of personal liberty, a man who was a good friend to me when I needed him, unexpectedly passed away last night from complications arising from a heart attack the day before. Joel Rosenberg literally wrote the book on concealed carry — in fact, he wrote several of them.

Discussion: Shot in the Dark, The Blotter and Free Joel Rosenberg