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1:55 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 …

Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:

BREAKING: Obama To Stop Deporting DREAM-Eligible Youth, Protecting 1 Million Undocumented Students — President Obama will announce a new immigration policy this morning that will allow some undocumented students to avoid deportation and receive work authorization.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Hullabaloo, The New Civil Rights Movement, The Daily Caller, Pirate's Cove, The National Memo, Jammie Wearing Fools and Balloon Juice

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.

Discussion: msnbc.com, The Daily Beast, Immigration Impact and The New Republic

Department of Homeland Security:

Secretary Napolitano Announces Deferred Action Process for Young People Who Are Low Enforcement Priorities — La Secretaria Napolitano Anuncia Proceso De Acción Diferida Para Jóvenes Que Sean De Baja Prioridad Para La Aplicación De La Ley

Discussion: CNN, Washington Wire, Campaign 2012, Washington Post, Business Insider, blog.sfgate.com and ImmigrationProf Blog

Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Why Obama's Decision To Stop Deporting DREAM-Eligible Youth Is Good For The Economy

Discussion: The New Civil Rights Movement and Shakesville

Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama makes election-year change in deportation policy

Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and The Gateway Pundit

Tom Cohen / CNN:
Young immigrant deportations stopped

Discussion: Hit & Run, This Just In and TIME Ideas

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Secret report: Catch and release for low-priority illegals proposed

Discussion: dhorowitz3's blog and Riehl World View

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Daily Dish, Balloon Juice, Hit & Run, Pirate's Cove, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, americanthinker.com, neo-neocon, Crooks and Liars, The PJ Tatler, Pundit & Pundette and Prairie Weather

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 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.

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Balloon Juice, The Daily Beast, Gothamist and The Caucus

New York Post:
Running on empty — Man, is Barack Obama running dry.

Discussion: Pundit & Pundette

Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
MSNBC Panel's Verdict On Obama Campaign Speech: It Stinks

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, nation.foxnews.com, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, Washington Post, JOSHUAPUNDIT, The Lonely Conservative and BuzzFeed

The White House:
Remarks by the President on the Economy — Cleveland, OH

Discussion: Washington Post, The Heritage Foundation, Taylor Marsh and New York Times

Ben Feller / Associated Press:

Obama to Celebrities: 'You're the Ultimate Arbiter of Which Direction This Country Goes' — NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama soaked in the support — and the campaign cash — of Manhattan's elite entertainers Thursday as his re-election team sought to fill its fundraising coffers.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, protein wisdom, Sister Toldjah, Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org blogs and Questions and Observations

John Lauinger / NY Daily News:
President Obama visits Sarah Jessica Parker's Manhattan brownstone for elaborate fund-raiser

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Althouse

Mark Knoller / Twitchy:
Obama bemoans ‘people hurting out there’ at Sarah Jessica Parker's $40,000-per-person fundraiser

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative

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.

Discussion: The New Civil Rights Movement, New York Magazine, Gothamist and The Raw Story

Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Fifth-Grader Prohibited From Giving Speech Supporting Marriage Equality

Discussion: The Daily What, Taylor Marsh, BuzzFeed, Gawker and Towleroad News #gay

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.

Discussion: protein wisdom, The Jawa Report, The PJ Tatler and Politicker

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 …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Financial Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Reuters

First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Obama ‘creates the contrast’ in Cleveland

Discussion: Politico and A plain blog about politics

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.

Discussion: New York Magazine, ABCNEWS and Mondoweiss

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.

Discussion: Ricochet Conversations Feed

Detroit Free Press:
With video: Two female Michigan lawmakers silenced after vagina, abortion comments

Discussion: Indecision Forever, Wonkette, Gawker, Politico, The New Civil Rights Movement, Jezebel and SBM Blog

DealBook:

Rajat Gupta Convicted of Insider Trading — Rajat K. Gupta, the retired head of the consulting firm McKinsey & Company and a former Goldman Sachs board member, was found guilty on Friday of conspiracy and securities fraud. He is the most prominent business executive convicted in a wave …

Discussion: New York Magazine, FT Alphaville and Jammie Wearing Fools

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 …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland