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Associated Press:
US economy added 80,000 jobs in June; unemployment rate unchanged at 8.2 percent  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, a third straight month of weak hiring that shows the economy is still struggling three years after the recession ended.
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
June Jobs Report Brings Another Round Of Disappointment  —  Despite some signs I noted yesterday that suggested that the June jobs report might not be as disappointing as some feared, the slowing trend that we saw starting to develop in March, which continued into April, and got even worse in May, were still there in June.
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
June jobs swoon: America's labor market depression continues  —  This was not the employment report either the American worker or the Obama campaign wanted to see right now.  The Labor Department said the U.S. economy created just 80,000 jobs in June, less than the 90,000 economists had been forecasting.
Eric Platt / Business Insider:
JUNE JOBS REPORT MISSES EXPECTATIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT 8.2%  —  UPDATE:  —  U.S. payrolls expanded by just 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 private sector only expanded by some 84,000 positions.
Alex Kowalski / Bloomberg:
Payrolls In U.S. Rose 80,000 In June; Jobless Rate 8.2%  —  Employers in the U.S. hired fewer workers than forecast in June, showing the labor market is making scant progress toward reducing joblessness.  —  Payrolls rose 80,000 last month after a 77,000 increase in May, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington.
Donovan Slack / Politico:
WH: at least the economy is still growing
Discussion: Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Jared Bernstein / On the Economy:
Jobs Report, First Impressions
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Taegan Goddard's …
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
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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 …
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.
Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
Obama Attacks Romney on Health-Care Shift
Discussion: WLWT-TV
Alexander Burnsand Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Conservative griping about Mitt Romney grows
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and Hot Air
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: CNN, Weasel Zippers and TheBlaze.com
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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 …
Hunter Walker / Politicker:
President Obama Advised Patrons to Turn Off Fox News in Ohio Pub
Discussion: TVNewser
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?
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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Intern / ThinkProgress:
Obamacare Is A Major Tax Cut For Middle Class Families
Discussion: The Raw Story
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
Discussion: theGrio and New York Magazine
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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Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Senior Syrian military officer defects  —  ANTAKYA, Turkey — A powerful military officer and longtime close associate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has defected and was on his way to Paris, where foreign ministers from Friends of Syria countries are meeting, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius confirmed Friday.
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