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9:35 AM ET, July 6, 2013

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Reuters:
President of Venezuela Offers Asylum to Snowden  —  CARACAS — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday he had decided to offer asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has petitioned several countries to avoid capture by Washington.
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Reuters:
Venezuela's Maduro offers asylum to U.S. fugitive Snowden  —  (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday he had decided to offer asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has petitioned several countries to avoid capture by Washington.
BBC:
Venezuela and Nicaragua make Snowden asylum offers  —  The presidents of both Nicaragua and Venezuela have indicated their countries could offer political asylum to US fugitive Edward Snowden.  —  Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro said it would give asylum to the intelligence leaker …
Robert Robertsson / Reuters:
Iceland parliament declines Snowden's citizenship bid  —  (Reuters) - A bid by Edward Snowden for Icelandic citizenship failed when the country's parliament voted not to debate it before the summer recess, lawmakers said on Friday, with options for the U.S. fugitive narrowing by the day.
Jake Miller / CBS News:
John Kerry on his boat during Egypt upheaval, State Dept. concedes  —  As regime change was unfolding in Egypt, Secretary of State John Kerry spent time on his boat Wednesday afternoon in Nantucket Sound, the State Department acknowledged to CBS News on Friday, after repeatedly denying that Kerry was aboard any boat.
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Reversing denial, State says Kerry was briefly on boat
Jerusalem Post:
‘Muslim Brotherhood claims interim Egyptian president is Jewish’  —  Wash Post: MB website said Israel conspiring to insert ElBaradei.  —  The Muslim Brotherhood claimed in a post on its official website that Egypt's new interim president Adli Mansour is Jewish, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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David P. Goldman / PJ Media:
Dismiss the Egyptian People and Elect a New One
Patrick Marley / JSOnline:
Scott Walker signs abortion bill; providers quickly sue  —  Legislation requires doctors to have hospital admitting privileges  —  By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison — Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Friday requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges …
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Associated Press:
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signs abortion bill requiring ultrasound
Discussion: CNN
Trayvon Martin:
State rests and defense begins its case in George Zimmerman trial  —  SANFORD — Trayvon Martin's mother sat at the witness stand Friday, head held high, and decisively insisted that the chilling cries captured on a 911 call belonged to only one person: her slain child, Trayvon Benjamin Martin.
Discussion: Power Line, NPR and Booman Tribune
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Erin Donaghue / CBS News:
George Zimmerman trial: Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, testifies her son was screaming in 911 call
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Taylor Marsh
Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
Police chief killed with rifle lost in ATF gun-tracking program  —  WASHINGTON—A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF's Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records …
Hadas Gold / Reuters:
George W. Bush to push immigration reform  —  Former President George W. Bush is expected to make a speech next week on how immigration reform is good for the country, the Dallas Morning News reports.  —  Bush will speak after a citizenship ceremony at the George W. Bush Presidential Center …
Discussion: Politico
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Catherine Rampell / Economix:
Yes, the Sequester Is Affecting the Job Market  —  The across-the-board automatic federal budget cuts that began in March do not seem to be derailing the recovery so far, given that the job market over all has continued to grow.  And certainly some of the scariest predictions about the sequester …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Oregon Looks at Way to Attend College Now and Repay State Later  —  Going to college can seem like a choice between impossibly high payments while in school or a crushing debt load for years afterward, but one state is experimenting with a third way.  —  This week, the Oregon Legislature approved …
 
 
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Paul Wood / BBC:
Face-to-face with Abu Sakkar, Syria's ‘heart-eating cannibal’
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Obamacare Strikes: Part-Time Jobs Surge To All Time High; Full-Time Jobs Plunge By 240,000
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
McCain, House Republicans headed for clash on immigration reform
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Texas' AG opens a probe into the World Federation of Advertisers to find if it conspired to boycott “certain social media platforms”; X sued the WFA in August

 
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