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• VP Joe Biden's daughter marries doctor in Delaware
• Edwards advised to keep low profile before 2nd act
• Exclusive: SEC investigator previously pushed to carry gun
• U.S. ambassador marks D-Day with Normandy parachute jump
• Toronto police say they know who mall shooter is
• Florida shooter George Zimmerman returns to jail
• Wall Street Week Ahead: Torn between bulls and bears
• Eric Fehrnstrom: Arming Syrian Opposition Would Level the Playing Field
• Fehrnstrom: Arming Syrian Opposition Would Level the Playing Field
• Khamenei: West talks of nuclear Iran to hide own problems
• Drenched crowds laugh off deluge for jubilee party
• Axelrod Denies Participating in Counter-Terror Discussions
• New animal disease facility stalled by budget, politics
• Fehrnstrom: Arming Syrian Opposition Would Level the Playing Field
• Bin Laden spent wealth on attacks, guests: Qaeda
• Euro bailout fund should be used for banks: France
• US democracy aid went to favored groups in Egypt
• U.S. SEC says taking "close look" at zombie funds
• Paul Krugman: Paul Ryan Budget That Romney Supports Is a 'Fraud'
• President Obama Writes Fifth Grader's Excuse Note
• Romney campaign criticizes Obama's experience
• France says determined to improve budget credibility
• Euro bailout fund should be used for banks: France
• Is the GOP Practicing Schadenfreude on the Economy?
• Ivory Coast wants blood diamond ban lifted
• Few November clues to be found in Wisconsin recall
• Giffords to Make First Public Appearance in Tucson Since Resignation
• Obama, Romney campaign advisers trade blame on job creation
• Assad says Houla killings monstrous, crisis will end
• Egypt's Shafiq: Islamist rival heralds "dark ages"
• Study: Cancer to Rise Globally by 75 Percent
• China steps up Afghan role as Western pullout nears

VP Joe Biden's daughter marries doctor in Delaware Posted: 02 Jun 2012 08:26 PM PDT Vice President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley married a Pennsylvania doctor at a ceremony in Delaware, the vice president's office announced late Saturday.

Edwards advised to keep low profile before 2nd act Posted: 01 Jun 2012 08:22 PM PDT Now that he has survived his campaign corruption trial, John Edwards may face an even tougher fight to regain the public's respect.

Exclusive: SEC investigator previously pushed to carry gun Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:45 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The lead internal investigator at the Securities and Exchange Commission, who is on leave after employees complained he wanted to carry a gun at work, previously tried to get a gun permit when he worked for another government agency, but the permit was denied. David Weber, the assistant inspector general of investigations at the SEC, applied more than two years ago with the Maryland State Police to carry a concealed weapon while he worked as a special counsel of enforcement at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. ...

U.S. ambassador marks D-Day with Normandy parachute jump Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:41 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. ambassador to France Charles Rivkin took part in a mass parachute jump over the coast of Normandy on Sunday to mark the 68th anniversary of the Allied invasion of mainland Europe in World War Two. Following in the footsteps of Allied paratroopers who parachuted into German-occupied Normandy hours before the seaborne assault on the beaches, Rivkin made the leap despite strong winds which resulted in light injuries to six fellow jumpers, France 3 television reported. ...

Toronto police say they know who mall shooter is Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:40 PM PDT TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto police said on Sunday they think they know the identity of the shooter who killed one person and wounded six others on Saturday in a rare outburst of major violence at the city's main downtown mall. Police also named the man killed: 24-year-old Toronto resident Ahmed Hassan, who they said may have had some gang affiliation. "Our investigation clearly suggests that this is a targeted shooting and not a random act of violence against the members of the general public," Brian Borg, a Toronto police detective, told a media briefing. ...

Florida shooter George Zimmerman returns to jail Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:33 PM PDT SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the Florida killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, returned to jail on Sunday after a court revoked his bond and ordered him back into custody. Zimmerman, who had been free on a $150,000 bond and hiding in an undisclosed location, arrived at the Sanford County jail in a white police mini-van shortly before the 48-hour deadline imposed by Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. on Friday. ...

Wall Street Week Ahead: Torn between bulls and bears Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:26 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Monday morning will be decision time for traders and investors: Should they buy or sell after Friday's steep decline that pushed the S&P 500 below its 200-day moving average? While comments out of Europe over the weekend point to signs of a more urgent push for a fiscal union the euro zone, that may be not enough for the market that just saw the Dow turn negative for the year and the S&P 500 dip below the critical 200-day moving average for the first time since December - a level that many technical analysts view as the border between a bull and a bear market. ...

Eric Fehrnstrom: Arming Syrian Opposition Would Level the Playing Field Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:21 PM PDT Romney campaign senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom defended Mitt Romney's call to arm opposition forces in Syria, saying it would create "a level playing field" this morning on "This Week." "They are brave, and they're not going away," Fehrnstrom said of those opposing the rule of...

Fehrnstrom: Arming Syrian Opposition Would Level the Playing Field Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:20 PM PDT Romney campaign senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom defended Mitt Romney's call to arm opposition forces in Syria, saying it would create "a level playing field" this morning on "This Week." "They are brave, and they're not going away," Fehrnstrom said of those opposing the rule of...

Khamenei: West talks of nuclear Iran to hide own problems Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:17 PM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader accused the West on Sunday of lying about his country's nuclear plans in order to cover up their own problems, in a fiery speech that gave no indication he was ready to compromise in talks with world powers. In an address marking the 23rd anniversary of the death of his predecessor Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Israel that any attack on Iran would be answered with a "thunderous blow". ...

Drenched crowds laugh off deluge for jubilee party Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:04 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - It was cold, wet and windy, but the typically damp British summer weather was not enough to deter more than a million people from lining the River Thames to catch a glimpse of Queen Elizabeth float past on a gilded royal barge. Sunday's Diamond Jubilee flotilla of 1,000 vessels accompanying the monarch through London was the spectacular centerpiece of four days of celebrations designed to mark the queen's 60 years on the throne, the only British monarch to do so other than Queen Victoria. ...

Axelrod Denies Participating in Counter-Terror Discussions Posted: 03 Jun 2012 12:21 PM PDT The communications director of President Obama's reelection campaign today denied a report in the New York Times that he had sat in on weekly White House meetings on terrorism. On Tuesday the paper said that after the failed 2009 Christmas Day "underwear bombing," David Axelrod...

New animal disease facility stalled by budget, politics Posted: 03 Jun 2012 12:20 PM PDT MANHATTAN, Kansas (Reuters) - The site of a proposed facility to fight animal diseases, including those which could be spread by bioterrorists, is little more than a parking lot today because of safety and budget concerns. Construction of an ambitious National Bio and Agro-Defense Center in this Kansas university town is on hold due to the federal budget crunch and concerns about risks to livestock and human populations, especially in the event of natural disaster. ...

Fehrnstrom: Arming Syrian Opposition Would Level the Playing Field Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:48 AM PDT Romney campaign senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom defended Mitt Romney's call to arm opposition forces in Syria, saying it would create "a level playing field." "They are brave, and they're not going away," Fehrnstrom said of those opposing the rule of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. "What...

Bin Laden spent wealth on attacks, guests: Qaeda Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:42 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden led a frugal life, spending all his personal wealth on attacks against the West and serving his guests good food, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri said in a video posted online on Sunday. In the half-hour tape titled "Days with the imam, Part Two" a bespectacled Zawahri, who took up the reins of al Qaeda after bin Laden's killing just over a year ago, fondly recalled his predecessor's meager comforts. "When you entered his house you would be surprised. ...

Euro bailout fund should be used for banks: France Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:32 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said on Sunday that it would better to recapitalise troubled European banks using the ESM bailout fund than use government money. "I think that to recapitalise banks it's better to go through direct mechanisms, what we call the ESM, the European Stability Mechanism, rather than to go through states," Moscovici said on LCI television. "Once this mechanism is in place, things will be clearer and the situation will be calmer for a certain number of banks, including Spanish banks," he added. ...

US democracy aid went to favored groups in Egypt Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:31 AM PDT Two months before Egyptian police stormed the offices of U.S.-backed democracy organizations last year, seven Egyptian employees resigned from one of the American groups to protest what they called undemocratic practices.

U.S. SEC says taking "close look" at zombie funds Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:29 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are looking at so-called zombie funds where money managers continue to get paid from investors even though the fund is essentially inactive, a top Securities and Exchange Commission official said on Sunday. "We are going to take a close look at that and see whether or not there's a problem," Robert Khuzami, the SEC's enforcement director, said on C-Span television. The funds become inactive when their managers sit on assets that cannot be sold or their valuations are so low that they do not want to sell them. ...

Paul Krugman: Paul Ryan Budget That Romney Supports Is a 'Fraud' Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:12 AM PDT This morning on "This Week," New York Times columnist Paul Krugman called Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget plan a "fraud" as Romney campaign senior advisor Eric Fehrnstrom confirmed his candidate's support for the plan that would trim trillions in spending from the federal budget over the next...

President Obama Writes Fifth Grader's Excuse Note Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:11 AM PDT ABC News' Nick Schifrin reports: For as long as there have been teachers, students have had excuses: my dog ate my homework, my computer crashed, I had food poisoning. But 11-year-old Tyler Sullivan of Minnesota isn't one to make excuses. He's a good kid. "If...

Romney campaign criticizes Obama's experience Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:57 AM PDT A weak labor market provided energy Sunday for criticism of President Barack Obama, with the campaign of presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney contending that the president's lack of executive leadership experience undermines his policies.

France says determined to improve budget credibility Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:56 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - France's new Socialist government is determined to restore its credibility over budget management by meeting public deficit targets, Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said on Sunday. President Francois Hollande has pledged to stick to the previous conservative government's commitment to cut the deficit from an estimated 4.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2012 to within an EU-imposed limit 3.0 percent in 2013, even though many economists see that as hard without spending cuts. ...

Euro bailout fund should be used for banks: France Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:45 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said on Sunday that it would better to recapitalise troubled European banks using the ESM bailout fund than use government money. "I think that to recapitalise banks it's better to go through direct mechanisms, what we call the ESM, the European Stability Mechanism, rather than to go through states," Moscovici said on LCI television. "Once this mechanism is in place, things will be clearer and the situation will be calmer for a certain number of banks, including Spanish banks," he added. ...

Is the GOP Practicing Schadenfreude on the Economy? Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:38 AM PDT Friday's dismal jobs numbers gave backers of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney yet another opportunity to slam President Obama for his performance on the economy, proving that even the worst economic news can be welcome political news for some.

Ivory Coast wants blood diamond ban lifted Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:31 AM PDT ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast will lobby for the lifting of a United Nations ban on its diamond exports at a meeting this week, a government official said, arguing that its stones are no longer a threat to the country's stability now its civil war is over. The U.N. Security Council slapped an embargo on the West African nation's diamonds in 2005 to prevent their sale from funding arms purchases and fuelling the conflict, which began in 2002. Ivory Coast is the last remaining source of so-called blood diamonds and the only country under a U.N. export ban of such gems. ...

Few November clues to be found in Wisconsin recall Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:26 AM PDT Five months before Election Day, you'd think there would be no better harbinger about who will win the White House than a contentious statewide vote in a critical battleground state that never moved on from the 2010 campaign.

Giffords to Make First Public Appearance in Tucson Since Resignation Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:15 AM PDT Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will appear at a campaign event next Saturday on behalf of the candidate she asked to run in her stead, Tucson Weekly reports.Giffords stepped down from Congress following last year's shooting, which left six dead and Giffords with a gunshot wound to the head. She survived, but chose to resign to focus on her recovery. Ron Barber, formerly Giffords' district director, is running for her seat against Republican Jesse Kelly in the district's special election on June 12. ...

Obama, Romney campaign advisers trade blame on job creation Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:12 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Advisers to President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney squared off on Sunday over job creation in a debate which, following Friday's weak jobs report, promises to be a deciding factor in the November vote. Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to Romney, citing Obama's healthcare reform law and a decision to put a major oil pipeline on hold, said on "Fox News Sunday" that Obama's policies have put a damper on job creation. "The problem is this administration and this president's policies are hostile to job creators," Gillespie said. ...

Assad says Houla killings monstrous, crisis will end Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:06 AM PDT BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad condemned on Sunday the "abominable" massacre of more than 100 people in Houla, saying even monsters could not carry out such acts, and promised a 15-month-old crisis would end soon if Syrians pulled together. Assad repeated earlier pledges to enforce a crackdown on opponents he says are terrorists carrying out a foreign conspiracy, while offering dialogue with opposition figures who had avoided armed conflict or outside backing. His remarks were at odds with those of U.N. ...

Egypt's Shafiq: Islamist rival heralds "dark ages" Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:02 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq stepped up his attacks against his Muslim Brotherhood rival in a run-off vote, saying on Sunday the Islamist would drag Egypt into the "dark ages" and threaten the rights of women, Christians and others. The comments from the last Prime Minister of former president Hosni Mubarack, his first public address for more than a week, reflected how divisive the race has become since the former air force commander made it through last month's first round into a head-to-head against Mohamed Mursi. ...

Study: Cancer to Rise Globally by 75 Percent Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:00 AM PDT The number of cancer cases globally will spiral up by 75 percent by 2030, in part because other diseases that kill people sooner are being eradicated but also because of spreading, unhealthy western lifestyles, researchers report.

China steps up Afghan role as Western pullout nears Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:57 AM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - China and Afghanistan will announce a plan in the coming days to deepen their ties, Afghan officials say, the strongest signal yet that Beijing wants a role beyond economic partnership as Western forces prepare to leave the country. China has kept a low political profile through much of the decade-long international effort to stabilize Afghanistan, choosing instead to pursue an economic agenda, including locking in future supply from Afghanistan's untapped mineral resources. As the U.S. ...

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