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• Obama, Romney use ruling to rally core backers
• Tepid jobs data set a tone for presidential debate
• THE RACE: Weak Jobs report keeps focus on economy
• McCotter resigns after failing to get on ballot
• Rep. Charlie Rangel Has a 957-Vote Lead, but Still No Primary Win
• Oregon likely to put pot legalization to voters, proponents say
• Obama's middle America tour: grits, beer and a shiny bus
• New York court dismisses gay marriage challenge
• Obama, Romney use ruling to rally core backers
• Obama and Romney use ruling to rally core backers
• Obama Recalls Humble Childhood Vacations
• Astronaut Candidate Will Carry Olympic Torch
• Two Degrees of Howard Johnson
• Owner of restaurant where Obama ate breakfast dies
• Utah Mayor Mia Love Would Forego Congressional Salary If Elected
• Rep. Thaddeus McCotter Resigns After 'Nightmarish' Month
• Giving Up on Economic Mr. Fix-it, McCotter Resigns, Obama's Optics, A Sad Ohio Diner Story (PM Note)
• More states freed from No Child Left Behind law
• Tepid jobs data set a tone for presidential debate
• Dismal hiring shows economy stuck in low gear
• Romney campaign's missteps have some Republicans grumbling
• Iran blames France, Germany for atom scientist hits
• Friend flees Assad as U.S. pressures Russia
• Libyan poll in peril as eastern unrest grows
• Car bomb kills seven, wounds 20 in central Iraq: police
• Seven arrested in British anti-terrorism raids
• Obama Press Treated To 'CookieGate' Cookies
• Pro-GOP group airs new ads hitting Obama on jobs
• U.S. steps up warnings on Iran dissident camp in Iraq
• Trayvon Martin's killer leaves Florida jail on bond
• Jobs report allows Romney to get back on message
• Mogul Murdoch steps up visibility in US politics
• Murdoch steps up visibility in US politics

Obama, Romney use ruling to rally core backers Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:02 PM PDT President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both are using the Supreme Court decision upholding the federal health care insurance requirement, loved by liberals and hated by conservatives, to rally core supporters in the most competitive states in the presidential race.

Tepid jobs data set a tone for presidential debate Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:29 PM PDT Disappointing job growth jolted the presidential campaign four months before Election Day, and the candidates quickly put their vastly different views on display, underscoring the economy as the central issue between President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney.

THE RACE: Weak Jobs report keeps focus on economy Posted: 06 Jul 2012 09:33 AM PDT and presidential campaign issues.

McCotter resigns after failing to get on ballot Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:20 PM PDT U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan says he's resigning.

Rep. Charlie Rangel Has a 957-Vote Lead, but Still No Primary Win Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:14 PM PDT   After two days and roughly 2,000 hand-counted paper ballots, Rep. Charlie Rangel's lead in the New York primary has widened to 951 votes, four times the half-a-percentage-point margin of victory necessary to trigger a recount. But 10 days after Rangel, 82, was prematurely declared the...

Oregon likely to put pot legalization to voters, proponents say Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:10 PM PDT SALEM, Oregon (Reuters) - Oregon will soon qualify as the third U.S. state to ask voters in November to legalize marijuana for recreational use in a move that could put the state on a collision course with the federal government, proponents said on Friday. Backers of the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act said they have collected 165,000 signatures on petitions seeking to put the measure on the ballot, nearly double the 87,000 they were required to submit by Friday's deadline to qualify. ...

Obama's middle America tour: grits, beer and a shiny bus Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:09 PM PDT POLAND, Ohio (Reuters) - Flying on Air Force One to Ohio on Thursday, President Barack Obama confided to his advisers that this, his final campaign, made him think about his first race for state senator in Illinois in 1996, which he won. Several hours later, after riding a campaign bus into middle America, past corn fields and strip malls, Obama talked off-the-cuff at a campaign event about those reflections and his last race as a candidate. ...

New York court dismisses gay marriage challenge Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:09 PM PDT (Reuters) - A New York appeals courts on Friday threw out the first legal challenge to the state's same-sex marriage law, dismissing a Christian group's claim the behind-the-scenes lobbying that preceded the law's passage had been improper. New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, an evangelical Christian group, claimed the state Senate's Republican majority violated the state Open Meetings Law in June 2011 when it met with Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg behind closed doors to discuss marriage legislation. The group said its senior lobbyist, Rev. ...

Obama, Romney use ruling to rally core backers Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:02 PM PDT President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both are using the Supreme Court decision upholding the federal health care insurance requirement, loved by liberals and hated by conservatives, to rally core supporters in the most competitive states in the presidential race.

Obama and Romney use ruling to rally core backers Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:00 PM PDT President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney say the Supreme Court decision upholding the president's health care law gives each of them advantages in the roughly dozen states they are contesting most aggressively.

Obama Recalls Humble Childhood Vacations Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:59 PM PDT PITTSBURGH, Pa. – With Mitt Romney spending the week at his multi-million-dollar Lake Winnipesaukee vacation manse, President Obama reminisced about his humbler family vacations as a child – part of his attempt to better relate to working-class voters during his two-day campaign swing through Ohio...

Astronaut Candidate Will Carry Olympic Torch Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:57 PM PDT Astronaut and congressional candidate will carry the Olympic torch on its way to London. Jose Hernandez is running as a Democrat to represent California's newly formed 10th Congressional District in the next Congress. He'll oppose freshman GOP Rep. Jeff Denham in the fall. Hernandez was...

Two Degrees of Howard Johnson Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:55 PM PDT This morning in a campaign stop in Poland, Ohio, President Obama reminisced to a crowd about his childhood vacations, saying, "we stayed at Howard Johnson's, and you know, you — I was 11, and so if there was any kind of swimming pool — (laughter)...

Owner of restaurant where Obama ate breakfast dies Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:54 PM PDT ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The elderly owner of an Ohio restaurant where President Barack Obama ate breakfast on Friday died of natural causes just hours after meeting him. Josephine "Ann" Harris, 70, owner of Ann's Place where Obama was served eggs, bacon, toast and grits, died at a hospital in Akron, Ohio. The president called her daughter from Air Force One to express his condolences. A hospital spokesman said Harris had complained of fatigue and a tingling feeling. ...

Utah Mayor Mia Love Would Forego Congressional Salary If Elected Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:53 PM PDT If Mia Love is elected to Congress, she would not only be the first black female Republican ever to hold a U.S. House seat, she would also be one of the only Members of Congress to reject the $175,000 salary that comes with the job. Love, the mayor of...

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter Resigns After 'Nightmarish' Month Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:47 PM PDT Rep. Thaddeus McCotter has apparently reached his breaking point. The Michigan Republican announced Friday evening that he is resigning from Congress after a string of "calumnies, indignities and deceits." In the past year McCotter failed at running for president, failed to collect enough petition signatures...

Giving Up on Economic Mr. Fix-it, McCotter Resigns, Obama's Optics, A Sad Ohio Diner Story (PM Note) Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:42 PM PDT Have Voters Given Up on Politicians to Fix the Economy, Stupid? – Matthew Dowd – "I am beginning to get the feeling that voters are shrugging their shoulders about politicians, no longer believing they can fix the economic problems. They've reset their expectations about how...

More states freed from No Child Left Behind law Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:35 PM PDT Although more than half the states are now exempt from the toughest requirements of the federal "No Child Left Behind" education law, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Friday his goal remains to help Congress fix the law, not to sidestep the stalled overhaul effort.

Tepid jobs data set a tone for presidential debate Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:29 PM PDT Disappointing job growth jolted the presidential campaign four months before Election Day, and the candidates quickly put their vastly different views on display, underscoring the economy as the central issue between President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney.

Dismal hiring shows economy stuck in low gear Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:27 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers hired at a dismal pace in June, raising pressure on the Federal Reserve to do more to boost the economy and dealing another setback to President Barack Obama's reelection bid. The Labor Department said on Friday that non-farm payrolls grew by just 80,000 jobs in June, the third straight month below 100,000. Job creation was too weak to bring down the country's 8.2 percent jobless rate and the report fueled concerns that Europe's debt crisis was shifting the U.S. economy into low gear. ...

Romney campaign's missteps have some Republicans grumbling Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:17 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For months, Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign was a picture of discipline, charting a relatively steady course for the former Massachusetts governor through a bitterly contested primary season. In recent weeks, however, Romney's tight ship has not looked so tight. ...

Iran blames France, Germany for atom scientist hits Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:54 PM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's spy chief accused German and French intelligence agencies on Friday of involvement in assassinations of its nuclear scientists, sticking to a hard official line as sanctions imposed over its disputed atomic ambitions bite harder. The Islamic Republic has previously accused Israel, the United States and Britain of plotting the killings to set back its uranium enrichment program, which Western powers suspect is being used to develop nuclear weapons capability. ...

Friend flees Assad as U.S. pressures Russia Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:53 PM PDT BEIRUT/PARIS (Reuters) - One of President Bashar al-Assad's personal friends has defected and was headed for exile in France on Friday, as the Syrian crisis took on a Cold War tone when Washington threatened to make Russia and China "pay" for backing the government in Damascus. Manaf Tlas, a cadet college classmate, Republican Guard general and son of Assad's father's defense chief, has yet to surface abroad, or clearly to throw his lot in with the rebels, who acknowledged the loss of one of their strongholds overnight. ...

Libyan poll in peril as eastern unrest grows Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:51 PM PDT BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Armed groups in eastern Libya shut off half the North African country's oil exports to press demands for more autonomy ahead of the first free national election on Saturday. A helicopter carrying voting material made a forced landing near the eastern town of Benghazi on Friday after being struck by anti-aircraft fire in an attack which killed one person on board, local officials said. ...

Car bomb kills seven, wounds 20 in central Iraq: police Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:45 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb in a parked car killed seven people and wounded 20 on Friday when it exploded in the central Iraqi city of Ramadi, police and hospital sources said. The blast in Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, killed mainly women in a residential area, the sources said. "We heard a big explosion and when we arrived at the scene we found a parked car on fire," a police officer said. "Bodies were scattered everywhere and some houses were destroyed," he said, declining to be named. ...

Seven arrested in British anti-terrorism raids Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:44 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Seven men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences in Britain after weapons were found in a vehicle stopped on a motorway, police said on Friday, as security forces are on high alert ahead of the London Olympics. The vehicle was pulled over in a routine stop on the M1 motorway in South Yorkshire, northern England, on Saturday and impounded on suspicion of the driver having no insurance. The suspects were believed to be linked to militant Islamism and were still being questioned but it was unclear what they planned, a security source said. ...

Obama Press Treated To 'CookieGate' Cookies Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:35 PM PDT PITTSBURGH, Pa — The Obama campaign provided reporters on the president's bus tour today with cookies from Bethel Bakery of Bethel Park, Pa., the tasty treats behind the infamous Mitt Romney "CookieGate." In April, the presumptive GOP nominee sparked controversy when he scoffed at the...

Pro-GOP group airs new ads hitting Obama on jobs Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:27 PM PDT A pro-Republican group is pouring $25 million into new TV ads that blame President Barack Obama for the sluggish economy and call for lower taxes and less regulation.

U.S. steps up warnings on Iran dissident camp in Iraq Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:21 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned an Iranian dissident group on Friday that time was running out for it to vacate its Iraqi base camp, and said its hope to be taken off the official U.S. blacklist of terrorist organizations could depend on its compliance. Daniel Benjamin, the State Department's coordinator for counter-terrorism, said the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK) must complete its move from the Camp Ashraf facility, which the Iraqi government has vowed to close by July 20. ...

Trayvon Martin's killer leaves Florida jail on bond Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:13 PM PDT ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, was released on Friday from a Florida jail on $1 million bail, a sheriff's spokeswoman said. Zimmerman walked out of the John E. Polk Correctional Facility in Sanford, Florida, at 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 GMT), fitted with an electronic monitoring device, the Seminole County Sheriff's spokeswoman said. ...

Jobs report allows Romney to get back on message Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried to shift the campaign focus back to the economy on Friday, jumping on a weak jobs report that he described as a "kick in the gut" indictment of President Barack Obama's economic leadership. After a week of struggling to define a position on healthcare, the jobs debate was a welcome respite for Romney, who trails the Democratic incumbent slightly in national polls. A Labor Department report for June that portrayed the economy as static, with the unemployment rate unchanged at 8. ...

Mogul Murdoch steps up visibility in US politics Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:54 PM PDT Rupert Murdoch has never been shy about voicing a political opinion, using his worldwide empire of television and newspaper outlets to promote conservative causes. Now, with a raft of complaints about Republican Mitt Romney, the billionaire media baron is signaling that he intends to boost his visibility in U.S. politics_even if it comes at the expense of the man conservatives hope can defeat President Barack Obama.

Murdoch steps up visibility in US politics Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:48 PM PDT Rupert Murdoch has long used his worldwide media empire to promote conservative causes. But his recent complaints about Mitt Romney signal an effort boost his visibility in U.S. politics.

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