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Yet another slight spike in the unemployment rate. The Labor Department says the jobless rate moved from 9.1 to 9.2% in June. Just 18,000 jobs were added. President Obama addressed the situation outside the White House.
President Obama: “We’ve added more than 2 million private sector jobs over the past 16 months. But the recession cost us more than $8 billion and that means that we still have a big whole to fill.”
Police are trying to figure out the motive of a Michigan man who went on a shooting spree. Rodrick Dantzler (Dance-ler) killed seven before pulling the gun on himself. He killed three at one home. Police then discovered four other victims across town. Here’s MSNBC.
“The 34-year old ex-convict Rodrick Dantzler killed his daughter and ex-girlfriend and five others, including a second child. Hours after a car chase with police, Dantzler took three more hostages. The standoff ended when the gunman killed himself with a single shot.”
Police have arrested a former aid to British Prime Minister David Cameron. Andy Coulson (Cole-sin) was an editor of the News of the World Tabloid. The arrest comes after the tabloid reportedly hacked into the voicemail of a teenage girl, other murder victims and even soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Here’s CNBC.
“So this investigation is going right into the heart of British government, British media, and the British police as well, and the implications for what it will do for corporate government back into Newscorp, as well.”
In South Sudan, the UN oks 7,000 peacekeepers as it marks day one of its independence from the north. South Sudan will officially become a separate nation from Arab-controlled Sudan. CNN reports trouble could loom on the horizon.
“There are satellite images from a monitoring group showing a build up of Sudanese troops close to the border. These are troops that are allied with the north of the former I guess country of Sudan as a whole, so there is trouble on the horizon, so people are a bit concerned about what could happen on Saturday when the new country comes into being.”
And at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
“All three engines up, and...zero, and lift off, the final lift off of Atlantis on the shoulders of the space shuttle, American will continue the dream.”
NASA’s 135th -- and final space shuttle mission is now underway. Atlantis launched at about 11:30 a.m. eastern time. The four member crew will deliver supplies to the International Space Station. For Newsy Now, I’m Megan Murphy, hi-lighting the top headlines, making you smarter...faster.
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