Friday, June 7, 2013 – 11:30 a.m.

Here’s some news of interest flowing across the transom Friday morning.

May unemployment rate ticks up to 7.6%

The U.S. Department of Labor published its May jobs report Friday Morning. The DOL says employers added 175,000 jobs last month, with the official unemployment rate edging upt to 7.6%. The underemployment rate, which takes into account part-time and discouraged workers, edged down to 13.8%.

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June 06, 2013; 06:12 PM

An effort to oust the Moreno Valley mayor and a city councilwoman will move on to the second phase after the Riverside County Registrar of Voters verified that a sufficient number of signatures were collected, City Clerk Jane Halstead said.

To read story by Debra Gruszecki in The Press Enterprise, click here.

Ryan Carter, Staff Writer
Posted: 06/05/2013 10:16:33 PM PDT

Document: Read the complaint

San Bernardino’s former chief financial officer for the city’s now defunct redevelopment agency has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging that she was fired in an attempt to thwart her reporting of alleged corruption at City Hall.

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By Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras
Published: June 6 | Updated: Friday, June 7, 7:51 AM

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.

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