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President Barack Obama says the May jobs report shows that the economy is not creating jobs "as fast as we want" but vows that the economy will improve.

Police say a missing 12-year-old Kansas girl is believed to have left the state with a 20-year-old Canadian man she met on the Internet.

In this Thursday, May 31, 2012, job seekers gather for employment opportunities at the 11th annual Skid Row Career Fair at the Los Angeles Mission in Los Angeles.

In this May 31, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov.

According to Al Jazeera , prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were "tortured" with Sesame Street .

In this Thursday, May 31, 2012, job seekers gather for employment opportunities at the 11th annual Skid Row Career Fair at the Los Angeles Mission in Los Angeles.

A Texas urologist and his attorney wife who are accused of violating a U.S. trade embargo with Iran have also been indicted on health care fraud charges.

This 2004 file photo shows the transit of Venus, which occurs when the planet Venus passes between the Earth and the Sun.

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio meets with reporters following a GOP strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 31, 2012.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants to make sure Americans are prepared for the start of the Atlantic hurricane season.

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio meets with reporters following a GOP strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 31, 2012.

Federal lawmakers proposed a bill Thursday that would give social workers better access to school records in an effort to improve education for foster children.

John Edwards leaves a federal courthouse during the ninth day of jury deliberations in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 31, 2012.

The world is displayed on a computer screen via Google Earth. US officials, lawmakers and technology leaders offered a resounding "no" Thursday to proposals to bring the Internet under United Nations' control and said they would lead efforts to stop the move.

The jury in the John Edwards campaign corruption trial has reached a verdict on one of six counts, but is apparently deadlocked on the others.

The general election season has begun in earnest, and over at Fox News, the channel's slogan seems to have become, "We Report, You Deci-Oh, Screw It, Let's Just Make Sure Obama Doesn't Get Re-Elected." That anyway is the message sent by a remarkable four-minute attack-video on the Obama presidency that aired Wednesday on Fox and Friends .

The time has come for Mitt Romney to prove it once and for all: Is he or is he not a unicorn? Let me stipulate that I have no proof that Romney is a unicorn, and indeed I want to believe that he is not. But I haven't seen proof of this because he has not released the original copy of his long-form birth certificate.

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan authorized $20,000 payments to a handful of sexually abusive priests so they would immediately leave the Milwaukee archdiocese when Dolan was archbishop there nearly a decade ago, a church spokeswoman said on Thursday.

The following is the full statement provided to the Boston Globe by Elizabeth Warren's campaign Wednesday night regarding her assertions of Native American ancestry .