Morning Newsdome: Today is Glenn Beck's last day on Fox News June 30 2011
A daily news round-up of all that's important from around the world
>> France became the first NATO country today to openly acknowledge arming Libyan insurgents, but Russia says the deal violates the U.N. arms embargo. Russia also has veto power in the U.N. Security Council where the weapons airlift issue could come up. Listen to Russia, they would never arm rebels. (Reuters)
>> With negotiations for raising the nation's debt ceiling at a standstill, President Obama took the Republicans to task: "If everybody else is willing to take on their sacred cows ... then I think it would be hard for the Republicans to stand there and say that, 'The tax break for corporate jets is sufficiently important that we're not willing to come to the table and get a deal done.'" Tell it, "dick!" (CBS News, Politico)
>> The FBI trained their agents yesterday by having them interview the "God Hates Fags" wing-nuts Westboro Baptist Church. Officials said that agents need to know how to personally engage crazies while figuring out what makes them tick. Keep your friends close, and Westboro closer. (NPR)
>> A U.S. federal official canceled the deportation of a Venezuelan man living in New Jersey that married an American man in Connecticut. Advocates say it's a huge policy shift for the deportation of "vulnerable populations" following the Obama administration's abandoning the Defense of Marriage Act in February. I can see why the American man wouldn't want to let go of this spicy salsa dancer. (the New York Times)
>> And finally, as celebrated in the video above: Toady is Glenn Beck's last day on Fox News—hallelujah! And we ask ourselves the same question he posed: "Do you really believe that I could or anybody here at Fox News could just make things up and remain on the air?" (Media Matters)