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June 02, 2012 | | TRAYVON TRIAL The judge in the Trayvon Martin murder case revoked his accused killer’s $150,000 bail after it was revealed that Zimmerman and his wife didn’t tell the court about another passport he had—and lied about the amount of money they had access to. The Daily Beast's Aram Roston reports. JUSTICE Hosni Mubarak, the 84-year-old Egyptian leader ousted in the Arab Spring last year was sentenced to life in prison Saturday in a verdict that was received with joy by many of his countrymen. Mubarak reportedly suffered a "health crisis" after the sentencing en route to the jail and was being treated in a military helicopter. Mubarak, along with Habib al-Adly, the government’s former interior minister, was sentenced for complicity in the killing of protesters during a popular uprising in Tahrir Square in the spring of 2011. Mubarak and his sons were acquitted on separate corruption charges. Judge Ahmed Refaat spoke at the culmination of the 10-month trial, saying that Mubarak’s rule had been “30 years of darkness” for Egypt, and that last year’s protesters were “the sons of the nation who rose up peacefully for freedom and justice.” MASSACRE A website attached to the U.S. State Department published photos Friday that it said showed mass graves dug near the Syrian town of Houla, where more than 100 Syrians were killed last week. The website says that the photos were taken by a commercial satellite and seem to show artillery and military helicopters located near three Syrian towns, including Huola and Homs. Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have responded with brutal force to the 14-month opposition to his reign, claiming more than 10,000 lives according to the United Nations. Bashar Jaafari, Syria’s ambassador to the U.N., reportedly did not have an immediate answer when confronted with the photographs. UNEMPLOYMENT Barack Obama’s campaign has long known that he has to reassure Americans about their job prospects if he wants to keep his own. That pitch got harder to make Friday when May’s job numbers showed only 69,000 new positions were created last month, driving a rise in unemployment to 8.2 percent. Responding to the numbers Friday in Minnesota, Obama said the economy is “not growing as fast as we want it to grow,” but that “we will come back stronger; we do have better days ahead.” The GOP reads the economic tea leaves a little differently, saying Obama has to put forward a new strategy if he hopes to convince the American public that he’s serious about job creation. HIGHER ED Widely respected as one of the country’s premier public university systems, California’s schools are under siege. “I’d be lying if I said what we offer students hasn’t been changed and that there hasn’t been a degradation of the learning environment,” said Timothy White, chancellor of the University of California, Riverside. At the root of the trouble is California’s continuing budget woes, which may force the state to shutter programs or even entire schools if new tax increases aren’t improved to compensate. Despite rising matriculation numbers, schools are strapped when it comes to the resources they can offer those students. “We’re not cutting into muscle or tissue,” Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters, “we’re cutting into artery.” | | 
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