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PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post Business - July 4

Thu Jul 3, 2008 11:53pm EDT

WASHINGTON, July 4 (Reuters) - The Washington Post included the following items on the front page of its business section on July 4.

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Employers cut 62,000 jobs in June, marking the sixth consecutive month that the U.S. has shed jobs, according to a government report released on Thursday, deepening concern that the struggling economy could turn worse before it gets better.

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A federal judge in New York this week ordered the video-sharing site YouTube, the world's third-most-visited Web site, to release data on the viewing habits of its tens of millions of worldwide viewers.

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The American Family Association, a group that opposes same-sex marriage has called for a boycott of McDonald's, saying the fast-food giant has refused "to stay neutral in the cultural war over homosexuality."

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