MSNBC’s Breaking and Most Viewed News [June 2011 Bulletin]

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Americans' disapproval of how President Barack Obama is handling the economy and its growing budget deficit has reached new highs, a new poll finds.

Source: Disapproval of Obama's economic record rises

[MSNBC]

The swollen Missouri River is threatening to inundate a small Iowa town where officials are piling massive sandbags on a faltering levee to contain floodwaters.

Source: If fixes fail, Iowa town could be left under water

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Scotland is to hold a referendum on whether to leave the U.K. and become an independent country within the next five years, following an election victory for the Scottish National Party.

Source: Scotland to split from UK and 'be a nation again'?

[MSNBC]

As pressure mounted on Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign after sending a lewd photo via Twitter, ne faced new wrinkles: his wife is pregnant and an explicit picture of him turned up.

Source: Weiner's wife's pregnancy reported as explicit photo revealed

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The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum to strike at militant suspects, according to American officials.

Source: NYT: US intensifying secret Yemen airstrikes