10 things you need to know today: September 8, 2012

The U.S. calls the Haqqani network terrorists, Romney dings Obama on jobs, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion

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1. ROMNEY KNOCKS OBAMA OVER GRIM JOBS REPORT

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wasted no time in attacking President Obama on Friday, using newly released figures from August's discouraging jobs report to make the case that it is time for a new leader in the White House. The Labor Department announced Friday morning that the U.S. economy added just 96,000 jobs in August — well below analysts' expectations of 130,000 or so net new jobs. Still, the unemployment rate fell from 8.3 percent in July to 8.1 percent in August. "We're going in the wrong direction," Romney said. President Obama also conceded: "We need to create more jobs, faster." [BusinessWeek]

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