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LIVE VIDEO: Panetta Announces Lift Of Female Combat Ban

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announces the lifting of the military ban on women serving in combat.

PRO FOOTBALL TALK: Attorney Says Ronaiah Tuiasosopo Was Voice Behind Te’o Hoax Too

Source: Ben Kercheval  /  Pro Football Talk Yep, this is actually happening. And the strange story surrounding Manti Te’o and his fake girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, continues to get relentlessly more bizarre. Te’o has stated multiple times that the supposedly online/long distance relationship he had with Kekua included phone calls that oftentimes lasted upward of eight hours as Te’o would fall asleep [...]

STARTING POINT: N.Y. NAACP Comes Out Against New York City Soda Ban (VIDEO)

Roland Martin, Will Cain and Soledad O’Brien discuss the N.Y. NAACP backing soft drink companies.

An Offer You Can’t Refuse: VH-1 Reality Series Mob Wives Examines The Lives Of Mob Molls (VIDEO)

Roland Martin, Will Cain and Soledad O’Brien talk with Angela “Big Ang” Raiola and Ramona Rizzo the stars of the VH-1 reality TV show “Mob Wives.”

ROLAND S. MARTIN: Want Black Votes, GOP? Listen To Black Voters

By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com For more than a year I’ve tried to get Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to make an appearance on my Sunday morning news show on TV One, the nation’s second-largest black cable network. He has also been invited to appear on my daily segment on “The Tom Joyner Morning [...]

WATCH: Clinton’s Heated Exchange Over Benghazi (VIDEO)

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fires back at Sen. Ron Johnson for claiming the Senate was misled about Benghazi.

Clinton Tears Up At Benghazi Hearing (VIDEO)

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton becomes emotional as she talks about the Americans lost in the Benghazi attack.

House Passes Bill To Defuse Debt Ceiling: No Budget, No Pay Act

Source: Jeanne Sahadi / CNN Money The House on Wednesday passed the “No Budget, No Pay Act,” a Republican bill that would effectively defuse the debt ceiling threat for several months. The bill would let the Treasury Department borrow new money until mid-May. In exchange, the legislation would require lawmakers in both chambers of Congress [...]

ESPN: Junior Seau’s Family Sues NFL

Source: AP / ESPN The family of Junior Seau has sued the NFL, claiming the former linebacker’s suicide was the result of brain disease caused by violent hits he sustained while playing football. The wrongful death lawsuit, filed Wednesday in California Superior Court in San Diego, blames the NFL for its “acts or omissions” that [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Military To Open Combat Jobs To Women

Source: Chris Lawrence and Barbara Starr / CNN The U.S. military is ending its policy of excluding women from combat and will open combat jobs and direct combat units to female troops, CNN has learned. Multiple officials confirm to CNN that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will make the announcement tomorrow and notify Congress of the planned [...]