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Bachmann Defends Medicaid Funds To Husband's Clinic (VIDEO)

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Source: MSNBC St. Paul, Minn. — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is deflecting questions about federally subsidized health dollars that have flowed to her husband's mental health clinic. As Bachmann, a Republican member of the U.S. House from Minnesota, tours the nation attacking the size of federal government, she has come under heightened scrutiny over public dollars flowing to family business interests. That includes $137,000 that Bachmann and Associates [...]

NPR: Author Tells Black Women: Marry "Out" Not "Down"

Audio Source: NPR Source: NPR The forthcoming book Is Marriage for White People? How the African-American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone explores why black women are marrying men with less education and less earning power. To learn more about the book's arguments, guest host Tony Cox speaks with Carolyn Edgar, who is featured in the book written by Stanford professor of law Ralph Richard Banks. To follow this topic visit NPR.

Know Your Credit Score: Mortgage And Auto Loan Companies STILL Conduct Predatory Lending Practices

Michelle Singletary joins Roland Martin on the set of Washington Watch to discuss predatory lending practices being conducted by mortgage and auto loan companies against African-Americans.

MySpace Sold For $35M, Mostly In Stock

Source: AP / CBS News Los Angeles – News Corp. has sold struggling social networking site MySpace for a reported $35 million. The deal values MySpace at a fraction of what News Corp. paid for the site six years ago. The sale to online advertising network operator Specific Media is expected to close later Wednesday, a day before the end of News Corp.'s fiscal year. News Corp. will maintain less than a 5 percent stake in the company. The person [...]

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Health Care Law

Source: AP / CBS News In the first ruling by a federal appeals court on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a panel in Cincinnati affirmed Wednesday that Congress can require Americans to have minimum insurance coverage. A Republican-appointed judge joined with a Democratic appointee for the 2-1 majority in a victory for Obama's signature domestic initiative. The White House and Justice Department hailed the ruling; opponents of the law said challenges will continue to the U.S. Supreme Court. A [...]

Jimmy Kimmel: 'Michele Bachmann's Story Of America' (VIDEO)

Source: The Huffington Post Maybe we're just not getting Michele Bachmann. When she confuses the founding fathers for people who did NOT own slaves, and confuses John Wayne for John Wayne Gacy and Concord, New Hampshire for Concord, Massachusetts, maybe she's not really wrong, per se… maybe she just knows history differently. Maybe she even knows it better than we do. See, when you look at things through another lens, say, one that's cracked, the world is a very different place. Does that [...]

Greeks Pass Critical Budget Cuts Despite Protests

Source: CNN Athens, Greece – Greek lawmakers Wednesday approved a package of austerity measures demanded by international lenders, despite protests outside Parliament as they were voting, in a move that should clear the way for an emergency loan to Athens. Greek riot police fired round after round of tear gas to keep small crowds of protesters away from Parliament in the run-up to the vote and as lawmakers one by one said "Yes" or "No." The vote was 155 to [...]

Jon Stewart To Fox News: Herman Cain Joke Wasn't Offensive (VIDEO)

Source: Katla McGlynn / The Huffington Post On Wednesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart continued his "fun, light hearted and extremely productive conversation" with Fox News about "which one of us is the biggest a**hole," as he so bluntly put it. Nearly two weeks after his interview with Chris Wallace, the back and forth between Stewart and the conservative network has been covered a lot of ground, but mostly centered around political bias. Fox News has accused Stewart of being [...]

Comic Book Version Of Bin Laden Raid To Be Released

Source: Jason Ukman / The Washington Post A California comic book publisher is releasing a graphic novel about the raid that killed bin Laden, animating the lives of SEAL Team 6 and the others who had a hand in the operation in Abbottabad. "Code Word: Geronimo" was written by retired Marine Capt. Dale Dye, an author and longtime consultant on military films including "Platoon" and "Saving Private Ryan," and his wife, Julia, who conducted the research for the book. It's [...]

New Study Finds Roughly 1 In 15 Adults Lie About SSNs, DOBs On Credit Applications

Source: Bob Sullivan / MSNBC Roughly 1 in 15 U.S. adults are intentionally committing fraud by lying about their Social Security number, date of birth, or other personal information on credit applications, claims a study released today by consulting firm ID Analytics. Eight million people are using two or more Social Security numbers, 16 million have used multiple dates of birth, and another 10 million have intentionally co-mingled their personal information with a spouse's information, the report says. Fraudsters range [...]