ESPN yanks Hank Williams for comparing Obama to Hitler  —  Hank Williams Jr., the voice famous for asking millions of viewers if they're ready for some football, has been pulled from Monday's broadcast of “Monday Night Football” over a comment he made on Fox News this morning.

Exclusive: Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview [Video]  —  Even if Geraldo Rivera was at the Zuccotti Park yesterday, Fox News has generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement.  Foxnews.com (as of this writing) …

Rick Perry slips, Herman Cain rises in bid for GOP nomination, poll finds  —  After a quick rise in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has experienced an almost equally dramatic decline, losing about half of his support over the past month, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Obama Admits Americans No Better Off  —  The interview streamed live on Yahoo.com and ABCNews.com (Lawrence Jackson/White House)  —  Calling himself an “underdog,” President Obama today said the faltering economy is a drag on his presidency and seriously impairing his chances of winning again in 2012.

E-Mails Show Obama Was Warned; Bitter OMB, DOE Divide Over Solyndra  —  President Obama tours Solyndra's California headquarters in 2010 to tout investment in renewable energy.  New emails show the White House was warned before the visit about Solyndra's long-term viability …

Poll: 7 in 10 say Obama has not helped economy  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto  —  A new CBS News poll finds that nearly seven in 10 Americans believe President Obama has not made real progress in fixing the economy.

GOP's Christie announcement could come any day  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to say any day now whether he will reverse his long-held decision to stay out of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign.  —  While the hotly courted …

Senate votes 79-19 to move bill punishing China on currency  —  The Senate voted Monday to advance legislation pressuring the Chinese government to stop undervaluing its currency, a practice most economists agree is giving the country an unfair trade advantage and is costing the U.S. jobs.

After Ruling, Hispanics Flee an Alabama Town  —  ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — The vanishing began Wednesday night, the most frightened families packing up their cars as soon as they heard the news.  —  They left behind mobile homes, sold fully furnished for a thousand dollars or even less.

Ken Burns on PBS Funding, Being a “Yellow-Dog Democrat,” & Missing Walter Cronkite  —  “In a perfect world,” says legendary filmmaker Ken Burns, “we'd want government support [for the arts] and a lot more of it.”  —  Burns' new PBS documentary, Prohibition, was made with his longtime collaborator Lynn Novick …

Fund-Raiser Offers Clues on Governor's Intentions  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has kept the political world in suspense for weeks over his presidential intentions, told prominent California fund-raisers and donors as recently as last Wednesday he had no plans to seek the White House.

Bloomberg Whiffs, Part 1  —  Last Friday, I wrote about a Bloomberg Markets story on Koch Industries which at that time was still in preparation.  According to multiple reports, the story was expected to focus on claims that a European Koch subsidiary had business transactions in Iran …

Fannie Mae Knew Early of Abuses, Report Says  —  Fannie Mae, the mortgage finance giant, learned as early as 2003 of extensive foreclosure abuses among the law firms it had hired to remove troubled borrowers from their homes.  But the company did little to correct the firms' practices, according to a report issued Tuesday.