Current TV Dismisses Keith Olbermann  —  5:13 p.m. |  Updated Current TV said Friday afternoon that it had terminated the contract of its lead anchor, Keith Olbermann, scarcely a year after he was hired to reboot the fledgling channel in his progressive political image.

Federal court strikes down parts of collective bargaining law  —  MORE (2)  —  A federal judge on Friday upheld most of Gov. Scott Walker's controversial collective bargaining law, but struck down key parts of it by ruling that the state cannot prevent public employee unions …

Will a Tea Party Supreme Court guarantee Obama a second term?  —  The court's conservative wing appears ready to engage in some despicable judicial activism on ObamaCare.  Politically, at least, the justices are doing Obama a favor  —  Recall the scorn toward health reform dripping from the lips of Injustice Antonin Scalia.

IRS not investigating Nikki Haley for tax fraud  —  South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's office Friday provided IRS documentation that she is not facing investigation for tax fraud, calling accusations that she was “totally contrived.”  —  Haley denied the rumors of a looming tax indictment on Thursday.

Mega Millions: Why I threw away common sense and bought a ticket  —  We played.  —  My husband and I decided to do a financially unwise thing and take a chance at winning the $640 million dollar Mega Millions lottery.  It's not a smart use of even a dollar because the odds of winning are, well, astronomical — 1 in 176 million.

Wall Street Thinks It Knows the Future of Obamacare—Why?  —  Nobody except Justice Anthony Kennedy knows what will happen to Obamacare.  But Wall Street, whose predictive powers are dubious, thinks it does.  The proof is in the healthcare stocks.  —  The below chart shows Aetna's stock price the past week.

Unpaid bloggers' lawsuit vs Huffington Post tossed  —  AOL Inc on Friday won the dismissal of a lawsuit by unpaid bloggers who complained they were deprived of their fair share of the roughly $315 million that the company paid last March to buy The Huffington Post website.

No Fooling: U.S. Now Has Highest Corporate Tax Rate in the World  —  This April Fool's Day, the joke is on all of us.  That's because as of April 1, the U.S. now has the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world.  —  Our high corporate tax rate has long made the U.S. an uncompetitive place for new investment.

This Creepy App Isn't Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It's A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy [Update]  —  This app is meant to all be in good fun, but it's potentially a weapon in the hands of stalkers.  —  “Boy, you sure have a lot of apps on your phone.”  —  “Well, it's my job.”

Obama Campus Fervor Losing to Apathy as Students Sour on 2012  —  On election night 2008, freshman Meagan Cassidy left Lake Forest College and hopped a train to Chicago to celebrate Barack Obama's impending victory.  —  “There was probably no better place to be,” Cassidy said in a phone interview.

A Health Law at Risk Gives Insurers Pause  —  As the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the federal health care law, one option that had seemed unthinkable to its designers and supporters now seems at least possible: that the court could strike down the entire law.

Romney campaign: Release all transcripts of all meetings with foreign leaders  —  Via National Journal, the Mitt Romney campaign ratchets up the transparency game in a novel direction, in response to a call for Romney to release decades' worth of tax returns:

Spain announces €27bn budget cuts  —  Prime minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government announces Spain's most austere budget for more than three decades  —  Mariano Rajoy's conservative government announced Spain's most austere budget for more than three decades - the day after a million protesters took to Spanish streets.