The best of the week’s news:

• A California company is selling a mysterious “fat melting” device which some salons are falsely claiming to have been FDA-approved, the FDA knows but hasn’t shut them down
• How voter suppression hurts reproductive rights
• A joint Investigative Fund/PBS investigation has sparked a grand jury probe into the killing of an undocumented migrant.
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• Mitt Romney picks at his fast food, but he loves quick-serve campaign contributions, Tim Murphy of Mother Jones reports.
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• The long-term fallout of the subprime mortgage crisis is taking its toll on African Americans, the Washington Post reports.

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