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The Ethiopian leader received the award for his efforts to bring an end to 20 years of war with neighboring Eritrea.

The 22-year-old star gymnast landed a double-double dismount from the balance beam that will now be known as the "Biles," and a triple-double that is being dubbed the "Biles II."

Two senators who have taken the lead on legislation aimed to help homeowners refinance are blunt about how concerned they are by the news NPR reported about Freddie Mac's "multibillion-dollar bets against American homeowners being able to refinance."

Because of slowed government spending and private inventory investment, the Commerce Department said the economy slowed in 2011, growing 1.7 percent.

Colbert said the money was used to "materially influence the elections," just as the founding fathers would have wanted. In its FEC filing, Colbert said his super PAC had more than $673,000 in cash on hand.

A year after an uprising began in the Gulf nation much remains the same. Government security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to stop protests before they began.

Colleges are pulling bottled water off campuses as students argue the products hurt the environment and aren't well regulated. But the industry fired back this week with a YouTube video it hopes will sway students to keep buying bottles of water.

When Americans traveled by stagecoach, they had to worry about rocks, rattlesnakes, robbers and other varmints. But I wonder if there weren't fewer passenger complaints.

Rick Santorum won the Colorado caucuses Tuesday on the strength of social conservative and Tea Party voters. Yet he fared differently in one battleground county that will be key in the swing state in November.

Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 has been called one of the best live albums ever recorded. But it was shelved for more than 20 years by executives at Cooke's record label, who feared what the mainstream would make of his fiery performance.