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The Justice Department is looking into whether the NCAA's Bowl Championship Series runs afoul of antitrust laws.

To better target non-English speaking communities nationwide, corporate giants like McDonald's and Wal-Mart are creating ads in different languages, including Mandarin, Korean and Vietnamese. As companies build these ad campaigns, they're learning what memes and mediums best appeal to different cultures.

Beverly Eckert lost her husband, Sean Rooney, on Sept. 11, 2001. He called her from the 105th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower. As the smoke got thicker, he told Beverly he loved her, over and over. Later, she became an advocate for families affected by the tragedy.

The former Republican senator is best known for his outspoken support of conservative social causes. But it wasn't abortion or same-sex marriage that originally got him involved in politics — it was an auspicious college assignment.

Documents from the Guantanamo detention camp show prisoners there and at secret CIA facilities were interrogated over and over about Osama bin Laden's courier network. About a third of the CIA detainees were subjected to what the agency euphemistically called enhanced interrogation techniques.

President Obama has decided not to release the photos of Osama bin Laden taken after he was shot dead in Pakistan by U.S. forces. In an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, Obama said bin Laden got the justice he deserved and there was no need to publish photographs to prove it.

Claude Choules was 14 years old when he enlisted in Britain's Royal Navy. He died Thursday at the age of 110. Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I, died at a nursing home in Perth, Australia.

President Barack Obama has granted the major disaster declaration requested by Governor Steve Beshear in response to flooding in several parts of the…