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After the 2008 Olympics, organizers re-wrote the rules to outlaw Speedo's lightning-fast full-body swimsuits. The company went back to the drawing board and came up with a new system — and it's helping speed top swimmers like Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte to the medal stand.

Neither the Seahawks nor the Broncos are among the top NFL teams when it comes to political contributions, but they're still plenty active.

Protesters in Kiev tried to storm a cultural center where hundreds of riot police were deployed Sunday, a day after the government of Viktor Yanukovych offered top posts to the opposition in a failed effort to defuse tensions.

The president will announce in his State of the Union address that he's signing an executive order to lift the pay in new federal contracts. A top adviser tells NPR that Obama has "warmed up to" the idea of using executive orders to move his agenda ahead.

Hide the turkey and give someone else the shirt off your back — new American Thanksgiving traditions in the Spanish countryside.

They took over the country's top anti-crime agency on Wednesday, the fourth day of protests. But the relatively low number of demonstrators indicate they are unlikely to bring down Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government.

Japan and Finland ranked at the top in most areas of the OECD study of 22 countries, while Italy and Spain consistently scored at the bottom.

Democrats promised to layout a road map for getting the economy back on track by building it "from the middle out" and not from the "top down."

Music icon Prince is worried about the future of the music business for artists, and his top priority can be summed up in one word: freedom.

It took Scott Jurek 46 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes to make the 2,189-mile hike from Springer Mountain, Ga., to the top of Maine's Mount Katahdin.