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The Sochi Winter Olympics open Friday in Sochi, Russia. It seems like every news story that we see points to everything being awful. Hotels, as well as portions of the Olympic village aren't yet complete. There are stray dogs all over the place. We haven't heard much about the actual event venues themselves. So, hopefully, they're at least ready. Let's face it: That's really all that matters.

In a new poll, almost half of Americans surveyed say the decision to hold the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, was a poor one.

Declaring 2014 a "year of action" as he unveiled a series of relatively meager executive actions, President Barack Obama vowed in his State of the Union address Tuesday night to sidestep Congress "whenever and wherever" he can in order to push through his agenda.

It might be coming to a house or an Internet-service provider (ISP) near you. A firm in Mexico is close to making thisa legit thing. The company, Telefónica, claims even when you are using your Internet and your wi-fi, most of the bandwidth is going to waste. Why not use it to help your Internet connection, and others?

The 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit kicked off Monday with news media preview days. Monday and Tuesday are the two days when automakers introduce their new products to the world via the media. The show for the general public opens Saturday, and runs through runs through Jan. 26 at Cobo Center.

We'll let the video do the talking about this one.

NASA Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins are working outside the orbiting International Space Station today (Dec. 21) to fix a bad pump. They are doing the first in a series of spacewalks to replace a degraded ammonia pump module with one of the station's two external cooling loops that keeps both internal and external equipment cool, according to NASA.

I don't do this very often, but with the passing Thursday of South African icon Nelson Mandela, it seemed like a natural to revive the "Quote of the Day." Simple, yet powerful, just like Mandela, South Africa's former president and civil rights leader who died at 95 years old.

Longtime civil-rights leader and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela died Thursday due to complications from a lung infection. He was 95 years old.

If Congress doesn't want to redefine marriage, the Oxford English Dictionary will just do it themselves. After all, that's their job.

There are some heart-warming things happening in our world today.  They don't always get reported, however, so it is difficult to see sometimes with the Boston tragedy, flooding in West Michigan, etc.  News tends to focus on the bad stuff, but here is a wonderful video of a little incident that happened in the country of Columbia.