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The punny choice was tops in the naming contest run by the Seattle Department of Transportation. The name was suggested by an 11-year-old resident. The submission got over 1,500 votes on Twitter.

Michigan's Lake Superior State University issued its annual list of annoying expressions to banish. The list includes: trending, bucket list, kick the can down the road and spoiler alert. The top one to ban: fiscal cliff.

The Monopoly game hitting store shelves contains a sleek kitty, which will join the classic Scottie dog and top hat. Fans adopted the cat in an online vote earlier this year. The company shelved the iron after a 78 year run.

David Edelstein finds some greats in a "depressing" year for films; Maureen Corrigan picks 12 books of the year; Ken Tucker names his top nine albums; David Bianculli says 2014 was a good year.

The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi ordered the retirement of Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi and Chief of Staff Gen. Sami Annan. It's seen as the boldest move he's made since assuming the nation's top job.

We asked and you voted: Here are the 100 best albums of the year, as selected by All Songs Considered listeners.

The top-ranked LSU Tigers will be in Tuscaloosa to take on the Alabama Crimson Tide on Saturday, in what some college football fans are calling "the game of the century." But it's hard to know if the clash between the nation's top two teams will live up to the billing.

The federal criminal complaint details other threatening calls allegedly made by the suspect over the past year to businesses in California, Maryland, Connecticut and Washington state, officials say.

A 1960s pop song, a must-have soft toy and a global anime hit are among the leaders on YouTube's year-end trends list.

The New Jersey governor has seen his political stock fall, but he tried to begin anew with his official presidential announcement at his high school alma mater.