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Also: John Brennan's CIA nomination may be on a fast track to confirmation; the last cardinal for the Vatican's papal conclave will arrive soon; war-torn Syria has a million refugees; and the Duchess of Cambridge may have slipped and hinted at her baby's gender.

The U.S. cable giant won a rare auction held by British regulators with a bid of $39 billion. Comcast hopes acquiring Sky will help it compete with online streaming services Netflix and Amazon.

The Princeton Review's guide to colleges comes out Tuesday. Colleges fiercely compete to be No. 1 for most of the categories in the guide. That's not the case for the dubious distinction of top party school in the nation.

Around 1 p.m. on Sunday, WTEB HD-1 and HD-2 went off air due to an issue with the transmitter. This also affected the web stream at…

Biology graduate student Tom McDonagh, of Rockefeller University, likes working with light. For his Ph.D. he built a spinning microscope that uses centrifugal force to test the gripping power of different molecules. McDonagh also innovates with light outside the lab, in tech-savvy shadow puppet plays.

Only 7 percent of the nation's hospitals assessed by Medicare were good enough to win 5-star ratings. The government used patient reviews to come up with the grades.

Leaked internal documents reveal new insights into the goals and finances of the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC brings together state legislators and representatives of corporations to develop model bills that lawmakers try to pass in their state legislatures.

The U.S. Forest Service has always had to balance economic and recreational needs. But lately, scientific research has become a bigger part of the agency's mission. In the first of two reports, Elizabeth Arnold profiles researchers looking for evidence of climate change in a forest canopy.

Moses Asch spent years collecting and compiling the world's sounds. Working through a number of small record labels including Folkways Recordings, Asch explored a world of sound -- not just music, but birds, bugs and machines. Asch died in 1986. But now the Smithsonian has put his entire collection of sounds on the Web.

Henry Farrell, co-author of the Foreign Policy magazine article "Web of Influence," discusses a growing phenomenon: runaway rumors and false information flooding the Internet.