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With Democrats winning control of the House in the midterm elections, GOP representatives and party freshmen elected leaders to run a smaller, more conservative conference in the next Congress.

Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned, accusing the paper's publisher of killing her piece on owner Jeff Bezos' overhaul of its opinion pages.

The operator of a Bronx day care and a relative are facing drug charges after a 1-year-old boy died and three other children became dangerously ill. A third person was charged a week later.

The Alabama native has died after battling leukemia. Goldsmith won the top prize on Chopped Junior when he was 14, before moving on to Top Chef Junior.

The administration named high-profile immigration hawk Ken Cuccinelli to lead the agency in charge of citizenship and visas, raising concerns among immigrant rights advocates.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to William Lacy Swing, director general of the International Organization for Migration, which estimates over 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year.

The top U.S. general has offered his assessment of military options for Syria. Gen. Martin Dempsey outlined the costs, benefits and risks of five options being considered by the Obama administration. Overall, he says, each option has serious downsides.

The ruling by a federal judge on Sunday invalidates two directives issued by Cuccinelli at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that were designed to tighten federal asylum guidelines.

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the new head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says she'll focus her time in charge on getting more Americans insured.

One of the world's most treasured foods comes from an unlikely source — a sturgeon farm on a kibbutz in northern Israel. The prized sturgeon eggs — or osetra caviar, if you must — fetches a hefty price and has a top-chef following.