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The adjournment brought the 113th Congress to a formal close. Democrat Harry Reid ended his run as majority leader, as Republicans take control of the Senate next month.

The system was bringing hurricane-force winds and near-white-out conditions to parts of the region, with northern Massachusetts and the Boston area particularly hard hit.

"Emotions are raw and tensions just don't heal overnight," the president-elect admitted in a nearly two-minute video.

On a day where we as a nation will make a very important collective decision, Carl Sagan's speech serves to help remind us of our place in the universe, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

The company was hurt by its online advertising business, but it still posted a record revenue of $18.06 billion.

Over the past year, small, elfin creatures started springing up all around Oakland, Calif., on the base of utility poles. The local utility had vowed to remove them but now says the paintings can stay.

The Congressional Budget Office expects 1.4 percent growth this year, down from 2.3 percent in 2012. The nation's unemployment rate will likely stay near 8 percent this year.

The increases add to signs that the economy continues to rebound from the 2007-09 recession and the slow recovery that followed.

The Census Bureau reported a decline in the number of Americans without coverage in 2011. But the ranks of the uninsured remain pretty high.

Frank Tanabe, who was in a California internment camp when he volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army, was 93. A photo of him voting from his deathbed went viral this month.