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The GOP will take over both chambers of Congress on Jan. 6, with issues like the Keystone XL pipeline, Obamacare and immigration reform likely to take priority.

A French reader tells us that the agreement between unions and tech and consulting companies covers about 200,000 people – not 1 million as had been originally reported.

The number of food insecure Americans did not decline between 2012 and 2013, according to the USDA. And the level of food insecurity remains much higher than it was before the recession.

The 229-202 vote in the Democratic-controlled chamber was largely along party lines, with nine GOP members joining Democrats. What happens next is up to the Justice Department.

At the tennis tournament this year, as in years past, a Harris hawk named Rufus has been soaring above the stadium. His job is to keep pigeons from trespassing onto the iconic grass on Centre Court.

A small Canadian firm takes on two of the largest drug companies in the world with its surprise launch of a generic copy of the best-selling blood thinner Plavis. Apotex began shipping its generic version to U.S. stores today. The makers of Plavix sold $6 billion of the popular heart drug last year.

Internet auction provider eBay agrees to buy Skype. eBay will pay $2.6 billion in cash and stock for the Internet calling service, in hopes that it will boost communication between buyers and sellers.

More than 6,000 original stories were submitted to this round of Three-Minute Fiction. We're on the quest to select just one winner. Until then, we'll be reading a few of the stories that catch our eyes. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz presents this week's stand out stories: Exercise by India DeCarmine of Babylon, N.Y., and Letting Go by Graham Sanders from Oregon City, Ore. To see these stories and others go to npr.org/threeminutefiction.

Mo Brooks' Republican Senate campaign has been struggling, and now the former president has pulled his endorsement, citing a dispute over the 2020 election.

The argument over the vice president's role in counting electoral votes fueled the Jan. 6 protests, thanks to ambiguity in the Electoral Count Act. A push to clarify the law is gaining traction.