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With Democratic leader Harry Reid's victory in Nevada, Republican hopes for taking over the Senate have faded — even as Reid's leadership will be put to the test in a more narrowly divided Senate with a handful of Tea Party members. Republicans have picked up six seats — in Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Students at a San Diego County High School are hoping to win a top prize for their environmental work.

The contradictions of today's Russia are evident along the banks of the Volga River. In the post-Soviet world, personal freedoms, unshackled capitalism and the paradox of Vladimir Putin's centralized state controls run on a parallel course.

A growing number of parents of children with ADHD are trying a noninvasive treatment called neurofeedback, which is relatively simple and doesn't involve drugs. Studies suggest it helps, but the treatment is still unproved, expensive and time-consuming.

Economist Peter Diamond, freshly minted Nobel Prize winner, says the only way to break the unemployment logjam is another round of short-term spending and a big injection of federal money to save jobs in state and local governments.

Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has recently come under fire from the Indian government for her comments condemning the Indian occupation of Kashmir. Anuj Chopra of Foreign Policy argues that Roy's interpretation of the conflict was correct, Kashmir is under a brutal occupation, and silencing Roy won't solve that.

The San Diego Museum of Art is lending 47 paintings to Suzhou Museum in China for an exhibition titled "Visions of the United States."

A physicist's photographs show snowflakes in a dazzling variety of shapes — from minimalist cylinders and spiky rods to stylized Art Deco and the familiar lacy Baroque.

'Il Divo' Kicks Off This Year's Festival

NPR has been sharply criticized for terminating the contract of news analyst Juan Williams for remarks he made about Muslims. Williams appeared on Fox's The O'Reilly Factor Thursday night to respond to NPR's decision. Fox has extended Williams' contract with the network for three years for $2 million.