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President Obama answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, one day after Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate and captured their biggest majority in the House in more than 60 years.Larry Downing/Reuters/Landovhide caption
Teresa Romero Ramos, bottom right, arrives with medical workers to give a press statement before she leaves the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday.Andres Kudacki/APhide caption
Marcus Lattimore retired from the NFL Wednesday, ending his hopes of returning from a knee injury to play for the San Francisco 49ers.Jason O. Watson/Getty Imageshide caption
In a news conference Thursday on Capitol Hill, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio warned President Obama not to go it alone on immigration reform. Cliff Owen/AP hide caption
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1st Lt. Alonzo Cushing, shown in an undated photo provided by the Wisconsin Historical Society, is expected to get the nation's highest military decoration -- the Medal of Honor -- this summer, nearly 150 years after he died at the Battle of Gettysburg. Wisconsin Historical Society/AP hide caption
NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of Super Typhoon Nuri after it developed an eye on Nov. 3. NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team hide caption
Screen grab from the teaser for the Discovery Channel's Eaten Alive. The Discovery Channel/YouTube hide caption
Daniel Handler, the man "often mistaken" for Lemony Snicket, will nevertheless have a hand in the development of the show. Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images for LA Times hide caption
Janet Napolitano in May of 2014. Jim Watson /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Phil Rudd, the drummer for rock band AC/DC, leaves a court house in Tauranga, New Zealand, on Thursday. George Novak/AP hide caption
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on this way to Kabul. NATO hide caption
Chevron Corp. supported several candidates in Richmond, Calif., where the company has been hoping to modernize a large oil refinery, seen here in 2010. None of the Chevron-backed candidates were elected. Paul Sakuma/AP hide caption
Health workers sit at the emergency entrance of a Doctors Without Borders clinic in Monrovia. New data seem to show a decline in Ebola cases in Liberia, WHO says. Zoom Dosso/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Marcus Lattimore retired from the NFL Wednesday, ending his hopes of returning from a knee injury to play for the San Francisco 49ers. Jason O. Watson/Getty Images hide caption
President Obama answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, one day after Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate and captured their biggest majority in the House in more than 60 years. Larry Downing/Reuters/Landov hide caption
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he sees issues where a Republican-led Congress can work with President Obama. McConnell won re-election Tuesday, as his party took control of the Senate. Timothy D. Easley/AP hide caption
Teresa Romero Ramos, bottom right, arrives with medical workers to give a press statement before she leaves the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday. Andres Kudacki/AP hide caption
It was Helen Macdonald's relationship with a goshawk like this one that helped her to grapple with the loss of her father. sirius_r/iStockphoto hide caption
From left, Topher Jones, Edward Hartmann and Angie Holliday hold a campaign sign outside City Hall in Denton, Texas, on July 15, 2014. Voters in the college town approve a ban on fracking on Tuesday. Tony Gutierrez/AP hide caption
Saira Blair arrives to campaign at the Eastern Panhandle Business Association luncheon at The Purple Iris Restaurant in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on Sept. 12, 2014. Cliff Owen/AP hide caption
