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No matter who controls Congress after Nov. 2, Washington will look a lot different. There will be more Republicans -- and more conservative Republicans -- as well as far fewer Democrats and liberals. What's ahead: gridlock or unexpected areas for cooperation?

Tiger Woods will have to come out of seclusion at some point, and when he finally does, his first TV interview will be a major get. NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik describes the frenzied angling among producers and anchors desperate to get Tiger on their network.

Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani, says his country is determined to win its war with the Taliban. Haqqani tells Steve Inskeep that international aid is needed to lure displaced civilians away from militant aid groups. He pledged that the aid money will not free up Pakistan's government to spend its own money on an expanded nuclear arsenal.

Scott Anderson's piece in the September issue of the magazine challenges the official line on a series of bombings that killed hundreds of people in 1999 in Russia. Although no issues have been raised to date about the article's accuracy, GQ management is trying to prevent Russians from reading it.

On the Texas-Mexico border, Los Zetas are mythic — their crimes chronicled in the media and memorialized in song. Considered the most dangerous drug cartel in Mexico, the Zetas have earned a reputation as super-gangsters adept at paramilitary-style ambushes and bold jailbreaks.

Nine years in the making, the author's new book explores the story of a country through the story of a Minnesota couple and their best friend. Franzen tells NPR's Guy Raz that getting it to the page was a dark -- and at times stormy -- journey.

China is forecast to become the world's leading innovator this year, overtaking the U.S. and Japan in number of patent filings. But scientific fraud scandals bedevil the country's reputation as an innovator, and many say aspects of traditional Chinese culture may be partly to blame

Sen. John McCain intensified his assault on efforts to repeal the military's ban on openly gay service members at a hearing Thursday. But at least two other Senate Republicans -- Susan Collins and Scott Brown -- appeared open to supporting an end to the ban, as did Democrat Jim Webb.

President Obama pledged the U.S. would defend South Korea after the North shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto Yeonpyeong island, near their disputed western border. Two South Korean marines were killed. The South Korean army fired back, deploying fighter jets to the area.

At least 30 people have been killed in violence in the disputed region of Abyei along Sudan's north-south divide, officials said Monday. Observers fear the latest unrest could spark more fighting amid an otherwise peaceful and jubilant independence referendum in the south.