Global warming's early victims: Watch live as polar bears wait for sea ice to form

Leslie Jones' frustrating "SNL" performance: Why I'm afraid she wasn't the right choice for the show

Pickup artist Julien Blanc gets dumped -- by a hotel

Vatican official condemns Brittany Maynard's death as an "absurdity"

Oklahoma Supreme Court blocks two antiabortion measures

Joni Ernst courts the frat vote, totally loves Monster energy drinks

Joe Biden did not "blow Greg Orman's cover": He's far from a Democratic lock

Report: Woman who blogged about son's autism pushes him to his death

Guam legalizes medical marijuana

Judge rules against Kansas gay marriage ban on same day culture warrior Sam Brownback may lose

Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss: Religion could be largely gone in a generation

Conservative website comes up with fun last-minute nickname for Wendy Davis: She's a "gynecist"

How the Dow Jones industrial average fared Tuesday

Shell sponsors major climate change conference, gets ripped apart anyway

What Lena Dunham misunderstands about Internet outrage

It is all still about race: Obama hatred, the South and the truth about GOP wins

CERN appoints first female director

Wayne Brady opens up about his struggle with depression

President Obama's stealth radio interviews: The Democrats' tightrope strategy in a nutshell

"Kids cut themselves far less than adults": Inside "MasterChef Junior," the best cooking show on television

Child therapists: Stop freaking out about Lena Dunham

"Interstellar": Christopher Nolan's grand space opera tries to outdo "2001"

Mitch McConnell defeats Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky

Republicans score first Senate pickup with win in West Virginia

The system is broken: How the midterms expose our dying democracy

GOP loses Pennsylvania governorship: Dem Tom Wolfe defeats Tom Corbett

Mitch McConnell's power trip: In an anti-Washington cycle, McConnell won by being an insider

GOPer Tom Cotton knocks off Dem Sen. Mark Pryor in Arkansas

A Virginia Senate nail-biter? Something's the matter with Virginia polling

10 Things to Know for Wednesday

Scott Brown fails in bid to oust Dem Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire

Scott Brown's failed New Hampshire quest: Why didn't he just run for Massachusetts governor?

GOP one seat short of Senate majority: Republican Cory Gardner beats Dem Sen. Mark Udall in Colorado

Republican Rick Scott re-elected governor of Florida

Scott Walker re-elected governor of Wisconsin

"Remake this state in your image”: Wendy Davis loses governor's race, but Texas progressives fight on

GOP holds on to Senate seat in Georgia

GOP Sen. Pat Roberts survives re-election challenge in Kansas

Thom Tillis fends off Kay Hagan in North Carolina Senate race

AP NewsAlert

Mexico rights commission investigates killings

It's Ted Cruz's Senate now: GOP wins control

AP NewsAlert

Conservatives celebrate election blowout (because everything is horrible)

The sneaky, systematic ways employers are stealing our wages

Down with Daylight Saving Time!

The other C-word: How "You're a coward" became the ultimate American insult

The right's "poverty pimp" blast: How a racist trope reared its ugly ahead -- again

What's really killing Americans today

Another grim midterm election: Let the soul searching begin

America's apocalypse complex: Why we're so easily terrified by Ebola and ISIS

GOP's new "existential battle": Norm Ornstein on how Senate control could reignite party's civil war

After midterms, marriage equality almost certainly won't have majority support in U.S. Senate anymore

New Hampshire loses distinction of having only all-female congressional delegation

Jon Stewart perfectly sums up last night's shellacking

There are 100 women in Congress for the first time in history

This man is about to become one of America's most powerful climate villains

The good news from last night: Here's what went right in the midterms

Lea DeLaria gets in a misguided subway fight

Stephen Colbert's final Fox News election coverage segment may have been his greatest

America's worst new congressman: Why Georgia's Jody Hice is so frightening

11 things that will make you feel a little bit better about the world

President Obama shakes it off in a Taylor Swift remix from Jimmy Fallon

Meet the Nevada wingnut who just upset a Democratic congressman

Foxy Knoxy's new gig: Amanda Knox is now a pretty good theater critic

There is no GOP "mandate": Not even Republicans know what their governing agenda is

Mourning Wendy Davis' loss: As a Texan, here's why I'm so disappointed

Last night's Michael Grimm debacle: What really went wrong in Staten Island

Big Soda's multimillion-dollar defeat

Town in Texas becomes first to ban fracking

Jameis Winston's attorney tweets name of woman who accused his client of rape

Debbie Downer's official guide to women and the 2014 elections

Don't be naive, Mr. President: How the White House should respond to last night's disaster

Study explains why we would rather help one child than many

Enjoy it while it lasts! GOP base is still white and aging

The "Ghostbusters" cast had a glorious reunion on the "Today" show

How did Nate Silver's forecasts stack up against midterm results?

Tennessee's extreme anti-choice amendment puts abortion further out of reach in the South