| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | 'I don't agree with the oddsmakers' | | Even if Republicans do win the chamber for the first time in nearly a decade, V.P. Joe Biden tells CNN it won't impact the administration's priorities. |
| Why negative ads we hate will endure | | In Cedar Rapids Iowa, independent U.S. Senate candidate Rick Stewart made a bold proposal. He wants to end negative television advertising in the state. Stewart is not the first to call for this. Almost every election cycle we hear proposals to bring an end to the nasty ads. There is always speculation that we have reached some kind of tipping point. |
| The truth about launching spaceships | | Friday's crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two, with its tragic loss of life, comes just three days after the failure of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Antares re-supply mission to the International Space Station. |
| The danger of assisted suicide laws | | My heart goes out to Brittany Maynard, who is dying of brain cancer and who wrote last week about her desire for what is often referred to as "death with dignity." |
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