BREAKING: The US and China Just Announced a Huge Deal on Climate—and It's a Game Changer  —  The surprise agreement aims to double the pace of carbon pollution reduction in the United States.  —  In a surprise announcement Tuesday night, the world's two biggest economies and greenhouse gas emitters …

ObamaCare architect: I regret ‘stupidity’ of voter comment  —  An architect of ObamaCare on Tuesday said he regretted his 2013 comment that a “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter” helped Congress pass the healthcare law.  —  Massachusetts Institute …

Little Enthusiasm, Familiar Divisions After the GOP's Big Midterm Victory  —  Most Expect Obama to Get Little Done Over Next Two Years  —  After a sweeping midterm election victory on Nov. 4, the Republican Party retook full control of Congress.  But the public has mixed reactions to the GOP's big win …

Alaska Win Gives GOP Another US Senate Seat  —  U.S. Sen. Mark Begich couldn't pull off another election surprise as voter disapproval of President Barack Obama helped push him and other Democrats out of office.  —  Republican Dan Sullivan, a Marine Corps reservist and assistant secretary …

Democratic Party Favorable Rating Falls to Record Low  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — After the midterm elections that saw the Democratic Party suffer significant losses in Congress, a record-low 36% of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of the party, down six percentage points from before the elections.

The 10 states that could decide the next Senate  —  The Republican map may not look so bad after all.  —  The Senate map for 2016 might not be as bad for Republicans as it looks.  —  The GOP has a bigger cushion than expected for its new majority, probably 54 seats.

Pelosi: 'It wasn't a wave'  —  An exclusive interview with an unbowed Nancy Pelosi.  —  House Democrats ended Election Day controlling fewer seats than they have in nearly 80 years, but Nancy Pelosi isn't conceding anything.  —  “I do not believe what happened the other night is a wave …

Business groups brace for deluge of regs  —  Business groups are bracing for an onslaught of regulations, with the Obama administration bent on completing a host of the president's unfinished policy goals and the midterm elections now in the rearview mirror.

Anti-Military Anthem Played at ‘Concert for Valor’  —  Who would have thought that that Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, and Zac Brown, accomplished musicians all, would be so, well, tone-deaf?  But how else to explain their choice of song—Creedence Clearwater's famously anti-war anthem …

Jon Stewart, Sean Hannity trade barbs  —  Jon Stewart has dubbed Sean Hannity “loathsome.”  Sean Hannity thinks Jon Stewart “has his head so far up Obama's ass he cannot see clearly.”  —  The latest tiff between Stewart and Hannity blew up Tuesday after the “Daily Show” …

The Worst Voter Turnout in 72 Years  —  The abysmally low turnout in last week's midterm elections — the lowest in more than seven decades — was bad for Democrats, but it was even worse for democracy.  In 43 states, less than half the eligible population bothered to vote, and no state broke 60 percent.

It's Not Just Dumb, It's Krugman Dumb!  —  We have written here and elsewhere about the King v. Burwell case, in which a panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Affordable Care Act allows the federal government to subsidize participants in the federal Obamacare exchange as well as the state exchanges.

The FCC weighs breaking with Obama over the future of the Internet  —  Hours after President Obama called for the Federal Communications Commission to pass tougher regulations on high-speed Internet providers, the agency's Democratic chairman told a group of business executives that he was moving in a different direction.

U.S. nurses to protest, strike over Ebola measures  —  (Reuters) - Nurses across the United States will stage protest rallies and strikes on Wednesday over what they say is insufficient protection for health workers dealing with patients possibly stricken with the deadly Ebola virus.

The coming climate onslaught  —  President Obama readies a sweeping list of executive actions.  —  The Obama administration is set to roll out a series of climate and pollution measures that rivals any president's environmental actions since George H.W. Bush signed a rewrite of the Clean Air Act in 1990 …

Midterm Mood Swings  —  One way of looking at last week's midterm results is as a national mood swing, made up of irrational fear (Ebola, the terrorist next door), anxiety about the economy, and, perhaps above all, a vague, very real dissatisfaction with President Obama …