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New Jersey and Virginia announced the victory of the Republican party in their gubernatorial elections on Tuesday.

Since last week, media and the public have been buzzing about the "balloon boy" — a 6-year-old boy whose parents, it seems, may have lied about his whereabouts in order to gain a spot on a reality television show.

The insurance industry is adding to the uphill battle that congressional democrats are fighting in order to pass health care reform legislation.

 Private insurers, hoping to sway public opinion, have said that premiums will increase by 18 percent within the next decade if the health care reform is passed. 

The idea of helping a patient in great pain commit suicide, known as assisted suicide, is a matter of big debate in Great Britain 

 The New York Times reported last week that one of Britain’s most prestigious prosecutors created a list of cases in which he would not prosecute people for assisting a suicide in a hospital because he felt the action was justified.