Sheldon Alberts reports: In a memoir published Tuesday, the 37-year-old lesbian describes a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage as a “gross affront” to gay Americans and reveals she almost…

…were released Tuesday, financial markets were hoping that Fed policymakers might only hike one more time. See full story. “This was not a good report, especially if you are a…

…to pull another rabbit out of the hat. Update: Juan Cole reports: the fact is that all President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday was that it had enriched uranium to…

…announced a quarter-point rise in the federal funds rate on Tuesday and futures markets have priced in another quarter-point hike for May, which would bring the key overnight interest rate…

…Tuesday narrowly defeated an effort to impose budget rules that would make it harder to increase spending or cut taxes, a move that critics said that showed Republicans were posturing…

…letting tax breaks expire, Treasury Secretary John Snow said Tuesday. “You’ll see the administration press awfully hard to contain spending,” Snow told reporters at a briefing. The administration’s budget proposal…

…he cut a deal with federal prosecutors on Tuesday, he shook up this town as never before. Since that’s the lead paragraph, I suppose I can forgive this headline: “Tremors…

…nonprofit watchdog group in Washington. Mrs. Barbour, as well as spokesmen for FEMA and for Governor Barbour, all said in interviews Tuesday that Mrs. Barbour’s family and political links to…

Alas, the news is not about the House Republican leadership doing an about face and supporting an increase in the nominal minimum wage: WASHINGTON – The House on Tuesday agreed…

…I loved what Senator Hagel said: Hagel on Tuesday defended the right to criticize the White House’s war policies in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations … “The…