Presidential Elections

Barney Frank blows up at people. It’s what he does. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday offered modest steps to spur jobs and defended his push to get the U.S. economy growing, amid deep public dismay over double-digit unemployment that has eroded his popularity. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN — Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, a U.N. climate conference delegate from Bangladesh, says “the world expects a lot from President Obama” and that he “should make sure he does not disappoint the world.” Full Story »

The same-sex marriage movement appears likely to end a banner year with a string of stinging defeats that opponents say have undermined a core proposition of the movement - that the acceptance of gay marriage is, sooner or later, inevitable. Full Story »

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Democrat Martha Coakley will square off against Republican Scott Brown in a special election early next year in Massachusetts for the late Edward Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat. Full Story »

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner plans to tell Congress that the Obama administration will extend the $700 billion financial-rescue program until next October, according to people familiar with the matter. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Congressional negotiators sealed agreement Tuesday night on sweeping spending legislation that boosts housing and heating subsidies but curbs President Barack Obama's requests for aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Full Story »

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama was elected on a promise to fix the problems at home. Americans praise him instead for escalating the war in Afghanistan and disapprove of his handling of the economy and health care. Full Story »

BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley on Tuesday won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death Senator Edward Kennedy, who died in August of brain cancer. Full Story »

Senate Democrats have reached a "broad agreement" on a health reform bill, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday night — a plan that would replace the public option in the current Senate bill with a new national insurance plan offered by private insurers, and a chance for older Americans to “buy in” to Medicare. Full Story »

Martha Coakley won the Democratic primary in the Massachusetts Senate special election, putting her on track to assume the seat long held by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and become the state's first woman senator. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Sen. Harry Reid's move to scuttle a fellow Democrat's effort to toughen abortion restrictions in the health care bill was the plain pragmatism of a majority leader who knows where the votes are — and faces a tough re-election next year. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Senate on Tuesday rejected an anti-abortion amendment to a health care reform bill, splitting the Democrats and complicating the chances of getting a 60-vote majority to pass the measure. Full Story »

NEW YORK - The publisher of President Barack Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope" has stepped down. Full Story »

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama was elected on a promise to fix the problems at home. Americans praise him instead for escalating the war in Afghanistan and disapprove of his handling of the economy and health care. Full Story »

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party end the year far weaker than they started it, according to a McClatchy-Ipsos poll released Tuesday. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama packed an economic speech with a political punch on Tuesday, blaming Republicans for creating high deficits, mismanaging bank bailouts and obstructing efforts to reform healthcare. Full Story »

Here are the key elements of the job creation package President Barack Obama outlined Tuesday: Full Story »