Bill Frist

WASHINGTON-Leaders in both parties cheered President Bush last night for what they called a strong and measured message on Iraq in his State of the Union address, even as Democrats attacked him bitterly for domestic policies they said were wrong-headed....

Stepping into the gay marriage fight for the first time since it erupted in New York a week ago, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer warned yesterday that state law does not permit same-sex unions and cautioned that ceremonies already performed there may be...

The emerging Republican Party platform strongly endorses President Bush's call for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage — despite Vice President Dick Cheney's contrasting views — and declares that only heterosexual couples should...

WASHINGTON - Across the nation yesterday, people of all religions and views paused to remember Pope John Paul II, praising the memory of a pontiff who championed the poor while preaching the virtues of peace, life and tolerance. "The Catholic Church...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The worldwide death toll from the SARS virus surpassed 700 yesterday after Taiwan reported 12 new deaths and China reported seven. Still, Taiwan angrily refused China's offers of help and scolded Beijing for blocking the island's...

WASHINGTON -- A weeklong ritual of national mourning and remembrance concludes today when President Bush and other world leaders offer final farewells to Ronald Reagan at a ceremony at Washington's National Cathedral, before the former president's remains...

Reaction to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee: Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) saying Rumsfeld should resign: I think the president of the United States should fire the secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld....

Officials confirmed Sunday that a postal worker at the Washington sorting center that handles mail bound for the Capitol is "gravely ill" with the inhaled form of anthrax, bringing to three the number of confirmed cases of the life-threatening infection....

An assistant to CBS News anchor Dan Rather and a postal worker in New Jersey tested positive for anthrax Thursday, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the bioterrorism scare to six, with another New Jersey postal employee strongly believed to have...

Some of the most powerful officials in the nation were shuttling between the TV and VIP skyboxes on the 10th floor of Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night. Governors. Senators. Television anchors. Household names. Virtually anyone you saw...

Senators on Thursday proposed spending more than $3 billion to combat bioterrorism amid cries that the United States is woefully unprepared for such an attack. The Bush administration supported the concept but balked at the cost. Meanwhile, Health and...

I have no excuse for this oversight. I can only apologize that it was not until the closing hours of the Republican convention that I wandered up to the complimentary spa and makeover station set up in the building where the reporters covering the...