Elaine S. Povich

Budget negotiators are reportedly nearing an agreement on freezing or severely limiting spending on domestic programs such as housing, education and the environment, but an overall pact still was elusive...

Mayor Marion Barry was convicted Friday on one count of possessing cocaine, but the judge declared a mistrial on 12 other counts in a stunning end to a trial that...

Supreme Court Justice William Brennan`s surprise resignation gives President Bush an opportunity to nominate a successor whose views on two of the most controversial issues of the day-abortion and civil...

House Democrats on Thursday turned back a proposed constitutional amendment that would have prohibited flag desecration, reflecting their belief that the American people are less concerned about the issue than...

The Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday disclosed a widespread scheme of illegal trading conducted by insiders at a San Francisco firm acquired in 1987 by Waste Management Inc. The former...

The cable television industry, which has operated since 1984 without federal regulation, may be regulated again because of subscribers such as Alfred Harter. Harter, a Tennessee retiree, thinks the cable...

The House ethics committee Wednesday issued a mild rebuke to Rep. Gus Savage (D-Ill.), who had been accused of making improper sexual advances toward a young Peace Corps worker while...

President Bush, trying to adhere to his campaign pledge to be the education president, proposed an increase of $1.2 billion for education programs in fiscal 1991. But the budget reduced...

President Bush included two initiatives in his proposed budget aimed at increasing the U.S. savings and investment rates, which have lagged behind other industrialized democracies. Bush polished up and reproposed...

The administration`s proposed budget contained President Bush`s answer to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan`s politically alluring proposal to slash Social Security taxes and return the retirement insurance program to a pay-as-you-go...