1) Same-sex couples line up as D.C. gay marriage law takes effect

Sitting at a desk in the marriage bureau of the D.C. Superior Court on Wednesday morning, Angelisa Young’s eyes filled with so many tears, she eventually buried her face in her fiancee’s chest.

2) Rep. Charles Rangel to temporarily quit key tax post

Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) announced Wednesday that he would temporarily step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, days after being admonished for breaking House rules by accepting corporate-financed travel.

3) ‘Enough!’ is enough: Bunning backs down

For five days, retiring Sen. Jim Bunning held his fellow Republicans hostage. He stood his ground, angry and alone, a one-man blockade against unemployment benefits, Medicare payments to doctors, satellite TV to rural Americans and paychecks to highway workers.

4) Ask Tom: Our food critic talks shop

Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema answers your questions, listens to your suggestions and even entertains your complaints about Washington dining.

5) New formula to give fresh look at poverty

The Obama administration Tuesday embraced an alternative way of defining what it means to be poor, stepping gingerly into a long-running debate over whether to revise the method that has been used to measure poverty for decades.

6) Rove admits to error on Iraq as Bush strategist

Former president George W. Bush did not mislead the nation about weapons of mass destruction as a way to “lie us” into war, his former top political aide, Karl Rove, asserts in a new memoir, “Courage and Consequence.”

7) Obama reaches out to GOP on health-care bill

As Democrats on Capitol Hill prepared a risky effort to muscle sweeping health-care legislation to final passage, President Obama on Tuesday made a last gambit to split Republicans on the issue, proposing to incorporate a handful of GOP ideas into his signature domestic initiative.

8.) Political theater with a point

The health-care reform debate makes ‘political theater’ sound pretty good.

9) Perry bests Hutchison in Texas

Texas Gov. Rick Perry cruised to victory in the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday night, crushing Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and setting the stage for a run for a third full term this fall.

10) U.S. backs efforts to ban international trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna

The U.S. government announced Wednesday that it supports prohibiting international trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna, a move that could lead to the most sweeping trade restrictions ever imposed on the highly prized fish.

Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 3, 2010

eructation \ih-ruhk-TAY-shuhn\, noun:

The act of belching; a belch.

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