Photos of the Day (with stories)

"Debt crisis: Deal sought to head off stock plunge" (AP):

Precariously short of time, congressional leaders struggled in urgent, weekend-long talks to avert an unprecedented government default, desperate to show enough progress to head off a plunge in stock prices when Asian markets open ahead of the U.S. workweek. MORE...

"It’s Wedding Day in New York!"(AMERICAblog):

It's a big day in the Empire State. At the stroke of midnight, marriages between same-sex couples became legal in New York. And, shortly thereafter, couples began getting married. MORE...