Edwards and Wife Plan News Conference  —  John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat making a second bid for the presidency, announced late Wednesday night that he would hold a news conference Thursday, a day after he and his wife, Elizabeth, visited Mrs. Edwards' doctor to assess her health following her recovery from breast cancer.

Mystery creator of anti-Clinton ad ID'd  —  WASHINGTON - The mystery creator of the Orwellian YouTube ad against Hillary Rodham Clinton is a Democratic operative who worked for a digital consulting firm with ties to rival Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record).

Democrats See a 'Document Gap' in Dismissals  —  The dismissal of eight United States attorneys has elicited a long and ever-growing list of theories by Democrats on Capitol Hill about ulterior motives and suspicious coincidences.  Now there is a new one: the document gap.

Some Heated Words for Mr. Global Warming  —  Al Gore, star of an Academy Award-winning film, was in town for a double feature on Capitol Hill yesterday.  But instead of giving another screening of "An Inconvenient Truth," the former vice president found himself playing the Clarence Darrow character in "Inherit the Wind."

In Praise of Susan Estrich, and In Memory of the Loss of Cathy  —  We lost Cathy at 2:05 PM today.  May her memory last, her family persevere and her friends endure this terrible loss.  We'll all have more to write shortly, but for now I'd like to truly praise Susan Estrich.

Prosecutor Says Bush Appointees Interfered With Tobacco Case  —  The leader of the Justice Department team that prosecuted a landmark lawsuit against tobacco companies said yesterday that Bush administration political appointees repeatedly ordered her to take steps that weakened the government's racketeering case.

House Democrats Weigh Plan for Iraq Withdrawal  —  Representative Dan Boren is a Democrat, but after visiting Iraq last week he announced a decision that puts him at odds with his party's leaders: he intends to vote against their plan to set a deadline for troops to leave Iraq.

Was She Covert?  —  Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra could hardly believe what he heard on television Friday as he watched a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.  Rep. Henry Waxman, the Democratic committee chairman, said his statement had been approved by the CIA director, Michael Hayden.

"Freedom Is About Authority"  —  "We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority.  We see only the oppressive side of authority.  Maybe it comes out of our history and our background.

Angola sends 'Ninja' paramilitaries to bolster Mugabe's security forces  —  About 2,500 Angolan paramilitary police, feared in their own country for their brutality, are to be deployed in Zimbabwe, raising concerns of an escalation in violence against those opposed to President Mugabe.