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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
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.
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New York Times:
Edwards Plans Announcement With His Wife — John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat making a second bid for the presidency, called a news conference for Thursday to discuss the future of his campaign, a day after he and his wife, Elizabeth, visited Mrs. Edwards's doctor to assess her recovery from a bout of breast cancer.
Anne E. Korblut / Washington Post:
Edwards Sets Announcement On Campaign — Former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) and his wife, Elizabeth, have scheduled a news conference for noon today in their home state of North Carolina, in what aides described as a major development in his 2008 presidential bid.
Nedra Pickler / ABCNEWS:
John Edwards to Discuss Wife's Health — Democrat John Edwards Schedules News Conference After Visiting the Doctor With His Wife — John Edwards disclosed that his wife, Elizabeth, had breast cancer the day after he lost the vice presidency in the 2004 election. Now his political future may hinge on her health.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Edwards plans news conference after visiting doctor with his wife
Edwards plans news conference after visiting doctor with his wife
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
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).
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The Huffington Post:
Phil de Vellis, aka ParkRidge47: I Made the "Vote Different" Ad — Hi. I'm Phil. I did it. And I'm proud of it. — I made the "Vote Different" ad because I wanted to express my feelings about the Democratic primary, and because I wanted to show that an individual citizen can affect the process.
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Who Created "Hillary 1984"? Mystery Solved!
Who Created "Hillary 1984"? Mystery Solved!
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Washington Post:
Political Spectacle — THE WHITE HOUSE and congressional Democrats have drawn deep lines in the sand over who will testify, and how, as Congress investigates the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys. The stubbornness and overheated rhetoric on both sides threaten an unnecessary constitutional crisis …
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New York Times:
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.
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Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
Bush loyalist among fired U.S. attorneys — Threatened controversy over a poor evaluation of federal prosecutor Kevin Ryan in San Francisco derailed plans to retain him. — SAN FRANCISCO — The "company man" hired and fired by the Bush administration as U.S. attorney in San Francisco …
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USA Today:
3 fired prosecutors were in top 10 for convictions, federal data show — Justice Department spokesman says rankings skewed — WASHINGTON — Three of the eight federal prosecutors ousted by the Justice Department as poor performers ranked in the top 10 for prosecutions and convictions …
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
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.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
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.
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
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.
Think Progress:
Boxer Slams Down Inhofe's Global Warming Filibuster: 'You Don't Make The Rules Anymore' — Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) has said Al Gore is "full of crap" and compared people who believe in global warming to "the Third Reich." During today's Senate hearing, Inhofe used a considerable amount …
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Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
In Utah, an Opponent of the 'Culture of Obedience' — SALT LAKE CITY — Rocky Anderson may not be the most liberal mayor in America. But here in the most conservative state, he might as well be. — Just being himself is enough to galvanize, divide or enrage people who have followed …
Matt Welch / Opinion L.A.:
Cathy Seipp, RIP — Since Cathy Seipp was the freelancers' patron saint of recycling useful personal anecdotes, I'll rehash the following, about how I first met one of L.A.'s most important and entertaining journalists, who finally died at age 49 this afternoon after beating the odds on lung cancer for more than five years.
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James Harding / Times of London:
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.
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