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4:25 PM ET, March 22, 2007

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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Edwards to Suspend Campaign  —  John Edwards is suspending his campaign for President, and may drop out completely, because his wife has suffered a recurrence of the cancer that sickened her in 2004, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, an Edwards friend told The Politico.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Getting It Wrong  —  A single, confident source close to John Edwards told me this morning that Edwards was "suspending his campaign," and I posted it to the blog at 11:06 this morning.  —  My source, and I, were wrong.  —  The source, whose anonymity I agreed to respect …
MSNBC:
Wife's illness won't idle Edwards '08 campaign  —  'Campaign goes on,' Democratic hopeful says despite return of wife's cancer  —  WASHINGTON - His wife's cancer has returned, but former North Carolina senator John Edwards says he'll continue his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Mike Baker / Associated Press:
Edwards will continue presidential run  —  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - John Edwards said Thursday his wife's cancer has returned, but said he will continue his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.  —  "The campaign goes on.  The campaign goes on strongly," Edwards told reporters, his wife by his side.
CNN:
Edwards: Wife's cancer returns, campaign goes on … CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Thursday his wife's cancer has returned but his bid for the White House will go on.  —  "The campaign goes on," John Edwards said at a news conference outside …
Discussion: protein wisdom, PoliBlog (TM) and QandO
New York Times:
Edwards to Continue '08 Bid Despite Wife's Cancer  —  John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat, said today that his wife's cancer had returned, but that his bid for the presidency "goes on strongly."  —  "The campaign goes on, the campaign goes on strongly," he said, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side.
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Taylor Marsh
Associated Press:
Edwards to continue campaign despite return of wife's cancer  —  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said today that his wife's cancer has returned and is no longer curable, but is treatable.  —  But he said he will continue his campaign.  —  "We are very optimistic about this," he said.
Jay Carney / Time:
Can Edwards' Campaign Just Go On?  —  "The campaign goes on.
Discussion: Firedoglake and TIME: Swampland
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Best Wishes for Elizabeth Edwards
Discussion: Chicago Tribune and Crooked Timber
Sidney Blumenthal / Salon:
What Bush is hiding  —  In the U.S. attorney scandal, Alberto Gonzales gave orders, but he also took them — from Karl Rove, who plotted to turn the federal criminal justice system into the Republican Holy Office of the Inquisition.  —  Alberto Gonzales, right, and Karl Rove at the Jan. 31 …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Associated Press:
Senate panel OKs subpoenas for key aides  —  WASHINGTON - A Senate panel, following the House's lead, authorized subpoenas Thursday for White House political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides involved in the firing of federal prosecutors.  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee decided …
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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Panel Authorizes Subpoenas for Administration Officials
Discussion: New York Times
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
E-mails on attorneys' firings could impact privilege case
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
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Jerid / Buckeye State Blog:
Calling BS on De Vellis - It Wasn't Him  —  Phil claims he made it?  I say don't buy everything you read.  —  Those who have been around the Buckeye 'sphere for a while know Mr. De Vellis well.  One of the most unscrupulous Democratic staffers to come to Ohio in quite a while, creative and talented Phil is not.
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Washington Post:
Man Behind the Clinton Clip Worked for Obama's Net Strategists
Ahmed Rashid / Washington Post:
Musharraf at the Exit  —  LAHORE, Pakistan — In the rapidly unfolding crisis in Pakistan, no matter what happens to President Pervez Musharraf — whether he survives politically or not — he is a lame duck.  He is unable to rein in Talibanization in Pakistan or guide the country toward a more democratic future.
Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post:
Inspector General Details Failures of Iraq Reconstruction  —  The U.S. government was unprepared for the extensive nation-building required after it invaded Iraq, and at each juncture where it could have adjusted its efforts, it failed even to understand the problems it faced …
Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:
Florida moves to wipe out clout of smaller states with Jan. 29 presidential primary  —  Tallahassee - Hoping to muscle Florida into a pre-eminent role in picking next year's Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, the state House voted Wednesday to leapfrog almost all the other states …
Ernesto Londono / Washington Post:
In Baghdad, a Flimsy Outpost  —  Members of U.S. Unit, Many Untried, Prepare to Test 'a Good Plan'  —  The soldiers crept into the abandoned gymnasium shortly before midnight.  —  Flashlights provided the only light.  Commanders whispered their orders.  —  A few dozen of the additional …
Discussion: Hot Air and Mudville Gazette
Hazel Muir / New Scientist:
Dazzling new images reveal the 'impossible' on the Sun  —  The restless bubbling and frothing of the Sun's chaotic surface is astonishing astronomers who have been treated to detailed new images from a Japanese space telescope called Hinode.  —  The observatory will have as dramatic an impact …
 
 
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