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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 …
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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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Jay Carney / Time:
Can Edwards' Campaign Just Go On? — "The campaign goes on. The campaign goes on strongly." The words from John Edwards were a shock, coming as they did after he and his wife Elizabeth had spent the opening minutes of their press conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., describing how her breast cancer …
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.
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J-Walking:
Cancer is Not a Political Issue
Cancer is Not a Political Issue
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Liberals Relent on Iraq War Funding — House Likely to Pass Bill With Pullout Date — Liberal opposition to a $124 billion war spending bill broke last night, when leaders of the antiwar Out of Iraq Caucus pledged to Democratic leaders that they will not block the measure, which sets timelines for bringing U.S. troops home.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Oversight over the White House — Forgive the redundancy after having just mentioned this, but it's worth paying special attention to the new White House talking point. — Tony Snow on ABC: "The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress in fact doesn't have oversight ability."
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Associated Press:
Senate panel OKs subpoenas for key aides
Senate panel OKs subpoenas for key aides
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
GOP Forces House Democrats To Pull DC Voting Bill — House Democrats pulled a bill to grant voting rights to Washington, D.C., after Republicans offered a motion that would repeal the gun ban for the District. — The move is a clear signal that Democrats have lost control of House floor …
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Andres Martinez / Opinion L.A.:
Grazergate, the episode — David Hiller's decision to kill the Brian Grazer section this Sunday makes my continued tenure as Los Angeles Times editorial page editor untenable. The person in this job needs to have an unimpeachable integrity, and Hiller's decision amounts to a vote of no confidence in my continued leadership.
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New York Times:
New to Pentagon, Gates Argued for Closing Guantánamo Prison — In his first weeks as defense secretary, Robert M. Gates repeatedly argued that the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had become so tainted abroad that legal proceedings at Guantánamo would be viewed …
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Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
Republican Party loyalty in decline since 2002 — WASHINGTON — Public allegiance to the Republican Party has plunged since the second year of George W. Bush's presidency, as attitudes have edged away from some of the conservative values that fueled GOP political dominance for more than a decade, a major new survey has found.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Clinton: 'It's just not fair' — Former President Bill Clinton yesterday complained that "it's just not fair" the way his wife, presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), is being depicted for her controversial Iraq war vote. — Speaking to hundreds of supporters on conference call …
Michael Yon:
RUBS — The great difficulty in filing stories from Iraq is leading me to experiment. We are into the fifth year of the war Iraq, yet no comprehensive system exists to help media communicate to people at home. Raw information only trickles back from Iraq because the flow is strangled.
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N.Z. / Victory Caucus:
Pelosi skips town for big ticket fundraiser while Iraq vote looms — You might think that on the eve of a historic vote on emergency funding for the war effort, Speaker Pelosi would stay focused on the vote and on her caucus in the House. — Wrong! This evening, she'll be hosting Democratic fat-cats …
Howard Campbell / Associated Press:
Police: Pakistan cricket coach murdered — KINGSTON, Jamaica - The genteel sport of cricket was dealt a brutal blow when Jamaican police said Pakistan's national coach was murdered in his hotel room a day after his team suffered a humiliating World Cup loss.
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Terror Supporter and Antisemitic Conspiracy Theorist Teaches at Dalton State College, Georgia — This is not "news" in the sense that its neither "new" nor "surprising". Imagine my, er, shock when reader Mike e-mailed me about yet another antisemitic conspiracy theorists and terror supporter in academia.
The Blotter:
Three Major Terror Busts in Iraq — Iran, Syria Connections Exposed, Say U.S. Officials — Jonathan Karl and Christopher Isham Report: — U.S. forces have arrested the two leaders of the network believed responsible for the brazen raid in Karbala by terrorists disguised as Americans …
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