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8:05 PM ET, March 27, 2007

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David Espo / Associated Press:
Senate Signals Support for Iraq Timeline  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Defying a veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Senate narrowly signaled support Tuesday for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next March.  —  Republican attempts to scuttle the non-binding timeline failed on a vote of 50-48, largely along party lines.
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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Senate Signals Support for Iraq Timeline  —  The Senate today narrowly endorsed a Democratic-led effort to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq a year from now, voting down a Republican amendment that would have stripped the provision from a $122 emergency spending bill.
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Democrats win Senate vote on Iraq withdrawal date  —  Senate Democrats Tuesday afternoon won a key vote that clears the way for setting a date by which most U.S. troops would be required to leave Iraq.  —  Democrats defeated by a vote of 50-48 the Republican effort to strip language …
Charles Hurt / Examiner:
Senate war bill features $20B in pork
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Iraq Supplemental Update: Huge Senate Vote This Afternoon
Discussion: Firedoglake and AMERICAblog
Associated Press:
Tests Show Snow's Cancer Has Returned  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidential spokesman Tony Snow's surgery to remove a small growth showed that his cancer has returned, the White House said Tuesday.  —  Snow, 51, had his colon removed in 2005 and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Tests Show Snow's Cancer Has Returned  —  White House press secretary Tony Snow, who has become the face of the Bush presidency over the last year, has cancer again.  —  Snow's deputy, Dana M. Perino, broke into tears at an off-camera briefing this morning as she announced that the cancer has spread to his liver.
Charles Karel Bouley / The Huffington Post:
There's All Types of Cancers Growing  —  CNN has decided this week to be the Cancer News Network.  Just as it was wrapping up its wall-to-wall coverage of Elizabeth Edwards and the return of her cancer, the ethics of staying in the campaign and then every pundit in the free world weighing …
Discussion: Hot Air, NewsBusters.org and Lean Left
CBS News:
Tony Snow's Cancer Spreads To Liver
Discussion: Hot Air and Crooks and Liars
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
John McCain's MySpace Page "Enhanced"  —  Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain's staff is going to be in trouble today.  They used a well known template to create his Myspace page.  The template was designed by Newsvine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here).
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Newsvine:
Hacking John McCain  —  politics, humor, myspace, gay-marriage, mccain, john-mccain, hacks  —  If you visit John McCain's MySpace page (as of 9am PST Tuesday morning), you will notice an interesting announcement from him.  He's apparently reversed his position on gay marriage as well as revealed a bias towards attractive lesbians.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Red on red explodes: Al Qaeda assassinates Sunni insurgent leader?  —  I've been meaning to link this LA Times story all day but got sidetracked, which was lucky.  New facts are coming out.  The gist of it is that Zal Khalilzad, the outgoing U.S. ambassador, insists there's a fracture between AQ …
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Media Matters for America:
Drudge flagged Obama hit piece on Politico — which presented admittedly "trivial" inconsistencies — apparently one hour before it was posted  —  In an article appearing in The Politico's March 27 print edition, Politico chief political correspondent Mike Allen wrote that Sen. Barack Obama …
Discussion: MyDD and Attytood
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Fox News:
WEBB DENIES HE GAVE AIDE GUN THAT LED TO ARREST  —  Sen. Jim Webb, whose aide was arrested Monday for carrying a handgun into a Senate office building, gave the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address in January.  —  WASHINGTON — Virginia Sen. Jim Webb said Tuesday …
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Jeff Coen / Chicago Tribune:
Questions on firings shorten Gonzales news conference  —  Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales today cut short a press conference about Internet safety, leaving the room at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago when reporters questioned him about the firings of U.S. attorneys.
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Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Gonzales visits Chicago
Discussion: Denver Post
Kelly McCormack / The Hill:
Fifty percent of adults would not vote for Clinton  —  Half of voting-age Americans say they would not vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) if she became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justices Hear Arguments About Pacts on Pricing  —  A 96-year-old rule that treats as an automatic antitrust violation any agreement between a manufacturer and its retailers to adhere to a minimum resale price is considered archaic and out of touch by the Bush administration and economists of the Chicago school.
Rocky Mountain News:
Campos: Confess your hypocrisy  —  Al Gore told a Senate committee last week that we're facing a planetary crisis because we're putting too much carbon into the atmosphere.  Sen. James Inhofe responded by inviting Gore to pledge to use no more energy than the average American.
Discussion: The Corner and theneweditor.com
 
 
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Audio: Chris Wallace rips Keith Olbermann
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