Key Rove aide fingered in US Attorney investigation to step down; Could face subpoena  —  Multiple sources reported today that a top aide to President George W. Bush's key adviser Karl Rove will soon step down from her job in the White House.  The aide, Sara M. Taylor, was identified …

Iraqi Widow Saves Her Home, but Victory Is Brief  —  The two men showed up on Tuesday afternoon to evict Suaada Saadoun's family.  One was carrying a shiny black pistol.  —  Ms. Saadoun was a Sunni Arab living in a Shiite enclave of western Baghdad.  A widowed mother of seven, she and her family had been chased out once before.

Rev. Jesse Jackson Denounces Congressional Black Caucus Institute's FOX Debate  —  ColorOfChange.org says CBC's decision is "shamefully out of touch" with Black voters; launches national campaign calling on CBC to reverse course and for presidential candidates to reject Fox debate

Turkey, Iraq and the PKK  —  ANKARA, TURKEY.  —  When Iraq's vice president came to Turkey's capital on Tuesday to plead with the Turks not to invade northern Iraq to kill Kurdish terrorists, he spoke to the press in code.  —  The PKK is a Kurdish terrorist group that has killed some 30,000 Turks …

Transplant Update (Update: Success!)  —  Note: This has been bumped to the top; newer posts are below.  —  I have a few moments to update everyone on the First Mate's progress.  She went into surgery around 9:15 CT, about an hour ago.  The donor went into surgery earlier, as is normal …

TIME TO ADMIT OVERSIGHT?  —  Is Time trying to bury the attorney general scandal that's seized Washington, D.C., for the past three months?  In just the last week, new documents emerged contradicting Alberto Gonzales's account of his role in the firings, a low-level Department …

Meet John D'oh: Michelle Malkin is Watching You  —  "We are coming to a new order of things.  There's too much talk been going on in this country.  Too many concessions have been made.  What the American people need is an iron hand."  — Someone in Frank Capra's Meet John Doe, but Not the Good Guy

Giuliani Sees Policy Role for Wife  —  Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani told ABC News's Barbara Walters that he would welcome his wife, Judith, at White House Cabinet meetings and other policy discussions if he were elected president next year.  —  "If she wanted to," Giuliani said in the …

"The USMC/Iraqi team was sluggin' it out side by side."  (Chlorine Gas Attack Update)  —  Lt. Col. Clayton Fisher, commander of MiTT 6 at the brigade level (and my chaperone on an IA mission) was injured in Wednesday's chlorine truck bomb attack on the Fallujah Government Center and left this comment:

Bush Loyalist Rose Quickly at Justice  —  When a college intern in the Justice Department whined that all he was doing was filing and answering phones, Monica M. Goodling took him aside.  If he wanted to do "substantive work," she told him, he was going to have to prove himself first.

WITH FIVE PRIVATE JETS, TRAVOLTA STILL LECTURES ON GLOBAL WARMING  —  His serious aviation habit means he is hardly the best person to lecture others on the environment.  But John Travolta went ahead and did it anyway.  —  The 53-year-old actor, a passionate pilot, encouraged his fans to "do their bit" to tackle global warming.

Iraq: It may be a rough road to a Senate-House compromise  —  WASHINGTON — Fresh from passing the first timelines to bring home U.S. troops from Iraq, congressional Democrats now face the daunting task of reconciling critical differences between a Senate withdrawal plan passed Thursday and one approved by the House last week.

DISPLAY OF CONTROVERSIAL 'CHOCOLATE JESUS' SCULPTURE CANCELLED, FOX NEWS LEARNS  —  March 29: 'My Sweet Lord,' a chocolate statue by artist Cosimo Cavallaro of a naked Jesus hangs at Ranieris Sculpture Casting studio in New York.  —  NEW YORK — A controversial planned exhibit …