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1:45 PM ET, March 22, 2007

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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.

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 …

Discussion: TAPPED and FishBowlDC

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

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.

Discussion: The Caucus, The Daily Dish, The Democratic Daily, Balloon Juice, Michael P.F. van der Galiën and State of the Day

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.

Discussion: GINA COBB and Blue Crab Boulevard

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

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.

Discussion: Associated Press, Washington Post, ABCNEWS, Right Wing Nut House, Captain's Quarters, Firedoglake, AMERICAblog, TalkLeft, Donklephant, Sister Toldjah, Matthew Yglesias, Pajamas Media, Michael P.F. van der Galiën, My Left Wing, The American Street, The Democratic Daily, Ezra Klein and Taylor Marsh

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.

Discussion: Pam's House Blend, The Swamp, Crooked Timber, All Spin Zone and Brilliant at Breakfast

Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: BREAKING: John Edwards Will Continue Campaign Despite Wife's …

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.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, The Mahablog, Shakespeare's Sister, Crooks and Liars, TPMmuckraker, CorrenteWire, Macsmind, The Impolitic, Patterico's Pontifications, TalkLeft, Angry Bear, Mercury Rising, Arizona Republic, DownWithTyranny! and Liberal Values

Washington Post:
Political Spectacle — THE WHITE HOUSE and congressional Democrats …

Discussion: New York Times, Boston Globe, The Carpetbagger Report, CorrenteWire, Middle Earth Journal, TalkLeft, Michael P.F. van der Galiën, The Heretik and Matthew Yglesias

Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
Bush loyalist among fired U.S. attorneys

Discussion: Public Eye, NewsBusters.org, Political Animal, Obsidian Wings, The Carpetbagger Report and State of the Day

Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications and Mercury Rising

USA Today:
3 fired prosecutors were in top 10 for convictions, federal data show

Discussion: Washington Post

Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Subpoenas for WH Officials

Discussion: The Agonist

Kevin Bohn / CNN:
Gap in Justice, White House e-mails raises questions

Discussion: New York Times, News Bloggers Blog, The Volokh Conspiracy and ACSBlog

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.

Discussion: The Lede, Angry Bear, Think Progress, Brian Beutler and Macsmind

Emptywheel / Firedoglake: Toensing's Little Inaccuracies

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.

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Captain's Quarters, Neptunus Lex, DownWithTyranny!, Blue Crab Boulevard and Associated Press

The Hill:
Votes, days tick away on Iraq bill

Discussion: Dick Polman's American Debate and Booman Tribune

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 …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Democratic Underground, The Moderate Voice and Norwegianity

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 …

Discussion: Outside The Beltway and shotinthedark.info/wp …

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.

Discussion: democracyarsenal.org and Michael P.F. van der Galiën

Penelope Green / New York Times:

The Year Without Toilet Paper — DINNER was the usual affair on Thursday night in Apartment 9F in an elegant prewar on Lower Fifth Avenue. There was shredded cabbage with fruit-scrap vinegar; mashed parsnips and yellow carrots with local butter and fresh thyme; a terrific frittata …

Discussion: Althouse