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Reuters - Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have tentatively settled on a timetable and conditions for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, which they hope to attach to a $100 billion Iraq war spending bill, senior lawmakers said on Wednesday.

CQPolitics.com - Kentucky Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher has been renominated in Tuesday’s primary for governor. With more than three-fourths of the vote counted, Fletcher had 49 percent of the vote to 38 percent for former Rep. Anne M. Northup, who conceded just before 9 p.m. eastern time.

A newly released document shows Attorney General Alberto Gonzales attended at least one meeting late last year in which the process of firing U.S. attorneys was discussed.

The Congress of the United States has finally voted for troop withdrawal from Iraq, marking the first official recognition that the citizens of the U.S., as well as a majority of recently elected representatives, are ready and eager to end the illegal occupation of ancient Babylon by a more modern version.Not always the opposite of