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Sarah Palin will run for president, and will announce her candidacy sometime around Labor Day – perhaps September 3, when she’s scheduled to address a big Tea Party event in Iowa. That’s what former Bush administration political advisor and all-around GOP smart guy Karl Rove predicts, anyway. In an appearance on Fox News Saturday he said he believes ex-Alaska governor Palin is going to run, in part because of a slick campaign-style video about her trip to the Iowa State Fair released by her PAC last week, and in part because of where she’s popping up. Palin “has a schedule...

(Washington-AP) -- Attorney General John Ashcroft insists a Justice Department probe of the White House will be thorough. It's aimed at finding out who revealed the name of a C-I-A operative. Her cover was blown after her husband, a former U-S ambassador in Africa, questioned the Bush administration's claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium there. The attorney general says a full criminal investigation is being done by agency professionals with extensive experience in national security information. Ashcroft says his department has demanded that the White House and C-I-A provide all relevant documents. Since it's a criminal matter, Ashcroft is...