According to the Washington Post, “the longtime adviser to President Bush often described as the most powerful woman ever to work in the White House, plans to return to Washington soon to rejoin the president’s team as he sets forth on an ambitious second-term agenda, according to White House officials and outside Republican advisers.”

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The White House declined to comment on the move, and the advisers who confirmed it refused to be identified because the decision is not scheduled to be announced until next week. The sources said Hughes will not be a formal member of the White House staff but will take on a specific and particularly important assignment involving international affairs, but they would not identify it.

Hughes did not return messages left at her home, office and e-mail address.

Stay tuned.