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Elizabeth Edwards stories: 56 news summaries

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Edwards Cost Clinton Dearly: Penn

Ex-senator's fall from grace touches off second-guessing

May 1, 09 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton strategist Mark Penn is kicking himself in the wake of reports that Elizabeth Edwards thinks her husband shouldn't have run for president, ABC News reports. If news of John Edwards' infidelity had forced him to drop out of the race, Penn said, “No question in my mind,... More »

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 Edwards: I Cried, 
 Screamed Over 
 John's Affair 

New book reveals 'crying, screaming' reaction to news of affair

Apr 30, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards reveals her reaction to husband John’s affair—which she knew about nearly a year before the story broke—in her new book, the New York Daily News reports. “I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up,” she writes in Resilience, out... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • presidential campaign • affair • memoir • Rielle Hunter

Edwards Tells Elizabeth 'It's My Kid': Enquirer

Concerned ex-lover will go public, Edwards cops to love child first

Mar 4, 09 11:11 AM CST
(Newser) - John Edwards has come clean to his wife about the baby he fathered with ex-mistress Rielle Hunter, reports the National Enquirer (the publication that broke the news of the affair). Hunter has been “edgy” over cancer-stricken Elizabeth Edwards’ upcoming book, and the tabloid says John’s confession is an... More »

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cancer • John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • affair • love child • political scandal • Rielle Hunter

(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards will publish a short memoir in May that will deal in part with her husband's campaign-killing affair, Fox News reports. The book, Resilience, will talk about John Edwards' dalliance, "and how she experienced it," says Elizabeth's publicist, who declined to reveal other specifics. The book also... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • political scandal • Rielle Hunter

  Edwards Split Reported 

John Edwards no longer living at home, source tells New York Post

Oct 30, 08 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three days after Elizabeth Edwards made a health-care reform speech in DC without her wedding ring on, a source tells the New York Post that her cheating hubby, former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, is no longer living with his cancer-stricken wife and that the couple has separated. Elizabeth's reps... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • breakup • extramarital affair

Elizabeth Edwards Back on Stump—for Health Reform

3 months on from scandal, attorney returns to public life, alone

Oct 29, 08 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards is cautiously reemerging into public life—sans wedding ring—after her husband's headline-grabbing affair, the Washington Post writes. She declines to play the role of the wronged wife and avoids interviews. But she's giving speeches again, a physically fragile but fierce advocate of a more fair health care... More »

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cancer • health care • John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • health care reform • Center for American Progress

 Toughest Hurdle 
 Is Trust: Edwards 

Elizabeth Edwards says she's focusing on advocacy and family

Sep 18, 08 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards is reentering the public eye with her attention fixed firmly on her three children and her health care advocacy, the Detroit Free Press reports, but can’t avoid questions about husband John’s extramarital affair. “There's a lot of adjustment to make,” she said in her... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • breast cancer • children • health care reform • scandal • advocacy

 Swayze Joins Cancer Telethon 

Celebrities touched by cancer join historic 3-network telethon

Sep 6, 08 6:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dozens of Hollywood's finest got together for a historic hour-long, three-network telethon in support of cancer research last night, reports AP. They included cancer survivors Elizabeth Edwards, Christina Applegate and Lance Armstrong, among several others, who made passionate pleas for funding to fight the disease. Cancer kills 550,000 Americans... More »

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television • Elizabeth Edwards • NBC • CBS • ABC • cancer research • charity • fundraiser • Lance Armstrong • cancer prevention • Patrick Swayze • telethon

Edwards Plans First Return
to Public Stage

He'll speak next week at Hofstra, but without wife Elizabeth

Aug 30, 08 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards will emerge from his month-long seclusion to speak in New York next week, the AP reports. Edwards has not appeared publicly since he admitted his affair with videographer Rielle Hunter. His wife, Elizabeth, will not join him as scheduled at the September 8th speech at Hofstra University. Watchers... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • speech • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair • Hofstra University

Dems Shun Elizabeth on Affair Cover-Up

'She's complicit,' says one as health reform star sits Denver out

Aug 26, 08 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the Democratic stars are shining over Denver, Elizabeth Edwards barely glimmers in seclusion in North Carolina, reports the AP. Cancer-stricken Edwards was expected to lead the convention charge toward health care reform, but sympathy is running short for her by Dems who believe that her failure to lift the... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • sex scandal • affair

OPINION

Welcome to
the Annual Sexism Awards!

Limbaugh, Silda Spitzer, others take
home booby prizes

Aug 22, 08 6:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Celebrating the Aug. 26 anniversary of the passage of women's suffrage, Ellen Goodman, in the Boston Globe, doles out the "Equal Rites Awards" to those fine individuals setting back the cause of the female sex. The envelopes, please:
  • The Blind Justice Award: To the Russian judge who
... More »

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Elizabeth Edwards • sexual harassment • Rush Limbaugh • sexism • suffrage • Silda Wall Spitzer • Wrangler jeans • Randi Rhodes

Edwards Told Rielle They'd Be Together After Wife Died: Tab

Enquirer offers details of affair, financial deal

Aug 20, 08 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The National Enquirer is on the John Edwards case again this week, with a story offering salacious details of the affair with Rielle Hunter (offered by "friends") and a photo of the baby the tab says is his. Edwards not only promised Hunter they’d be together after... More »

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Elizabeth Edwards' Anguish Lurks Behind United Front

But incurable cancer factored heavily into her decision to stay, say friends

Aug 14, 08 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Behind the staunch show of support in public, People reports that Elizabeth Edwards has struggled mightily since her husband began revealing in 2006 his affair with Rielle Hunter. Edwards didn't confess to the affair all at once but in "installments"—and though devastated, Elizabeth's terminal cancer factored powerfully... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • sex scandal • love child • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair • Jay Anania • Hargrave McElroy

 Tab Claims
 Edwards Continued Affair

Mistress was flown away before confession

Aug 13, 08 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The National Enquirer, having finally forced John Edwards to confess to the affair with Rielle Hunter that he had strenuously denied, isn't backing down on the parts of the story Edwards still swears aren't true. This week the supermarket tabloid insists that Edwards is indeed the father of Hunter's... More »

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Opinion

 He's 99%
 Honest—Really!

Edwards falls short of any standard of truth-telling

Aug 12, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Every sex scandal has a defining sound bite, and John Edwards’ declaration that “being 99% honest is no longer enough,” is destined for the hall of fame, writes Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post. The thing about honesty is that last percentage is a killer. Given the... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • marriage • affair • paternity test • Rielle Hunter

Lover Joined Edwards on Tour to Announce Prez Race

Blogger posts pix of 'inner circle'

Aug 12, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards brought former mistress Rielle Hunter on his campaign plane during his four-day presidential announcement tour, reports the Washington Post. Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, did not accompany her husband. A technology blogger invited along on the 2006 trip has published photographs of Hunter, who was working as a videographer... More »

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John Edwards • Hurricane Katrina • Elizabeth Edwards • New Orleans • presidential campaign • Flickr • Rielle Hunter • Robert Scoble

 What Makes Her Stay With Him?

Power and career dreams behind decision to stay

Aug 11, 08 12:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Elizabeth Edwards becomes the latest political wife to stand by her man in the face of adultery, Good Morning America takes a look at what drives women to stay when wedding vows are broken. And Edwards' conundrum—like that of Silda Wall Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, and an estimated 22%... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • marriage • affair • cheating

ANALYSIS

 Affair Could
 Topple Edwards

Strategists differ on affect affair will have on career

Aug 10, 08 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Although opinions are mixed on the future of John Edwards' political career, most analyists take a dim view, CNN reports. Clintonite James Carville believes that "his political career is in shambles," and Gloria Borger thinks his "lies are "going to put an end, probably, to his... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • affair • adultery • Rielle Hunter

Rielle Hunter: High Profile,
Then Out of Sight

Former John Edwards mistress led varied, mysterious life

Aug 9, 08 12:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards' former mistress has been a part of high-profile social circles in New York, and Los Angeles, but finding old friends willing to talk about the Rielle Hunter they knew is a tough task, the News & Observer reports. Hunter started out partying with a literary crowd in New... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • affair • National Enquirer • adultery • Rielle Hunter

 Elizabeth Edwards:
 John Confessed 2 Years Ago

But cancer made coping easier, she writes

Aug 9, 08 6:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards says her husband “made a terrible mistake” in having an affair, but he confessed to her 2 years ago, she writes in a Daily Kos post, months before her breast cancer returned, and "we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • affair • adultery • Rielle Hunter

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