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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(Dec. 7) -- After battling cancer for the better part of the past six years, Elizabeth Edwards passed away today at the age of 61. Within moments of the news being released to the public, thousands of people flocked to Twitter, where Edwards had already been a top trending topic for the entire day, and expressed their sadness at her passing. Surge Desk rounds up some of the messages streaming in to the microblogging site. .bbpBox12268454799212544 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/29775129/depechemodepic.jpg) #ed8c90;padding:20px;} ...
Elizabeth Edwards was surrounded by her family and friends in North Carolina late Monday as news came that her terminal cancer had spread to her liver. Elizabeth Edwards, 61, the estranged wife of former presidential contender John Edwards, has battled cancer since 2004. She was diagnosed with breast cancer during the waning weeks of the 2004 presidential election when John Edwards was the vice-presidential nominee for Sen. John Kerry. The news of Elizabeth Edwards' deterioration was reported by numerous news outlets, including WRAL.com, a website for the Raleigh-Durham area. The website ...
(June 30) -- Elizabeth Edwards says she can easily relate to Sandra Bullock, star of "The Blind Side," who secretly adopted a son in January before her divorce from philandering husband Jesse James became final this week. "I think about Sandra Bullock -- who I don't know at all -- what an incredible year she's had," Edwards tells"Today" show host Matt Lauer. "She won the Academy Award for an incredible performance, and more than that, she took that story and integrated that into her own life in this healthy happy way...And yet, the stories you hear are not about all those great successes, but ...
(June 30) -- Elizabeth Edwards says her husband's mistress is so different from her it's hard to understand how he could have been attracted to both women. But, in her first TV interview since separating from two-time presidential candidate John Edwards earlier this year, she says people, perhaps everyone, change over time. In an interview to be broadcast today on NBC's "Today" show, Edwards, 60, says she needs to "break free of the media-imposed image" of her. "I'm not just a cuckolded wife," Edwards said, adding that she wants to "reclaim who I am." "I hope the next time I am on ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (June 29) - Elizabeth Edwards says it was not easy to leave her husband in the wake of the two-time presidential contender's infidelity, writing in a new chapter to her memoir that she still sees in him the memories of their 30 years together. Edwards says in the updated version of her book released Tuesday that she spent two years trying to "reinvent" her role as a wife so that they could stay together despite the affair. But she says the "tender thread" holding the family together unraveled at the very end of 2009 - three years after John Edwards first told his wife in private ...
Rielle Hunter wants John Edwards to pay $17,910 a month in child support for her daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter, according to the National Enquirer. Private financial negotiations between Hunter and Edwards reportedly broke down last week when her demands for the 22-month-old child were more than the former senator and presidential candidate was willing to pay. Edwards has never publicly acknowledged that he is the girl's father, but did admit to an affair with Hunter at a time when his wife, Elizabeth, was battling cancer. Now, legal documents obtained by Radaronline.com appear to show ...
Elizabeth Edwards' book "Resilience" is due to hit bookstores on May 12, but the New York Daily News got ahold of an advance copy. In the book, Edwards discusses learning about her husband's affair:After the former presidential hopeful confessed his betrayal, Elizabeth Edwards writes in her new book, "I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up." Elizabeth, 59, who is terminally ill with cancer, speaks in far more detail than before about her husband's infidelity in her new memoir, "Resilience," due to be published May 12 by Broadway Books. A copy was obtained by the Daily ...
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