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Edwards’ mistress: ‘I do not believe I wrecked his home’ his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, are now separated. Hunter told Winfrey she believes people see her negatively because of the affair. “A lot of people bought into the myth of the marriage, the Edwards’ marriage, as being a storybook story and it was so perfect and so wonderful and I destroyed it,” Hunter said. “It fits into the two-dimensional story line.” Hunter told Winfrey she met Edwards at a hotel and she “just turned to him and said ‘you’re so hot’ and he practically jumped in my arms.” She said the two had four-hour long phone conversations and she fell in love with him. She also said Edwards was in “extreme conflict” about running for president. “He didn’t know if it was the
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Earnings reports good enough to boost Wall Street NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks surged higher after another series of upbeat earnings reports and a reading on unemployment provided more evidence of an improving economy. The Dow Jones industrials rose 122 points Thursday after the Labor Department said initial claims for unemployment benefits fell last week. And companies including Motorola, Time Warner Cable and Starwood Hotels & Resorts reported earnings that topped analysts’ forecasts. It was the market’s second straight winning day after a plunge Tuesday that took the Dow down 213. Greece’s debt problems, one of the triggers for that slide, appeared less dire Wednesday and Thursday, and that allowed investors to focus on the growing signs of healing in the U.S. The Labor Department said first-time claims dipped to 448,000, slightly above analysts’ forecast of 445,000, according to Thomson Reuters. It was the second weekly drop and lifted hopes that layoffs are slowing. Dealmaking and strong corporate earnings reports added to the growing opti-
mism. Hewlett-Packard Co. said late Wednesday it is buying smart phone maker Palm Inc. in an all-cash deal worth $1.4 billion. Acquisitions are a sign that the economy is recovering and companies are comfortable spending cash to build their businesses. “Business are in a very strong position financially,” said Doug Lockwood, chief investment officer at Cornerstone Wealth Management in Auburn, Ind. Companies have built up big cash reserves that can not only go toward deals, but also eventually to hire back workers, Lockwood said. Companies including Motorola, Time Warner Cable and Starwood Hotels & Resorts reported earnings that topped analysts’ expectations, as have other companies that announced first-quarter results in recent weeks. The first quarter gross domestic product is to be announced today. The Dow rose 122.05, or 1.1 percent, to 11,167.32, bringing its two-day advance to 175.33. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 15.42, or 1.3 percent, to 1,206.78, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 40.19, or 1.6 percent, to 2,511.92.
Drought talk surfaces again RALEIGH (AP) — Unusually dry weather has returned to portions of central and southeastern North Carolina, which has experts on the lookout for possible drought conditions. A lack of significant rain has created what’s known as abnormally dry conditions in 26 counties stretching from Wilmington to parts of the Triangle and Triad. That’s the first time since
early December that any part of North Carolina has experienced dry conditions. That doesn’t mean there’s a drought yet, but the state’s Drought Management Advisory Council is meeting weekly to keep an eye on the situation. The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources says the rest of North Carolina is normal for this time of year.
Lottery numbers — RALEIGH (AP) — These North Carolina lotteries were drawn Thursday: Evening Pick 3: 9-0-2 Midday Pick 3: 0-7-4 Pick 4: 7-5-5-5 Cash 5: 10-20-21-27-28
Armed man had questioned president’s citizenship COSHOCTON, Ohio (AP) — An armed man arrested at the Asheville airport had questioned the president’s citizenship, an Ohio newspaper reported Thursday. Facebook postings apparently made last year by Joseph Sean McVey, 23, also refer to Obama by his middle name, Hussein, according to the Coshocton Tribune. The newspaper said a source with access to McVey’s Facebook profile provided copies of screen shots. McVey had a handgun at his side when he caught the attention of officers in an Asheville Regional Airport
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legged in a man’s white dress shirt and a pearl necklace. In another shot, she’s lying on her back holding her daughter in her arms. Hunter told Winfrey posing for the photos was a “huge mistake.” “What I was thinking was I would like to have one sexy shot where the world can see me as a beautiful woman as opposed to all those photos that are out there of me looking like some Wicked Witch of the West,” Hunter said. Elizabeth Edwards appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last May and discussed John Edwards’ infidelity, her struggle with terminal cancer and her memoir detailing how she coped with both. Winfrey did not mention Hunter’s name during the interview, a condition Elizabeth Edwards requested.
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else,” Hunter said. “He’s in the middle of running for the presidency. It’s not great timing.” Hunter said it wasn’t until after John Edwards gave an interview to ABC News in August 2008 that he “came clean with” Elizabeth Edwards that he was the father of Hunter’s baby. John Edwards admitted the affair in the interview, but denied the baby was his. GQ magazine last month published an interview with Hunter in which she addressed the scandal. She told the magazine the affair ended in July 2008 and that the relationship is now something “different.” On Thursday, she refused to tell Winfrey the status of her relationship with Edwards, saying it’s “private.” Hunter also posed for photos for GQ that show her on a bed, bare-
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right thing to do because he had personal problems,” Hunter said. She said Elizabeth Edwards found out about the affair by finding a cell phone that Hunter had purchased for Edwards. Hunter said Elizabeth Edwards made a call on the phone. “I answered the phone, said ‘Hey baby,’ and she hung HUNTER up on me,” Hunter said. Hunter said John Edwards was “very gracious” when he found out she was pregnant, but that it happened at the wrong time. She said the couple didn’t use birth control. “He was married to someone
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CHICAGO (AP) — John Edwards’ mistress said on Thursday’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that she doesn’t believe she destroyed the former presidential candidate’s marriage. “It is not my experience that a third party wrecks a home,” Rielle Hunter told Winfrey. “I believe the problems exist before a third party comes into the picture.” “So you don’t think you wrecked his home?” Winfrey asked Hunter. “I do not believe I wrecked his home,” Hunter said. Hunter’s appearance on Winfrey’s show is her first televised interview since the former North Carolina senator first admitted two years ago that he had an affair with her. In January, Edwards said he and Hunter have a 2-year-old daughter after initially denying it. He and