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John Edwards is a former United States Senator from North Carolina and a Democratic Party vice-presidential and presidential candidate. In August 2008, Edwards admitted to an extramarital affair, which was initially reported in 2007 by the National Enquirer but was given little attention outside the tabloid press and political blogosphere. The Enquirer cited claims from an …
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Having run for vice-president rather than for reelection to the Senate, he ended his single term in the Senate in early 2005 and was succeeded by a Republican, Richard Burr. John Edwards again ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, but withdrew in January of 2008 after trailing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama through the early ...
Edwards is now a personal injury lawyer in Pitt County, North Carolina.
Elizabeth EdwardsJohn Edwards / Spouse (m. 1977–2010)Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards was an American attorney, author, and health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee. Wikipedia
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After Edwards's admission, his wife Elizabeth announced a separation from her husband, with an intention to file for divorce. When Edwards first admitted to the affair, he stated that Elizabeth was in remission from breast cancer.
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March 26, 2011Geraldine Ferraro / Date of death
Former Vice President Walter Mondale won the 1984 Democratic nomination for President of the United States, and chose New York Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. Ferraro was the first woman to be a part of a national ticket for a major party.
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Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NCElizabeth Edwards / Place of burialHistoric Oakwood Cemetery was founded in 1869 in North Carolina's capital, Raleigh, near the North Carolina State Capitol in the city's Historic Oakwood neighborhood. Wikipedia
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On that same day, Roxanne Roberts , a style writer for The Washington Post, said, "We have no evidence this is true.
In August 2008, Fred Baron, Edwards' campaign finance chairman, told NBC News that he had been providing financial assistance to both Hunter and Young without Edwards' knowledge; he further stated that no campaign funds had been used. Reportedly, Young had also successfully solicited funds from Rachel Lambert Mellon, also known as "Bunny" Mellon, a 99-year-old heiress to the Mellon fortune. Baron passed away two months later.
The statement said that, in 2006, "John had made a terrible mistake," though she went on to praise her husband for "courage in the face of shame.".
On June 3, 2011, Edwards was indicted by a North Carolina grand jury on six felony charges. He faced a maximum sentence of thirty years in prison and a $ 1.5 million fine, or a USD250,000 fine and/or five years imprisonment per charge. The indictment came after the failure of intensive negotiations for a plea bargain. The agreement would have meant that Edwards would have been required to plead guilty to three misdemeanor campaign finance law violations, in addition to a six-month prison sentence, but would have allowed Edwards to keep his law license.
After Edwards's admission, his wife Elizabeth announced a separation from her husband, with an intention to file for divorce. When Edwards first admitted to the affair, he stated that Elizabeth was in remission from breast cancer.
Rielle Hunter and the Edwards campaign. Main article: Rielle Hunter. In December 2006, Newsweek reported that Hunter had been hired by the Edwards campaign to produce a series of webisodes that portrayed behind-the-scenes life on the campaign trail.
A federal grand jury investigated whether any of Edwards' campaign funds were misspent on covering up the affair and, on August 6, 2009, Hunter testified before a federal grand jury in Raleigh.
However, despite initially claiming to his wife in December 2006 that the fling with one-time aide Rielle Hunter was just a one-night-stand, it later emerged that he'd actually fathered her child.
John Edwards’ daughter reveals that he confessed to affair while cancer-stricken wife was elsewhere in the house. Former presidential candidate John Edwards confessed to his daughter that he'd had an affair as his cancer-stricken wife was waiting nearby in the same house.
Harris served as the junior United States senator from Cali fornia from 2017 to 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the United States Senate.
In 2006, as part of an initiative to reduce the city's skyrocketing homicide rate, Harris led a city-wide effort to combat truancy for at-risk elementary school youth in San Francisco. Declaring chronic truancy a matter of public safety and pointing out that the majority of prison inmates and homicide victims are dropouts or habitual truants, Harris's office met with thousands of parents at high-risk schools and sent out letters warning all families of the legal consequences of truancy at the beginning of the fall semester, adding she would prosecute the parents of chronically truant elementary students; penalties included a $2,500 fine and up to a year in jail. The program was controversial when introduced.
Later that month, Harris questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for favoring Norwegian immigrants over others and claiming to be unaware that Norway is a predominantly white country.
Harris then returned to California to attend law school at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law through its Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP).
Harris has said life imprisonment without parole is a better and more cost-effective punishment than the death penalty, and has estimated that the resultant cost savings could pay for a thousand additional police officers in San Francisco alone.
Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California, on October 20, 1964. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a biologist whose work on the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast cancer research, had arrived in the United States from India in 1958 as a 19-year-old graduate student in nutrition and endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley; Gopalan received her PhD in 1964. Harris' father, Donald J. Harris, a Stanford University professor emeritus of economics, arrived in the United States from British Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study at UC Berkeley, receiving a PhD in economics in 1966. Of Afro-Jamaican descent, Donald Harris met his future wife, Shyamala Gopalan through the civil rights movement.
In the runoff, Harris pledged never to seek the death penalty and to prosecute three-strike offenders only in cases of violent felonies. Harris ran a "forceful" campaign, assisted by former mayor Willie Brown, Senator Dianne Feinstein, writer and cartoonist Aaron McGruder, and comedians Eddie Griffin and Chris Rock.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are due to talk publicly in Washington shortly about “moonshot” US efforts to prevent cancer, so do stay tuned. It’s been a lively day so far and there’s much more to come.
Today, Biden has approved sending 3,000 troops to parts of Eastern Europe to bolster allies against a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, confirmed Pentagon spokesman John F. Kirby.
US soldiers who refuse to get a Covid-19 vaccination will be immediately discharged, said the US army today.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer confirms that a deal to fund the federal government will be reached before a potential shutdown, adding that the House may come back earlier from recess if needed.
In other news, Alexander Vindman, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel, filed a federal lawsuit today against several of former president Donald Trump’s allies and aides, accusing them of witness intimidation and retaliation following his subpoena during Trump’s first impeachment trial.
Good morning, US politics live blog readers! It’s Gloria Oladipo from the New York office on the blog.