RALEIGH, N.C. — Attorneys for media outlets asked a North Carolina judge on Friday to pull back the cloak of privacy that has allowed records to be kept secret in a lawsuit filed by the mistress of former presidential candidate ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal criminal investigation targeting John Edwards is examining how much the two-time presidential candidate knew about money used to cover up his extramarital affair and out-of-wedlock child and whether he had other practices that pushed the bounds ...

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Elizabeth Edwards, who closely advised her husband in two bids for the presidency and advocated for health care even as her own health and marriage publicly crumbled, died Tuesday after a six-year struggle with cancer. She ...

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