AP - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He denied fathering the woman's daughter. Edwards told ABC News that he lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter but said that he didn't love her.
AP - Russia sent columns of tanks and reportedly bombed Georgian air bases Friday after Georgia launched a military offensive to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, threatening to ignite a broader conflict.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton told an exuberant crowd Friday she wants Barack Obama to win the White House, even though he dashed her own presidential dreams and she wants her supporters to vote that way, too.
AP - China didn't just walk onto the world stage. It soared over it. At last playing its long-sought role as Olympic host, China opened the Summer Games in spectacular fashion Friday with an extravaganza of fireworks and pageantry dramatizing its ascendance as a global power.
AP - The wife of evangelist Joel Osteen has testified that she did not assault a flight attendant over a spill on her first-class seat. Victoria Osteen said Friday she was dumbfounded that Continental Airlines attendant Sharon Brown accused her of assault before a 2005 flight to Colorado.
AP - Top Bush administration officials are pressing the president to direct U.S. troops in Afghanistan to be more aggressive in pursuing militants into Pakistan on foot as part of a proposed radical shift in regional counterterrorism strategy, The Associated Press has learned.
AP - The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks. It is teeming with tiny shrimp that were sold for years in the back of comic books as magical "sea monkeys." And, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is heavily laden with toxic mercury.
AP - Former "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken is a father. The 29-year-old crooner from Raleigh announced the birth of Parker Foster Aiken on his Web site's blog Friday. "No hyphens. One first name," he wrote. "One middle name. One last name."
Man accused of trying to rob store with empty box
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AP - Charleston police said a man tried to rob a movie rental store with an unusual weapon an empty cheesecake box. Earlier this week, the suspect placed the box on the counter of the Movie Gallery with a note saying it contained a bomb. He told the clerk the bomb would be detonated remotely if he wasn't given cash.
AP - Cameras flashing by the dozens, a wide-eyed Brett Favre took his first steps into the New York spotlight. "Just like home," the Jets' newest quarterback said Friday with a deep breath and a sheepish grin. Get used to it, Brett. This is only the beginning.
Reuters - Former U.S. Democratic presidential
candidate John Edwards has admitted to having had an
extramarital affair with a woman he met in a New York City bar
in 2006, ABC News reported on Friday.
Reuters - Georgia said on Friday its
forces were in control of the capital of the breakaway region
of South Ossetia, but rebels said Russian armored vehicles had
entered the northern edges of the city.
Reuters - Resurgent China opened the Olympics on
Friday with volleys of fireworks at a spectacular ceremony that
wove ancient Chinese history with modern wizardry and aimed to
draw a line under months of political controversy.
Reuters - It's not a battleground state and
it's unlikely to tip the U.S. election in November, but White
House hopeful Barack Obama headed to Hawaii on Friday - minus,
largely, his presidential campaign.
Reuters - Guantanamo's only convict was moved to a prison wing all by
himself hours after U.S. military jurors found him guilty of
driving Osama bin Laden, his lawyers said.
Reuters - The United States said on Friday
North Korea had to make "substantial progress" on a
verification plan for its nuclear weapons before being taken
off a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Reuters - Indicted Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
was freed on Friday after spending one night in jail, but with
new restrictions on his movements and facing fresh assault
charges.
Reuters - At least 13 people on their way to a
religious festival were killed when a private charter bus
crashed north of Dallas, police reported on Friday.
AFP - China's once-in-a-lifetime Olympic dream became reality Friday as the Beijing Games opened with a dazzling ceremony showcasing the nation's ancient civilization and an offer of friendship to the world.
AFP - Russian tanks and troops surged into Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia province on Friday to repel a Georgian offensive to reclaim the region amid fighting said to have left hundreds dead.
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