On People, Mike Fleeman writes...

Sandra Bullock left the Southern California house she shares with Jesse James just days before a report of infidelity by her husband, a source tells PEOPLE. Bullock, 45, left on Monday, the source says. Bullock, who won her first Oscar – a Best Actress award – for The Blind Side on March 7, also abruptly canceled a trip to Europe for the London premiere of the film. Bullock and James, 40, met in 2004 during a tour of the set of the Discovery Channel's Monster Garage, which James stars in.

Read more on People.

Updates as they come...

Update 1: Jesse James' mistress said his and Sandra Bullock's marriage was just for publicity

From Radar Online...

Jesse James’ alleged mistress Michelle McGee didn’t try to keep her affair with the Monster Garage star a secret, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively. In fact, McGee told her former boss that she and Jesse were having a steamy affair, long before the story was reported by a tabloid magazine.

“She told me that she and Jesse were together... this was around May, 2009, or just prior to that,” Danielle Dee Madrano, owner of the adult web site SocalGlamourGirls.com, told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview.

Read more on Radar Online.

On wcbstv.com, Marcia Kramer writes...

For hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, the check won't be in the mail -- at least not on time. New York State has stopped paying tax refunds and won't start again until next month. The tax refund delay is part of a bigger cash crunch. Message to New Yorkers: don't start spending your tax refund money because it's going to be delayed. Half a billion dollars' worth of refund checks were put on hold last Friday, and state beancounters won't start sending you your money until at least April 1. "I apologize that we had to do this. I hope it serves notice on the public of how serious our financial situation is," Gov. David Paterson said.

Read more on wcbstv.com

On The Seattle Times, Janet I. Tu writes...

Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement. The company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling Medicaid prescriptions for current patients. In a news release, Walgreens said its decision to not take new Medicaid patients stemmed from a "continued reduction in reimbursement" under the state's Medicaid program, which reimburses it at less than the break-even point for 95 percent of brand-name medications dispensed to Medicaid patents. Walgreens follows Bartell Drugs, which stopped taking new Medicaid patients last month at all 57 of its stores in Washington, though it still fills Medicaid prescriptions for existing customers at all but 15 of those stores.

Read more on The Seattle Times.

Part 1: The president sits down with FNC's Bret Baier to discuss the health care reform bill

Part 2: The president talks foreign policy with Fox News

President Obama is not worried -- and doesn't think Americans should worry -- about the "procedural" debate over whether House Democratic leaders should go ahead with a plan to approve health care reform without a traditional vote, he told Fox News on Wednesday. The president, in an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, responded for the first time to the controversy over a plan to use a parliamentary maneuver to allow the House to pass the Senate's health care bill without forcing members to vote for it directly.

Read the rest on Fox News...

Pakistani Court Charges Five Americans With Planning Terror Attacks, Lawyers Says

From Fox News...

A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said. The men -- all Muslims from the Washington, D.C., area -- pleaded not guilty to a total of five charges, the most severe of which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, defense lawyer Hasan Dastagir told The Associated Press. "My clients were in good shape and high spirits," said Dastagir.

Read more on Fox News.

Human Head, Two Arms Found Along California River

Also on Fox News

Northern California authorities have quite a mystery on their hands after finding a human head and three limbs -- but no body -- near a river. The head and two arms were discovered last weekend along the Feather River, near the site where a severed leg was found several months ago, the Appeal-Democrat.com reported. The arms belong to a male whose identity may be determined through fingerprints, Sutter County sheriff's Lt. Butah Uppal said. It wasn't clear if the head was that of a male or female. Two fishermen reported finding the arms Saturday near Beer Can Beach on the Feather River, Uppal told the newspaper. The next day, authorities found the decomposing head up a hill. The case is being investigated as a homicide, Uppal said. It is not clear yet if the newly found body parts came from the same man whose leg was found in a plastic bag in November. The men were charged by an anti-terrorism court inside a prison in Sargodha, the city in Punjab province where they were arrested in December. They were reported missing by their families in November after one left behind a farewell video showing scenes of war and casualties and saying Muslims must be defended.

Read more on Fox News.

Gen. David H. Petraeus says Iran is 'assisting al Qaeda

From The Washington Times,  Bill Gertz writes...

Iran is assisting al Qaeda by facilitating links between senior terrorist leaders and affiliate groups, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East told Congress on Tuesday.

Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, also said Iran's nuclear program is facing problems, and as a result, Tehran is not expected to emerge with a nuclear weapon this year.

The exact details of when U.S. intelligence agencies estimate Iran will have a nuclear bomb are classified, but the timeline for developing a nuclear device has "thankfully slid to the right a bit," he said.

Read more on The Washington Times

NY Times CEO, Janet Robinson, earned almost $5 million in 2009 while cutting 8% of their staff

On Breitbart, The AP writes...

An analysis by The Associated Press shows that New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson got roughly $4.9 million in compensation in 2009. Robinson's base salary fell 4 percent to $962,500. But she got a bonus of about $2.3 million, four times the size of her 2008 bonus. Robinson also received stock options that were worth $1.6 million when they were granted. About $560,000 of that was meant to replace options that had been given in 2008 and were later voided because they exceeded a limit set by company bylaws.

Read more on Breitbart

But still cutting jobs...

On The NY Times, RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA writes...

The New York Times plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs — about 8 percent of the total — by year’s end, offering buyouts to union and non-union employees, and resorting to layoffs if it cannot get enough people to leave voluntarily, the paper announced on Monday. The program mirrors one carried out in the spring of 2008, when the paper erased 100 positions in its newsroom, though other jobs were created, so the net reduction was smaller. That round of cuts included some layoffs of journalists — about 15 to 20, though The Times would not disclose the actual figure — which was the first time in memory that had happened.

Read more on The NY Times.

Poll shows less Americans worried about the environment 

On USA Today,  Wendy Koch writes...

Americans' worries about environmental issues have hit a 20-year low, largely because of economic concerns, according to a Gallup Poll released Tuesday. Fewer adults worry "a great deal" about each of eight issues surveyed, including global warming, than a year ago, according to the poll of 1,014 Americans taken March 4-7. Their concerns about six of the issues hit record lows.

Read more on USA Today

Facebook out pacing Google

On the Financial Times, Chris Nuttall and David Gelles write...

Social networking website Facebook has capped a year of phenomenal growth by overtaking Google’s popularity among US internet users, with industry data showing it has scored more visits on its home page than the search engine.

In a sign that the web is becoming more sociable than searchable, research firm Hitwise said that the two sites accounted for 14 per cent of all US internet visits last week. Facebook’s home page recorded 7.07 per cent of traffic and Google’s 7.03 per cent.

Read more on FT.com

Pelosi says she has the votes

On Bloomberg, Laura Litvan and Kristin Jensen write....

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, still shoring up support for legislation to overhaul the U.S. health- care system, vowed that Democrats will be ready to pass the bill when the time comes.

“When we bring the bill to the floor, we will have the votes,” Pelosi told reporters yesterday. Leaders plan for the House to vote later this week, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland told reporters today.

Representative John Larson of Connecticut, chairman of the House Democratic caucus, agreed that the leadership will get enough votes, although he said, there’s “tremendous anticipation and certainly anxiety” among lawmakers.

Read the rest of Bloomberg.

House Majority leader Steny Hoyer says not so fast on vote count or timeline

On The Hill,  Jared Allen writes...

After shooting down GOP arguments against a rule to “deem” the Senate healthcare bill passed without a roll-call vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) took a moment to shoot down the optimism of one of his fellow leaders about the Democrats' whip count.

Toward the end of his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Hoyer was asked about competing whip counts from James Clyburn (S.C.), the Democratic whip, and Caucus Chairman John Larson (Conn.).

On Monday night, Larson emerged from a caucus meeting to declare that he believed “the votes are there” for healthcare.

Read the rest on The Hill website.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn says vote may not happen until Easter. 

On The Hill,  Michael O'Brien writes...

The House's healthcare vote could be delayed until as late as Easter, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Tuesday.

Clyburn, in an interview with McClatchy Newspapers, said it is possible that the House vote on healthcare reform could take place long past the vote Democratic leaders had hoped for this week.

"The chances are good, but I wouldn't bet on it," the third-ranking House Democrat said of whether a healthcare vote could be held by the April 4th holiday.

Read the rest on The Hill website. 

Public still split on Health Care

Report: Obama won't campaign for anyone who votes no on health care

On The Daily Telegraph, Alex Spillius writes...

The president will refuse to make fund-raising visits during November elections to any district whose representative has not backed the bill. A one-night presidential appearance can bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds which would otherwise take months to accumulate through cold-calling by campaign volunteers. Mr Obama's threat came as the year-long debate over his signature domestic policy entered its final week. Mr Obama is personally telephoning congressmen who are still on the fence this week, in between several personal appearances devoted toward swinging public opinion.

Read the rest on The Daily Telegraph

Phone lines jammed as people call Congress in protest

On Hum Events,  Elisabeth Meinecke writes...

As Congress prepares to vote on (or pass without a vote) health care legislation, congressional phone lines and fax lines are paying the cost.

The below email is circulating around the Hill:

Due to the high volume of external calls, House telephone circuits are near capacity resulting in outside callers occasionally getting busy signals.A HUMAN EVENTS reporter trying since 1 p.m. today to reach the office of Rep. John Boccieri, a potential swing vote on health care, has been unable to get through.

Other news organizations are also reporting on the volume of calls being received.

"I've never seen the phone lines this jammed on Capitol Hill," Fox News’ Chad Pergram said on the Neil Cavuto show.

Read the rest on Human Events. 

Obama looking long-term for Health Care reform?

Afraid to vote Nancy? House may try to pass Senate health care bill without voting on it

On The Washington Post, Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane write...

After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.

Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers "deem" the health-care bill to be passed.

The tactic -- known as a "self-executing rule" or a "deem and pass" -- has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure.

"It's more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know," the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday. "But I like it," she said, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill."

Republicans quickly condemned the strategy, framing it as an effort to avoid responsibility for passing the legislation, and some suggested that Pelosi's plan would be unconstitutional.

"It's very painful and troubling to see the gymnastics through which they are going to avoid accountability," Rep. David Dreier (Calif.), the senior Republican on the House Rules Committee, told reporters. "And I hope very much that, at the end of the day, that if we are going to have a vote, we will have a clean up-or-down vote that will allow the American people to see who is supporting this Senate bill and who is not supporting this Senate bill."

Read the rest on The Washington Post.

Updates and Opinions below the video

It's official! Tiger Woods is coming back to golf at The Masters next month in Augusta, Georgia. 

In USA Today, Steve DiMeglio writes...

Tiger Woods will end his self-imposed "indefinite break" from golf by making his long-awaited return to the game on the hallowed grounds of Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Masters. "The Masters is where I won my first major and I view this tournament with great respect," Woods said Tuesday in a statement. "After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta. The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be, even though it's been a while since I last played."

Roars are expected to echo through the Georgia pines and above the multihued azaleas that frame the revered course when the world No. 1 plays for the first time this year. The tournament in Augusta, Ga., is the first major championship of the season and will be Woods' first since he ran his SUV over a fire hydrant and into a tree in the wee hours of Nov. 27 in front of his suburban Orlando estate. The single-car accident turned his private life into public property as revelations of his extramarital affairs splashed across front pages of newspapers and tabloids around the world.

The announcement ends weeks of speculation about Woods and his return to professional golf. Woods last played in November when he won the Australian Masters, and his last competitive appearance in the U.S. came at the Presidents Cup in October in San Francisco.

In his statement, Woods said he regrets not being able to play in the Tavistock Cup and the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Read more on USA Today. 

On ESPN, Jason Sobel wites...

Tiger Woods looked into the camera and knew he needed to speak the truth. The game's top-ranked golfer appeared debilitated, dejected, and for maybe the first time in his career, completely vulnerable. In other words, he looked human.

This description could easily explain Woods' demeanor throughout a 13½-minute speech that was delivered from PGA Tour headquarters Feb. 19, during which he addressed personal affairs that had been cause of his self-imposed leave of absence from golf. Instead, it serves as a summary of thoughts from four years earlier, and should provide the reason he will come back as very much the same competitor when he returns in early April at The Masters.

Read the rest on ESPN.com

More on what we can expect to see from Tiger Woods at Augusta. 

From Dogs Chasing Cars, Shane B. writes...

He's returning, but he isn't really returning. Tiger Woods hasn't played tournament golf since November 15, so to think that he believes he has a chance at winning would do one of two things.

1.) It would show that no matter how much therapy/changing Tiger has done, his ego still overrides reality.
2.) It would mean that he has been practicing way more than he led the public to believe.

Still, no practice can prepare someone for an event like this, and Tiger is probably going to finish somewhere around 15th* or something, a mediocre week for Tiger (And a great week for most anyone else in the field).

Woods picked Augusta because it is simple, and it has nothing to do with what he told the Associated Press. He isn't doing it because he won his first major there. He isn't doing it because he feels that it has some bigger meaning.

Read more on Dogs Chasing Cars.

CBS President Sean McManus says Tiger Woods return will 'be epic'

In Sports Illustrated, Richard Deitsch writes...

As the formal part of its annual NCAA basketball Media Day drew to a close last week, a reporter approached CBS News and Sports president Sean McManus to talk about a subject other than college basketball.

"News?" McManus asked.

No.

"Football," McManus pressed again.

Nope.

"The Masters," McManus said.

The executive was told he was getting closer.

McManus smiled. "Tiger Woods."

Read more on Sports Illustrated website. 
 

Watch Tiger Woods comeback in 3D

Yep, that's a true statement. The Masters announced that we'll get to watch this year's event in 3D. Do you have your glasses? Maybe I should go see Avatar again and steal me a pair. 

First "Avatar," now Augusta.

Parts of the 2010 Masters will be broadcast in next-generation 3D, the first time a live major sporting event will feature this technology. The technology will allow viewers to see much of the back nine in three dimensions, Augusta National Chairman Billy Payne said Monday.

This 3D technology has previously only been available for movies, according to Jenni Moyer, a senior director of corporate communications for Comcast, which will deliver the programming to U.S. viewers with 3D-capable TV and computer screens.

"Innovation has always been part of Masters tradition," Payne said.

Read more on Golf.com

PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem responds to Tiger's return

Finchem's statement: We were pleased to learn that Tiger Woods will be playing the Masters in a few weeks. He has invested a lot of time taking steps, both in his personal and professional life, in order to prepare for his return. We all wish him and his family the best as he rejoins the Tour.

 

Six reasons why Augusta National is the logical return for Tiger Woods.

On PGATour.com, staff writers come up with these six reasons below...

1. CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT -- From the media impact to the size of the galleries, the Masters can make Augusta National a very hospitable place for Woods. Media credentials, in fact, were just recently sent out, and non-traditional golf media may get shut out. And, of course, tickets to the tournament are among the toughest to acquire for any sporting event, with badges passed down from generation to generation. "Augusta is one place in the world that you can really have control, and they will control everything from the crowds to the situation that will be facing Tiger," Arnold Palmer said. "I think that if there is a place in the world that you can do that and do it properly, Augusta will do that."

2. SPEAKING OF THE CROWDS -- You can bet they will be on the best behavior ... as they always are at Augusta National. Genteel behavior and proper decorum are part of the unique aspect of Masters patrons. As Bobby Jones wrote in 1967: "Most distressing to those who love the game of golf is the applauding or cheering of misplays or misfortunes of a player. Such occurrences have been rare at the Masters but we must eliminate them entirely if our patrons are to continue to merit their reputation as the most knowledgeable and considerate in the world." Mr. Jones probably didn't envision a scenario such as this, but you can expect Masters officials to encourage their patrons to continue adhering to the message.

Read the rest of the reasons on PGATour.com

Ron Sirak from Golf Digest shares his opinion on Tiger's return

The decision by Tiger Woods to return to competition at the Masters in April is clearly part of a carefully orchestrated campaign by his handlers to bring him back in the most controlled environment possible -- as they did when he delivered his televised apology Feb. 19 -- but it comes with risks as well. While it is true Augusta National, being a private club, has much greater control in issuing media credentials and filtering questions than a regular PGA Tour event, it is also true that a major championship is a demanding test that identifies a player's weakness -- both physically and emotionally.

The most important thing Woods needs to do right now is shift the conversation away from serial infidelity and endorsement partners jumping ship back to golf. And the only way to get that line of discussion going is to play well. If Woods' first round back is a 75, for example, the questioning will be about distractions and focus and emotional well-being. And while there is every reason to believe Woods is going to stonewall the media about his personal escapades when he returns, that will not stop people from asking and it won't prevent the news talk shows from making his "struggles" the topic of discussion.

Read more on Golf Digest.

Is this the biggest golf story ever? Randall Mell says yes!

The Dalai Lama must be scratching his head again.

The Tibetan spiritual leader only recently discovered who Tiger Woods was after being asked about him in an interview.

We can only imagine his reaction around the water cooler at The Office of His Holiness when the news hit today that Woods is returning to golf.

“Somebody, please, what is the Masters?”

The news that Woods will return in three weeks at Augusta National was beamed around the world with such force that it’s a wonder it hasn’t knocked satellites off their orbits.

The Tiger Woods story is a worldwide fascination because his golf will be about so much more than sport now.

Woods may not be bigger than the Masters, but his story is.

Woods may not be bigger than golf, but his story is.

Woods now towers over every player and storyline in the history of the game.

Read the rest on Golf Channel.

Rex Hoggard says Augusta National is the perfect place for Tiger Woods' return

The Masters works because the U.S. Open is too far away. The Masters works because Bay Hill, a great event, is shoehorned into a sprawling neighborhood and already a logistical challenge, sans zoo. The Masters works because the Tavistock Cup in not a real competition. The Masters works because Augusta National is as close to a Tour autocracy as one can get.

But mostly the Masters works as the site of the “return” because it is where mind, game and calendar collide into a perfect storm, however imperfect Tiger Woods’ current situation may be.

Read the rest on The Golf Channel.

President Obama is feeling the pressure to pass health care this week, and to that end --- is pressuring Democrats to vote his way.

From My Way News, Erica Werner writes...

Days away from a make-or-break vote on his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama is turning up the pressure as only presidents can, as Democratic leaders make a desperate scramble for votes. The president is wooing freshman Democrats in the Oval Office, holding at least two one-on-one sessions in the past few days that never appeared on his official schedule, according to aides to two lawmakers invited, Reps. Scott Murphy, D-N.Y., and Suzanne Kosmas, D-Fla. Both voted "no" when the legislation passed the House on the first go-round last year, but now they're not ruling out siding with the president and Democratic leaders on what's expected to be a cliffhanger vote in the House later this week.

Read more on My Way News.

America close to losing AAA credit rating

The U.S. and the U.K. have moved “substantially” closer to losing their AAA credit ratings as the cost of servicing their debt rose, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Read more on Bloomberg. 

Stocks fall as concerns grow about America's credit rating. Read more on Breitbart. 

NYC gets over 65,000 911 calls in 24 hours --- 2nd most ever

Nassau County officials are meeting to analyze why the county's 911 system became overloaded during the weekend Nor'easter. County Executive Edward Mangano has ordered an immediate review. During the height of the storm, Mangano says some of the estimated 10,000 Nassau County 911 calls were transferred. They landed in emergency centers in nearby Suffolk County -- or as far away as Albany. Typically, the system gets about 2,200 calls a day. Mangano says officials "cannot let another day pass by without addressing this situation."  Read more on wcbstv.com

Is passing health care the key to President Obama's future?

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, had a little political advice last week for President Obama and the Democrats: Don’t pass the president’s health care legislation because you would risk losing in the midterm elections. Read more on The New York Times.

For updates and video on all health care reform, click here. 

China throws down challenge to Google

Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking. Read more on Financial Times. 

Also, an old ally of Google has entered the picture -- Verizon

While Google's spat with the Chinese government over censorship devolves into an all-out war, the Internet giant is getting into hot water with a company that was seen as an ally: Verizon Communications. Read more on The New York Post. 

In the story that just won't end, Rielle Hunter is telling the world about her affair with John Edwards. 

Read all about her interview and see  video here. 

Mexico in chaos as 13 killed by Acapulco. 2 Americans dead. 

Five police officers are slain and the bullet-riddled bodies of eight men are found in Acapulco just as foreign tourists are arriving for spring break. Read all about this and watch video here. 

Actor Peter Graves Dead

Peter Graves, the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in the long-running television series Mission: Impossible, died Sunday. Read more on USA Today. 

Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes split up

The nearly seven-year marriage of Kate Winslet and director Sam Mendes is coming to an end. "Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year," their lawyers say in a statement. "The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement. Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children." Read more on People.

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Horror in Mexico as brutal attacks leave many dead. At least 2 Americans gunned down!

From The LA Times, Tracy Wilkinson writes...

At least 13 people were killed Saturday, some of them beheaded, around the popular beach resort of Acapulco, just as foreign visitors have begun arriving for spring break. Elsewhere in the Guerrero state where Acapulco is located, 11 other people, including soldiers and suspected traffickers, were killed, authorities said.

The dead in Acapulco included five police officers, authorities said, who were ambushed while on patrol on the city's outskirts about 2 a.m.

Over the next four hours, the bullet-riddled bodies of eight men were discovered in three locations, police said. Four had been beheaded, in the style typical of drug traffickers who have been at war with one another and with government forces for three years.

Read the rest of this story on the LA Times website. 

Two Americans killed. Obama "Outraged."

On Yahoo, Julian Cardona writes...

Gunmen in the drug war-plagued Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate, an attack U.S. President Barack Obama said "outraged" him. An American woman working at the consulate in Ciudad Juarez, just over the border from El Paso, Texas, and her U.S. husband were fatally shot by suspected drug gang hitmen in broad daylight on Saturday as they left a consulate social event, U.S. and Mexican officials told Reuters. A Mexican man married to another consulate employee was killed around the same time in another part of the city after he and his wife left the same event, a U.S. official said. The U.S. official, who asked not to be identified, said it was not clear if the victims had been specifically targeted, and the motive for the attacks was unknown.

Read the rest on Yahoo.

What about spring break? State Department issues travel warning.

On ABCNews.com, LEE FERRAN writes...

With thousands of American teenagers and college students revving up for spring break, the government and some universities have a message for those looking to venture south of the border: Be careful. As drug-related violence in Mexico surges, most recently with the brutal murder of a U.S. consulate employee and her husband this weekend, government officials are trying to dissuade travel to some of the country's most dangerous areas. "Recent violent attacks have prompted the U.S. Embassy to urge U.S. citizens to delay unnecessary travel to parts of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua states and advise U.S. citizens residing or traveling in those areas to exercise extreme caution," the State Department's Travel Warning said.

Read the rest on ABC News website. 

Would you feel safe going to Mexico?

In the story that just won't end, Rielle Hunter is telling the world about her affair with John Edwards. 

In The New York Post, JEREMY OLSHAN writes...

John Edwards' mistress has revealed for the first time how the illicit lovers fell in lust and slept together the night they met -- and claims the presidential candidate predicted the wild romp would cause his premature ejection from politics. "Falling in love with you could really f- - - up my plans for becoming president," Edwards told vixen videographer Rielle Hunter after their sexual tryst at Manhattan's Regency hotel in February 2006.

(THE TEMPTRESS: Rielle Hunter, posing in GQ, bares all to the mag about her affair with former presidential candidate John Edwards. Photo credit --- MARK SELIGER FOR GQ)

 

In her bombshell interview with GQ, Hunter says:

* Her first words to him were "You're so hot" -- and they had sex later that night in his hotel room.

* Edwards was scared to death of his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, fearing if she knew the truth, "he would be pummeled."

* The then-presidential candidate hoped Hunter, pregnant with his child, would get an abortion.

For the rest of this article, go to the NY Post website. 

Rielle Hunter's complete interview with GQ...

The Interviewer LISA DEPAULO writes...

We've heard from former senator John Edwards, we've heard from his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Saint Elizabeth, and we've heard (bleh) from Andrew Young, the former Edwards aide and faux father. But through it all—the affair and the cancer-stricken spouse, the doomed campaign and the love child, the sex tape, all of it—we've never heard from the woman at the heart of the story. Now, after years of silence, the other woman speaks. 

You haven't uttered a word so far. Why now?
I feel comfortable talking now, because Johnny went public and made a statement admitting paternity. I didn't feel like I could ever speak until he did that. Because had I spoken, I would have emasculated him. And I could not emasculate him. Also, it is not my desire to teach my daughter that when Mommy's upset with Daddy, you take matters into your own hands and fix Daddy's mistakes. Which I view as one of the biggest problems in all female-and-male relationships.

We'll get to that. But first, we should make it clear: You're not making a penny from this interview.
[laughs] I am not making a penny from this interview!

I would imagine you could have sold out a hundred times.
I could have cashed out big. But that's not what I'm about. I love Johnny and I love my daughter more than anything in the world, and I don't want to ever do anything to hurt them or hurt their relationship.

How hard was it to keep quiet?
At times very difficult. It's been four years. It's hard to know that people are out there speaking over and over and over again untruths. Lies. Consciously going out there and spinning the truth. Using me and Johnny and our relationship to make themselves look better, to play victim, or to get money. That rubs me the wrong way in every way possible.

Read the entire interview on GQ. 

Lisa DePaulo landed an exclusive "Free" interview with Rielle Hunter, the woman at the center of the John Edwards saga. Here’s DePaulo on how the story came together.

Direct from the NY Post website...

I MET RIELLE HUNTER for the first time the day of our first interview, at her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, though we’d already spoken for some months on the phone. And would continue to, as more developments were reported. (Are she and John Edwards engaged? “I am not engaged.”) There were no conditions, no ground rules, no topics or questions that were off-limits. Just a request that her words be her words, unfiltered and unspun. While everyone else in the Edwards drama has said their piece, in books and/or television interviews, the mistress and campaign videographer and mother of his child has, in her own words, “kept my mouth shut.” Until now (as they say in the tabloids).

My first impression of Hunter, when she opened the back door off the screened porch filled with toys and strollers in the three-bedroom house she is renting (for $1,500 a month), her hair pulled up in a scrunchy, was that she was much prettier, and a whole lot softer, than all those National Enquirer spy photos suggest. She was wearing size 2 jeans, a Ralph Lauren turtleneck, and Uggs. No makeup. And she was laughing. Because Quinn, her 2-year-old daughter, had just done something particularly adorable. The child is gorgeous and, yes, looks exactly like John Edwards, but she also has her mother’s spirit. Which is to say, a combination of serenity and spunk.

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