What did Holden Thorp do in Atlanta?

A schedule provided to Dome shows the UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor was pretty busy up through this morning.

On Wednesday, he flew to Atlanta on a state jet with his wife, two kids and three staffers. (One of the staffers then rode the plane back to Raleigh.)

That afternoon, Thorp toured CNN's headquarters, though a similar tour of the ABC News headquarters was canceled due to breaking news. That night, he was the guest speaker at an alumni reception.

On Thursday, Thorp toured The Westminster Schools, had lunch with philanthropist Charlie Loudermilk, met with the president of the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation and then the CEO of SunTrust Banks, and went to a dinner party hosted by the CEO of the Marcus Institute and his wife.

This morning, he attended a three-hour meeting of heads of the other Atlantic Coast Conference schools, the last event on his schedule.

Thorp and his family return Sunday.

ABC News has called the Senate race for Kay Hagan. 

The National Enquirer is enjoying an extended victory lap since it exposed former Sen. John Edwards' affair with a campaign worker.

National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" program on Wednesday included Enquirer senior executive editor Steve Plamann in its discussion of how the media should handle rumor.

"We got a little lucky, and we’re also a little bit good," Plamann said of the Enquirer's series of stories on Edwards dating back to October.

The panel also included News & Observer political reporter Rob Christensen and Brian Ross, chief investigative correspondent for ABC News, the network that landed the interview in which Edwards admitted to an affair two years ago with Rielle Hunter.

In his segment, Ross said it wasn’t just luck that enabled the Enquirer to corner the market on key sources on the story.

"They pay people to talk to them. We're not in a position to do that," Ross said. "Again and again in trying to pursue this story, we would be asked by people who were central to it, 'What’s in it for me? They've [the Enquirer] offered me $50,000. What do you have?' We have a cup of coffee. So we're at a disadvantage there."

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John Edwards met Rielle Hunter in a California hotel room last month to try to convince her to keep his affair with her private, ABC News reported.

In a segment at the top of its newscast, ABC News reporter Brian Ross said that Edwards explained the meeting, made public by the tabloid, the National Enquirer.

"I wanted to keep this mistake I had made two years previously private," Edwards told the network in an interview in Chapel Hill.

Also in the interview, Edwards described Elizabeth Edwards' reaction when he confessed the affair.

"She was mad, she was angry. I think furious would be a good way to describe it," he said.

John Edwards has admitted to an extramarital affair.

In an interview with Nightline, the former North Carolina senator said that he had an affair with Rielle Hunter but that he did not love her.

Edwards also denied he was the father of Hunter's baby girl, Frances Quinn, although the one-time Democratic Presidential candidate said he has not taken a paternity test.

Edwards said he knew he was not the father based on timing of the baby's birth on February 27, 2008. He said his affair ended too soon for him to have been the father.

ABC News writes that Edwards "repeatedly lied" during his presidential campaign about having an extramarital affair with Hunter, a novice filmmaker.

Hillary Clinton is probably not expecting an endorsement from John Edwards.

Asked by an Alabama television station about Edwards' decision to drop out of the presidential race, Clinton was not as effusive as Barack Obama was:

Well Senator Edwards is a friend of mine, he was a colleague in the Senate and I have the highest regard for him, and I'm really admiring of what he has done to make sure that poverty was on the agenda here in America. He encouraged all of us in his passion and advocacy and I hope he will continue that work because it is really important that we stay focused on what we're going to do to help people.

Meantime, Obama told ABC News that he would like Edwards' endorsement.

"There is no doubt that I would love John's support, but I also respect the fact that he is in this contest. He is actively seeking the nomination, and he is a formidable candidate," he told "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran. 

U.S. Rep. Brad Miller will be on ABC News tonight.

No, he won't be announcing that he's running against Sen. Elizabeth Dole. (No word on that yet.) He'll be talking about the DP-2 Aircraft.

Since the 1970s, aerospace engineer Tony duPont has received $63 million for an aircraft that would be able to take off and land vertically, but it's never flown succcessfullly.

As chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Miller will lead hearings on the DP-2 at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday. The news show will be broadcast locally at 6:30 p.m. on WTVD 11.

"After 20 years and $63 million dollars, I think Tony duPont needs to find another source of funding rather than the American taxpayer," he said, according to a press release.