John Edwards

The ongoing court battle between Rielle Hunter, the mistress of John Edwards, and Andrew Young, a top aide to the former Senator, has added a new twist: lawyers for Hunter argued that she should have some of the profits from The Politician, Young's number-one bestselling tell-all about Edwards'life on the campaign trail.

After hinting it wasn't going to allow The National Enquirer to compete, the body that oversees the Pulitzer Prizes -- journalism's Oscars -- has reversed course and decided to accept the tabloid's submissions. This isn't going to please a lot of old-school journalism grandees, but it was the intellectually honest thing to do.

President Obama's approval rating has dropped. But here's something investors should know: The rate has declined for nearly every president from the first year to the second. A lot of the drop stems from the poor economy and the unemployment rate. A stronger economy always reverses the trend.

Below are some of the best reads for investors from around the Internet, including Jim Cramer's favorite gold stocks, how to make money when economic data is released, and 25 anti-terrorism stocks.

More than two years ago, a photographer for the National Enquirer caught Tiger Woods in a liaison in a church parking lot with a woman who was not his wife. But the magazine never published the photos, and used them to gain access to the golfer instead.