Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview Tuesday that she will write another memoir after leaving her post as secretary of State. She was responding to a question from Sahara Sawar, a British Pakistani from Dubai. In an awkwardly named "Global Townterview," Clinton, who was in Washington, responded to questions from around the world via video linkups. Clinton has participated in almost 60 Global Townterviews during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Friday will be Clinton's final day as secretary of State.

Hours after Republican members of Congress sharply questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton and the State Department's handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the former secretary of State did not explicitly mention the controversy in an appearance Wednesday night. But she did reference partisan bickering in the nation's capital as she accepted an award in Beverly Hills. "We truly, still today - despite all of our partisan wrangling, and the gridlock that sometimes seems to take hold - we stand up for the rights and opportunities of all people," Clinton said in a speech that largely focused on U.S. policy toward Asia.

Hours after Republican members of Congress sharply questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton and the State Department's handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the former secretary of State did not explicitly mention the controversy in an appearance Wednesday night. But she did reference partisan bickering in the nation's capital as she accepted an award in Beverly Hills. "We truly, still today - despite all of our partisan wrangling, and the gridlock that sometimes seems to take hold - we stand up for the rights and opportunities of all people," Clinton said in a speech that largely focused on U.S. policy toward Asia.

DALLAS - A day of festivities leading up to Thursday's dedication of the George W. Bush presidential library cast attention back to his tumultuous presidency and ahead - perhaps - to the next presidential contest. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was hired to speak in Dallas to the National Multi Housing Council, a group of apartment firms. The Wednesday dinner was closed, and officials did not disclose how much Clinton was paid. Earlier, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush spoke before wealthy Republican donors - and also students, teachers and office workers - at an event sponsored by the nonpartisan World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth.

Hillary Rodham Clinton came to South America to give a boost to women and got a boost herself from her fellow first ladies of the Americas. "I'm new at this job, and you're a role model for me," one said in a note she slipped to Mrs. Clinton after the U.S. first lady spoke Wednesday of the need for more women in leadership roles, said her chief of staff, Melanne Verveer. One after another, they embraced her and shared private comments.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, now almost halfway through her first term as a Democratic senator from New York, has already said she won't seek the presidency in 2004. But if George W. Bush wins reelection next year, her popularity among Democratic activists virtually guarantees she will be anointed as the instant front-runner for her party's presidential nomination in 2008. That prospect looms over her new book, "Living History."

Of all the acts of executive clemency that President Clinton granted as he was leaving the White House, few strike as close to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as her husband's decision to reduce the prison terms of four New York Hasidic Jews convicted of bilking tens of millions of dollars from the government. Sen. Clinton, New York's Democratic junior senator, has said that in general she was a bystander while President Clinton made his decisions on clemency.

If Hillary Rodham Clinton formally enters the New York Senate race against New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, it will be the first time she'll stand square in the sights as a candidate and thus be forced to respond directly to all charges flung at her along the campaign trail.

Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday invoked the name of the late President Richard Nixon in an effort to sell the nation's newspaper publishers--known as a conservative bunch--on Clinton-style health care reform. Noting that President Clinton's controversial plan advocates that companies and workers share the cost of a system that would provide medical care for everyone, Mrs.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, making her first trip as First Lady, stood amid math texts and mythologies, encyclopedias and Bible studies books Tuesday in the library of a public school in a drug-infested neighborhood of Upper Manhattan and, to the delight of the pupils, played multiplication bingo. "Ready, everybody? I have never done this before," she said before promptly plunging into the game. "O-9x5, N-2x5, O-7x6, I-10x10, N-10x3, I-4x1, N-5x0, E-10x10."

Bill Clinton will appear with mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel in the Los Angeles-area on Saturday, according to a source familiar with the plan. Additional details about the event, which is expected to include other Greuel supporters, were not available Friday. Clinton backed  Greuel's bid in March, in what was viewed as among the most significant endorsements in the campaign. In addition to being beloved by Democrats, Clinton has long-standing ties with African American voters and is appealing to some moderate Republicans - two critical voting blocs in the May 21 runoff against City Councilman Eric Garcetti.

WASHINGTON - It sounds like a bad joke from an old comedy routine. Question: How do you take on Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination? Answer: Very carefully. Clinton is almost universally popular among Democrats as they look ahead to the 2016 race, with memories of her strong 2008 campaign enhanced by her work as secretary of State. If she runs again, she'll have the most money in the bank, an experienced organization at her back and the emotional advantage of trying to finally achieve what many voters consider a long-overdue goal: the election of the first female president.

Re "The GOP's fantasy lineup," Opinion, April 7 It is hard to understand why political pundits talk about the demise of the Republican Party when it has such a strong group of future young leaders, as mentioned in Doyle McManus' column. To wit: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and Gov. Scott Walker. To that list, I'd add Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez. While the Republicans have their issues, it is the Democrats with a real leadership problem.

- Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to the public stage Tuesday night for the opening scene in what many expect to be a carefully plotted performance concluding with another presidential try. The high-profile venue: the Kennedy Center in the nation's capital. Several dozen mostly student-age supporters of a Clinton presidential run rallied outside, brandishing blue-and-white "I'm Ready for Hillary" placards. But the event inside was strictly nonpartisan: an awards gala for an international women's rights organization that Clinton had helped create.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama doesn't plan to weigh in on the Los Angeles mayoral race because it pits two Democrats against each other, his spokesman said Tuesday. Obama appreciates the support City Councilman Eric Garcetti has given him over the years, as well as their good working relationship, Press Secretary Jay Carney said. But in keeping with past practice, Carney said, Obama will not wade into a race between fellow Democrats. The news is a blow for Garcetti, who has emphasized his ties to Obama during his candidacy.

Former President Clinton endorsed Wendy Greuel to be Los Angeles' next mayor on Monday, saying that her track record, including a stint working in his administration, makes her a proven leader with the skills to confront the city's challenges. "In her many years of public service in Los Angeles…Wendy has personified good, honest and effective government, improving the lives of countless Angelenos while saving millions of their tax dollars," Clinton wrote in a letter to supporters.

"Absolutely not," the first lady is saying. "Absolutely not." Hillary Rodham Clinton has finished up yet another series of questions about her roles in Whitewater and Travelgate when "CBS This Morning's" Harry Smith, at "23 minutes after the hour," finally turns to the topic of her new book. "Let's talk about those disadvantaged children for a couple of seconds," Smith says. Yes, what about those poor kids?

Hillary Rodham Clinton did not become a children's advocate after she became first lady. Her work, particularly with the Children's Defense Fund, has been nonstop for 20 years. The book's title comes from an African proverb--"It takes a village to raise a child"--and its primary theme is that we are all interconnected. "No family is immune to the influences of the larger society.

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton, free to dip her toe in the water of domestic politics after four years as the nation's chief diplomat, joined other leading Democrats in endorsing same-sex marriage. Clinton's announcement - her first public statement since leaving her post as secretary of State in President Obama's Cabinet on Feb. 1 - came Monday in a video released by the Human Rights Campaign , a leading gay rights group. “LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones.

NEW YORK - As an undergraduate art major at Columbia University, Beau Willimon, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of "The Ides of March" and creator of the much-hyped new Netflix series "House of Cards," never would have guessed he'd build a career writing about politics. "I was one of those guys that had paint all splattered over my jeans," says the 35-year-old between hearty gulps of coffee at the Smile, a fashionably rustic restaurant in NoHo. FOR THE RECORD: "House of Cards": In the Feb. 12 Calendar section, an article about "House of Cards" creator Beau Willimon misspelled the first name of Kevin Spacey's character in the Netflix series, Francis Underwood, as Frances.