Huma Abedin remained Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff when she came back from maternity leave in June 2012, even though she worked part-time from her home in New York and was allowed to start a side gig as a consultant.
Less than an hour after an accountability review lambasted the State Department for its response to the Benghazi consulate attack, Hillary Clinton started doling out security guards to missions around the world.
Do you hear that faint sound? It's the grumbling of conservative pundits who are now churning out a theory that Hillary Clinton is lying about her concussion to avoid having to testify about Benghazi.
Ignoring the will of the people — or at least the hacking collective 4chan, which hacked its online poll in favor of the North Korean Supreme Leader — Time's 2012 Person of the Year shortlist includes the usual mixed bag.
Oh, gosh, the uproar this caused! We learned today that Hillary Clinton took a little tumble this week and she hit her head. Now she can't testify at her Benghazi hearing as scheduled.
"I've said I really don’t believe that that's something I will do again," Clinton tells Barbara Walters in an early clip released from Walters's 10 Most Fascinating People special, set to air tonight.
Everyone wants to know what Hillary Clinton's plan is. Like, literally everyone on earth. Newborn babies are asking, "what's Hillary doing in 2016?" before they can say "mom," or "dad." But the biggest clue as to whether she will make another White House run will be... if she does nothing.
A lot of the big viral things this year had shorter life expectancies than usual, thanks to the cool-hunters who singlehandedly ended them. Here's our interactive guide to the last 12 months in Internet obituaries.
President Obama said that the use of chemical weapons would bring "consequences" to Syria, but with nerve gas bombs already being filled, would the United States act before Bashar al-Assad unleashes them? Can they act?
Bad news: Syria has filled several aerial bombs with the deadly nerve gas sarin and is ready to drop them onto its own people as soon as President Bashar al-Assad gives the word.
She is so wildly popular right now that important people are begging her to run for president and mayor of New York, but it's worth remembering that America didn't always love her so much.
Politicos have been wringing their hands for months now, waiting to hear what Hillary Clinton will do after her stint as Secretary of State ends next month. Now we know one thing she won't do: Run for mayor of New York City.
It's pretty fantastic, this picture from the Kennedy Center Honors Gala dinner at the State Department last night: Meryl and Hillary are an itsy-teeny bit just like us!
Amy Davidson on Hillary Clinton, Matthew Yglesias on the fiscal cliff, Daniel Byman on Al Qaeda, Bill George on H.P., and Shikha Dalmia on immigration.
Susan Rice met with the triumvirate of Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte in a closed-door meeting today. And the first few "disturbed" things we're hearing from those senators sound awfully familiar: They're threatening to block her potential nomination as Secretary of State... again.
As today's ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestine begins to take effect, we'll continue to monitor whether it's actually working. But what's the political fallout from the peace accord?
As his wife and daughter mull their next professional moves, Bill Clinton is telling friends that Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky are "working on" a baby that will carry forth a Clinton chromosomes to a new generation.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is heading to Israel and Egypt today to join the diplomatic effort to bring a cease fire to the conflict in Gaza.
The disparate factions of the Syrian opposition all gathered at a luxury hotel in Doha this weekend and on Sunday night signed an agreement that unites nearly all of the rebel groups for the first time.
You might now know this but a lot of people expect Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee in 2016. Even she knows this, but she doesn't care, and she's taking a year off to relax and watch guilty pleasure TV while she figures out what she's going to next.
Cracks are beginning to show in the Obama administration's united front on the Benghazi consulate attack with some officials shifting blame to CIA director David Petraeus.
The Obama administration came under fire on Wednesday after Reuters and Fox News reported that internal State Department emails revealed that an Islamic militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the Benghazi attacks on social media platforms, but this afternoon, Hillary Clinton fired back saying U.S. intelligence isn't based on random Facebook posts.
Clinton told a Marie Claire reporter, "Some women are not comfortable working at the pace and intensity you have to work at in these jobs." One of our commenters thinks she'd be right if she changed one word.
In a profile by Ayelet Waldman in Marie Claire, Hillary Clinton responded to a question about her former employee Anne-Marie Slaughter, who wrote The Atlantic's cover story on why women still can't have it all, with some direct words: "Some women are not comfortable working at the pace and intensity you have to work at in these jobs."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears to be sacrificing herself for the sake of the administration after she took the blame for the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi and controversial aftermath.
The candidates, campaigns, and pundits have dropped any pretense that the first presidential debate will be anything more than a reality show in which President Obama and Mitt Romney are competing to see who can avoid looking stupid -- not saying something stupid -- on TV.
It took quite some time for senior administration officials to admit what they appear to have known all along, but both President Obama and Hillary Clinton have begun to acknowledge that the September 11 attack in Benghazi was the work al-Qaeda linked terrorists.
It's not unusual for reporters and press flacks to exchange strong words, but it is unusual for them to go deep-six nuclear on each other—and that's exactly what transpired between longtime Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines and BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hastings in a radioactive e-mail exchange published today.
New York City Pizza divides offices, households, families and your choice of pie can even indicate that you might be a terrible person. That in mind, Bill and Hillary Clinton, showed another example of their good taste by venturing out all the way to Brooklyn for a slice of Roberta's.
Don't ask Bill Clinton for any clues pointing to a (Hillary) Clinton 2016 bid. "I have no earthly idea what she'll decide to do," Clinton told Bob Schieffer on CBS's Face the Nation.
After its extensive lobbying campaign in Washington, Hillary Clinton is going to de-list the Iranian dissident group Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, from the State Department's terror list in the next few days, reports CNN's Elise Labott.
In a $70,000 charm offensive, the Obama administration has begun airing ads across seven Pakistani television networks to condemn the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims, according to State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
At the ceremony to mark the arrival of the remains of the four diplomats who died in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised their service and promised not to "retreat from the world."
Clarifying the U.S. position on the anti-Islam film that has sparked protests across the Muslim world, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the video "disgusting and reprehensible" on Thursday, but she said it was no excuse for violence.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the attack in Libya which claimed the life of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Fourteen years ago there was a sex scandal that rocked our nation to its core. In the wake of Bill Clinton's speech at the DNC, it rears rears its increasingly tepid head yet again. Lewinsky is a long legacy for former President Bill Clinton, but it's also a rather impotent one.
Hillary Clinton watched her husband's speech to the Democratic National Convention from East Timor on a desktop computer, and photographic evidence indicates she loved it as much as the women who nodded along live in the convention hall.
Bill Clinton made the case for President Obama's reelection at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday by noting he was so interested in teamwork and compromise that he appointed former foe Hillary Clinton to his cabinet. It's very possible Obama will be making the case for a President Hillary Clinton four years from now.
Hillary Clinton arrived in China on Tuesday, in what's likely to be her last trip there as Secretary of State, but that milestone didn't stop China's state-run media outlets from printing scathing editorials about her and the U.S.'s growing unpopularity in the country.
Investigative journalist Richard Miniter has a new book out today, Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him, in which he claims Barack Obama is "fully vetted" for the first time in history. He also claims Obama has been heavily influenced in his decision-making by women.
The State Department under Hillary Clinton just keeps getting more fun: The memes, the dancing, and now a Dr. Seuss-style rhyme denying rumors Clinton may be talking quietly with the White House about replacing Joe Biden as President Barack Obama's running mate.
Hillary Clinton either suffers from a severe form of anhidrosis or uses way better antipersperant than the rest of us, since, apparently, she never sweats. Ever.
Hillary Clinton did something again. What did she do? A pop quiz.
Hillary Clinton spent six and half hours in the landlocked African nation of Malawi--and some of that time was apparently spent fleeing from a swarm of rampaging, sting-happy bees.
Republican leaders have recently tried to back away slowly from the Tea Partying style that defined the party during its primary, and that has been complicated by Michele Bachmann's charge that Huma Abedin must be investigated for the "potential Muslim Brotherhood infiltration" of the Obama administration.
A recent feature in People magazine with Anthony Weiner, his wife Huma Abedin, and their baby Jordan had a lot of people wondering if this meant that Weiner was spurring up public goodwill for a comeback. Maybe it wasn't about him at all.
Speaker of the House John Boehner has become the latest high-profile Republican to denounce Michele Bachmann's "pretty dangerous" accusations that Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff and Anthony Weiner's wife, has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egyptian protesters threw tomatoes at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade on Sunday, prompting Jon Stewart to ask on last night's The Daily Show: "I know you there in Egypt are new to the public protest thing, but the literal throwing of tomatoes? It's a bit of cliché, you know what I mean?"
The efforts of far-right loons to convince people that President Obama is a Muslim operative is finally working. But who would have guessed that secular Egyptians, scared of actual Muslim operatives, would be the easiest to convince?
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Egyptian protesters were a bunch of schoolyard bullies to Hillary Clinton on Sunday when they threw tomatoes and shoes while chanting "Monica! Monica! Monica!" at her.
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