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Hillary Clinton did something again. What did she do? A pop quiz.
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Getting cast as the young Hillary Clinton in the pre-Election Day 2016 biopic Rodham should be the role of a lifetime for Hollywood's young A-listers, but portraying any version of a likely presidential candidate might just be too daunting a task.
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?
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
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.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: Iran gets whimsical about its navy, China disses Hillary, and Russia slashes its propaganda outlets.
There's a fascinating tiff brewing between Japanese and U.S. diplomats after Hillary Clinton reportedly corrected a State Department official who referred to women drafted into prostitution by the Japanese during World War II by the widely used term "comfort women," asking that the Department instead call it like it is and say "enforced sex slaves."
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Ten years can change a lot. In the ongoing effort to build a relationship with Afghanistan, Hilary Clinton said the country is officially America's newest ally.
The most important rule of presidential vacations is this: Never let people take pictures of you on vacation.
At a meeting of the "Friends of Syria" in Paris, French François Hollande and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered some of the strongest threats so far against Syria and the nations that are supporting its dictator.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saved the United States and its allies upwards of $100 million a month with one little word: "Sorry."
The biggest question surrounding Kofi Annan's new plan for a unified government in Syria that he debuted on Saturday is whether Bashar al-Assad will be included. Hillary Clinton, for one, doesn't think so.
Mitt Romney says President Obama's attacks are unfair because Hillary Clinton said so, and the Koch brothers-backed group Americans for Prosperity spends $9 million attacking Obamacare the day after the Supreme Court ruling.
Mitt Romney's campaign has a new ad in Ohio featuring a 2008 clip of Hillary Clinton saying "shame on you, Barack Obama," pitting the inter-party rivals against each other in a strategy that's seems like it'll be pretty easily diffused.
United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan says he "optimistic" that international talks in Geneva this weekend will end with "an acceptable result" for the Syrian peace process despite little evidence that this peace plan will do any better than the last one.
Hillary Clinton is more popular than ever, and maybe that's because no one knows what she does.
Once again Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has grabbed headlines and been declared "tres cool," this time, because she wore some purple wing-tipped Mardi Gras sunglasses while swearing in Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Michael Hammer. But we've spotted a pattern: Eyewear, it seems, is her secret weapon.
It's the biggest diplomatic event of the week and it's going to be awkward.
Even though the Clintons consist of the current Secretary of State (Hillary) and the former U.S. President (Bill), they are just normal folks, and pretty darn good neighbors, too, more involved in their chosen town more than anyone might have imagined, writes Peter Applebome in a piece in The New York Times.
By now you've seen the photo of Bill Clinton with the porn stars, the one that began circulating on Twitter last evening and is now in Page Six, and in various other tabloids, along with faux shocked headlines like "What would Hillary say?"
It's not often we learn about the secret world of government-paid hackers, but when we do, it's fascinating to see how they they leave their mark.
The Obama administration is moving to delist an Iranian dissident group from the State Department terrorism list, which, as recently as January, placed a magnetic bomb under the car of Iranian scientist, according to U.S. officials.
We'd totally love Edward Klein's story of how Bill Clinton called Obama an "amateur" and told his wife to quit the amazing job she was doing as Secretary of State if, you know, the Clintons weren't denying the whole thing and Klein hadn't already written another Clinton-challenged book in the past.
It's starting to look like the U.S. got had in its dealings with China over the release of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng.
Remember when Hillary Clinton was seen as dowdy and wonky, standing by her man? Things have changed.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday that she hopes to see the United States elect its first woman president, but that it's not going to be her.
When she isn't the subject of an odd "kiss" story with blind Chinese dissidents, Hillary Clinton actually has a real job to do and it means laying down the law for Chinese officials about North Korea, Iran and Syria--which is what she did today in Beijing.
It was the most iconic facial expression from inside the Situation Room during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, but days after it was photographed, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed it as an allergic reaction.
Listen up for an important career lesson: If you're clever enough to co-create a meme that gets so popular, the Secretary of State lolz along with it, you're probably clever enough to work for one of the Internet's leading meme chronicler and generators.
Sixty-four-year-old Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was spotted downing beers and dancing in Colombia Sunday night, and people love her even more for it.
Yes, Hillary Clinton drank and had a lot of fun at a salsa bar in the resort town of Cartagena, Colombia. No, that doesn't mean the Secretary of State is an embarrassment to the United States.
Dominic Basulto has an interesting piece in The Washington Post arguing that for politicians in the internet era, a viral meme is the new soundbite.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
In a blazing fire of glory, the two guys behind the epically viral "Texts from Hillary Clinton" blog have announced that they're done ignoring their day jobs and will cease posting to the site, but that doesn't mean you can't carry on the snarky flame.
It is very hard to believe that Hillary Clinton texted "nice selfie" to the guy who runs Texts From Hillary, but in fact she did, and she finds the whole site hilarious.
In a move that will fuel her current meme-mentum, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that she will be skipping the 2012 Democratic National Convention
An international coalition gathered in Istanbul to address the situation in Syria will offer millions of dollars in aid and communications equipment to help overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
If his bosses get their way, 24-year State Department veteran Peter Van Buren will need to look for a new job, thanks to a list of offenses related to some critical commentary on the United States and, among other things, linking to Wikileaks from his blog.
Hillary Clinton is already an odds-on favorite to run for president in 2016, if you take your odds from people like Maureen Dowd and Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
Gerard Butler hits the town, Prince Harry helped an injured polo player in Brazil Sunday, and Steve Wynn is not considered an ideal neighbor in fancy Manhattan co-ops.
Today in books and publishing: Publishers are unsure what they can afford to give up to avoid going to court over alleged price collusion, the Clinton White House does not come off well in a former Secret Service agent's new memoir, and the National Book Critics Circle Awards are announced.
From Cubans hawking cigar products to Egypt's corrupting state media to the vaunted penmanship of North Korea's "dear respected leader," today's propaganda report keeps you informed on the latest in state-sponsored agitprop. We begin in Iran!
Despite audience requests in Georgetown, Channing Tatum did not remove his clothes to promote 21 Jump Street, Jeremy Lin likes smart women that wear sensible clothes, and all is not well at the Clinton Global Initiative.
Also: Bobby Brown had a brief stay at the blackjack table following Whitney Houston's funeral, Reese Witherspoon remains a charmer, and Oliver Stone's son converts to Islam.
In 2008, Mitt Romney campaigned with a health care plan that sounded an awful lot like it included the dreaded individual mandate, the thing conservatives hate most about his Massachusetts health care law, not to mention Obamacare.
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