According to the Boston Globe, President Obama settled on Kerry for Secretary of State before, not after, Rice withdrew herself consideration.
America, you'll officially have a new Secretary of State within 24 hours. Who the heck is going to be your next Senator from Massachusetts — and the next one after that — remains as confusing as can be. Let's catch up on how the end of the Hillary era at Foggy Bottom might unfold, and fast.
John Kerry breezed through his chummy confirmation hearing Thursday, but what countries will he blaze through in his role as Secretary of State?
John Kerry's confirmation hearing to become the Secretary of State will be marked (if it's marked at all by history) as one of the friendliest that the Senate has ever seen. Here are the early highlights, with protestor.
Before Hillary Clinton ends her tenure at the State Department she'll deal with one final piece of unfinished business today—answering Congress's questions about the Benghazi attack.
Kerry's confirmation isn't likely to be that contentious, but it's going to be viewed in the light of whatever Clinton says the day prior, Kerry is almost certainly prepared to answer questions on how he'd make sure a similar failure never happens again.
Lost in the vetting gap between his run for president and his nomination as Secretary of State are his various investments, which now pose a challenge to Obama officials who need to make sure that Kerry's holdings don't conflict with his new job.
The issue has caused no neurological damage and the Associated Press says the Secretary of State's doctors expect a full recovery.
President Obama nominated Senator John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State today.
Well, that took long. Just days after Susan Rice took her name out of the hat to be Secretary of State, there are rumors flying that John Kerry's appointment is pretty much a done deal.
In an interview late Thursday night after withdrawing from the running for Secretary of State — and in a new op-ed published overnight — Susan Rice insisted about the Benghazi conflict that ruined her future that "it's our obligation to try to explain it as best we can to the American people."
It's got to be Kerry, right? Well, yes, probably. But speculation also puts some other options in front of the president between now and whenever Hillary Clinton steps down — including, but not limited to, her husband.
President Obama's one-time frontrunner for the position has withdrawn herself from consideration. Here's what we know so far.
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.
Thanks to the political equivalent of a "come at me, bro" from the President yesterday, it looks like Susan Rice is one step closer to becoming the Secretary of State. And we haven't even heard from any Senators yet.
John McCain is convinced that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is part of a massive cover-up over the Benghazi embassy attack and is launching a preemptive campaign to keep her from becoming Secretary of State.
"Dan Baer was mistakenly identified as an interior designer. He's a deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. Department of State," reads possibly the most hilarious Vogue correction of all time.
With Senator John Kerry's speech at the Democratic National Convention drawing closer by the minute and Hillary Clinton's retirement from government looming, reporters in Charlotte have once again fallen in love with one of Washington's worst-kept secrets: Kerry wants to be Secretary of State.
Hillary Clinton did something again. What did she do? A pop quiz.
Hillary Clinton gives the same answer whenever a reporter asks her if she'll serve a second term as Secretary of State, yet it's huge news each and every time.
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