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Bill Clinton stumps for Obama, slams ‘calamitous’ Romney
NEW YORK — Bill Clinton campaigned Monday with President Barack Obama in New York City, sprinkling political stardust on his Democratic successor and blasting challenger Mitt Romney for embracing the politics of “constant conflict.” The presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign is using recent Clinton comments praising Romney’s business record against Obama,…
Clinton says his remarks on Romney were ‘twisted’
When former President Bill Clinton told told CNN on Thursday that presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney “had a sterling business career,” his words were quickly taken as undermining the Obama campaign’s attacks on Romney’s “job-killing” record at Bain Capital. On Friday, however, Clinton used an appearance at a rally…
WATCH LIVE: Bill Clinton campaigns for Walker opponent Tom Barrett
Former president Bill Clinton campaigns in Milwaukee for Democrat Tom Barrett in the Wisconsin recall election. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast June 1, 2012. Photo: Anthony Correia / Shutterstock.com…
Democrats deploy Bill Clinton in recall fight against Scott Walker
Bill Clinton will travel to Wisconsin on Friday to campaign in the state’s recall election amid accusations from local activists that the Obama administration has failed to get behind their bid to oust Republican governor Scott Walker. The Democratic National Committee announced the former president’s trip on Thursday in the hope that a…
Clinton presses India to cut Iran oil imports
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on India Monday to further cut its imports of Iranian oil, saying New Delhi should use its growing clout to help isolate the Islamic republic. “India… is certainly working towards lowering purchases of Iranian oil. We commend the steps they have taken thus far,” she told an audience of school…
Clinton heads to China as dissident case looms
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is heading to China as US officials raced to find a solution to a sensitive row over a top dissident reportedly holed up at the US embassy in Beijing. Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had long planned to go to Beijing for…
Former President Bill Clinton among Nobel Prize nominees
OSLO (Reuters) – Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning, and former President Bill Clinton may be among the hundreds of nominees for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, rights activists say. The list of nominees, which is now officially closed for this year, is secret and Nobel officials…
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer robbed by machete-wielding man
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was uninjured after being robbed by a machete-wielding intruder last week, according to the Associated Press. The 73-year-old justice, his wife Joanna and a friend were on vacation in the Caribbean island of Nevis when the incident occurred. The intruder took about $1,000 in cash…
Chelsea Clinton makes debut as TV reporter
After a lifetime of guarding her privacy, Chelsea Clinton made her debut as a reporter on US national television with a feature about a non-profit organization dedicated to poor children in Arkansas. Clinton, 31, appeared poised as she reported the feel-good segment on Annette Dove, a volunteer who takes troubled…
Suu Kyi to Clinton: Signs of hope in Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi voiced guarded hope Friday that democracy will come to Myanmar as the opposition leader warmly welcomed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the home that was her prison for years. In scenes unthinkable before Myanmar’s recent reforms, Suu Kyi took Clinton by the arm and escorted…
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