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The article discusses the inquiries and controversies surrounding the political aides to U.S. 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, including the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) into her aide Huma Abedin. An overview of the impact that the publication of Clinton's private emails has on her campaign advisers, including her campaign chairman John D. Podesta and campaign policy director Jake Sullivan, is provided.

The article discusses the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's rhetoric against the Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, considering him unfit to be president. An overview of Clinton's rhetoric on the Trump's foreign policy as possible president, including in regard to his overseeing the country's nuclear weapons, is discussed.

The article discusses how several of U.S. President Barack Obama's aides are backing 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and it mentions how Obama has said that he will not endorse any candidate during the U.S. presidential primaries. Fellow Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is assessed, along with the use of Obama's image in political advertisements. Clinton's views on gun control are examined, along with her efforts to tie her campaign to Obama.

The article looks at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as of January 2013, focusing on health problems and medical treatment. It reports that she was released from a New York City hospital after being treated for a blood clot, and recounts her series of medical issues in late 2012, including a stomach virus and a concussion. It notes the planned ending of her tenure as secretary of state.

The article reports on the opposing views of U.S. President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the issue of counterterrorism against Salafi jihadist militant group Islamic State (ISIS).

The article reports on a debate between lawyers at the U.S. State Department over the nature and handling of classified information, according to Secretary Hillary Clinton's emails for public release.

The article focuses on the criticism on President Barrack Obama's decision to assign Susan E. Rice as the U.S. Secretary of State. It says that President Obama praised Ms. Rice in his statement and expressed anger over Republicans in Congress' criticism on his ambassador to the United Nations (UN). It adds that Ms. Rice decided to step down of the position, which made way for the nomination of Massachusetts Democrat Senator John Kerry.

The article reports on the recognition of the U.S. to the Syrian opposition as the legitimate representative of Syrian people as soon as the opposition fully developed its political structure. It mentions that the decision to recognize the Syrian opposition could be announced at a so-called Friends of Syria meeting which the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to attend in Morocco on December 12, 2012. It says that Great Britain has already recognized the opposition.

The article reports on the appearance of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan E. Rice on five news programs on September 16, 2012 after the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya which killed four Americans. It mentions that Rice stated on one of her speeches that Benghazi siege appeared to have been a spontaneous protest later hijacked by extremists. It says that the appearance of Rice contributed to the issue on whether she is capable to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The article focuses on U.S. Senator John Kerry Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, who are the candidates for U.S. State Secretary. It says that Rice would face resistance on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., where she has come under criticism from Republicans because of her assertion on the attack in Benghazi, Libya. Diplomat Aaron David Miller asks whether U.S. President Barack Obama wants to launch a fight with the U.S. Congress over his choice of secretary of state.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama broke four days of silence on Wednesday to ''strongly condemn'' the Libyan government's violent crackdown on protesters and said his administration was considering a range of responses to the bloody clashes unfolding in the oil-rich North African state. Calling it ''imperative that the nations and peoples of the world speak with one voice,'' Mr. Obama said he was dispatching Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Geneva next Monday to meet with top diplomats on how to respond to the crisis. ''The suffering and bloodshed is outrageous, and it is unacceptable,'' Mr. Obama said at the White House after meeting with Mrs. Clinton. ''These actions violate international norms and every standard of common decency. This violence must stop.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its condemnation of bloody clashes between protesters and those loyal to the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, but it stopped short of threatening concrete measures, like sanctions or a no-flight zone above Tripoli. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the Libyan government was responsible for the bloodshed, which she called ''completely unacceptable.'' But with the United States not yet able to get its diplomats out of the country, she said, ''the safety and well-being of Americans has to be our highest priority.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- At a town-hall-style meeting in Bahrain two months ago, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton got a pointed question from a member of Bahrain's Parliament: was the United States letting Bahrain, a Persian Gulf ally, off the hook for a string of arrests of lawyers and human rights activists? The moderator rebuked the questioner for ''hijacking the mike,'' but Mrs. Clinton replied anyway. ''I see the glass as half full,'' she said, pointing to Bahrain's recent elections. ''I think the changes that are happening in Bahrain are much greater than what I see in many other countries in the region and beyond.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MUNICH -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned on Sunday that removing President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt too hastily could threaten the country's transition to democracy. Her remarks were the Obama administration's most explicit sign yet of its growing emphasis on averting instability in Egypt, even at the expense of the key demand from the Egyptian protest movement: Mr. Mubarak's immediate removal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MUNICH -- The United States and Russia on Saturday exchanged documents that formally activated New Start, a strategic arms control treaty. It was the final step in a protracted negotiation marked by difficult talks with the Russians and even more difficult talks with Republican holdouts in the Senate. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov, traded so-called instruments of ratification -- paperwork that brings the treaty into force and starts the clock ticking on verification and inspection procedures for the two sides' nuclear arsenals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called on Sunday for ''an orderly transition'' to a more politically open Egypt, stopping short of telling its embattled president, Hosni Mubarak, to step down but clearly laying the groundwork for his departure. Mrs. Clinton, making a round of Sunday talk shows, insisted that Mr. Mubarak's future was up to the Egyptian people. But she said on ''State of the Union'' on CNN that the United States stood ''ready to help with the kind of transition that will lead to greater political and economic freedom.'' And she emphasized that elections scheduled for this fall must be free and fair. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The United States is not bent on containing China, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday, but the Obama administration is cultivating other allies across Asia to help it manage Beijing's increasingly bold projection of military and economic power. In a closely watched address delivered four days before President Hu Jintao's scheduled state visit to Washington, Mrs. Clinton sought to balance tensions over China's military buildup and disagreements over North Korea with the administration's desire to work with Beijing on issues like climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DOHA, Qatar -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a scalding critique of Arab leaders here on Thursday, saying their countries risked ''sinking into the sand'' of unrest and extremism unless they liberalized their political systems and cleaned up their economies. Speaking at a conference in this gleaming Persian Gulf emirate, Mrs. Clinton recited a familiar litany of ills: corruption, repression and a lack of rights for women and religious minorities. But her remarks were striking for their vehemence, and they suggested a frustration that the Obama administration's message to the Arab world had not gotten through. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SANA, Yemen -- The Obama administration wants to help Yemen do more than hunt down Islamic terrorists, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told this fragile Arab country on Tuesday as she sought to broaden a relationship almost wholly defined by American concerns that Yemen is a staging ground for plots against the United States. Mrs. Clinton, the first secretary of state to visit Yemen since James A. Baker III in 1990, undertook a delicate balancing act. She gently prodded the country's longtime autocratic president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to open up his political system while leaving no doubt that he remained a crucial partner in the fight against Islamic extremism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Seeking to reassert the State Department's role as the primary agent of Washington overseas, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday announced an ambitious overhaul of diplomacy and development. And she promised to do it without spending a lot more money. Mrs. Clinton, in presenting a two-year review that has been one of her signature projects, declared that ''leading through civilian power saves lives and money.'' Among key changes is a heavier emphasis on resolving conflicts and a pledge to reinvigorate the United States Agency for International Development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Hoping to defuse the latest round of tensions over a strategically important American air base, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that the United States would steer part of a lucrative Pentagon jet fuel contract to a newly created Kyrgyz state-owned corporation. The Pentagon had previously awarded the $315 million contract to a pair of secretive companies controlled by an American investor and said to be linked to the son of a former Kyrgyz leader, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was ousted in April amid accusations of corruption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke about the virtues of an open society here on Tuesday, at the start of her first overseas trip since the release of thousands of confidential diplomatic cables containing blunt appraisals of foreign countries and leaders. As if to underline the awkwardness of the timing, Kazakhstan's leaders are among those cited by American diplomats in the cables disclosed by WikiLeaks, with juicy descriptions of their lifestyles -- from a private Elton John concert for the son-in-law of Kazakhstan's president, to the president's baronial horse farm, to a crazy night of club-hopping by the prime minister. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Some world leaders expressed anger on Monday over the disclosures in confidential American diplomatic cables, even as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she was confident that the administration's diplomatic relationships would withstand the upheaval. Mrs. Clinton's comments came as she prepared to set off on a trip to Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. There, she will encounter for the first time officials from countries that figure prominently in the diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to revealing government secrets, and published in The New York Times and European publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walked out of a gilded room in the Capitol on Wednesday, after a breakfast with lawmakers, she said she was tickled to be back in familiar surroundings. But the occasion was anything but festive. Mrs. Clinton was on a mission to save one of President Obama's few foreign policy victories: an arms-control treaty with Russia suddenly jeopardized by the refusal of a single Republican to allow a vote on the pact in the Senate this year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HANOI, Vietnam -- With tensions between China and Japan spilling out at an East Asian summit meeting here, the United States is trying to defuse an escalating diplomatic row over their competing claims to a cluster of small islands in the East China Sea. On Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed a three-way meeting with China and Japan to resolve the dispute, which has raged since last month when Japan detained the captain of a Chinese fishing vessel that struck two Japanese patrol boats near the islands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HONOLULU -- Opening a seven-country tour of Asia shadowed by fears about China's rising influence, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared here on Thursday that the United States was not bent on containing China, even if its relationship with Beijing was complicated. ''There are some in both countries who believe that China's interests and ours are fundamentally at odds,'' she said in closely watched address. ''But that is not our view. In the 21st century, it is not in anyone's interest for the United States and China to see each other as adversaries.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- With the deadline for a potentially deal-breaking decision on Jewish settlements looming on Sunday, American diplomats shuttled furiously between Israeli and Palestinian officials at the United Nations to prevent the peace talks from collapsing. But there was no sign of a breakthrough after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Friday evening with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- It was not quite as lofty as Madeleine K. Albright's description of the United States as the world's ''indispensable nation,'' but Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came close to channeling her predecessor on Wednesday in declaring a ''new American moment.'' In a speech meant to showcase the successes of the Obama administration's foreign policy, Mrs. Clinton emphatically reasserted the primacy of American power in a dangerous world. Whether it is American aid after the floods in Pakistan or American brokering of the recently revived Middle East peace negotiations, she said, ''The world is counting on us.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- For much of her tenure as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been less an architect than an advocate for the Obama administration's Middle East policy. With the resumption of direct talks last week, she now has no choice but to plunge into the rough and tumble of peacemaking. Mrs. Clinton will be in the thick of the negotiations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, when they meet on Sept. 14 in Egypt. Her role, several officials say, will be to take over from the administration's special envoy, George J. Mitchell, when the two sides run into serious obstacles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HANOI, Vietnam -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chided Vietnam on Thursday for intolerance of dissent and infringement of Internet freedom, even as she celebrated its 15 years of normalized relations with the United States. Mrs. Clinton said she raised the issues of jailed democracy activists, attacks on religious groups and curbs on social-networking Web sites during a meeting with Vietnam's deputy prime minister, Pham Gia Khiem. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The last time Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Pakistan, less than a year ago, she was asked when the United States would stop killing innocent civilians in its covert drone attacks. She, in turn, suggested that officials in the Pakistani government knew where Al Qaeda's leaders were hiding. The mood was noticeably less toxic on Monday, perhaps in part because Mrs. Clinton showed up with more than $500 million in economic aid, part of her campaign to win over a skeptical Pakistani public. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged $124 million in American aid to the Caribbean region over the next two years to combat a surge in drug-related violence. Meeting with Caribbean leaders in Barbados, Mrs. Clinton said the region needed American help to crack down on ''the highest rate of interpersonal violence in the world.'' Responding to concern among the leaders that oil from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico could reach their shores, she said, ''We earnestly hope that does not happen.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Reaching out to the two countries that voted against new sanctions on Iran, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that she thought Brazil and Turkey would continue to play an important role in diplomatic efforts with the Iranian government. ''We disagreed with their vote,'' Mrs. Clinton said to reporters in Colombia, where she was on a four-day swing through Latin America. ''But I can understand from a diplomatic perspective why they might be able to make a convincing case for how they voted today.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

QUITO, Ecuador Venturing into one of Latin America's less friendly capitals, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared on Tuesday that the Obama administration was intent on having better relationships in this region, even with leftist governments like Ecuador's, which became stridently anti-American during the Bush administration. ''I don't know any two countries that agree on everything,'' Mrs. Clinton said after more than two hours of meetings and lunch with President Rafael Correa. ''From our perspective, we have reached out and feel very much as though we are forging a new set of relationships.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SHANGHAI -- By all accounts, the United States would have been a no-show at the Shanghai Expo had Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton not opened her Rolodex and raised about $60 million in private cash to finance a pavilion here. So it seemed fair that Mrs. Clinton got a rousing cheer from a group of Chinese children when she visited the building on Saturday. But the house that Hillary built is unmistakably the house that corporate America paid for. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- The United States on Thursday dispatched the first of a flotilla of senior officials to China for high-level economic and security meetings that are likely to be overshadowed by the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the deepening debt crisis in Greece, which some fear will infect other European countries. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner are leading a delegation that will include nearly 200 policy makers and advisers, one of the largest groups of American officials ever to travel to a foreign capital for a single set of meetings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- A day after he delivered a scorching attack on the West for its conduct in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai telephoned Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday to express surprise that his comments had caused such a stir, administration officials said. Mr. Karzai, the officials said, told Mrs. Clinton that he had not meant to criticize the United States but rather Western news coverage of Afghanistan. In a speech on Thursday, Mr. Karzai accused the news media of spreading reports characterizing last year's presidential election as fraudulent ''to pressure me.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that proposals offered by the Israeli government to settle a diplomatic dispute with the United States were ''useful and productive,'' though it was not clear how close Israel had come to meeting American demands. Neither side has characterized the steps that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuoutlined in a call to Mrs. Clinton on Thursday night, a week after she called him with a rebuke and specific requests. But Mrs. Clinton's comments on Friday signaled that the United States was eager to get past the dispute, which erupted after Israel announced a housing plan for Jews in East Jerusalem during a visit by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- On a snowy Thursday shortly before her weekly meeting with President Obama last month, Hillary Rodham Clinton got a distressing phone call: her husband, Bill Clinton, was in a hospital with chest pains and needed an urgent heart procedure. Mrs. Clinton kept her appointment with Mr. Obama in the Oval Office, taking her customary seat on the yellow sofa as the two talked about her coming trip to the Persian Gulf, where she planned to turn up the heat on Iran over its nuclear program. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Russia's foreign minister clashed publicly Thursday over an announcement that Russia would complete a nuclear power plant in Iran this summer. Mrs. Clinton said the announcement, made during her visit, sends the wrong signal at a time when the West is trying to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- In a tense, 43-minute phone call on Friday morning, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel's plan for new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem sent a ''deeply negative signal'' about Israeli-American relations, and not just because it spoiled a visit by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Mr. Biden, in Israel this week to declare American support for its security, had already condemned the move as undermining the peace process. But Mrs. Clinton went a good deal further in her conversation with Mr. Netanyahu, saying it had harmed ''the bilateral relationship,'' according to the State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to young women at a Saudi women's college here on Tuesday, the site of a spirited exchange five years ago with a female official of the Bush administration over the rights of women in Saudi Arabia. But despite Mrs. Clinton's invitation to raise the issue, none of the women in the audience asked her about it. The discussion, while lively, focused on the same foreign-policy and security themes that have dominated her visit to the Persian Gulf, notably Iran and the Middle East peace process. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program appeared to deepen Tuesday as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton escalated her verbal assault during a Persian Gulf visit and Russia joined the United States and France in bluntly questioning Iran's ultimate intentions in enriching uranium. Speaking in Jidda as she prepared to end a three-day regional visit, Mrs. Clinton said that it would create ''quite dangerous'' problems if Iran acquired a nuclear weapon, potentially setting off a nuclear arms race. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The United States fears that Iran is drifting toward a military dictatorship, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps seizing control of large swaths of Iran's political, military and economic establishment. Mrs. Clinton encouraged Iran's religious and political leaders to rise up against the Revolutionary Guards, coming as close as any senior administration official has to inviting political upheaval in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nine months after President Obama held out the promise of a ''new beginning'' for the United States and the Muslim world, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came to this Persian Gulf emirate on Sunday to plead for patience, conceding that the Obama administration had not yet delivered on some of its signature foreign-policy goals. From the stalled Middle East peace process to the still-open prison at Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, to the diplomatic deadlock with Iran over its nuclear program, Mrs. Clinton acknowledged a list of unfinished projects, which she said had sowed suspicion that the American commitment was ''insufficient or insincere.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With an inadvertent bit of shorthand, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton set off a buzz in diplomatic circles on Wednesday, and may have offered a glimpse into how the Obama administration hopes to revive the stalled peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Answering a question at a news conference about how the talks might be revived, Mrs. Clinton said, ''Of course, we believe that the 1967 borders, with swaps, should be the focus of the negotiations over borders.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bearing soap, bottled water and other much-needed supplies, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew into this ruined capital on Saturday and told the Haitian people that the United States ''will be here today, tomorrow and for the time ahead.'' As the United States struggles to organize a relief effort for a barely functioning Haitian government, Mrs. Clinton said she was here at the invitation of the country's president and came in large part to hear his thoughts on what was needed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off her travels this year, as she did last year, by flying across the Pacific rather than the Atlantic. But this time, her itinerary is more urgent. With tensions rising between the United States and both Japan and China, Asia has emerged as a diplomatic hornet's nest, even beyond the perennial threat of North Korea. Mrs. Clinton met with Japan's foreign minister in Hawaii on Tuesday to try to defuse tension from a dispute over relocating an American military base on the island of Okinawa. The talks did not yield any breakthroughs, and afterward, it was clear the two sides were still far apart. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, embarking on her first diplomatic trip of 2010, will try to ease tensions with Japan, America's most important Asian ally, over a stalled agreement to relocate a Marine base on the island of Okinawa. But she acknowledged that relations with the region's other major power, China, may be entering a rough period, as the United States pledges to sell weapons to Taiwan, which China regards as a renegade province, and President Obama plans a meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, over the objections of Beijing, which considers him a separatist. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the hectic last week before she became secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton squeezed in a Bon Jovi benefit concert in New York, part of a frantic effort to pay off the debt from her presidential campaign. No sooner had she arrived at the State Department than Mrs. Clinton discovered she needed to start raising money all over again. This time, the cash-starved beneficiary was not her own campaign but the United States, which needed $61 million to finance the construction of a national pavilion at a world's fair in Shanghai. Under federal law, no public money could be used for the project. And Mrs. Clinton, as a federal official, could no longer solicit private financial donations herself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]