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NEWS ABOUT: Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton stories: 333 news summaries

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(Newser) - The two US journalists pardoned today by North Korea are on their way back to the US with Bill Clinton, reports MSNBC. Euna Lee and Laura Ling are on Clinton's plane and heading to Los Angeles to be reunited with their families, a Clinton spokesman says. The two, due to... More »

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North Korea • Bill Clinton • Kim Jong Il • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

opinion roundup

 Trip Draws Cheers, Jeers 


Aug 4, 09 5:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton's trip to North Korea is generating all kinds of debate. A sampling:
  • John Bolton on Fox: The hawkish former UN ambassador calls the trip a "classic case of rewarding bad behavior. ... Obviously, all of us want to get them out, but we want it done in
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North Korea • Bill Clinton • Kim Jong Il • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

UPDATED

 Kim Jong Il Pardons Journalists 

Ling, Lee could be back in US tomorrow: official

Aug 4, 09 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kim Jong Il has pardoned two American journalists who had been sentenced to hard labor for entering North Korea illegally, and ordered their release during the visit of former President Bill Clinton, the AP reports. Clinton had an emotional meeting today with the two women, an official tells ABC News,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • Al Gore • Bill Clinton • Current TV • journalist • detainees • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

UPDATED

 Clinton Meets With Kim Jong Il 


Aug 4, 09 8:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton has met with reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, official state media reports. The Korean news agency described Clinton as "courteously" conveying a message from President Obama, saying he and Kim shared a "wide-ranging exchange of views." But the White House denied that Clinton... More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • diplomacy • State Department • Bill Clinton • Pyongyang • Obama administration • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

(Newser) - Bill Clinton is in North Korea, where he will attempt to secure the freedom of two American journalists imprisoned since March, Reuters reports, citing South and North Korean news agencies. "As soon as he arrives, he will be entering negotiations," said a source. The White House and State... More »

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North Korea • Al Gore • South Korea • White House • State Department • Bill Clinton • Current TV • journalist • television news • Obama administration • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

NY Times Video Obits Give the Departed 'The Last Word'

Non-Bush ex-president  has already made one

Jul 30, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Obituaries are a newspaper standby, but the New York Times has removed the journalistic middleman with its series of video obits, Editor & Publisher reports. After starting 2 years ago with humorist Art Buchwald’s greeting of “Hi, I’m Art Buchwald and I just died,” the Times... More »

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New York Times • Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • obituary • video • George HW Bush • George W. Bush • former presidents • celebrity death • Art Buchwald • video obituary

(Newser) - Facing a burdensome political agenda, decreased popularity, and widespread opposition to his key policies, President Barack Obama appears poised to become the next Jimmy Carter, Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie write in the Washington Post. Both are "smart, moralistic" presidents who inherited brutal economies, but both responded with top-heavy... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • spending • economy • financial crisis

(Newser) - The president's first summer vacation is to a classified destination, but on the streets and beaches of Martha's Vineyard, it's no secret that Barack, Michelle, and their daughters are spending August on the island. The first family is expected to stay in Oak Bluffs, a longtime vacation spot for the... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill Clinton • Massachusetts • vacation • summer • George W. Bush • Obama family • women's issues • Martha's Vineyard

ANALYSIS

Americans
Strike Out on Defining Sex

Not really sure what counts as third base, what's home plate

Jul 1, 09 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton said oral sex wasn’t sex. Mark Sanford says he “crossed lines” with women he wasn’t married to, but not “the sex line.” But that’s a really blurry line, the AP reports. “Nobody is really in charge of that term,” said... More »

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Bill Clinton • sex • oral sex • Mark Sanford • Kinsey Institute

 Welfare Rolls Soar 
 Along With Unemployment 

Many make shift as jobless benefits run out

Jun 22, 09 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Welfare rolls are on the rise nationwide for the first time since President Clinton signed a bill overhauling the system in 1996, the Wall Street Journal reports. Welfare recipients’ ranks fell in some areas at the beginning of the recession, but now 23 of the 30 biggest US states are... More »

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Bill Clinton • Clinton administration • unemployment • jobless claims • unemployment benefits • welfare • food stamps • public assistance • jobless • welfare reform

GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 I Did Not Get a 
 Lap-Dance From 
 That Woman: 
 Clinton 

Also, Posh gets a breast reduction, and more

Jun 17, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton may or may not have gotten a private dance from a “well-endowed” dancer during his recent fundraising trip to Buenos Aires, reports the Washington Post, citing Brazilian news weekly Perfil. But, wonders Alex Pareene on Gawker, “does anyone really seriously care if Bill Clinton was gyrated... More »

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entertainment • nudity • Bill Clinton • Victoria Beckham • celebrity • Judd Apatow • exotic dancer

(Newser) - Bill Clinton has officially been named UN special envoy to Haiti, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon awarded Clinton the $1-per-year post today, noting that “No one is better placed for this mission. He knows the country, he loves the people, and they love him.... More »

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United Nations • Bill Clinton • Haiti • Ban Ki-Moon • UN special envoy

Clinton Stumps for Wife's Loyal Backers

He's boosting allies for 2010, but refuses to help one loyalist

Jun 13, 09 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton has quietly jumped into the 2010 election fray, helping just about anyone who was loyal to his wife’s presidential campaign, Politico reports. Though the media has focused mostly on his full-throated support for Terry McAuliffe’s failed gubernatorial run, Clinton has held events for half a dozen... More »

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Bill Clinton • Clinton 2008 • Terry McAuliffe • Clintonites • 2010 election • Joe Sestak

(Newser) - That jarring thud you just heard was Obamania crashing back to earth. For reneging on promises and making "Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity," President Obama must quit his post, Ted Rall writes in the Springfield Journal-Register. “Obama is useless. Worse than that, he’... More »

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Barack Obama • Turkey • Bill Clinton • Guantanamo Bay • resignation • terror suspects

(Newser) - The audience probably expected a throw-down. What they got was a sewing circle. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush sat down for a friendly chat yesterday in Toronto, emphasis on the friendly. The ex-presidents went out of their way to be agreeable, at times almost seeming like a support group,... More »

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Bill Clinton • president • Toronto • George W. Bush • former presidents

 Bill Settles In to New Role 


May 27, 09 7:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton: globetrotter, world diplomat, crafts shop enthusiast. Peter Baker profiles the former president in New York Times magazine as he adjusts to his new role—this time as the spouse of a Cabinet member. "We've reversed roles," says Clinton, who loves to shop for Hillary and female... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • former presidents

Colleagues See Sotomayor as 'Even-Handed,' 'Brilliant'

Daughter of immigrants rose from Bronx project

May 26, 09 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - The daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants whose father died when she was 9, Sonia Sotomayor will bring more than a stellar legal resume to her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, the Washington Post reports. She worked her way out of projects in the Bronx to graduate from Princeton and Yale Law,... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill Clinton • George HW Bush • Bronx • Princeton • Yale Law School • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

 Bubba Still 
 a Hit With 
 the Ladies 

Chats up models at Vienna fashion show before heading out to party

May 19, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton may be a former president, but he's still a current hit with the ladies. Bubba had a whirlwind weekend in Vienna, reports the New York Post, chatting up models at the LIFEbeat fashion show before hitting the Life Ball AIDS benefit with the likes of Pamela Anderson and... More »

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Bill Clinton • Eva Longoria • model • Vienna • Pamela Anderson

(Newser) - Bill Clinton will be named the United Nation’s special envoy to Haiti this week, Foreign Policy reports. Clinton’s popularity in the deeply impoverished nation remains high from his presidential tenure, when he intervened to restore Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the presidency after his 1994 ouster. The announcement, expected tomorrow,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • United Nations • Bill Clinton • Haiti • UN special envoy

OPINION

 What the GOP Needs 
 Is a Bill Clinton 

Douthat: Way out of this mess is to find a new breed of moderate

May 5, 09 9:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Republican moderates like Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter are right that the GOP has a hole in the center, writes Ross Douthat in the New York Times. The problem is that they’re not the right kind of centrists to fill it. Yankee Republican moderates are either just... More »

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Bill Clinton • Arlen Specter • Republican Party • centrist • Gary Hart • moderate • Ross Douthat

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