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NEWS ABOUT: Clinton Foundation

Clinton Foundation stories: 15 news summaries

(Newser) - The same sprawling network of business and political contacts that caused trouble with Hillary Clinton's confirmation as secretary of state helped her husband secure the release of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the Washington Post reports. Private donors paid for Bill Clinton's trip to North Korea, and the former president... More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • secretary of State • Bill Clinton • Pyongyang • Current TV • Clinton Foundation • Obama administration • Euna Lee • Laura Ling • Steve Bing

 Clinton Turns 
 Back on Burkle, $20M

Amount owed from former business deal may have diminished with economy

Mar 16, 09 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton has called it quits with Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos, walking away from a payment once estimated at up to $20 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Clinton began distancing himself from Yucaipa in 2007 as Hillary Clinton’s run for the White House heated up, and continued to... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Ron Burkle • Bill Clinton • Dubai • Senate confirmation hearings • Yucaipa • Clinton Foundation

(AP) - Bill Clinton earned nearly $6 million in speaking fees last year, almost all of it from foreign companies, say financial documents filed by his wife. Of the former president's $5.7 million in 2008 honoraria, $4.6 million came from foreign sources, including Kuwait's national bank and firms in Canada,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • foreign donors • speaking engagements • Clinton Foundation

 Clinton, Cornyn Share Words 


Jan 20, 09 3:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton and John Cornyn shared some spirited words today after the inauguration, Politico reports. Cornyn is blocking a Senate vote today on Clinton’s confirmation as secretary of state over concerns about the transparency of Bill Clinton’s foundation. While the conversation seemed animated, a rep for Cornyn said... More »

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Hillary Clinton • secretary of State • Bill Clinton • John Cornyn • delay • Senate confirmation hearings • Clinton Foundation • transparency • President Obama

Cornyn May Delay
Clinton Confirmation

Texas Republican unsatisfied with oversight of Bill's foundation

Jan 20, 09 9:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Easy confirmation is supposed to be a perk of appointing a senator well-liked by her peers. But John Cornyn of Texas is threatening to hold up a unanimous-consent agreement on confirming Clinton as secretary of State, Politico reports. Cornyn isn’t satisfied with Clinton’s proposal for oversight of her... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Senate • secretary of State • Bill Clinton • John Cornyn • Clinton Foundation • President Obama

Clinton to Outline Vision for Reinvigorated State

Will speak on Hill as confirmation hearings begin today

Jan 13, 09 6:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton marches into her Senate confirmation hearings today armed with sweeping plans to retake the ground State lost to the Defense department under President Bush, the Wall Street Journal reports. Clinton will advocate using “smart power,” a wide variety of economic and social diplomatic... More »

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Hillary Clinton • diplomacy • State Department • secretary of State • Clinton Foundation • President Obama • economic policies

Clinton Collected $500K From Japanese Firm for...Nothing?

Pricey non-speech could raise difficult questions for Hillary

Jan 13, 09 5:38 AM CST
(Newser) - The Senate panel considering Hillary Clinton's secretary of state nomination today may ask why her husband's most expensive speech was one he never gave, the Los Angeles Times reports. Clinton received $500,000—double what he received for other speeches on the same tour—for the canceled speech he was... More »

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Hillary Clinton • secretary of State • Bill Clinton • confirmation hearings • speech • conflict of interest • Clinton Foundation

 Bill Reaped $100K From 
 Bizman Aided by Hillary 

No quid-pro-quo, say both sides

Jan 4, 09 9:28 AM CST
(Newser) - A New York developer donated $100,000 to Bill Clinton’s foundation about the same time Sen. Hillary Clinton pushed for millions in federal assistance that helped the developer, the New York Times reports. Robert J. Congel was building a mall that Clinton supported “purely as part of her... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • charity • donor • New York state • Clinton Foundation

Clinton Rents Campaign Mail List to Pay Debt

Renter in chief? Bill, as Hillary races to raise cash before State gig

Dec 25, 08 7:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton's campaign has hit on a novel way of repaying its debt, ABC News reports.  The campaign is renting out the vast list of email addresses compiled during the course of Clinton's failed presidential bid. Among the customers for the list, believed to be 5 million names strong,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • email • Bill Clinton • Clinton 2008 • Hillary Clinton supporters • Election 2008 • Clinton Foundation • campaign debt

(Newser) - Forget for a second the Arab oil money that buoys the Clinton Foundation, Marty Peretz writes in the Wall Street Journal—“since when is the Clinton Foundation one of the approved charities of the United Way?” Nonprofits and foundations, from hospitals to universities to opera companies, are lining... More »

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philanthropy • Bill Clinton • charity • donation • Clinton Foundation • Martin Peretz

Clinton Donor List Loaded With Foreign Governments

Saudi Arabia tops list

Dec 18, 08 11:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Bill Clinton is disclosing all the donors to his foundation today, and the list is full of foreign interests, the AP reports. Saudi Arabia alone pitched in more than $10 million to Clinton’s causes. Governments from Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Italy, Jamaica, and India also pitched in, as... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Bill Clinton • donor • Clinton Global Initiative • Frank Giustra • Clinton Foundation

Bill's $500K Kuwait Speech Shadows Hillary Vetting

Pricey talk to Kuwaiti bankers is the kind of situation that raises concern

Nov 19, 08 5:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Bill Clinton hailed the prospect of Hillary becoming Barack Obama's secretary of state in a speech to a group of Kuwaiti bankers Sunday, and the $500,000 he pocketed for the talk highlights the kind of complications that have ensnarled his wife's vetting process, reports the Daily Beast. Clinton, who... More »

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Hillary Clinton • secretary of State • Bill Clinton • Clinton Global Initiative • Clinton Foundation • Obama administration

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton will accept Barack Obama's offer to become secretary of state, the Guardian reports. The president-elect's team does not anticipate problems arising from an ongoing examination of the records of Bill Clinton's foundation, clearing the way for Obama's fiercest primary rival to embody his stated ambition to assemble a... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Cabinet • State Department • secretary of State • Bill Clinton • Clinton Foundation • President Obama • Cabinet secretary

Clinton Boosts Efforts to Fight Malaria, GOP

Ex-president outlines foundation's drug deal, says he'll help Obama

Jul 17, 08 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton's philanthropic foundation has struck a deal to keep a lid on the price of anti-malaria drugs, the AP reports. The former president today outlined a plan that would help limit wild fluctuation in the market for artemisinin, an extract key to treating malaria, which sickens 500 million a... More »

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Barack Obama • malaria • Bill Clinton • Clinton Foundation • drug costs

 Obama, Clinton
 Camps Spar on Records

'What is Sen. Clinton hiding?' asks spokesman

Mar 16, 08 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama took the day off, but their campaigns took time today to exchange fire on issues of disclosure and statements by disgraced staffers. In a conference call with reporters, the Obama campaign called on Clinton to release documents from her years in the Senate and from... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Clinton Presidential Library • Geraldine Ferraro • Jeremiah Wright • David Axelrod • tax records • Clinton Foundation

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