Congress will miss President Obama's deadline to enact health care reform by the end of the year, a key Democratic senator said Tuesday.
CNN has learned from two senior Democratic sources that former President Bill Clinton will attend the Senate Democrats' weekly luncheon Tuesday to address the caucus about health care.
Talks with Iran on its nuclear program might be more urgent after the Islamic republic's revelations of a second nuclear facility but trust will be an impediment, former President Bill Clinton said Friday.
While some criticism targeting President Obama is racially motivated, the fight over health care isn't, former President Clinton told CNN.
One of the great puzzles this summer has been why President Obama seemed to have underestimated the intensity of the counter-mobilization he would face in proposing health care reform.
President Obama was caught off guard by the frustration that liberals expressed at the suggestion he might drop the public option from health care reform.
Democrats are getting nervous about the way that events have been unfolding this summer.
Much has been made of the involvement of former President Bill Clinton in the freeing of two Current TV journalists held in North Korea and facing 12 years of hard labor.
It was a heartwarming sight: Laura Ling and Euna Lee landing on U.S. soil and being reunited with their families.
Laura Ling on Wednesday expressed the shock she and Euna Lee felt when former President Clinton showed up in Pyongyang, North Korea, to help secure the two journalists' release.
Congress will miss President Obama's deadline to enact health care reform by the end of the year, a key Democratic senator said Tuesday.
CNN has learned from two senior Democratic sources that former President Bill Clinton will attend the Senate Democrats' weekly luncheon Tuesday to address the caucus about health care.
Talks with Iran on its nuclear program might be more urgent after the Islamic republic's revelations of a second nuclear facility but trust will be an impediment, former President Bill Clinton said Friday.
While some criticism targeting President Obama is racially motivated, the fight over health care isn't, former President Clinton told CNN.
One of the great puzzles this summer has been why President Obama seemed to have underestimated the intensity of the counter-mobilization he would face in proposing health care reform.
President Obama was caught off guard by the frustration that liberals expressed at the suggestion he might drop the public option from health care reform.
Democrats are getting nervous about the way that events have been unfolding this summer.
Much has been made of the involvement of former President Bill Clinton in the freeing of two Current TV journalists held in North Korea and facing 12 years of hard labor.
It was a heartwarming sight: Laura Ling and Euna Lee landing on U.S. soil and being reunited with their families.
Laura Ling on Wednesday expressed the shock she and Euna Lee felt when former President Clinton showed up in Pyongyang, North Korea, to help secure the two journalists' release.
It took a U.S. former president with global celebrity status to free two American journalists from a North Korea prison.
President Clinton did more than free two unjustly jailed journalists. He jump-started the successful diplomacy he had begun 15 years earlier.
Two U.S. journalists who had been detained by North Korea were traveling back to the United States with former President Clinton hours after being pardoned, a Clinton spokesman said.
Former President Clinton's trip to North Korea was the culmination of weeks of quiet diplomacy with Pyongyang and subtle public statements aimed at freeing American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
Nearly a decade has passed since Bill Clinton left the White House, but despite becoming a private citizen, the former president never left the public eye.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton landed in North Korea early Tuesday on a mission to negotiate the release of two American journalists imprisoned there since March, according to the country's state news agency and a CNN source.
Former President Bill Clinton urged people to accept themselves and others in a world system that is "unstable, unequal and unsustainable."
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Tuesday urged urban leaders and policymakers they need to take the lead now in fighting climate change.
Former President Bill Clinton urged renewable energy Wednesday to push ahead with efforts to make clean technologies cost effective and outlined steps the government and the private sector can take to usher in a new green era.
U.S. political, business and environmental leaders urged the nation Monday to act quickly to build a unified, national electricity grid, both to diminish the impact of global warming and to boost the economy.
CNN's Larry King talked with former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday night at the William Jefferson Clinton Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Former President Bill Clinton was in Austin, Texas, over the weekend to host the Clinton Global Initiative University, which encourages college students and administrators to come up with creative ways to address global issues.
Two former presidents reflected on their greatest regrets in office Monday, each looking back to issues that continue to plague the nation years later.
Hillary Clinton was sworn in as the 67th U.S. secretary of state Wednesday afternoon after the Senate approved her nomination by a vote of 94-2.
Former President Clinton published a list of donors to his foundation Thursday to help clear the way for his wife to become secretary of state.
Eight years after Bill Clinton left the White House, the 42nd President of the United States of America still looms large on the world stage, often attracting the kind of attention usually only reserved for incumbent presidents.
While Hillary Clinton's nomination to be secretary of state has dominated coverage of the transition, the nation's attention hasn't yet focused on the thorny thicket of potential conflicts of interest involving Bill Clinton's fundraising (both for himself and for his foundation) across the globe.
Former President Bill Clinton has no interest in replacing his wife in the U.S. Senate, his spokesman said, adding any speculation that he would be interested is "completely false."
After eight years as senator from New York, Hillary Clinton is trading places, moving from Congress to the incoming administration.
When it comes to vetting potential high-level advisers, is President-elect Barack Obama too cautious for his own good?
President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for secretary of homeland security is Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, multiple Democratic sources close to the transition told CNN on condition of anonymity.
A major obstacle in Sen. Hillary Clinton's path to becoming President-elect Barack Obama's Secretary of State may be out of the way, as former President Bill Clinton has made several concessions to help move his wife's vetting process along.
Former President Bill Clinton's international business dealings, global foundation and penchant for going off script could present a significant obstacle to Hillary Clinton becoming secretary of state, observers say.
Bill Clinton laid his political hands on Barack Obama Wednesday night in front of more than 30,000 adoring supporters, six days before Americans pick a new president
In his Democratic convention acceptance speech sixteen years ago, Bill Clinton declared that as one of the first initiatives of his administration, he would "take on the health care profiteers and make health care affordable for every family."
I have been involved in most of the presidential and vice presidential debates over the past 20 years.
Former President Bill Clinton urges Americans to "think through here what is the right thing to do for themselves and their families and for our country" when they vote in November, in an interview with CNN's Larry King due to air Wednesday.
President George W. Bush did not attend the Republican National Convention, but spoke to the delegates via video conference.
While the political world held its breath awaiting the two presumptive presidential candidates' vice presidential picks, I slipped out of Washington and paid a visit to the real world.
President Bill Clinton's appearance at the Democratic National Convention last night served as a reminder of the economy we can have with policies that balance fiscal responsibility with investments in our people.
Former President Clinton dismissed critics who say Sen. Barack Obama is too inexperienced for the presidency in his speech to the Democratic National Convention.
For one night, it was like the Democratic Party had entered a parallel dimension, where John Kerry was an electrifying speaker and Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were members of a mutual admiration society.
Republicans briefly stopped attacking Sen. Barack Obama for what they call his lack of foreign policy experience to note the historic significance of the United States nominating the first African-American for president.
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has agreed to put former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton's name in nomination at the Democratic National Convention this month.
If Sen. Hillary Clinton's name is placed in nomination in Denver, Colorado, this year, it wouldn't be the first time that a candidate was beaten in the primaries and still formally contested the nomination at the convention.
Former President Clinton will speak at the Democratic National Convention, three sources said Thursday.
Former President Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama talked by phone Monday morning, representatives of both said, as the Democrats sought to quash rumors that Clinton holds a grudge against the man who knocked his wife out of contention for the party's presidential nomination.
Bill Clinton on Tuesday canceled a commencement speech at the University of California, Los Angeles, because of a lingering labor dispute
What a long, strange, unhappy trip it's been for Bill Clinton.
Actress Gina Gershon is demanding a retraction from Vanity Fair after the magazine reported "high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip" that former President Clinton "has been seen visiting" her in California.
The Vanity Fair journalist who infuriated the Clinton campaign over the weekend with an explosive article that questions former President Bill Clinton's business dealings and behavior since leaving the White House strongly defended his reporting Monday.
Hillary Clinton's campaign has apologized for "inappropriate" language used by her husband in response to what it called an "outrageously unfair" article about the former president.
A 30-member Democratic Party panel decided Saturday how to award Florida and Michigan delegates to presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama.
His lead still seems insurmountable, but some wonder if Clinton's win with white blue-collars could spell trouble
Barack Obama has refused to play by the old political rules. He's about to be rewarded for it
Sen. Barack Obama received key endorsements Friday from a top former Clinton administration official and two former Democratic senators.
There are probably days when Hillary Clinton is really grateful to the man she's married and there are days when she couldn't possibly be.
A campaign gaffe by former President Bill Clinton on his wife's tale about a trip to Bosnia got attention Friday -- sparking questions on whether he's becoming a big problem for her presidential campaign.
Barack Obama's candidacy has helped make African-American radio personalities sought-after presences
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson sharply disputed that he made any promises to Bill Clinton about presidential endorsements, as Clinton reportedly has claimed.
Former President Bill Clinton defended his role in his wife's presidential campaign in South Carolina, disputing claims he made race a campaign issue.
On scene in Austin, TIME's Hilary Hylton compares the old Clinton charisma with the new Obama charisma
The former President was supposed to be a major weapon in his wife's campaign. But is he to blame for its problems?
Inside the Democratic challengers' battle to win blue votes in the big red state of Texas
The Democratic candidate is polling poorly among one important ethnic group. Is race the reason?
In the saga of his love life that he weaves as a bedtime story for his preteen daughter, Maya (Abigail Breslin), in "Definitely, Maybe," Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) sounds like a man from Hope as he recounts the good old days of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
Barack Obama got the better of Clinton – Bill Clinton, that is – in a different kind of run-off this weekend.
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton claimed the biggest prize of Super Tuesday's Democratic primaries with a win in California, CNN projected, while Sen. Barack Obama rode high in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states.
In the run-up to Super Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton is planning a tour of African-American churches in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday.
Viewpoint: The former President has cheapened the Democratic race, says Joe Klein, and is in danger of spoiling his wife's chances
Bill Clinton has cheapened the Democratic campaign and turned his wife's run into a co-candidacy. Here's why Hillary would be better off alone he damage her presidency as well?
Activists on both sides are bracing for a new battle over gays in the military if the Democrats take the White House
With Super Tuesday just around the corner, his commanding, broad-based victory in South Carolina could mean that the Clinton brand of hard-knuckled politics is past its prime
After a week of at times bitter campaigning, Sen. Barack Obama faces a crucial test of his support from within the party Saturday as South Carolina Democrats head to the polls in a race that features black voters for the first time this presidential primary season.
Sen. Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said Sen. Barack Obama had become frustrated by his losses in New Hampshire and Nevada, and she also accused her opponent of not backing up his words with action.
The bitter back-and-forth between former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama has led a prominent black lawmaker to tell the former president Monday to "chill a little bit."
They've been tussling since they first tossed their hats in the ring -- about health care, the war in Iraq, each other's breadth of experience.
She's not only found herself on the wrong side of the experience-change divide, she's touting the wrong kind of experience
Obesity is the No. 1 health crisis in the United States, and the nation could be at risk without immediate action, former President Clinton said at CNN's first Fit Nation Summit.
A good ground game in New Hampshire helped. So did a new message. But the real change came from Clinton herself
It is a title that would be sure to bring either fear or cheer to many Americans, depending on your political leanings: Supreme Court Justice Bill Clinton.
Decorum dominated the final Democratic presidential debate in Iowa before the January 3 caucuses there, but contenders sought to distinguish themselves on questions of trade and economic growth.
After releasing three hostages, a man identified as Leeland Eisenberg, who claims to be holding a bomb, prolongs the standoff at Clinton's office
The college student who was told what question to ask at one of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events said "voters have the right to know what happened" and she wasn't the only one who was planted.
Is Hillary holding back records from Bill's archives? The answer isn't clear, but archivists do have to wade through a lot of material -- of both the domestic and outer-space variety
What's the number one issue to voters right now?
Sen. Hillary Clinton's rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination are accusing her of delaying the release of records from her husband's administration, something the front-runner and President Clinton have denied.
Bill Clinton's new book, Giving, is a who's who of organizations and individuals that have crossed paths with him in the world of philanthropy and volunteerism. Readers are given a privileged seat at the table of the annual Clinton Global Initiative, where private-sector leaders make pledges of noble and often highly innovative undertakings.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is unveiling a sweeping health care proposal Monday that would require everyone to carry health insurance and offer federal subsidies to help reduce the cost of coverage.
And other surprising answers, in TIME.com's first-ever survey of the wives (and husband) of the presidential candidates
Hillary Clinton gets ready for another Letterman appearance, highlighting the increasingly important role talk shows are playing on the campaign trail
We're in an unprecedented situation. It's not just that Hillary Clinton would be the first woman president if elected, she would also be the first president married to a former president.
What do the first-quarter fundraising totals tell us about the Democratic race?
It's March Madness.
The Republican running against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York denied a Monday newspaper report that he disparaged the Democratic senator's appearance.
We asked, and you answered. In the QuickVotes that appear every day on the front page of the Exchange, you not only voted -- you left us comments responding to the issues of the day. Here is a selection of your responses, some of which have been edited:
Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had sharply different views this week on whether the Clinton or Bush administrations were more aggressive in pursuing Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network. We asked our readers who they think is right and why.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday defended her husband in an ongoing war of words with conservatives over whether the administration did enough to fight terrorism.
Before the final hours of the Clinton Global Initiative, the lobby of Manhattan's Sheraton hotel was so jam-packed that it was almost impossible to move through the crowd. It wasn't easy to pick out people in the sea of the famous, the wealthy and the powerful, but they were there. Barbara Streisand. First Lady Laura Bush. Hillary Clinton. And so on.
In a contentious taped interview that aired on "Fox News Sunday," former President Bill Clinton vigorously defended his efforts as president to capture and kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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