For incoming college freshmen this fall, former President Bill Clinton is an elder statesman and exposed bra straps have always been a fashion statement, not a wardrobe malfunction, according to the Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2016.
Afghan schoolgirls sit in the spotlight as their classrooms face alleged poison attacks in the north and threats from insurgents in the south. Questions surround the shadowy incidents, which come at a fragile time in the country's transition. And in many ways, as goes girls' education, so goes the country's procession toward progress.
The first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State and a Polish officer who provided some of the first accounts of the Holocaust are among 13 people who will be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday.
President Obama honors Medal of Freedom recipients including Bob Dylan, Pat Summitt, Madeleine Albright and 10 others.
If the word "secretary" doesn't conjure up an image for you, just run a quick Google Image search.
I had the great pleasure to know Geraldine Ferraro, the first female major party vice presidential nominee, who died Saturday.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks with CNN's Don Lemon about her close friend Geraldine Ferraro.
Former Secy. of State Madeleine Albright says that the U.S. "cannot micromanage" the transition in Egypt.
Getting into North Korea was one of the weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists to come and cover the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang. Just before our departure, they suddenly said, "No, nobody can come." Then they said, "OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists." But they already knew we were journalists, and over there if you get caught being a journalist when you're supposed to be a tourist you go to jail. We don't like jail. And we're willing to bet we'd hate jail in North Korea.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks to CNN's Carol Costello about North Korea's missile launch.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is using his claims of a successful rocket launch to shore up his political strength within his country.
American Morning's Kiran Chetry speaks to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about Clinton's new job.
Sheryl Crow, U2 and Garth Brooks offer inspirational performances on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is calling for early action in preventing genocide.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice invited the woman set to replace her as the nation's top diplomat, Sen. Hillary Clinton, to dinner Monday night, a State Department spokesman said.
Trailing in the polls, Sen. John McCain will travel to seven states in one day as his presidential campaign enters its final hours, the Republican nominee's campaign manager announced Friday.
Fareed Zakaria discusses why, despite the economic crisis, we should remain optimistic.
Madeleine Albright talks to CNN's Campbell Brown about the presidential race and why she thinks Obama is the right choice.
The next U.S. president will inherit a world of trouble, not least of all the global financial crisis, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Thursday.
Five former secretaries of state from both parties Monday discussed how they would advise the next president on a wide range of foreign policy, including relations with Russia, Iran and the Middle East.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen announced Tuesday they will co-chair a task force to develop guidelines to help future U.S. governments deal with genocide.
As U.S. secretary of state under former President Clinton, Madeleine Albright invested long hours in the Middle East peace process. She wrote about the relationship between politics and religion in her 2006 book, "The Mighty and the Almighty."
Among the New York Police Academy's new graduates is Long Island native Cheryl Walter.
One of New York's new finest
In the debut of Rhetoric Watch, two speechwriters find a familiar chord in a much-used Clinton anecdote
Tens of thousands of demonstrators in cities around the world on Sunday demanded action to stop the killing in Darfur, Sudan.
Former President Bill Clinton called for ABC to "tell the truth" in an upcoming miniseries about the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks.
Children's publishing company Scholastic said that it is removing materials from its Web site originally created for use in conjunction with ABC's "The Path to 9/11" amid growing controversy over the docudrama.
Much to my chagrin, the neighborhood I grew up in, Glen Park, was one that nobody had ever heard of. Everyone from my classmates to taxi drivers would all ask the same question: Is that in San Francisco? At which point, I'd defensively mutter something about how there's even a BART station there! One of only eight subway stops in the city! For the record, it's just over the hill from Noe Valley and next to the Mission District.
The following profiles feature prominent women in the fields of politics, law, sports, science and business.
Determined and quick witted, Madeleine Albright, the daughter of a Czech diplomat who fled the Nazis, made her mark on world politics as the first U.S. female secretary of state in 1997 and continues to work on a global scale with her business consulting firm.
Iraq has stolen the headlines again.
In January 1997, the daughter of a Czechoslovakian diplomat, Madeleine Albright became the first woman to hold the post of U.S. secretary of state, serving in the second Clinton administration. Albright previously served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Posted: 11:24 p.m. ET From Todd Leopold, CNN.com
Monday evening President Bush outlined to the American people his plan for transitioning Iraq into a free and democratic nation.
Tuesday's testimony before the 9/11 commission revealed a previously unknown opportunity in 1999 to kill Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Madeleine Albright, U.S. secretary of state during President Clinton's second term, testified Tuesday before the commission investigating the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The top military and diplomatic leaders of the Clinton and Bush administrations were grilled Tuesday by members of the commission investigating the government's antiterror policies before the attacks of September 11, 2001 brought unprecedented destruction and death to the American homeland.
The independent commission investigating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks will begin holding public hearings March 23, its spokesman said Friday.
Jack Kemp and Madeleine Albright disagree about almost everything. Kemp, who was Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 presidential race against Bill Clinton, leans right, while Albright, who was Cli...
Business conferences don't achieve real status these days, it seems, unless they attract throngs of rock-throwing, meat-eschewing, puppet-wielding antiglobalization protesters. And on the face of i...
Bill Joy Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems
Sitting at the PC, one calls up the Lexis directory, selects Nexis as the database one most yearns to search, then hovers over any number of news stories and cackles triumphantly if and when the fa...
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