It looks like it could really happen and Barack Obama will name one time rival Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. It would be a smart move on his part. There have been a lot of criticisms of Hillary Clinton on just about every front and she clashed bitterly with Obama in the nomination

Will Hillary Clinton actually have anything to do as Secretary of State? That is the question posed in this article from The Hill. Obama has been very keen to have a 'Team of Rivals' in his administration, and Clinton must have thought she'd won a particularly important victory when appointed Secretary of State. But as the Obama Administration settles in, has she been outmanouevred? Several other ...

Andrea Mitchell reporting for NBC News: Two Obama advisers have told NBC News that Hillary Clinton is under consideration to be secretary of state. Would she be interested? Those who know Clinton say possibly. But her office says that any decisions about the transition are up to the president-elect and his team. Clinton was seen taking a flight to Chicago today, but an adviser says it was on perso...

So the Guardian, several steps ahead of the American media, has come out and reported that Hillary Clinton has been offered and has accepted the post of Secretary of State in an Obama administration. It's a strangely written story, with no details and virtually no sourcing. Clinton "plans to accept the job of secretary of state....the Guardian has learned". Er, that's it. What to make of...

So the Guardian, several steps ahead of the American media, has come out and reported that Hillary Clinton has been offered and has accepted the post of Secretary of State in an Obama administration. It's a strangely written story, with no details and virtually no sourcing. Clinton "plans to accept the job of secretary of state....the Guardian has learned". Er, that's it. What to make of...

The rumour circulating that Hillary Rodham Clinton might be appointed Secretary of State by President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama is surely some kind of pre-Thanksgiving joke? For it won't just be Hillary bestriding the world stage but the priapic former President, Bill Clinton, will be strutting his stuff on the world stage. Having worked his way through Washington's interns he can then ...

Mike Allen reports the latest on the Hillary for Secretary of State story: “Team Obama, after all but offering SecState to Senator Clinton, is expressing EXASPERATION with the Clinton camp for the difficulty in getting a clean vet on President Bill Clinton’s many entanglements. “The ball is very much in her court, but the president's finances have been a major point of sensi...

There was widespread media speculation that during her meeting today with Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would raise objections to the Conservative Party’s pledge to repatriate key powers from the European Union to the United...

Turns out Hillary Clinton may not be the type of person who believes that the Virgin Mary can miraculously appear on a bit of toast. The new Secretary of State put her foot in it during a visit to Mexico....

The administration is taking a troubling stand on metrics for the campaign in Afghanistan. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to keep things secret that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton found it expedient to politicize. The Obama administration wants to keep its metrics of progress for the war in Afghanistan under wraps. Secretary Clinton and Defense Secretary