WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama has interviewed primary election rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Richardson for secretary of state, according to Democratic officials who revealed his secret meetings with both as he weighed the decision on folding former foes into his new administration. Obama met with Richardson late Friday afternoon, a day after conferring [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Sen. Hillary Clinton emerged on Thursday as a candidate to be U.S. secretary of state for Barack Obama, months after he defeated her in an intense contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Putting Clinton, wife of former President Bill Clinton, in the position could help heal whatever lingering divisions remain in the Democratic [...]

CHICAGO – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates that President-elect Barack Obama is considering for secretary of state, according to two Democratic officials in close contact with the Obama transition team.
Clinton, the former first lady who pushed Obama hard for the Democratic presidential nomination, was rumored to be a contender for the job [...]

WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton will end her presidential campaign Saturday at an event in Washington.

She will thank supporters and formally endorse rival Barack Obama, who clinched the nomination on Tuesday.
The campaign said in a statement Friday that the event will take place at noon at the National Building Museum.
The former first lady is expected [...]

WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton told colleagues Tuesday she would consider joining Barack Obama as his running mate, and advisers said she was withholding a formal departure from the race partly to use her remaining leverage to press for a spot on the ticket.

On a conference call with other New York lawmakers, Clinton, a New [...]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former president Bill Clinton dropped a hint Monday that the end might be nigh for his wife Hillary’s dogged campaign for the Democratic White House nomination, according to reports.

“I want to say also that this may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind,” the former president [...]

(CNN) – A day before a Democratic panel is to determine how to seat the delegations of Florida and Michigan, the Clinton campaign’s chief lawyer said the committee is compelled to seat both delegations fully and not award Sen. Barack Obama any delegates from Michigan.

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s lawyer is set to make her case before [...]

(CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama said he was “deeply disappointed” by a sermon at his church this week that mocked Sen. Hillary Clinton.

The Rev. Michael Pfleger, left, marches with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others last year in Barrington, Illinois.
A video making the rounds on YouTube shows the Rev. Michael Pfleger mocking Clinton for becoming [...]

WASHINGTON – Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, rival Barack Obama planned for the long haul. Clinton hinged her whole campaign on an early knockout blow on Super Tuesday, while Obama’s staff researched congressional districts in states with primaries that were months away. What they found were opportunities to win delegates, even in states they would eventually [...]

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

Clinton and Obama supporters both said Clinton attacked unfairly.
(CNN) – Even in a state Hillary Clinton appears to have won by 35 points, a majority of Kentucky voters say the New York senator attacked Barack Obama unfairly.
According to the exit polls, 54 percent of voters said Clinton launched unfair attacks [...]