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Hillary Rodham Clinton has formally resigned as America's 67th secretary of state, capping a four-year tenure in the office that saw her shatter previous records for countries visited.

Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday cast doubt on speculation she might run for the White House in 2016.

The Secretary of State announced in a global town hall on Tuesday that she plans to pen a memoir after she steps down from the office, although she added that she does not yet know what she’ll say in it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton leaves her post as secretary of State next month with a split judgment on her diplomatic career: She's won rave reviews from the American public and the president, but maybe not a prominent place in the diplomatic history books.

I have read the long 35,000-word script of the hearing on the nomination of Senator John Kerry to be the next U.S. Secretary of State. The hearing was held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and in order for us to understand the personality of the new secretary of state, whose appointment will be unanimously approved, we should know that he had already testified before such a committee more than 40 years ago as a soldier returning from the Vietnam War.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was presented with a gift from her staff: protective head gear -- a football helmet with the State Department logo on the side as well as a football jersey with the number 112 on it, for the number of countries the secretary visited during her four-year tenure.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sustained a concussion after becoming dehydrated and fainting, and will no longer testify Thursday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Are you sure Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for president in 2016? Be careful how much you bet on it. The secretary of State told Marie Claire magazine she won't seek the presidency again in four years. "You know?" she said. "I am not." (The comments are at the end of the article.)

It's never too early to bet in the United Kingdom, not even on the United States presidential election -- of 2016. The good folks at the Ladbrokes betting service are listing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as the favorite in the next presidential election; her odds of winning the presidency in four years: 6-1.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she wants to step off the "high wire of American politics" after two decades and is again tamping down speculation that she might stay in government if President Barack Obama wins a second term.