Clinton happy with clout in Obama administration, saying she ‘broke my elbow, not my larynx’

September 22nd, 2009 Obama praises Clinton in speech to Clinton groupNEW YORK — President Barack Obama says former President Bill Clinton should be credited with saving millions of lives around the world since leaving the White House. Obama on Tuesday spoke in New York to the Clinton Global Initiative, the former president's philanthropic organization.

August 14th, 2009 Bill Clinton: GOP promotes fear over health carePITTSBURGH — Republicans have turned to terrifying people in the debate over overhauling the health care system because the GOP has no political clout to fight it, former President Bill Clinton told a gathering of progressive bloggers on Thursday. Clinton was president when the Democrats made their last major effort to change the health care system.

July 22nd, 2009 Clinton doesn't slam door on a White House bidBANGKOK — Hillary for president, again? She says it's unlikely, but in a Thai television interview Wednesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't completely close that door. Asked whether she still aspired to be the first female American president, she said, "That's not anything I'm at all thinking about," adding that she is "100 percent focused" on her role as President Barack Obama's secretary of state.

July 20th, 2009 A Clinton moment: the naked truth about AmericansNEW DELHI — Americans as naked gladiators? Indians as blissful beauties? Those were the images — exaggerated a bit for dramatic effect — that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton evoked Monday in a question-and-answer session with university students who probed her thinking on a range of topics — some personal.

July 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The White House is tired of seeing stories that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are not getting along. "The notion that there's some rift or disagreement is nothing more than silly Washington games," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Wednesday when asked about the relationship between the president and his secretary of state.

July 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have broken her elbow but she hasn't been elbowed out. That's the signal she gave as she headed to India for her first visit as America's chief diplomat.

July 16th, 2009 Clinton: reports of my demise prematureWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday she is comfortable in her position as President Barack Obama's top diplomat and has been consistently involved in foreign policy decisions. "I broke my elbow, not my larynx," she said, referring to the fractured elbow that kept her out of the limelight for a month.

June 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will undergo surgery for her fractured right elbow, the State Department said. Clinton, 61, was taken to George Washington University Hospital, where doctors determined the break would require an operation, the New York Times quoted State Department spokesman P.

June 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has fractured her right elbow in a fall, BBC reported Thursday. Clinton had been on her way to the White House when she fell Wednesday afternoon, her chief of staff Cheryl Mills said in a statement.

June 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday declared that the Obama administration was "clearly committed to furthering and deepening relationship with India in every way possible". Setting at rest speculation that unlike the previous Bush administration, President Barack Obama was ignoring New Delhi, she said both Obama and she herself were committed to build stronger ties with India.

May 12th, 2009 Chipper Jones out of Braves lineup with sore elbowNEW YORK — Chipper Jones has a stiff and swollen right elbow, keeping him out of the Atlanta Braves' lineup in their first visit to Citi Field to play the New York Mets. Jones hyperextended his elbow on a swing Sunday and left Atlanta's 4-2 victory at Philadelphia in the seventh inning.

May 11th, 2009 Clinton welcomes Iran's release of US journalistWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is welcoming the release of an American journalist who had been jailed in Iran for four months. Clinton told reporters at the State Department that the Obama administration disputes the spying charges against 32-year-old Roxanna Saberi and objects to the verdict rendered against her by an Iranian court.

May 10th, 2009 Cubs send reliever Fox to disabled listMILWAUKEE — The Chicago Cubs have placed reliever Chad Fox on the 15-day disabled list with right elbow inflammation and recalled right-hander Jose Ascanio from Triple-A Iowa. Fox sustained the injury during the eighth inning of Saturday's 12-6 loss at Milwaukee.

May 6th, 2009 Clinton kicks off Afghan-Pakistan talksWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is kicking off two days of Obama administration talks with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan to prod them to step up efforts against the Taliban and other extremists. Clinton is meeting separately and together at the State Department with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and then Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (AH'-seef ah-LEE' zahr-DAH'-ree).

May 6th, 2009 Elbow irritation sidelines Pirates' CappsPITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Pirates closer Matt Capps expects to be sidelined until this weekend because of irritation in his right elbow, a problem that apparently developed during two successive poor outings. No ligament or other structural damage was found during an examination of Capps' elbow on Tuesday.