Washington, March 19 : Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has expressed her support for same-sex marriage in a video on the Human Rights Campaign web site.

Gays, lesbians and transgender people "are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones. And they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship - that includes marriage", she said Monday in a statement some saw as an indication of her possible candidacy for president in 2016.

Washington, Mar. 8 : If the 2016 presidential elections were held today, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will top any of several top-tier possible Republican candidates, including New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a new poll has found.

The Quinnipiac Poll found that Clinton bests Christie 45 percent to 37 percent, and trumps Senator Marco Rubio 50 percent to 34 percent and Republican Paul Ryan, 50 percent to 38 percent.

In a statement, Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said that Clinton would start a 2016 presidential campaign with enormous advantages.

Washington, Feb 15 : The last two secretaries of state, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Condoleezza Rice, top a new list of potential contenders in the next US presidential election in 2016, according to new survey.

Clinton and Rice were one and two in a Fox News national survey that simply asked whether this "person would make a good president or not?"

Out of a list of a dozen possible 2016 White House hopefuls, 55 percent of people questioned said that Clinton, who stepped down earlier this month as secretary of state, would make a good president. Forty-two percent said Clinton would not make a good president.

Washington, Feb 2 - Hillary Clinton formally stepped down as US secretary of state Friday with a letter to President Barack Obama and an emotional farewell address to the department she has run for four years.

"I leave thinking of the nearly 70,000 people that I was honored to serve and lead as part of a huge extended family. And I hope that you will continue to make yourselves, make me, and make our country proud," the 65-year-old former first lady said.

A day after resigning from the Senate, John Kerry was sworn-in as Clinton's successor in a private ceremony late Friday.

Washington, Feb 1 : As Hillary Clinton made her final speech as America's top diplomat, she suggested US had encouraged India's "Look East" policy as an exercise in 'smart power' in its pivot to Asia Pacific.

"There are limits to what soft power on its own can achieve," said Secretary of State Clinton Thursday emphasising American leadership, and the need to reshape diplomacy to meet the changing landscape of the world.

Washington, Jan. 30 : Outgoing secretary of state Hillary Clinton has said she is not thinking about running for president in 2016, saying that she is looking forward to finishing up her tenure and then catching up on about 20 years of sleep deprivation.

In a global `town hall' interview with young people, Clinton talked about her legacy, including the parallels between her tenure as secretary of state and another historical diplomat's, and her future of helping women in politics.

Washington, Jan. 30 : Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has discussed about her biggest regret at the dignitary post under President Barack Obama since 2009.

In a global `town hall' interview with young people, Clinton talked about her legacy, including the parallels between her tenure as secretary of state and another historical diplomat's, and her future of helping women in politics.

Washington, Jan 30 : Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she still has "absolutely no plans to run" for president but is looking forward to more "adventures" down the road.

"I am lucky because I've been very healthy. I feel great. I've got enormous amounts of energy that have to be harnessed and focused, so I'm very fortunate," she told CNN in an exit interview Tuesday before she steps down.

Pressed further on whether she has ruled out another White House bid, Clinton said; "I have absolutely no plans to run."

Washington, Jan 29 : A majority of Americans want to see Meryl Streep portraying Hillary Clinton in a movie, a poll has said.

According to a CBS News/Vanity Fair poll, about four in 10 Americans think Streep should play the outgoing-Secretary of State in a Clinton biopic, followed by 18 percent for Glenn Close, 8 percent for Susan Sarandon, seven percent for Helen Mirren.

The poll, covering 1,179 adults, showed that six percent of Americans voted for Kirsten Dunst and one percent for Connie Britton, and the remainder picked other choices, Politico reports.

Washington, Jan 28 : A rare joint interview of President Barack Obama and his outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has renewed speculation about a 2016 presidential run by his one time rival turned trusted friend.

Obama sought the joint interview telecast Sunday night on CBS's "60 Minutes" as he "just wanted to have a chance to publicly say 'thank you,'" to "one of the finest secretaries of state"

Washington, Jan 26 : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is wearing a pair of special eyeglasses that have a lens which is used to treat double vision, eye doctors have said.

Clinton, recently treated for a blood clot near her brain after a fall, wore the Fresnel lens to aid her left eye during the Benghazi hearing.

Dr. Vike Vicente, a pediatric ophthalmologist in Bethesda, Md. Described it as a kind of prism that helps people who are experiencing double vision, Fox news reports.

Washington, Jan 25 : Bill and Hillary Clinton could be looking to buy a new place in the Hamptons. According to a source, the couple is looking to rent or buy a stately but relatively modest-priced oceanfront mansion.

They have been renting in the location for a few years, and looking to buy on-and-off, the source added. The source further said that the Clintons have in the past rented a 19 million-dollar, eight-bedroom mansion on Lily Pond Lane owned by Elie Hirschfeld, among other properties, reports New York Post.

Washington, Jan. 25 : Greeting the people of India on the occasion of its 64th Republic Day, U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that her three trips to the country as the top American diplomat reinforced her "unyielding belief" that the Indo-US strategic partnership is making the world "more united, prosperous and secure".

Washington, Jan 25 : Senator John Kerry, President Barack Obama's pick to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, sailed through his hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he chairs.

With Kerry, a Vietnam veteran and a senator since 1985, on the other side of the table, Thursday's hearing was led instead by Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey.

During the five-hour hearing, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee who lost the election to George W. Bush, said "we will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon".

Washington, Jan 25 - Greeting the people of India on its Republic Day, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the US-India strategic partnership is making the world more united, prosperous, and secure.

"Together we are strengthening our ties and working to address some of the most difficult global challenges," she said in a Republic day message holding out an assurance "that the United States stands with you."