HILLARY CLINTON

She will journey to Georgia on Tuesday, travel to Azerbaijan on Wednesday, and then move on to Turkey.

There's been a whole lot of Bill Clinton in the news recently. The former Democratic president has become his party's go-to surrogate on the campaign trail this year, most recently by raising the profile of Wisconsin's gubernatorial election on Friday.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate will renew next week their push for equal-pay legislation with the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill with an embattled history that would help close the wage gap between men and women that experts say costs each woman about $434,000 over the course of her career.

In 2011, this tiny nation of only 8-million people recorded 86 murders per 100,000 inhabitants (the highest rate on the planet), up from 82 in the prior year, and double the rate from just six years ago

China Thursday defended its interests in the Asia-Pacific, following US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's statement, ahead of his week-long visit to Singapore, Vietnam and India starting this weekend, that the US would increase its military presence in the region.

With hopes of changing Moscow's stance on Damascus, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Russia's relationship with Syria is bringing the country toward civil war.

Can you really protect your allies while still cutting the military? That's the conundrum the U.S. is now facing, even as it talks about pivoting back to Asia and returning in force to the Western Pacific.

The U.S. State Department is under pressure from members of congress and the Justice Department to designate the militant Islamic sect Boko Haram, based in northern Nigeria, a foreign terrorist organization. Nigeria, and American scholars, disagree.

The Tennessee lawyer who took 42 percent of the vote away from President Barack Obama in the Arkansas Democratic primary is back, hoping to pick up momentum in Texas on Tuesday.

Turkey, a growing economic powerhouse, has become an increasingly important Middle East power-broker, with Prime minister Erdogan taking an aggressive presence in world affairs

Backed by a muscular interpretation of executive power, the Obama administration has made armed drones the centerpiece of its counter-terror arsenal, stepping up strikes in Pakistan and expanding the campaign into Yemen and Somalia.

The U.N. Security Council is to meet Sunday afternoon to discuss the Houla massacre in Syria, diplomats said.

A picture says 1000 words, but porn stars talk even more. Tasha Reign and Brooklyn Lee, the two starlets who posed for a photo with Bill Clinton at a gala fundraiser in Monaco on Wednesday, said the former president wanted to meet them both, despite the secret service's attempt to block their meeting. Reign even went as far as calling Bubba super hot, adding she feels sympathetic for how quickly the photo went viral.

U.S. senators scandalized by Pakistan's jailing of a doctor for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden voted on Thursday to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million - one million for each year in the doctor's sentence.

On Wednesday, Somalia's interim leaders agreed on a schedule to end the current transitional period. By August, they hope, a newly elected government will lead a unified Somalia away from its tumultuous past.

The State Department pulled a switcheroo on al-Qaeda by hacking into the terrorist group's Yemeni websites and replacing anti-American ads with versions showing the atrocities the criminal terrorist group is committing in that country. But will it work as terror-fighting tool?

About four in 10 voters choose not to vote for the president in the Democratic primary.

Rajapaksa, now the president of the South Asian island nation, signed the release order for his old rival over the weekend.

U.S. will begin to issue licenses to allow investments in the country, but maintain the arms embargo.

Noting that a majority of Facebook users are women, the group is calling on CEO Mark Zuckerberg to diversify its board of directors as the company prepares to go public.

The Obama administration is trying to get Iranian exile group the People's Mujahedin of Iran taken off of the State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, according to a Monday report in the Wall Street Journal.