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Hillary Rodham Clinton's upcoming book will be called "Hard Choices," a title that reflects how the potential 2016 presidential candidate may try to define her record as President Barack Obama's secretary of state while she considers another White House campaign.

Publisher Simon & Schuster said Friday the new book, to be released June 10, will offer Clinton's "inside account of the crises, choices and challenges" she faced as secretary of state and "how those experiences drive her view of the future."

"All of us face hard choices in our lives," Clinton writes at the start of the book, according to the publisher. "Life is about making these choices, and how we handle them shapes the people we become."

Clinton's State Department memoir will hit bookshelves as the former first lady and New York senator sits atop polls about hypothetical candidates as the leading Democratic contender should she seek the presidency. Since leaving the State Department, Clinton has traveled widely, giving speeches to industry groups, college students and others while joining the foundation led by her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Clinton's potential candidacy has been eagerly anticipated by Democrats, who frequently ask Clinton about her intentions and encourage her to try to become the nation's first female president. A series of Democratic outside groups is already building support for a future campaign, and Republicans are actively critiquing her record.

Republicans have criticized Clinton's response to the killing of four Americans in the 2012 attacks on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and questioned her handling of relations with Russia. In 2009, Clinton memorably gave Russia's top diplomat a red button labeled, "reset," to symbolize how U.S. relations had thawed, but the button was mistranslated into Russian. In the aftermath of Russia's bold annexation of Ukraine's strategic Crimean peninsula, Republicans have suggested it represented a naivet.

Simon & Schuster said on a website promoting the book that Clinton and Obama "had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East."

"Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm's way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden," the publisher said.

The book will chronicle Clinton's travel to 112 countries and nearly 1 million miles as secretary of state and "offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of women, youth and LGBT people."

Clinton will also "offer readers a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use "smart power" to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world one in which America remains the indispensable nation."

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Title of New Hillary Clinton Book: 'Hard Choices'

NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-published memoir of her time as U.S. secretary of state now has a title, Hard Choices, her publisher announced Friday.

Simon & Schuster added the title to its hillaryclintonmemoir.com website. The book is scheduled to hit the stores June 10, and the site encourages readers to advance order it through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other outlets.

The publisher describes the memoir as "the story of the four extraordinary and historic years" Clinton spent in the cabinet of President Obama, who defeated her for the Democratic nomination in 2008.

All of us face hard choices in our lives, Simon & Schuster quotes, saying that is how Clinton starts her memoir. "Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become."

Chelsea Clinton announced Thursday afternoon at an appearance with her mother in New York that she and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are expecting a child in the fall. The news sparked speculation about how becoming a grandmother would affect Hillary Clinton's chances in the presidential race, criticism of the media for covering a woman politician's personal life more closely than those of men, and suggestions from some conservatives that Clinton put pressure on her daughter to provide her with a grandchild for the campaign trail.

Clinton is the author of It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, published while her husband was president, and a 2003 memoir, Living History. As first lady, she also published a collection of children's letters to her family's pets.

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A young woman who tearfully and publicly confessed to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that she was an undocumented immigrant was praised by Clinton for being incredibly brave.

Actress America Ferrera moderated the event Thursday at the Lower East Side Girls Club in New York City, billed as the first in a series of the Clinton Foundations No Ceilings conversations aimed at bringing together women and girls from around the world to discuss female empowerment and growth.

Ferrera turned to the group of women in attendance for questions to ask the hosts, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Among the women who raised their hands, one in particular stood out.

You seem like you have something you want to say, Ferrera said, pointing at a young woman in the audience.

As she stood up, no one expected the life-changing statement she was about to make.

My name is Nova. Im 19-years-oldand I have a very different glass ceiling than some of the girls are exhibiting here, she said.

Nova paused, took a deep breath, and then revealed her secret.

For the first time publicly. I want to say that I am an undocumented immigrant.

As the gravity of what she had just said sunk in, the young womans eyes swelled with tears.

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NEW YORK Hillary Rodham Clinton took the stage here Thursday with her daughter, Chelsea, and actress America Ferrera to begin what the former secretary of state calls a series of No Ceilings conversations aimed at encouraging women and girls to aim high.

Yet as the political world waits for word on whether Clinton will once again aim for the highest office in the land, it seems as if shes been having these sorts of conversations for months now.

Ever since leaving the State Department in early 2013, Clinton has been traveling the country, delivering paid speeches and pushing the projects shes working on at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

And at many of those stops, the former first lady and Democratic senator from New York put her focus on erasing the often-hidden discrimination that frequently leaves women rungs below men on the professional ladder.

Thats just what she did here Thursday, detailing her No Ceilings project, which aims to measure the progress of womens rights worldwide.

Acknowledging that old-fashioned discrimination still exists in the United States, Clinton said: There should be no artificial barriers, so that individual women can always prove their worth and demonstrate they can fit into whatever role or job theyre seeking.

Clintons allies say such comments and her No Ceilings effort are simply the latest manifestation of her lifelong fight for womens rights. But Republican leaders see it as a less-than-subtle effort to engage women in a presidential campaign that is not likely to begin in earnest until early next year.

We all agree girls and women should have equal opportunity but the truth is Hillary has been a follower on this issue: She made a political calculation not to speak about opportunity in 2008, and shes making a political calculation to talk about it now, said Kirsten Kukowski, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee. Who knows what she will really stand for if she were to ever make it back to the White House.

Whatever her motivations, Clintons effort to place women at the center of her agenda contrasts sharply with what voters saw in the 2008 Democratic primaries.

Facing off against a barrier-breaking African-American candidate named Barack Obama, Clinton waged a hyper-cautious campaign that never strongly stressed that she, too, could be a ground-breaker: the first female president.

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The Clinton White House kept a dossier on what Hillary Clinton once called the vast right-wing conspiracy.

The binder of opposition research on Republicans, part of todays release of roughly 7,500 pages of documents from the Bill Clinton presidential library, was indexed with topics ranging from Richard Mellon Scaife -- The Wizard of Oz Behind The Foster Conspiracy Industry to Communications on the Net Between Congressional Republicans and Right Wing Conspiracy Theory Proponents.

Its contents mirror the allegation that Hillary Clinton famously lobbed at Republicans in a January 1998 television interview.

The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he ran for president, she said.

The documents provide insight into former President Bill Clintons time in office as well as the role of his wife, who went on to serve as a U.S. senator from New York, secretary of state and is a potential candidate for the Democratic president nomination in 2016.

The research file, kept in the office of special counsel Jane Sherburne, laid out a communication stream of conspiracy commerce theory.

This is how the stream works, the author of the document, who isnt identified, wrote. First, well-funded right wing think tanks and individuals underwrite conservative newsletters, then post them on the Internet where they are bounced all over the world before landing in mainstream media. After the mainstream right-of-center American media covers the story, congressional committees will look at the story and then the story now has the legitimacy to be covered by everyone else.

Richard Mellon Scaife, the newspaper publisher and Mellon fortune heir, is the central player identified in the dossier. He is singled out for sowing doubt about whether White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster committed suicide and for his financial backing of then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican organizations.

Scaife uses his financing of the fringe, right-wing publications and non-profits to create a communications stream of conspiracy commerce, the author wrote. The stream effectively conveys the rantings of the fringe into legitimate subjects of coverage by the mainstream media.

Although the research file is undated, the last newspaper clippings in it are from 1995, suggesting the idea that Republicans were building a network against the Clintons had taken hold in the administration long before the former first lady articulated it on television.

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