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Hillary Clinton continues to look elegant even at 73, turning heads everytime with her classic sense of style. Recently, the former Us Secretary of State took us back in time, to give us a glimpse of her younger self with a throwback picture.

Hillary took to Instagram to share her picture from the cover of a 1998 Vogue edition. Clicked by Annie Leibovitz, the picture shows the politician sitting on a couch in a velvet dress. Needless to mention, Hillary looks stunning as ever in the cover photo. Take a look:

Turns out, it was popular designer Oscar de la Renta who convinced Vogues Anna Wintour to put Hillary on the December 1998 cover, making her the first First Lady to pose for the prestigious cover.

I was able to convince Anna to put her on the cover. I did a lot to define to the viewer who Hillary actually is, de la Renta told Haute Living in an interview.

He added, [The cover shot] was taken when she was still in the White House. I do remember at the time her advisers werent sure if it was the right thing to do, but in the end, she said, Oscar, you have a great instinct about me. Lets do it. The dress she wore for the cover was a creation by the designer himself.

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The interesting story behind how Hillary Clinton landed her first Vogue cover in 1998 - The Indian Express

MSNBC's Chuck Todd defended Dr. Anthony Faucis email controversy on Wednesday, dismissing thousands of his emails released last week as "harmless" with a not-so-subtle nod to Hillary Clinton in the process.

"Those 3,200 pages of emails dont appear to contain anything particularly explosive. Still, the attacks against him have been, in a word, relentless. Its also very familiar if youve followed American politics over the last five years," Todd said during his introduction.

Chuck Todd defended Dr. Anthony Faucis email controversy on Wednesday, dismissing thousands of his emails released last week as "harmless." (Photo by: William B. Plowman/NBC)

"This is an attempt to weaponize something thats kind of harmless and try to create a controversy," Todd added. "Weve seen this with emails before, havent we?"

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The MSNBC host appeared to be referring to the saga that dogged Clinton throughout her failed 2016 presidential bid.The FBI began investigating Clintons handling of emails in 2015 after it was revealed she had used a private server for her government emails. Then-FBI Director James Comey announced in July 2016 that the agency would not recommend charges, but famously described Clinton as having been "extremely careless" in her conduct, and she repeatedly gave misleading answers about sending and receiving classified material.

Todd viewed the issue as important enough to cover at the time, repeatedly grilling her and others about the email scandal during the 2016 campaign.

Todd said Wednesday that Republicans are harping on Faucis emails "in an effort to excuse or maybe paper over" the way former President Donald Trump handled coronavirus.

"Dr. Fauci now finds himself at the center of the GOPs pandemic messaging, which is a place where a public health official like him does not like to be," Todd said.

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Among the information in Faucis released emmails was that an expert told Fauci as early as January 2020 it was possible that the COVID-19 virus could be artificially altered (though the expert who told him that later reversed his stance); that Fauci apparently took seriously the possibility that money from his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), could have funded "gain of function" work on coronaviruses in a Wuhan lab; and that he was in touch with an individual who'd directed funding to that lab.

Many Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have called for Fauci to resign or be fired from his post.

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The book will also include 'a candid and moving reckoning of Ms Abedins marriage to former Congressman Anthony Weiner,' publisher Scribner announced.

Huma Abedin. Image via AP

New York: Huma Abedin, the close aide to Hillary Clinton and estranged wife of disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, has a memoir coming out this fall.

Abedins Both/And: A Life in Many Worldswill be released on 2 November, Scribner told The Associated Press on 10 June. Abedin will tell her inspiring story, coming of age as an American Muslim, the daughter of Indian and Pakistani scholars who split their time between Saudi Arabia, the United States, and the UK, according to the publisher.

Both/And grapples with family, legacy, identity, faith, marriage, and motherhood, Scribner announced. It shares Huma Abedins personal accounts as a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton during Mrs Clintons years as First Lady, US Senator, a presidential candidate, Secretary of State, and Democratic Presidential Nominee, and a candid and moving reckoning of Ms Abedins marriage to former Congressman Anthony Weiner.

Abedin, for years an object of speculation, said in a statement that her memoir will allow her to define herself.

For most of my life, I was viewed through the lens of others, a refraction of someone elses pronoun. They as in the parents who raised me; she as in the woman I worked for; and he as in the man I married, Abedin said.

Writing this book gave me the opportunity to reflect on my own life from the nurturing family I was privileged to be born into, to working for one of the most compelling leaders of our time. This journey has led me through exhilarating milestones and devastating setbacks. I have walked both with great pride and in overwhelming shame. It is a life I am more than anything enormously grateful for and a story I look forward to sharing.

Abedin, 45, has known Clinton since she was a student at George Washington University, when she worked as an intern in 1996 for the then-first lady. She was an aide to Clinton during Clintons successful run for the US Senate in 2000; deputy chief of staff during Clintons years as secretary of state in the first term of the Obama administration, 2009-2013; and a top adviser during the 2016 election, when Clinton lost in a stunning upset to Republican Donald Trump.

She currently serves as Clintons chief of staff.

Over the years, weve shared stories about our lives, weve shared more meals than I can count, weve celebrated together, weve mourned together, Abedin said of Clinton in an August 2016 feature about the aide in Vogue, which called her in many ways the engine at the center of Clintons well-run machine, crucial and yet largely out of sight.

Clinton, mother of Chelsea Clinton, has spoken of Abedin as a second daughter. And former President Bill Clinton officiated at her 2010 wedding to Weiner, then a New York congressman seen as an emerging star in the Democratic Party. But Weiners career collapsed the following year after he acknowledged texting lewd photos of himself to several women. In 2013, he attempted a comeback by running for mayor of New York City, but his campaign was soon upended when it was revealed he continued sexting even after resigning from Congress, a scandal that unfolded on camera during the award-winning documentary Weiner.

Weiner pleaded guilty in 2017 to charges of sending sexual materials to a minor and was sentenced to 21 months in prison. Abedin had announced their separation in 2016 and, according to her publisher, she and Weiner are finalising their divorce. (They agreed in 2018 to settle their divorce out of court).

Abedins marriage, and her relationship with the Clintons, led to her being caught up in the FBI investigation into Hillary Clintons use of a private computer server for her emails while she was secretary of state an issue through much of the 2016 campaign.

Then-FBI Director James Comey announced in July 2016 that he would not recommend any criminal charges against Clinton even as he said she had been extremely careless. But in late October, less than two weeks before Election Day, he informed Congress that the bureau was reopening the case after emails between Clinton and Abedin were found on Weiners computer during the probe into the former congressmans sexting. The FBI reported a week later that nothing on the laptop changed the recommendation against charges, but Clinton has called Comeys intervention and the headlines it created the determining factor in her narrow defeat to Trump.

In Clintons 2017 memoir What Happened, she remembered being on the campaign plane when she and Abedin learned that the FBI probe had been reopened.

When we heard this Huma looked stricken, Clinton wrote. Anthony had already caused so much heartache. And now this. This man is going to be the death of me, (Huma) said, bursting into tears. Clinton added that it was agonising to see Abedin in such distress.

Some people thought I should fire Huma or distance myself. Not a chance, Clinton wrote. I stuck by her the same way she has always stuck by me.

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Around the world, women are demanding power, and exercising it, in unprecedented ways. Women are leading at the highest levels of government and international institutions. They are at the forefront of global movements for racial and climate justice. On multiple continents, protest movements that began with reproductive rights have shaken their countries political establishments to their foundations.

And yet, public life remains dominated by men who often see female leaders as threats to their power and status. Women who lead movements for change often face severe backlash.

As women take on male-dominated hierarchies, how will that change our world? What difference can female leadership make in this time of overlapping global crises? And how, exactly, do they do it?

Be there, as we find answers with the climate activists Greta Thunberg, Xiye Bastida and Ayisha Siddiqa, and a special guest, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an in-depth conversation with The New York Timess Amanda Taub.

Then, check in with Times journalists on the ground in countries where women-led movements are creating meaningful, lasting change. Its all part of our latest subscriber-only event. We hope to see you there.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised a Texas high school valedictorian after she used her speech at graduation to rail against the state's restrictive abortion laws.

First reported by D Magazine, Paxton Smith, the valedictorian of Lake Highlands High School's Class of 2021, was preparing to graduate after earning a 104.93 GPA, and to submit her speech for review at the school's commencement ceremony.

She told the outlet that she became increasingly disturbed by the recently passed "heartbeat bill" Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law earlier this year. The law effectively bans abortions once six weeks of a pregnancy has passed, even in the instances of incest or rape.

Abortion rights activists have called the law - which goes into effect in September - among the most restrictive in the country.

She determined that she needed to use her platform to address the bill, so she set out to dupe the high school by submitting a speech for review that she knew would be accepted while planning her real speech at home.

Despite being an outgoing person, Ms Smith said she was nervous ahead of giving the speech, for obvious reasons - not only was her viewpoint likely to be met with resistance by at least some of the audience in the reliably red state, she was also undermining the trust her administrators put in her when they named her valedictorian.

So she practiced her speech, ensuring she got the words down, but said when she went to deliver her remarks at her commencement, she blanked.

She pulled a white piece of paper from inside of her commencement gown and began her speech, shakily at first but growing in confidence as she got into her remarks.

During her speech, she said it "feels wrong to talk about anything but what is currently affecting me and millions of other women in this state," which launched her into her condemnation of Mr Abbott's heartbeat bill.

"Recently the heartbeat bill was passed in Texas. Starting in September, there will be a ban on abortions that take place after 6 weeks of pregnancy, regardless of whether the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest. Six weeks. Most women dont even realize theyre pregnant by then," she said. "And so, before they have the time to decide if they are emotionally, physically, and financially stable enough to carry out a full-term pregnancy, before they have the chance to decide if they can take on the responsibility of bringing another human into the world, the decision has been made for them by a stranger. A decision that will affect the rest of their lives."

She went on, discussing the ambitions women have and the futures they dream of, and how the bill strips them of the autonomy to make decisions about their lives.

"I am terrified that if my contraceptives fail me, that if Im raped, then my hopes and efforts and dreams for myself will no longer be relevant. I hope you can feel how gut-wrenching it is, how dehumanizing it is, to have the autonomy over your own body taken from you," she said.

She concluded by saying she refused "to give up this platform to promote complacency and peace when there is a war on my body and a war on my rights," and told listeners "we cannot stay silent."

Her speech drew the attention of people in her community and more broadly on social media, including praise from Ms Clinton.

"This took guts. Thank you for not staying silent, Paxton," Ms Clinton tweeted.

Others - including some of her administrators - did not share the former First Lady's sentiments.

She claims that some administrators said the school could withhold her diploma for what she did, though she has not seen anything come of that threat as of yet.

Ms Smith said she had no regrets over using the platform to deliver her message.

"It feels great. It also feels a little weird," she said two days after giving the speech. "Whenever I have opinions that can be considered political or controversial, I keep them to myself because I don't like getting attention. It just feels weird for me personally, that I'm linked to the attention that the speech got."

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Hillary Clinton applauds valedictorian who switched her approved speech to a rallying cry on abortion rights - The Independent