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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at an award ceremony for the 2015 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting March 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee, Getty Images

Hillary Clinton made an unusual appearance Monday evening - she keynoted an awards ceremony to honor political journalists.

"I am well aware that some of you may be a little surprised to see me here tonight," she said to the room of about 300 people, many of them journalists. "You know my relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated."

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Clinton joked that everyone had non-disclosure agreements under their seats, and then moved on to reflect on the life and legacy of Robin Toner, for whom the award was named. Toner was a longtime New York Times reporter who passed away in 2008, the first woman named to be the Times' national political correspondent. Clinton's appearance at the ceremony was a testament to her respect for Toner.

"Mostly I am here because I really admired Robin, I admired her approach toward covering the events that I was involved in, directly, starting in the 1992 presidential campaign, when she covered that campaign," Hillary explained.

Toner, who was also the Times' lead reporter for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential run, sat down with Hillary Clinton for multiple interviews, the last one in 2007 when they spoke about healthcare. Clinton had just rolled out her healthcare plan for the 2008 presidential campaign.

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NEW YORK - MARCH 10: Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the media after keynoting a Women's Empowerment Event at the United Nations on March 10, 2015 in New York City. Yana Paskova, Getty Images

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails show her concern about the fallout from the 2012 U.S. consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya, but the emails Congress has do not suggest that she told American forces responding to the attack to stand down or that she participated in a cover-up about the Obama administration's response, the New York Times reports.

The paper did not review the approximately 300 emails Clinton turned over to the special House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks, but some of the emails were described to them by four senior government officials.

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The emails show Clinton was following the aftermath of the attacks on the U.S. After an intense hearing before House Republicans a month after the attack, she emailed an aide to ask, "Did we survive the day?"

Clinton has also come under fire for failing to appear on the Sunday talk shows following the event. Critics have suggested that National Security Adviser Susan Rice became the face of the administration response in order to allow Clinton to dodge the fallout, although Rice has said that she appeared on the shows because Clinton was tired. The officials who have seen the emails told the Times that the messages do not settle the question of why Clinton did not appear.

The emails initially reveal that Clinton's team was pleased that Rice described the attacks as having begun spontaneously before evolving. Two weeks later, however, foreign policy adviser, Jake Sullivan sent Clinton an email that appeared to reassure her she had not used similar language, which was landing Rice in hot water.

"You never said 'spontaneous' or characterized their motivations," Mr. Sullivan wrote.

The Times also writes that Clinton's senior staff appeared to contact her using their personal email accounts. This is at odds with the former secretary's insistence that all of her emails to the State Department were captured for archival purposes by virtue of the fact that they were sent to state.gov email addresses.

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"Don't you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?" Hillary Clinton asked at the EMILY's List gala earlier this month. Kris Connor/Getty Images hide caption

"Don't you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?" Hillary Clinton asked at the EMILY's List gala earlier this month.

At the end of the grueling 2008 primary fight, Hillary Clinton gathered supporters in Washington, D.C., and delivered perhaps the most memorable line of her whole campaign.

"Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it," Clinton said to roaring applause.

It's a line, one could say, that began paving the way for her seemingly inevitable 2016 campaign.

"And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time," she continued.

Prior to that final moment in her campaign, Clinton rarely talked about the glass ceiling. The calculus she'd have the women's vote locked up, but some of her campaign advisers were worried about alienating men.

In recent weeks, as she has assembled campaign advisers in New York and early primary states, Clinton has given a number of speeches to women's groups, pointing to a likely shift in tone from 2008 to 2016.

"Don't you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?" Clinton asked earlier this month with a glimmer in her eye at a gala for EMILY's List, an organization that works to elect Democratic women.

It's quite a contrast to 2008 when her standard response to questions about possibly becoming the first female president was, "But I am not running as a woman. I am running, because I believe I am the best qualified and experienced person."

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Environmentalists turned up the heat Monday on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, urging her to come clean on issues like the Keystone XL pipeline and hydraulic fracturing in a protest outside her speech at a journalism awards ceremony.

Three climate-change groups Friends of the Earth, the Center for Biological Diversity and 350.org brought 10 demonstrators and Frostpaw the Polar Bear to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where Mrs. Clinton was the keynote speaker for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.

The protest, albeit small, comes as one of the first signs of public pressure directed at Mrs. Clinton from the green movement, a key component of the Democratic Party coalition. The three groups behind the rally are seen as younger, more aggressive and less likely to follow political protocol than more established environmental organizations.

Mrs. Clinton has remained somewhat cagey on energy issues, showing support for domestic natural gas production, which involves fracking, while remaining mum on the Keystone XL pipeline. President Obama vetoed a bill to build the 1,179-mile pipeline last month.

As secretary of state, she pushed to expand the use of fracking to develop shale oil and natural gas in Europe and Asia as part of the Global Shale Gas Initiative. She also said she was inclined to sign off on the pipeline in 2010, according to Mother Jones.

When she was Secretary of State, she made comments that she would approve the pipeline, said Friends of the Earth climate and energy program director Ben Schreiber, who attended the rally. Shes now avoiding the subject altogether.

Activist also criticized the Clinton Foundation for accepting donations from a host of fossil-fuel companies, including Chevron, ExxonMobil and Duke Energy.

Clinton has been laying the groundwork for a 2016 presidential campaign but has yet to take strong positions on climate policy or come out against the Keystone XL pipeline, said the Center for Biological Diversity in a Monday statement.

In light of a recent wave of media attention regarding the Clinton Foundations ties with the oil industry, important questions have been raised about Clintons qualifications as a climate leader, said the statement.

Mrs. Clinton, who has not yet announced whether she will run but is considered the early frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, told the League of Conservation Voters in December that she was concerned about climate change as well as economic development.

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Hillary Clinton addressed the promise of urban renewal as an engine for economic expansion Monday but stressed the need for fostering growth "in a way that lifts everybody up."

As she closes in on the launch of a presidential campaign in which she will immediately be the Democratic Party front-runner, Clinton used her remarks at a liberal think tank in Washington to show her commitment to an issue important to the party'sbase: the equality gap.

"One of the biggest issues we face is income inequality, combined with wage stagnation," she said during a panel discussion at the Center for American Progress, an organization founded by herlikely campaign chairman, John Podesta. "We need to think hard about what we're going to do, now that people are moving back into and staying in cities, to make sure that our cities are not just places of economic prosperity and job creation on average, but do it in a way that lifts everybody up."

She described herself as very supportive of an effort by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to launch universal prekindergarten, calling it an example of ways to keep middle-class families from being priced out of increasingly expensive cities.

While her remarks touched on issuesthat have become top priorities for her party, she avoided a laundry list of policy proposals of the type a candidate might offer and instead sought to associate herself with what she described as a more pragmatic approach to governance in big cities.

"We have cities that are working well because they have been reinventing themselves, and they have done so in a collaborative, inclusive manner," she said, while other cities are struggling in a "political battlefield" where people are "in their ideological bunkers."

Clinton's participation in the panel, which also included Compton Mayor Aja Brown and Dixon Slingerland, the executive director of Los Angeles' Youth Policy Institute, was limited to brief opening and closing remarks. After the discussion, she singled out Brown's work combating gang violence, at which point she offered the morning's only hint of what might be in store for her in the near future.

"Don't be surprised if you get a call to come, and maybe we'll start not too far from here," she said, before clarifying she had a "beautiful domed building" in Washington in mind for Brown -- the Capitol, not the White House.

After the event, Brown praised Clinton's depth of understanding onthe challenges urban communities face and said she looks forward to "seeing her back on the national stage."

"If we can really focus on the things that unify us and the issues that really matter, then we can come to some real conclusions," she said.

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