It’s clear that there’s been about enough of the Bubba Factor for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The success of this week’s mission to North Korea relied not only Bill Clinton’s renown, but on his international web of contacts.

Sidney Blumenthal, a fierce supporter of both Clintons, will be joining Hillary Rodham Clinton at the State Department, according to news reports.

Hillary Rodham Clinton may have reinvented herself (again) as Secretary of State, but she hasn’t exactly started with a blank slate.

The former president has unwound his high-profile business relationship with his friend Ronald Burkle’s Yucaipa Cos., including a politically sensitive partnership tie to Dubai.

With Caroline Kennedy out, who is the frontrunner to replace Hillary Clinton as New York’s representative in the U.S. Senate?

You could call it a field of dashed dreams. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which convened today to consider Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, is an object lesson on the soaring ambitions of America’s top politicians - and the often deflated realities of their achievements.

Ignoring his self-described “evil twin,” Democratic strategist and spokesman Howard Wolfson is going to work for New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s 2009 re-election campaign.

Former President Bill Clinton has revealed tens of millions in donations to his foundation from foreign nations that Hillary Rodham Clinton may have to negotiate with as secretary of state.

Hillary and Bill Clinton have stepped up their efforts to retire millions of dollars in campaign debt from her failed bid for the White House before she becomes the nation’s top diplomat.

Count David Plouffe the first, but undoubtedly, not the last of President-elect Barack Obama’s team to write a book – and of course, to hire uber-lawyer Robert Barnett to represent him.

Fresh from his victory Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama has tapped a fellow Chicagoan to be the White House enforcer.

When the comedian Al Franken launched a Democratic challenge to incumbent Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman two years ago, many viewed it as a joke.

Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, whose stories about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were proven wrong after the U.S. invasion, is joining Fox News as an analyst on national security issues.

He’s been in a California jail cell for months, but the problems of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former fund-raiser Norman Hsu still continue to multiply.

Democratic fund-raiser Lynn Forester de Rothschild has spent several months bemoaning Hillary Clinton’s failed bid for the presidential nomination. Today she went further, throwing her support behind GOP nominee John McCain.

Howard W. Lutnick, the chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, is famously loyal to friends. This year, he collected at least $100,000 for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign and between $50,000 and $100,000 for Arizona Sen. John McCain.

For months during the heated contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mark J. Penn was the Hillary Clinton adviser everyone loved to hate.

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild is one millionaire backer of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton who still hasn’t let go. For starters this week, she dissed the presumptive Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, on national TV.

After months of speaking on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Howard Wolfson, has joined the ranks of talking heads on Fox News. As many observers have noted, there was a time when Democrats ran from, not to, Fox News, but Wolfson says the network has changed.