Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had proposed sending various people to lobby for the release of two journalists before Bill Clinton emerged as the preferred choice, people briefed on the talks said.
AP - The Obama administration said Tuesday that the families of two reporters imprisoned in North Korea had asked former President Bill Clinton to travel to Pyongyang to seek the women's release.
AP - An armed man strolled to the back of an exercise class at a health club in suburban Pittsburgh on Tuesday night and then pulled out two guns and started spraying bullets, leaving four people dead, including himself, and injuring at least 10 others, authorities said.
AP - Former President Bill Clinton brought two freed U.S. journalists out of North Korea early Wednesday following rare talks with reclusive leader Kim Jong Il, who pardoned the women sentenced to hard labor for entering the country illegally.
It is a problem of massive plastic proportions -- a giant floating debris field, composed mostly of bits and pieces of plastic, in the northwest Pacific Ocean, about a thousands miles off the coast of California. It's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and it covers a vast area of hundreds, maybe even thousands, of miles of open ocean.
The families of two U.S. journalists imprisoned in North Korea asked former President Bill Clinton to travel to the Communist country and seek the release of the two women, a senior administration official said.
Nearly a decade has passed since Bill Clinton left the White House, and despite becoming a private citizen, the former president never strayed too far from the public eye. Clinton, 62, jumped back onto the world stage Tuesday with a previously unannounced trip to North Korea, where he helped secured the release of two imprisoned American journalists.
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