Hillary Clinton

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked about ascertaining whether the Benghazi terror attack was the result of a protest by Senator Ron Johnson. "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Clinton shouted, seemingly losing her cool.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed to throw Susan Rice under the bus when she plainly stated this morning on Capitol Hill, "I wasn't involved in the talking points process." The question was regarding Rice's misleading statements on the Benghazi terror attack on the Sunday morning after the four Americans were killed.

Vice President Joe Biden told CNN that neither he nor Hillary Clinton have made a decision to run in 2016:

The CNN reporter asked Biden, "So are you ready to run against Hillary Clinton in 2016?"

At least two American hostages (and possibly several more) are being held hostage at a gas plant in Algeria, but there's been no word on unfolding the situation from either President Barack Obama or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

In fact, the only official word to come from the Obama administration is confirmation from the State Department that indeed Americans are being held hostage there.

Though she's expected to leave her post at the State Department soon, Hillary Clinton today said she's not going into "retirement." Clinton returned to work yesterday after missing almost a month, according to the State Department, due to ill health.

Here's Clinton's exchange with a reporter, which she had today in Washington:

The State Department reports that Hillary Clinton has been discharged from the hospital:

Over thirty minutes, NBC news reported on Twitter that Hillary Clinton had left the hospital:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has left NY Presbyterian Hospital. She was admitted Sunday for treatment of a blood clot in her head.

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 2, 2013

Twenty minutes later, NBC offered only this sorry retraction:

UPDATE: Early reports mistakenly saying Hillary Clinton was released from hospital have been confirmed to be untrue.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been in the hospital the last couple days with a blood clot in her head, released a statement yesterday. But it had nothing to do with her health. Instead, the statement was on "Haiti's Independence Day."

Hillary Clinton's doctors released the following statement saying that she has a blood clot in her head, "in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear."

Here's the full statement:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, perhaps the most famous current female political figure, has fallen ill. "In the course of a follow-up exam today, Secretary Clinton's doctors discovered a blood clot had formed, stemming from the concussion she sustained several weeks ago. She is being treated with anti-coagulants and is at New York-Presbyterian Hospital so that they can monitor the medication over the next 48 hours," a spokesman for the former first lady said yesterday in a statement.

Philippe Reines, deputy assistant secretary of state, released the following statement regarding Hillary Clinton's health:

Josh Rogin of Foreign Policy reports:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will return to the State Department next week after three weeks of recovery from a stomach virus and a related concussion, The Cable has confirmed.