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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.

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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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The morning after Donald Trump returned to frontline politics with a speech in North Carolina, a close adviser poured cold water on his reported belief that he will be reinstated in the White House when it is proved Joe Biden beat him thanks to electoral fraud.

Corey Lewandowski, Trumps first campaign manager in 2016 and a loyal sidekick since, told Fox News Sunday Trump lost the election.

Indeed he did, by more than 7m ballots in the popular vote and by 306-232 in the electoral college, a result Trump called a landslide when it was in his favour against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Experts agree there was no mass voter fraud in 2020. Nonetheless, according to multiple reports Trump has told aides he believes he will be reinstated.

Lewandowski said he had spoke to the president dozens, if not more than 100 times since he has left the White House and I have never had that conversation about him being reinstated.

But, he added: I know of no provision under the constitution that allows it to occur, nor do I know of any provision under the constitution that allows an individual who lost an election to come back in if a recount is dubbed inaccurate.

On Friday, Facebook announced that it was suspending Trump for two years, over the nadir of his push to overturn his defeat: his incitement of the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January.

In Greenville on Saturday, Trump said he was not too interested in returning to Facebook in 2023. Facebook is however a vital fundraising and communications resource for candidates for office, which Trump could yet be in 2024. He also called the decision to suspend him so unfair.

On Sunday Nick Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister who is now Facebooks vice-president for global affairs, told ABCs This Week: For Donald Trump, of course we dont expect him to welcome [our] decision. We do hope, though, that reasonable observers will believe that we are acting as reasonably and proportionately as we can in these very difficult circumstances.

In North Carolina, Trump also repeated his lies about the election, which he called the crime of the century, and referring to Republican attempts to restrict voting and overturn results, said: I am not the one who is trying to undermine American democracy, I am the one who is trying to save it.

Clegg was asked: If the president gave the speech he gave last night in January 2023, would the suspension be extended?

The Facebook executive declined to answer, saying he had not heard the whole speech, but did say he thought people did not want Facebook to be a sort of truth police and said inciting violence was more of a concern than telling lies.

It doesnt matter who you are, Clegg said, you can be the pope, the queen of England, the president of the United States, you cannot use our services to aid, abet, foment or praise acts of violence.

Trumps spoke for 90 minutes on Saturday, ranging over familiar subjects as he began a series of appearances some think presage another run for the presidential nomination in a party he still dominates.

Repeatedly hitting out at Biden, Trump touched on hot topics among conservatives. His successor, he said in one such jab, was pushing toxic critical race theory ... into our nations schools. Joe Biden and the socialist Democrats are the most radical Democrats in our nations history.

Trump also took sustained aim at Dr Anthony Fauci, the senior public health official with whom he was often at odds in his last year in office, as the coronavirus took hold.

Fauci, 80, has served seven presidents since 1984 and is now Bidens chief medical adviser. Trump said he was not a great doctor but hes a hell of a promoter, hes been wrong on almost every issue.

On Sunday, Lewandowski said: If were going to follow the science and listen to Dr Fauci, who has been lifted up by the media as the foremost expert on this matter in the world, listen to what Dr Fauci said.

Lewandowski mentioned Faucis initial advice against the need to wear masks, which Fauci has said was meant to preserve supplies for medical personnel; Faucis view of travel bans, which he said would prove irrelevant if a pandemic began; and a claim that through his government agency [Fauci] funded at least $800,000 of government taxpayer money to the Wuhan laboratory.

US funds were routinely allocated to laboratories in China.

Republicans have seized on new interest among US intelligence agencies in the theory that the coronavirus escaped a Chinese lab. Most public health experts still think it more likely the virus reached humans via the consumption of animals, but Fauci is among those who have said the lab leak theory could prove true.

Lewandowski suggested the formation of an unlikely investigatory commission, featuring two former secretaries of state.

Lets appoint Secretary Mike Pompeo and maybe Secretary Clinton to look into why 600,000 Americans have died because of this. Lets hold China accountable.

Repeating a line from Trumps speech, he also said the US should ask for the reparations which they owe not only us but probably the world, and I think $10tn.

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It seems letter-writer Tony Pittore (Real world vs. fantasy world, May 29, TribLIVE) has decided to elucidate the rest of us on the difference between the conservatives real world and the liberals fantasy world.

Im rather curious as to whether Mr. Pittores real world is the one where:

The Democratic Party is populated by pedophiles and cannibals

A child trafficking operation is run out of a D.C. pizza parlor

Hillary Clinton was personally responsible for the Benghazi massacre

Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible for more murders than Tony Soprano

A previous POTUS was actually ineligible to hold the office

The coronavirus pandemic was a Democratic hoax (or alternately, that George Soros, Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci were responsible for intentionally loosing the virus on an unsuspecting world)

That willfully thumbing ones nose at public health mandates and protocols enacted to try to stem the pandemic was a patriotic act

That a nefarious coalition of neer-do-wells recruited, organized and bankrolled by Soros hijacked the 2020 presidential election

That the Capitol rioters of Jan. 6 were likewise merely a gathering of patriots engaging in peaceful protest.

Is this your real world, Mr. Pittore?

As Elvis Costello so elegantly wrote over 40 years ago, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused. Or, maybe as cartoonist Walt Kelly famously penned in his Pogo comic strip, We have met the enemy, and he is us.

Russ Schmidt

New Kensington

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