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On a recent episode of her talk show, Kelly Clarkson sat down with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and it wasnt long before things got emotional. The two women talked about Arizonas recent decision to reinstate an 1864 law that effectively outlaws all abortion in the state. Clinton called the Supreme Court ruling horrifying in every way, and the topic had Clarkson getting emotional about her own difficult pregnancies.

The Civil War-era abortion law pre-dates Arizonas statehood and bans abortion at any gestational age for any reason short of saving the life of a pregnant person. Any health professionals caught aiding or assisting an abortion in the state could face two to five year mandatory prison sentences. I feared it would happen, but I hoped it wouldnt happen, Clinton told Clarkson on her talk show on Tuesday. The danger to womens lives, as well as to our right to make our own decisions about our bodies and ourselves, is so profoundtheres a kind of cruelty to it.

This had Clarkson, who shares 9-year-old daughter River Rose and 8-year-old son Remington with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, recalling her own difficult pregnancies. I have been pregnant twice, hospitalized twice, Clarkson explained. I mean, literally, I asked God this is a real thing to just take me and my son in the hospital the second time because I was like, it's the worst thing.

Clarkson started to tear up, then went on to say, To make some women go through that... Clarkson trailed off before continuing, And I'm so glad I did. I love my babies. But to make someoneyou don't realize how hard it is.

The mom of two has spoken in the past about her pregnancy struggles, telling Ellen DeGeneres in a 2013 interview that she found her pregnancy to be upsetting because she was so sick. When I ask women they're like, 'Oh ... youre going to love this.' And I'm like, 'Oh were you sick, and they're like, 'No.' And I want to like hit all of them with my car. I vomit a good dozen times a day. It's, like, bad. Like, I vomited before coming out here.

All these years later, and Clarkson is still feeling emotional about her tough pregnancies. Now imagine being forced to go through this against your will.

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There is alleged friction between Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, two of the countrys most powerful former First Ladies.

]Is it true that these two alpha females are fussing and feuding when instead they should be collaborating? Heres what to know about this sensational situation!

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For years there have been rumors about the supposed feud between the Obamas and the Clintons. Kate Andersen Brower wrote about the sitch in The Grace and Power of Americas Modern First Ladies.

According to her, Michelle Obama was disgusted about Bill Clintons cheating while in office and she considered both Bill and Hillary Clintons to be overly ambitious.

Brower states that this alleged beef began during the 2008 competition for the Democratic Party nomination.

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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton was criticized for her use of the word "superpredators" back in 1996. Some on the left laid into her, accusing Clinton of racism.

Meanwhile, her opponent, DonaldTrump, trying to sucker leftist Bernie Sanders voters into not voting for her, piped in, saying yes, she was smearing African Americans. This was the same Trump who in 1989 had called for the execution of the "Central Park Five," five Black and Latino men who as teenagers were convicted of brutally raping a jogger but were later found to have been innocent.

Superpredators were taken at the time to mean young street thugs who repeatedly committed violent crimes with no conscience or empathy and were undeterred by traditional punishment. New York happens to be one of the safest cities in the country, but instances of brutal crimes, especially on the subway, get highlighted by national media. And usually, the individual pushing some bystander in front of a subway train is a person of color.

Ronna McDaniel's conduct following the 2020 election was shocking enough, but NBC's decision to hire her as a paid political analyst almost topped it. The blowback from the company's own commentators prompted the executives to turn around and send McDaniel packing.

Note that other kinds of killers -- serial killers and mass shooters -- tend to be white. They have similar histories of mental illness, addiction and arrests. They, too, are superpredators.

Call them what you want. They must be taken off the streets. That means they must be involuntarily retained in a prison or mental hospital.

Some ditsy newsrooms continue to frame the problem as "larger society" having failed these individuals: "Accused Subway Shover Found Little Help in New York's Chaotic Shelters" (The New York Times).

It may be true that these predators have trauma in their background and serious mental illness. It is true that the mental health shelters are overwhelmed and unable to ensure that every resident has the full array of psychiatric services.

But it is also true that people who enter them are free to leave. And they can't be forced to go to appointments and take their medications: city Department of Homeless Services rules.

There comes a time when an accumulating list of serious acts of violence requires involuntary confinement. Ideally, it would be a compassionate place. But it can't be a place where the "clients," as social workers like to refer to them, can walk out the door.

The most recent subway shover, Carlton McPherson, 24, lived in one of the shelters where he worked off his anger. He was given a cane after being treated for a leg injury and used it to attack a security guard. The person he threw in front of a train in East Harlem was Jason Volz, a 54-year-old man.

The shelters themselves are often scenes of rampage. If certain people can't be controlled within a mental health facility, what hope is there for controlling them once they've left?

The man charged in the recent shooting death of New York City Police Officer Jonathan Diller is Guy Rivera. Rivera, 34, had been arrested nearly two dozen times on drug and attempted assault charges. What was he doing out free?

This is a big sprawling problem. The closing of mental hospitals decades ago was intended to save taxpayers money while offering "clients" more humane care in community centers. But community centers were also not free and were never properly financed.

Outpatient services could probably help a lot of mentally ill people. But there are those they obviously cannot reach. These individuals spread fear and crime in their own neighborhoods and beyond. The "clients" create communities of innocent victims.

In the off-chance they can be fixed with intensive psychiatric care, treatment must be done in locked facilities. Meanwhile, it's time to call these sick people by their proper name, superpredators.

Harrop, who lives inNew York City and Providence, Rhode Island, writes for Creators Syndicate:fharrop@gmail.com.

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Bill Clinton to publish a memoir about life after the White House following the November election

Updated: 7:17 PM EDT Apr 4, 2024

Following the upcoming presidential election, former President Bill Clinton will release a memoir about his life after serving two terms in office.The book, titled "Citizen: My Life After the White House," is expected to be released on Nov. 19, according to Reagan Arthur, Knopf executive vice president and publisher."CITIZEN is the story of my twenty-three-plus years since leaving the White House, told largely through the stories of other people who changed my life as I tried to help change theirs, of those who supported me, including those I loved and lost, and of the mistakes I made along the way," Clinton said in the press release announcing the memoir.The announcement comes after Clinton joined President Joe Biden along with former President Barack Obama at a New York City fundraiser last week where he issued a stark warning about the threat former President Donald Trump would pose if reelected.The publisher said that Clinton will touch on "crucial events of the 21st century," including the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, culture wars, the elections of 2008 and 2016 and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, as well as discussing political moments involving his wife, Hillary Clinton."Clinton also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy at home and across the globe," the press release says.Clinton's book "My Life," published in 2004, detailed his journey from Arkansas to the White House, and it sold more than 400,000 copies on the first day it was available.Former presidents and first ladies have gone on to sell millions of copies of their books and memoirs. Michelle Obama's memoir "Becoming" sold more than 2 million units in all formats and editions in the US and Canada during the first 15 days of its publication, and Barack Obama's "A Promised Land" sold more than 3.3 million units across all formats and editions in the US and Canada during its first month of publication, according to Penguin Random House. According to Simon & Schuster, Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" sold more than 300,000 copies in all formats.

Following the upcoming presidential election, former President Bill Clinton will release a memoir about his life after serving two terms in office.

The book, titled "Citizen: My Life After the White House," is expected to be released on Nov. 19, according to Reagan Arthur, Knopf executive vice president and publisher.

"CITIZEN is the story of my twenty-three-plus years since leaving the White House, told largely through the stories of other people who changed my life as I tried to help change theirs, of those who supported me, including those I loved and lost, and of the mistakes I made along the way," Clinton said in the press release announcing the memoir.

The announcement comes after Clinton joined President Joe Biden along with former President Barack Obama at a New York City fundraiser last week where he issued a stark warning about the threat former President Donald Trump would pose if reelected.

The publisher said that Clinton will touch on "crucial events of the 21st century," including the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, culture wars, the elections of 2008 and 2016 and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, as well as discussing political moments involving his wife, Hillary Clinton.

"Clinton also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy at home and across the globe," the press release says.

Clinton's book "My Life," published in 2004, detailed his journey from Arkansas to the White House, and it sold more than 400,000 copies on the first day it was available.

Former presidents and first ladies have gone on to sell millions of copies of their books and memoirs. Michelle Obama's memoir "Becoming" sold more than 2 million units in all formats and editions in the US and Canada during the first 15 days of its publication, and Barack Obama's "A Promised Land" sold more than 3.3 million units across all formats and editions in the US and Canada during its first month of publication, according to Penguin Random House. According to Simon & Schuster, Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" sold more than 300,000 copies in all formats.

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The Girls on the Bus is a fizzy recasting of the campaign-trail memoir Chasing Hillary by Amy Chozick, who covered the 2016 election for The New York Times. But it is not a show about Hillary Clinton. Immediately, it takes pains to banish her persona from the screen. The Democratic front-runner of the pilot episode is a governor named Caroline Bennett (Joanna Gleason), and though she is a baby boomer (check) in a pantsuit (check), she also writes romance novels under a pseudonym.

Its a very un-Hillary detail, and it foretells a very un-Hillary downfall. Shortly after Chozicks reporter stand-in, Sadie McCarthy (Melissa Benoist), eagerly hops onto Bennetts bus, she finds her candidate sidelined by a sex scandal (and not her husbands).

These are silly choices, and savvy ones. Only when Clintons baggage has been dumped is The Girls on the Bus free to repave the trail into an escapist romp. For the better part of two decades, Clinton has gripped the cultural imagination around the idea of a first female president. Hundreds of millions of Americans, of several generations, both supporters and critics, imagined it would be her. Screenwriters foresaw it, too. The Girls on the Bus, now streaming on Max, is one of the first shows about presidential politics that is forced to contend with her absence. But it cant quite quit her.

As Clinton ran and lost and ran and lost in the real world, television universes selected a succession of fictionalized Hillarys to occupy their replica Oval Offices. Clintons politics, her path, her bearing, her wardrobe, her haircut these character details could be mirrored or mocked or refuted onscreen, but they could not be ignored.

When Cherry Jones played the first female president on 24, beginning in 2008, she told a reporter, unprompted: Shes not Hillary. She has nothing to do with Hillary. But when Lynda Carter played an (alien!) president on Supergirl in 2016, she said, I used Hillary to prepare.

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