U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Korbel Albright was nominated by President Clinton as Secretary of State in 1996. Secretary Albright is the first female secretary of state and the highest ...

Stefan Becket is a managing editor of politics for CBSNews.com. Stefan has covered national politics for more than a decade and helps oversee a team covering the White House, Congress, the Supreme ...

FILE - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright is surrounded by reporters as she arrives Feb. 25, 1996, for United Nations Security Council consultations concerning the downing of ...

Despite Madeleine Albright's busy schedule, her daughter tells PEOPLE, "she constantly called us, she made it very clear if we ever needed to get her we could get her at any time" Shafiq Najib is ...

On Thursday, March 27, non-tenure-track faculty at Wellesley College went on strike. Wellesley, a women’s liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, boasts such high-achieving alumnae as ...

What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber ...

Former presidents and first ladies gathered together again on Wednesday for another prominent memorial as they celebrated the life of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Former President ...

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the first woman ever to hold that office, has died Wednesday after losing her battle to cancer, at age 84. Albright -née Korbel- had three ...

When season 5 premieres in October, the political drama with welcome three former secretaries of state as guest stars to its premiere: Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell.

“We can tell our story about how we climbed the ladder, and a lot of you younger women think it’s been done,” former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright admonished attendees at a Hillary ...