Sep 15 - By Associated Press
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined two exclusive golf clubs in Alabama.
May 28 - By Associated Press
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged graduates of Talladega High School in Alabama to find their passions in life and follow them.

May 4 - By Associated Press
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish elementary school students that the Bush administration did not use illegal interrogation tactics. Her remarks were in response to a question from Misha Lerner, a fourth-grader at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital, The Washington Post reported Monday.
May 1 - By Matthew Barakat, Associated Press Writer
Prosecutors moved Friday to dismiss all charges against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of disclosing U.S. defense secrets, ending a four-year legal battle that promised to put former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other Bush administration insiders on the witness stand.
Feb 22 - By Hillel Italie, AP National Writer
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has agreed to a three-book deal with Crown Publishers, starting with a memoir about her years in the administration of President George W. Bush.

Jan 16 - By Hillel Italie, AP National Writer
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be meeting with publishers later this month to discuss three book projects, including a memoir of her service in the Bush administration.

Jan 15 - By Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer
On its final working day, the Bush administration signed a last-minute deal with Israel aimed at cutting off the supply of smuggled weapons to Hamas and boosting Egyptian efforts to broker a cease-fire to end fighting in Gaza.
Jan 13 - By Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer
The State Department on Tuesday flatly rejected an assertion by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that he caused the Bush administration to abstain from last week's U.N. resolution on Gaza and that the abstention embarrassed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Jan 12 - By Jason Keyser, Associated Press Writer
Israel's prime minister said Monday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was embarrassed by orders to abstain from voting last week on a U.N. truce resolution for Gaza that she helped arrange.

Jan 9 - By Desmond Butler, Associated Press Writer
Georgia is hailing a new U.S. blueprint for cooperation as a sign that Russia has failed to impede its integration with the West. But it is unclear that the document, which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed Friday, makes Georgia any safer from Russian aggression.
Jan 7 - By Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer
The Bush administration held off Wednesday from backing an Egyptian-French cease-fire proposal in Gaza.

Jan 7 - By Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press Writer
The U.N. secretary-general called on Wednesday for an immediate halt to the fighting in Gaza and said intense negotiations were needed to come up with the necessary arrangements.

Jan 6 - By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
A cease-fire initiative Tuesday to halt the increasingly bloody Israeli offensive in Hamas-rule Gaza won support from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on rival sides to follow up on the proposal.
Jan 6 - By Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to New York and the United Nations on Tuesday in a bid to broker a sustainable cease-fire as soon as possible to end the crisis in Gaza.

Jan 6 - By Salah Nasrawi, Associated Press Writer
Envoys of the militant Hamas group resumed talks Tuesday in Cairo with Egyptian intelligence officials on a truce proposal to end fighting in the Gaza Strip where an Israeli offensive is in its third week.

Dec 30 - By Robert Burns, AP National Security Writer
The Bush administration stuck to its defense of Israel's expanding offensive in the Gaza Strip on Monday and pushed for a cease-fire including a lasting halt to Hamas' rocket attacks on Israel and a reopening of border crossings that are Gaza's economic lifeline.

Dec 28 - By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press Writer
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the country is not "race-blind" and "we shouldn't deceive ourselves that we're race-blind," but said the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president was a key moment in history.

Dec 22 - By Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer
President George W. Bush's foreign policies may be unpopular in the Middle East, but Arab leaders showered his top diplomat with jewelry worth far more than a quarter of a million dollars last year. While Bush himself didn't fare nearly as well, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raked in at least $316,000 in gem-encrusted baubles from the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia alone, making her one of top recipients among U.S. officials of gifts from foreign heads of state and government and their aides in 2007.

Dec 16 - By Associated Press
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the current administration will keep trying to get North Korea to make written commitments on inspection of its nuclear programs until President George W. Bush leaves office on Jan. 20.

Dec 16 - By Associated Press
Arab nations concerned about Iran's nuclear program want to meet regularly with the six international powers trying to ensure that it remains peaceful, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
Dec 15 - By Associated Press
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United States and four other countries agree on how to pressure North Korea to make commitments on inspections of its nuclear program.

Dec 15 - By Associated Press
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the sting of international sanctions is forcing at least some Iranian leaders to second-guess the regime's rebuff of world demands that it roll back its disputed nuclear program.

Dec 15 - By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at a farewell U.N. appearance Monday that Israel and the Palestinians have moved much further along the path to peace since President George W. Bush brought their leaders together a year ago — though they won't clinch an agreement by the end of the year.

Dec 12 - By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Writer
Days before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to ask the United Nations to authorize "all necessary measures" against piracy from Somalia, a leader of the U.S. military, which would help carry out that policy, said in effect: Not so fast.
Dec 10 - By Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press Writer
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Latin American nations Wednesday to continue fighting poverty and avoid the temptation of closing off trade as they are buffeted by the world financial crisis.