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Jul 5, 2007 5:05 PM CDT

Al Gore III Returns to Rehab

Ex-VP asks for privacy after son's arrest on drug charges

(Newser) - Al Gore III has posted bail and returned to rehab. A day after the ex-VP's son was busted for drugs, the 24-year-old magazine publisher "is getting treatment," his father said today. In his first public reaction, he appeared on the "Today" show and said, "We love...

Al Gore III Arrested on Drug Charges

Jul 4, 2007 2:03 PM CDT

Al Gore III Arrested on Drug Charges

Ex-VP's son nabbed (in a Prius) with pot, prescription drugs

(Newser) - Al Gore III was arrested on drug charges early this morning after being pulled over for doing 100 mph on a California freeway. An Orange County deputy allegedly smelled marijuana, CBS 2 in LA reports, and a search turned up an ounce of pot as well as Valium, Xanax, Vicodin,...

Bush Wants Global Plan
on Emissions

May 31, 2007 3:26 PM CDT

Bush Wants Global Plan on Emissions

US still won't accepted Kyoto, but prez pushes for new agreement on caps

(Newser) - President Bush offered a groundbreaking—if decidedly vague—call this morning for a global plan to combat climate change, continuing to reposition himself on the issue. Bush asked 15 nations, including the G8, China, and India, to create "long-term global goals” on emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol...

GOP Insiders Nuke Global Warming

Mar 27, 2007 1:28 PM CDT

GOP Insiders Nuke Global Warming

87% of Republicans on the Hill don't believe in climate change. The rest have a solution: nuclear power

(Newser) - The more powerful the evidence for global warming becomes, the more skeptical hard-line Republicans appear to be. Resistance to the case against greenhouse gases is hardening into conservative dogma, Jonathan Chait writes. Last year, 23 per cent of Congressional Republicans said they believed humanity’s contribution to global warming...

Playwright Finds Times Arrogant on Al Gore

Mar 26, 2007 10:18 AM CDT

Playwright Finds Times Arrogant on Al Gore

Do we have to read about the VP's weight in every dispatch?

(Newser) - Al Gore is having an astonishing political second act, leading the charge to save the planet, but the supercilious writers at the New York Times can't resist condescending to him, observes playwright Jon Robin Baitz, doing a little reverse reviewing in his blog. TheTimes, he argues, displays its "...

UK Tunes into Gore TV

Mar 13, 2007 10:25 PM CDT

UK Tunes into Gore TV

(Newser) - Al Gore's viewer-driven Current TV Network, rolled out in the U.S. 18 months ago to 40 million homes, hit the UK yesterday in the next phase of its worldwide expansion. The broadcast offers "pods," or short 3 to 8 minute segments, rather than shows, a third of...