Al Gore’s daughter among 23 arrested in Boston pipeline protest

Former Vice President Al Gore's daughter was among 23 people arrested during a protest of a pipeline under construction. Karenna Gore was among demonstrators who tried to block construction activity on the site by lying in a trench dug for the pipeline and refusing to move until firefighters removed them, said protest group Resist the Pipeline & Stop the West Roxbury Lateral.

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Hendra Putra said a final prayer at a Christmas vigil Mass on Sunday evening and offered a friend a ride home. Talking quietly, the two men headed to Putra's small Honda motorbike in a little parking area fenced with chicken wire, part of a Catholic school compound next to Jakarta's Church of St. Joseph.

Hillary Clinton easily leads Donald Trump in Washington State, new NPI poll finds

Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has a double digit lead over presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, according to a survey conducted this week by Public Policy Polling for the Northwest Progressive Institute. If the candidates for President this fall were Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, who would you vote for? 49% said they would vote for Hillary Clinton , while 37% said they would vote for Donald Trump .

30 years ago scientists warned Congress on global warming. What they said sounds eerily familiar

Pieces of ice fall from the front of Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier near the city of El Calafate, in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, in this file photo. REUTERS/MARCOS BRINDICCI Thirty years ago, on June 10 and 11 of 1986, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works commenced two days of hearings, convened by Sen. John H. Chafee, R-Rhode Island, on the subject of "Ozone Depletion, the Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change."

The Trump-Clinton Gender Gap Could Be The Largest In More Than 60 Years

Hillary Clinton stops for a selfie with a supporter following a Women for Hillary Town Hall meeting in New York City. During a recent speech before the National Rifle Association, Donald Trump was explicit about the voters he's reaching out to: "I will say, my poll numbers with men are through the roof, but I like women more than men.

British academic rejects Israeli prize in “political choice”

A prominent British academic said Thursday she had turned down a prestigious Israeli award for political reasons, in what looked to be the latest attempt by Western activists to boycott the Jewish state. Catherine Hall, a history professor at University College London, said her rejection of $300,000 in prize money from The Dan David Foundation was "an independent political choice."