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After a couple of slow weekends, the specialty box office perked up with the release of a couple of anticipated titles, though not all of the luster was concentrated in films with marquis names attached. Doc An Inconvenient Sequel : Truth To Power , which returns former Vice President Al Gore to the big screen over ten years after his Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth, had the highest per theater average of any film in release this weekend, grossing $130K in four locations.
This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Al Gore in "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power." This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Al Gore in "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power."
While Al Gore has plenty of praise for Justin Trudeau's efforts to combat climate change, he says there's still room for improvement on the prime minister's environmental agenda. Al Gore poses for a photograph before talking about his new film "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth the Power" in Toronto on Friday, July 21, 2017.
The momentum against the Trump administration is building, and it should come as no surprise that it comes via the least original of avenues: the Russians did it, and someone must pay. For decades, the feared Russian has played a vital role in shaping US paranoia and a domestic landscape famous for its reactionary bursts and fearful lurches.
It's summer 2017 and the Arctic was supposed to be ice-free, hurricanes were going to be more frequent and more deadly, and sea levels should be rising alarmingly.
We don't know for sure what happened in 2016. But we know a determined foreign adversary could hack our elections Russia's apparent attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election continues to make news.
Gov. Bill Haslam won't endorse any of the Republicans seeking the nomination to succeed him, but said he has spoken to several potential candidates about the emotionally taxing nature of a running a statewide campaign in Tennessee.
So this guy, former Vice President Al Gore has somehow found the audacity to say that God commands us to go forth and fight global warming. He has a new film coming outso of course he's going to use some of his crazy to promote it.
In the wake of President Trump's exit from the Paris climate treaty, reactions from other quarters were predictably swift, nasty, sanctimonious and hypocritical. Al Gore paused near one of the private jets he takes to hector lesser mortals to say the action will bring "a global weather apocalypse."
I freely admit I have no idea if manmade climate change or global warming or whatever you want to call it is something to be worried about. I'm not a scientist, certainly not a climatologist.
They say the truth is stranger than fiction, and in this instance at least, that is exactly right. Because the vast majority of people are rational and don't believe that human activity is changing weather patterns and warming the planet - after more than four decades of being told planetary devastation from human-caused climatic "change" is just a few years away, only to see deadlines come and go - now the hoaxers are getting desperate.
In this file photo, US President Donald Trump holds a rally at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky, US March 20, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo US President Donald Trump came under fire on Sunday for criticizing London's mayor in the aftermath of attacks in the city that killed seven people and injured at least 48 others.
Former Vice President Al Gore expressed disappointment Sunday over his failure to persuade President Donald Trump to keep the U.S. in the Paris climate agreement. Gore said on CNN's "State of the Union" that Trump's decision was a threat to humanity and bad for the U.S. position in global politics.
They write that, "Sea-level rise is coming. Even if we keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above historic norms-the benchmark for avoiding catastrophic climate warming-we may still see oceans creep four feet farther inland by 2100 and rise 20 feet by as soon as 2200."
After President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and former vice president and chair of The Climate Reality Project Al Gore come to "This Week." Plus, George Stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with former Obama National Security Adviser and U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice , exclusively on "This Week" Sunday.
The White House is resetting its search to replace ousted FBI Director James Comey, a senior administration official told CNN Wednesday . Just last week, prior to embarking on his first foreign trip as president, Donald Trump said he was nearing his decision on who he would nominate to replace Comey, whom he fired earlier this month.
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Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman gives a 'thumbs-up' as he leaves the West Wing of the White House in Washington Wednesday Besides being Connecticut's US senator for 14 years, Lieberman unsuccessfully ran for the presidency, was Al Gore's running mate and was considered a vice presidential possibility when Sen. According to media reports , the Trump administration is considering four candidates to replace fired FBI Director James Comey. Frank Keating , former FBI official Richard McFeely and acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe .
Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman gives a 'thumbs-up' as he leaves the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. The White House says President Donald Trump will be interviewing four potential candidates to lead the FBI.