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Attendees work as negotiations continue at the COP30 UN Climate Summit in Belem, Brazil, November 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
November 22, 2025, 2:57 pm
COP30 climate talks end with more money for countries hit by climate change
Negotiations reached deadlock before agreement reached which doesn’t explicitly detail phasing out fossil fuels, fueling fears Brazil conference risks becoming a ‘clown show’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Former Vice President Al Gore offers his condolences to Hadassah Lieberman during the funeral for her husband, former Sen. Joe Lieberman in Stamford, Connecticut, Friday, March. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
March 30, 2024, 12:32 am
At funeral, Joe Lieberman eulogized as ‘mensch’ committed to his Jewish faith
Stamford, Connecticut synagogue packed with mourners, including Al Gore, for four-time senator and first Jewish candidate for vice president on a major party ticket
By AP
United States Senator Joe Lieberman lights Hannuka candles with Jewish Agency Chairman Ze'ev Bielski and new immigrants from Ethiopia at the Jewish Agency Absorption Center in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, December 2006. Ariel Jerozolimski)
March 28, 2024, 10:52 am
‘Matchless champion of the Jewish people’: Israeli, US officials mourn Joe Lieberman
Allies and opponents pay tribute to the former Connecticut senator, whose career in public service blazed a path for religious Jews in American politics
By ToI Staff
Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman waves to members of the media as he leaves the West Wing of the White House in Washington, May 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
March 28, 2024, 12:41 am
Joe Lieberman, centrist senator and first Jew on major US presidential ticket, dies at 82
Veteran politician became one of most visible role models for Jewish observance in high places and was known for his attempts to build bridges in an increasingly polarized Washington
By Ron Kampeas
The Oak Fire outside Yosemite National Park burns through trees near Jerseydale, California, July 24, 2022. (JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Images via AFP)
July 25, 2022, 12:40 am
6,000 evacuated as ‘explosive’ California blaze remains out of control
2,000 firefighters and 17 helicopters deployed to fight fire that has burned through 14,200 acres and destroyed 10 properties; ex-VP Gore warns against US ‘inaction’ on climate
By David McNew and Michael Mathes
George W. Bush's representative, former Secretary of State James A. Baker, gestures during a press conference in Tallahassee, Florida, Nov. 22, 2000 (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser)
December 5, 2020, 12:20 pm
Unlike Giuliani, James Baker’s masterful strategies won a contested US election
New book shows Washington power player was as focused on public perceptions as on the courtroom battles, immediately saw 2000 election results would end up at Supreme Court
By richard pildes
Al Gore, center, with filmmaking couple Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on July 24, 2017. The duo produced a documentary follow up 'An Inconvenient Sequel,' to Gore's Oscar-winning first film on climate change. (Courtesy SJFF)
July 28, 2017, 12:37 pm
Ahead of nationwide release, Al Gore presents an ‘Inconvenient’ sequel at SF Jewish Film Festival
Produced by award-winning filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ condemns Trump, calls for grassroots activism
By Lisa Klug
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, third from left, and Vice President Mike Pence, right, signs an Energy Independence Executive Order, March 28, 2017, at EPA headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
March 28, 2017, 11:55 pm
Trump tosses Obama’s ‘clean’ energy plan, embraces coal
US president declares ‘the start of a new era,’ as he undoes plan to curb global warming in order to save fossil fuel jobs
By Matthew Daly and Jill Colvin
US President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a Victory Tour Rally, on December 8, 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Steve Pope/Getty Images/AFP)
December 9, 2016, 5:51 am
Trump defends cabinet as hardline picks criticized
President-elect claims secretarial picks will be ‘one of the greatest cabinets’ ever, says members ‘committed to advancing common good’
By Jennie Matthew and Timothy A. CLARY
In this Oct. 12, 2016 photo, stickers available for voters are seen at the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Cincinnati, Ohio, as early voting begins statewide. (AP/John Minchillo)
October 30, 2016, 3:30 am
The election’s just beginning on Election Day
America’s complicated, and some say convoluted, Electoral College process will only officially pick the president on Jan. 6
By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes the stage for the third presidential debate at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
October 20, 2016, 7:32 am
Trump slammed for not promising to honor election results
GOP senators, Republican National Committee scramble after candidate’s comments in final debate, promise to ‘respect the will of the people’
By Jonathan Lemire and Bill Barrow
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican rival Donald Trump shake hands during the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on Sept. 26, 2016. (Joe Raedle/Pool via AP, File)
October 7, 2016, 8:09 am
Presidential minefield: Sunday’s town hall debate will test candidates’ stagecraft
Trump and Clinton know previous face-offs in such intimate settings were decided as much by body language as by candidates’ answers
By Julie Pace and Jonathan Lemire
In this Sept. 26, 2015 file photo, Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
October 1, 2016, 12:45 am
Will Iran deal earn Kerry and Zarif a Nobel Prize?
From Pope Francis to Edward Snowden, all bets are on for nominees for the prestigious peace award, to be announced next Friday
By Karl Ritter
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. (Jessica Kourkounis, Jogn Sommers II/AFP)
July 25, 2016, 3:54 am
Trump vs. Clinton: Is a 2017 ‘peaceful transfer’ possible?
Whoever wins the White House may face broad swaths of America questioning the very legitimacy of their election
By Bill Barrow
March 18, 2016, 4:59 am
Obama, Elvis and 5 other famous ‘Shabbos goys’
The politicians and celebrities who have been helping Jews observe Shabbat by turning off lights and flipping on the A/C
By Uriel Heilman
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