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Climate activists in shock at Gore sequel bombing at box office: 'This was not supposed to happen' 'Al Gore Gets Ripped Off Again' 'He should have demanded a recount.' Gore fans reduced to blaming the distributor. 'A botched strategy by Paramount Pictures effectively sabotaged the nationwide release' of Gore's sequel. “Sadly, the box-office under-performance of An Inconvenient Sequel will be seized upon by climate-change deniers as ‘proof’ that Americans don’t really care about this issue,” Tucker wrote. According to Deadline Hollywood, Gore’s sequel “grossed $900K, averaging $5,000 (per screen). That brought its cume (cumulative) over seven figures, landing at $1,052,000....

Despite hurricane-force media hype that Donald Trump’s locker room talk over a decade ago precludes him from the presidency, the GOP base is ignoring its leadership and standing by Donald Trump. A poll by Politico shows: A wave of Republican officials abandoned Donald Trump on Saturday, but, at least for now, rank-and-file Republicans are standing by the party's presidential candidate, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted immediately after audio was unearthed Friday that had the GOP nominee crudely bragging about groping women and trying to lure a married woman into an affair. Overall, fewer than four-in-10 voters --...

In the strongest sign yet that international support for the United States' policy of confrontation with Iraq is wavering, three key U.S. allies - Russia, France and Egypt - refused Thursday to vote for a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Persian Gulf nation. The desertion of three members of the 1991 Persian Gulf War coalition came on a resolution criticizing Iraq for refusing to cooperate fully with U.N. weapons inspectors in charge of dismantling Iraqi chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs. The measure, sponsored by the United States and Britain, passed by a vote of 10-0, with five abstentions....