Albert Jr Gore

After all the weighty legal battles and absurdities, nonstop media coverage and national fascination, this year's riveting presidential election has one more spotlight to throw. The electoral college meets today. And Augusta Petrone will be there. Petrone, a 62-year-old housewife, is one of four New Hampshire electors who are to gather at the Concord, N.H., statehouse at 11 a.m. to vote for president. She intends to cast her ballot for President-elect George W.

At 9:15 Tuesday night soap-opera star Nancy Lee Grahn, who plays attorney Alexis Davis on ABC's "General Hospital," stepped in front of a banner that read "Daytime for Gore/Lieberman" and, wearing a long black skirt and pink leather jacket, faced a bank of television cameras. The political gathering for Democratic soap-opera stars had started more than an hour late.

WHEN Al Gore lost the presidency in a disputed election, it hurt -- more than he ever was willing to show, more perhaps than he could show. He told his friends and supporters that it was "liberating" to be out of politics. Privately, he expressed his feelings sparingly: "It was a difficult blow ... " It was his wife, Tipper, who suggested a palliative. Dig out the old slide show, she told him, and get back on the road.

More than a quarter-century after the Supreme Court established a constitutional right to abortion, overall support for the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision seems to be softening as Americans adopt a more nuanced view of the circumstances under which abortions should be allowed, according to a new Los Angeles Times Poll.

Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush commemorated the one-year anniversary of the bloody rampage at Columbine High School with somber words Thursday, even as they carefully used the day to highlight their platforms on preventing school violence. In separate appearances at different schools, each presidential candidate took small swipes at his rival, but at times they almost echoed each other as they called for more teaching of ethics and discipline in schools.

Salvatore Fodera can't help but wonder that maybe Al Gore took his advice. Back in February, Fodera, a New York hair stylist and a vice president himself--of the Paris-based World Hair Organization--said if Gore had a beard, maybe he would have been president. Who knows why, but the former veep has elected to grow a beard on his European vacation. And word is that the beard will likely be goring, goring, gone before he returns stateside next week.

The Gore dynasty includes several politicians and lawyers. The candidate's father was a lawyer and three-term senator from Tennessee. His mother became the first female graduate of Vanderbilt Law School. (Al Gore attended that school as well but dropped out in 1976 to run for Congress.) Attorney, confidant and brother-in-law Frank Hunger is the former head of the Justice Department's civil division. Daughter Karenna Gore Schiff, 27, recently graduated from Columbia Law School.

Albert Gore Jr. was 21 that summer of 1969 when he confronted Vietnam, the draft and an early test of his manhood. He had just graduated from Harvard, where he joined in anti-war protests that had split college campuses across the country. He had spent his summers on the family farm outside of this small town, and he knew that many of the local boys were heading off to the Army.

Quoting the Beatles and challenging George W. Bush's fitness for the White House, Al Gore and his vice presidential running mate worked Monday to fan doubts about the Texas governor's experience, policies and record. Campaigning together on a bus tour across the political battlefields of the Great Lakes, Gore and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut spent a second consecutive day in the Midwest.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson has collected scattered campaign contributions from all parts of California--$25 here, $50 there. But one small corner of the state has departed significantly from that pattern: a pocket of neighborhoods that, according to a Times survey, account for roughly 40% of all the money Jackson's California campaign committee has raised statewide.

The ghost of Democrats' dashed hopes in 2000, former Vice President Al Gore, urged Florida supporters of Barack Obama on Friday to take advantage of early voting -- and to take nothing for granted. "Take it from me -- elections matter. Every vote matters," Gore said.

Al Gore will return to the state that cost him the 2000 presidential election today to campaign for Barack Obama, the first time he has hit the trail for the Democratic nominee. Gore is expected to urge supporters at rallies in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale to vote early, said Obama's Florida campaign director, Steve Schale. "Nobody knows better that every single vote counts -- especially in Florida -- than Vice President Al Gore," he said.

Last year it was about the candidates. This year it's the climate. Former Vice President Al Gore made a surprise appearance Saturday at the Netroots Nation conference, a gathering of nearly 2,000 left-leaning bloggers and political organizers. He urged the activists to mobilize for global climate protection, amplifying his call to generate all the nation's electricity from renewable sources like wind, solar and geothermal energy in 10 years.

Former Vice President Al Gore stepped forward to endorse Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for president on Monday night -- an attention-grabbing event that came as no surprise but renewed the speculation about whether they might form a joint ticket. Obama's first campaign appearance with Gore, at the Joe Louis Arena in downtown Detroit, came after Gore announced his support in a blog item on his website, AlGore.com.

Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a call for humanity to rise up against a looming climate crisis and stop waging war on the environment. The United States and China, the world's leading emitters of greenhouse gases, will stand accountable before history if they don't take the lead in that global challenge, the former vice president said. "Without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on the Earth itself," Gore said in his acceptance speech.

Seven years ago, this could not have been how Al Gore envisaged his time in the Oval Office: as a winner and, at the same time, as a guest. In one of those life-can-be-awkward moments, Gore, who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming, spent 40 minutes with President Bush on Monday before attending a ceremony honoring the American winners of the Nobel Prize.

Al Gore is trying to bring more green to green technologies. Venture capital dollars are pouring into the business of fighting climate change, and Gore will get to invest millions as a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a prominent Silicon Valley venture firm. The Menlo Park firm, which was an early investor in Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.

washington -- Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize set the political world abuzz Friday with speculation that he might finally join the 2008 race for president. All signs suggest otherwise. The former vice president made no comment on whether the Nobel had sparked his interest anew in a campaign for the White House. But Gore, 59, has laid no groundwork to build the vast organization needed to run for president. He has repeatedly said he has no plans to run for public office again.

A great movie can get you a fabulous table in Cannes and maybe even an Academy Award, but it usually doesn't get you a spot at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. So when news came Friday that Hollywood's favorite environmentalist, former Vice President Al Gore, had won the world's most prestigious prize, members of the entertainment industry not only felt that the honor had been bestowed on one of their own, they also shared in celebrating his victory.

Former Vice President Al Gore, who has waged a decades-long fight against global warming, on Friday shared the Nobel Peace Prize with a Geneva-based United Nations climate group. The choice of Gore delivered a symbolic rebuke to the Bush administration, which has opposed calls for mandatory greenhouse gas reductions, and fueled speculation that the former Democratic presidential candidate might yet enter the 2008 race.