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Al Gore calls climate change the most serious challenge human civilization has ever faced and talks about an upcoming global event for climate change awareness.

Al Gore calls climate change the most serious challenge human civilization has ever faced and talks about an upcoming global event for climate change awareness.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is scheduled to fly to Copenhagen, Denmark Saturday for the C40 World Mayors Summit, where he is set to speak Thursday and Friday.

The current season of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Star Talk” series is on hold amid sexual misconduct claims against the prominent astrophysicist. National Geographic channel said Thursday that new episodes of the science-based talk show won’t air until an investigation involving Tyson is completed. Last December, National Geographic Networks and Fox said they would examine claims that Tyson behaved in a...

A political organization backed by Democrat Stacey Abrams filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the way Georgia’s elections are run, making good on a promise Abrams made as she ended her bid to become the state’s governor. The lawsuit was filed in Atlanta by Fair Fight Action against interim Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden and state election board members. It...

Stacey Abrams broke the rules of politics until the very end. The Georgia Democrat who came about 60,000 votes shy of becoming America’s first black woman governor refused to follow the traditional script for defeated politicians who offer gracious congratulations to their victorious competitor and gently exit the stage. Instead, Abrams ended her campaign in an unapologetically indignant tone that...

The fifth season of astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson’s show StarTalk is set to return to National Geographic on Monday, Nov. 12. Degrasse Tyson came to NBC’s studios to talk about some of this season’s highlights and his favorite science-related pop culture moments.

The creators of the show “South Park” have issued a rare apology, reprising the character ManBearPig to make amends for a dis that is more than a decade old, NBC News reports. In a 2006 episode during season 10 of the animated series, Al Gore issues a stern warning to the students of South Park Elementary School about the “single...

The fact that Hillary Clinton most likely won the U.S. popular vote but won’t be president has some people wondering, “Wait, why do we do it this way?”

Just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump approved new tariffs on imports, the leaders of Canada and India came out forcefully Tuesday against a drift toward protectionism in the global economy. While Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said new barriers to trade could pose a danger on a par with climate change and extremist attacks, his Canadian peer, Justin Trudeau,...

An enthusiastic supporter of the president who is mayor of a Virginia island that’s sinking into Chesapeake Bay got a chance to challenge former Vice President Al Gore on climate change during a town hall Tuesday night. Tangier Island Mayor James “Ooker” Eskridge told Gore that erosion is the real culprit for his shrinking island, not sea level rise. “I’m...

In a classroom in Dallas, Texas, a teacher tells her students that climate change is a natural phenomenon. Meanwhile her counterpart in Queens, New York, presents evidence to the contrary. Both are providing teenagers with a lens through which they’ll interpret environmental policy as they reach voting age.

Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday said more attention must be paid to the dangerous health consequences of climate change, and he called on scientists, health officials and health care providers to work together to find solutions to the crisis. Gore made the comments Thursday during the Health and Climate Meeting at The Carter Center in Atlanta. Gore helped...

A rare look at the life of a Secret Service agent and what it means to protect a president. Michael Brownlee reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2017.

For a U.S. Secret Service agent, the stakes are high every day when it comes to protecting the president. But there’s no bigger event than an inauguration, which requires a massive security undertaking. NBC4 got a rare and personal look into the life of an agent at the field office in Los Angeles.

President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters went to court Friday to prevent or halt election recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, less than two weeks before the states would have to complete the tasks to meet a federal deadline to certify their election results. The legal actions seeking to block or halt the recounts in three states Trump narrowly won...

“Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie revealed Tuesday morning she’s pregnant with her second baby, due in December.

You can take three easy steps in your daily life to make tomorrow greener for everyone.

Gov. Jerry Brown, who once studied for the priesthood, will visit the Vatican in Rome this week to participate in a symposium on climate change for a meeting he said is both about public policy and a personal commitment tied to his years as a seminarian.

Climate change a priority issue for Ca. Governor Jerry Brown. He tells NBC4’s Conan Nolan about his trip next week to the Vatican for a climate change symposium with Pope Francis.