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A former vice president and a former vice presidential nominee are engaged in a public battle over climate change. NBC's Andrea Mitchell interviewed Al Gore on Wednesday.
NYT: Slim majority backs Afghan troop plan
NYT: A slim majority supports President Obama's plan to send more troops to Afghanistan, but many are skeptical that the escalation would reduce the chance of a terrorist attack, a new poll finds.
Dems praise tentative health bill compromise
President Barack Obama on Wednesday praised a Senate health care compromise that would jettison a full-blown government insurance plan in favor of expanding Medicare and creating new private plans modeled on the federal employee program.
Al Gore rebuts Palin's climate change claims
A former vice president and a former vice presidential nominee are engaged in a public battle over climate change, a tiff sparked by Sarah Palin's op-ed in Wednesday's Washington Post and furthered by Al Gore's rebuttal on MSNBC.



