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Usain Bolt wins Olympic gold in 200 meters, 1st man to win back-to-back sprint ... - CBS News
(AP) LONDON – When the stakes are the biggest, the spotlight most bright, Usain Bolt is as good as gold. Good as there's ever been. Putting the field far enough behind that he could slow up over his last few strides and put his left index finger to his …


Obama camp picks at possible Romney VP choices - The Associated Press
By By DAN SEWELL and BRIAN BAKST - 1 minute ago CINCINNATI (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies aren't waiting for Republican Mitt Romney to reveal his vice presidential choice. They're already trying to scuff up those considered by …


US forecasters see higher chance of Atlantic hurricanes, but storms should ... - Washington Post


Facebook Stats Reveal Men Most Interested in Mars Rover Landing - Mashable


Clashes rage in rebel bastions of Syria's Aleppo - The Associated Press
By ZEINA KARAM, AP - 3 hours ago BEIRUT (AP) -- Clashes between government troops and rebels raged Thursday in opposition bastions of besieged Aleppo as President Bashar Assad's key state backer Iran hosted a gathering of countries for talks on how to …


Four staffers for former Rep. McCotter to face criminal charges for petition fraud - ABC News
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette on Thursday announced that his office is filing criminal charges against four members of former Democratic Rep. Thad McCotter's congressional staff. The accusations relate to alleged fraud surrounding nominating …


Mars rover sends back 1st 360-degree color view - Businessweek
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- The Curiosity rover has returned another postcard from Mars -- the first 360-degree color view from Gale Crater. Since landing Sunday night, NASA's six-wheel rover has been sending home a trickle of pictures, beginning with …


Killer of Leiby Kletzky Pleads Guilty to Murder of 8-Year-Old - New York Times
Levi Aron pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year-old boy from the insular Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn, whose disappearance while walking home from camp and the ghastly discovery of his dismembered remains …


Romney Embraces Mass. Health Plan Again - ABC News
Mitt Romney secured the GOP presidential nomination in spite of the health care law he passed in Massachusetts. That legislation, which mandated people buy insurance, was the basis for the federal law that the candidate has pledged to move toward …


Trial of Chinese Ex-Official's Wife Begins and Ends - New York Times
HEFEI, China -- The murder trial of Gu Kailai, the wife of the deposed political leader Bo Xilai, began here on Thursday morning and came to an end seven hours later, with officials saying that the defendant and an accomplice had all but confessed to …


US forecasters raise Atlantic hurricane outlook - CBS News


Sikhs return to Wisc. temple after shooting - CBS News
(AP) MILWAUKEE – Sikhs are returning to a US temple for the first time since the shootings that killed six worshippers and left three people critically wounded. Inderjeet Singh Dhillon, a community leader at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, …


Obama attacks Romney for opposing extension of wind energy tax credit - Washington Post
Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama attacked Republican Mitt Romney for opposing extension of a tax credit for wind energy, telling a Colorado audience letting it lapse would cost their state thousands of jobs. On the second day of a trip …


Claressa Shields of US wins Olympic middleweight gold medal - CBS News
(AP) LONDON – Claressa Shields won the first middleweight gold medal in women's Olympic boxing, a dominant victory by an exuberant American teenager who danced, brawled and even stuck out her tongue. Irish lightweight Katie Taylor and British flyweight …


Drawn-out Aleppo fight suggests strains in Syria army - Reuters
* Army gunners may be softening up rebels before assault * Doubts grow that army has enough motivated men for ground attack * Prospect of outside intervention may be staying Assad's hand By Hadeel Al Shalchi and William Maclean ALEPPO/LONDON, …


Drawn-out Aleppo fight suggests strains in Syria army - Reuters
* Army gunners may be softening up rebels before assault * Doubts grow that army has enough motivated men for ground attack * Prospect of outside intervention may be staying Assad's hand By Hadeel Al Shalchi and William Maclean ALEPPO/LONDON, …


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