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- US ECONOMIC GROWTH SLOWS - The economy grew at just 1.5 percent from April through June on a steep cutback in consumer spending. And that doesn't do anything to abate fears that the economy is stalling.
- OBAMA TO SIGN U.S.-ISRAELI COOPERATION BILL - At 9:15 a.m., the president is reaffirming U.S. ties with Israel, upstaging Romney a day before the Republican challenger visits Jerusalem.
- ROMNEY'S KEY MEETING AHEAD OF OPENING CEREMONY - The likely GOP nominee for president is scheduled to meet with Irish Prime Minister Edna Kenny at 9:15 a.m. before attending the London Olympics' curtain-raiser at 3 p.m.
- VICTIM NO. 2 POISED TO SUE PENN STATE - The boy Nittany Lions graduate assistant Mike McQueary saw in the showers with Jerry Sandusky has stepped forward to say it was him, and his attorneys promise to file a lawsuit against the heavily sanctioned university.
- WOMEN DEEMED MAJOR FACTOR IN THIS SWING STATE - Both Obama and Romney see women — specifically suburbanites from their 30s to their 50s — as the key to victory in Colorado as well as in other hard-fought places like Virginia and Nevada.
- WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT IRAQ - In the first tally of its kind, a federal investigative agency calculates that at least 719 people, nearly half of them Americans, were killed working on projects to rebuild Iraq following the U.S. invasion in 2003.
- WHY THIS TREATY HAS GUN ACTIVISTS UP IN ARMS - An AP Fact Check by Tom Raum explores why Second Amendment backers denounce a pending U.N. crack down on the global, $60 billion business of illicit trading in small arms as an end-run around their constitutional right to bear arms.
- DELAY IN AMBULANCE RESPONSE CITED - Officers sent out urgent pleas for more ambulances in the aftermath of Colorado theater massacre even as a two-man crew and their rig were idling just a few miles away.
- THE "CURE" FOR A BURNT-OUT LAWN - With a drought covering two-thirds of the nation, people in normally well-watered areas are catching on to the lawn-painting practice employed for years in the West.
- WHY IT'S HARD NOT TO OFFEND AT THESE GAMES - The Olympic-sized political gaffes and cultural goofs already registered before the London Games officially open have proven one thing: organizing an offense-free Olympics is nearly impossible.
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