- Colorado wildfires continue to ravage that state's forests as more than 30,000 residents near Colorado Springs have been evacuated out of the path of the blaze.
- The EPA has won a major court victory as an appeals court has unanimously decided that the agency does have the authority to regulate greenhouse gases as a public health issue.
- Prolific author, essayist and movie director Nora Ephron has died at 71 due to pneumonia brought on by her battle with leukemia.
- With the party's ban on direct corporate funding of the national convention, Democrats are having fundraising issues and have canceled a convention kickoff event in Charlotte.
- Rhode Island legislators have repealed a 1989 law that made it a crime to knowingly lie online, as critics charged potentially thousands of residents were guilty of breaking it every day.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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