Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that people will be talking about today:
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AS ISAAC NEARS, DARK MEMORIES OF KATRINA–Uneasy residents are assured that New Orleans’ fortified levees can withstand the anticipated hurricane.
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A NOT-SO-HEARTY PARTY AS CLOUDS GATHER–Politics has become an awkward enterprise at the GOP convention.
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HOW ANTI-OBAMA FLICK SQUARES WITH THE FACTS–“2016: Obama’s America” argues — unconvincingly — that Obama was heavily influenced by his father’s leftist politics.
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QURAN BURNING PROBE CITES POOR GUIDANCE, MISCOMMUNICATION–U.S. military says six soldiers got punishments but no criminal charges for the episode that roiled relations with Afghans.
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A FEW SECONDS, 16 ROUNDS, 9 WOUNDED BYSTANDERS–Experts say the NYC shooting shows the challenges police juggle with semiautomatic weapons.
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HOW SMOKING POT MAY AFFECT TEENS YEARS LATER–Research suggests that regular use before age 18 can cause a long-term drop in IQ.
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WHY ONE STATION WON’T AIR ‘THE NEW NORMAL’–Mormon church-owned KSL says the sitcom is “inappropriate on several dimensions, especially during family viewing time.”
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MEET THE MAN WHO STARTED THE PARALYMPICS–Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a neurosurgeon who fled the Nazis, pioneered the athletic competition as therapy for patients.
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PIANIST VAN CLIBURN HAS ADVANCED BONE CANCER–He’s performed for every president since Harry Truman and got New York’s only ticker tape parade for a classical musician.
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THE AX FALLS IN THE NFL–QB Vince Young is the biggest name to lose his job as pro football teams trim their rosters.