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• 37 million tune in to watch Palin’s speech
But she easily surpassed the 27.6 million viewers drawn by President George W. Bush at the end of the Republican National Convention in 2004, when he was nominated for a second term.
• Speakers for Tuesday's GOP Convention
In 2000 and again in 2004, George W. Bush accepted the Republican nomination in prime-time on the closing night of the convention. With five months left in office, he is in the spotlight on the second night, giving a party valedictory.
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,154
Patrick W. May, 22, Jamestown, N.Y.; died Tuesday in Baghdad of injuries from a non-combat incident; assigned to the Division Special Troops Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.
• Autism, measles vaccine link further debunked
W. Ian Lipkin of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, who led the work published in PLoS One, the online journal of the Public Library of Science.
• Ospraie Management to close flagship fund
The losses were primarily caused by a substantial sell-off in a number of our energy, mining and resource equity holdings during a six-week period characterized by some of the sharpest declines in these sectors in the past 20 years," founder Dwight W