The citizens of these United States of America and especially New Yorkers should be extremely proud of the way or athletes represented us during the 2012 London Olympics. Yes, NYC lost the opportunity to host these games, but we have to handed to team USA for the way they competed like champs.

Team USA took the top spot in the medals race for the fifth consecutive Summer Olympics, winning 104 medals to China's 87. The Americans also topped the gold medal count, 46-38.

STEEL SEARCH FOR ‘TOYS’. No Playing Matter
US says a spoiled plot to obtain special alloy points to Chinese-Iranian collusion in skirting sanctions.

RYAN: CONSERVATIVE, MIDWESTERNER. A Catholic and and intellectual.
No one in the House or Senate has done more than Ryan to map an agenda for the modern, tea party-infused GOP.

HEAT STATISTICS. Pointing To Long-term Climate Problems.
Thousands of dead fish in the hot Des Moines River, dry wells and a parched corn crop are just a few symptoms.

MITT ROMNEY DECIDES. Congressman Paul Ryan.

MITT ROMNEY CHOOSES US REP. PAUL RYAN AS HIS VP. Ryan Is Man With A Plan.
The seventh term conservative Congressman from Wisconsin is a debater and a pleasant surprise to some.

EIGHT NATO TROOPS SHOT IN AFGHANISTAN. Same Day During Separate Incidents.
Dressed as an Afghan police, kills three American soldiers, a day on which a total of eight American and British soldiers were killed.

SYRIA GETS HELP FROM HEZBOLLAH. U.S. Accusations During Military Crackdown.
Lebanese militants are involved with Syria's violent campaign to crush their uprising.

Behind the scenes look at TV NEWS -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDWl0HZpZqA&feature=share

U.S. Census Bureau is working to ensure that the nation’s decennial Census produces a full and accurate count of the Latino community and the country as a whole in 2020 by conducting research to improve the collection of race and Hispanic origin data.

955 Otto organizes his nobles and defeats the invading Magyars at Lechfeld.
1539 King Francis of France declares all documents are to be written in French.
1557 French troops are defeated by Emmanuel Philibert's Spanish- St. Quentin.
1582 Russia ends its 25-year war with Poland.
1628 The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in Stockholm on maiden voyage.
1779 Louis XVI of France frees the last remaining serfs on royal land.
1831 William Driver of Salem, MA, is the first to use "Old Glory".
1846 The Smithsonian Institution is established in Washington DC.