Obama to make history...Gustav swirling...Toyota plugging in

DENVER (AP) Barack Obama will deliver a history-making acceptance speech tonight at the Democratic Convention. Tens of thousands of people will be in Denver's Mile High Stadium 45 years after Martin Luther King said "I have a dream."


DENVER (AP) Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty says he's going to be the vice president of his fantasy Football league. He might get another job that gets in the way of that. Pawlenty and Mitt Romney are thought to be the top two choices John McCain is considering as a running mate.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Tropical Storm Gustav is slowly regaining some of the strength it lost over Haiti. Right now the storm is approaching Jamaica. Forecasters say it could be a hurricane by tomorrow, and possibly a major hurricane steaming toward the Gulf Coast this weekend.

VIENNA, Austria (AP) Georgia's foreign minister is warning again that the ethnic cleansing of Georgians is taking place in South Ossetia. She says the process is being implemented both in villages in the conflict zone and elsewhere throughout the territory.

TOKYO (AP) Toyota has lowered next year's sales target by 700,000 vehicles. The new target of 9.7 million vehicles is still a two-percent increase over this year's. Toyota's president is also promising to have a plug-in hybrid car ready by the end of next year.

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