AP - For all the passion this year's presidential campaign has stirred, more than four in 10 voters are still up for grabs.

AP - Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, a Democrat who opposes abortion rights, will be a featured speaker at the party's national convention, officials said Wednesday.

Politico - Reflecting new Democratic optimism about the South, former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner will keynote the party’s national convention in Denver two weeks from now.

AP - Strategist Ralph Reed now raising money for McCain's campaign ... Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner picked to give Democratic keynote speech ... McCain's foreign policy adviser profited from Georgian government while advising his boss ... Poll Notebook: 4 in 10 still not firmly behind a presidential candidate ... Obama says he would reverse endangered species proposal if he wins White House

AP - Barack Obama chose Mark Warner, Virginia's Senate candidate and former governor, to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic convention, underscoring Democrats' all-out effort to win the Southern state for the first time since 1964.

AP - John McCain's chief foreign policy adviser and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

AFP - India urged developed nations Tuesday to return to the negotiating table to hammer out a new global trade deal -- but only if they are willing to give and not just look for what they can get.

AP - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to decide whether Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay interest on punitive damages awarded in the nation's worst oil spill.

AP - The government owns hundreds of underground fuel tanks — many designed for emergencies back in the Cold War — that need to be inspected for leaks of hazardous substances that could make local water undrinkable.

AP - Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman won his GOP congressional primary Tuesday and looked set to succeed Rep. Tom Tancredo, the five-term Colorado congressman whose forceful opposition to illegal immigration vaulted him to national prominence.

AP - Republican John McCain quickly took a hardline stand against Russia after it sent troops and tanks into the former Soviet state of Georgia. Democrat Barack Obama's initial condemnation of Russia was tempered by a call for diplomacy and restraint on all sides.

Politico - —While virtually every other world leader called for calm in Georgia last Thursday morning, John McCain did something he’s done many times over his career in public life: He condemned Russia.