AP - The National Rifle Association said Wednesday that Barack Obama's campaign is trying to mislead voters about his past support of gun control, calling the Democratic candidate "a poster child of the extremist, elitist gun control movement."

AP - Never mind the last days of the presidential campaign. The busiest days for Barack Obama's campaign in this perennial swing state are likely to be a month before Election Day.

AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain says Russia's invasion of Georgia requires a complete reexamination of U.S. relations with the Moscow government.

AP - Still sore from an epic primary battle, some of Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters aren't buying the unity theme planned for the Democratic National Convention.

Reuters - President George W. Bush still thinks a world trade deal is possible despite a major setback last month and will continue pushing to get one, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said on Tuesday.

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.