AP - Obama campaign seeks information on Connecticut's Dodd in veep search ... McCain raises $22 million in June; campaign and GOP have $95 million on hand ... Obama stresses equal pay, child care in appeal to women who had backed Hillary Clinton ...

Time.com - The GOP candidate is embracing both fiscal discipline and supply-side tax cuts. Can he reconcile the contradiction?

AFP - Regardless of whether Americans elect the Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama president in November, the man who takes up residency in the White House will be a lefty -- at least in terms of the hand he favors.

AP - A local Republican Club in New Jersey has removed a slogan from its Web site that read, "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole."

AP - Trailer manufacturers defended themselves Wednesday on Capitol Hill, insisting they're not responsible for FEMA trailers that had toxic levels of formaldehyde, despite Democrats' claims the companies knew the dangers yet didn't do anything about it.

Time.com - The GOP candidate is embracing both fiscal discipline and supply-side tax cuts. Can he reconcile the contradiction?

U.S. News & World Report - Sen. John McCain's plans are gradually unfolding for the Republican National Convention in September as he tries to walk a tightrope between conflicting demands.

AP - Manufacturers say they are not responsible for FEMA trailers that had toxic levels of formaldehyde, despite Democrats' findings that companies knew about the dangers yet sold them to the government anyway after Hurricane Katrina.

AP - Republicans are blaming the federal government for not having standards for safe levels of formaldehyde in trailers used by Hurricane Katrina victims.

AP - Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat, accused Republicans of putting seniors and military families at risk by siding with President Bush against a measure to prevent Medicare cuts.

AP - John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama in polls, organization and money while trying to succeed a deeply unpopular fellow Republican in a year that favors Democrats.

AP - TITLE: "Balance."