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Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan delivered a GOP convention takedown of President Obama Wednesday night. The speech catapulted an already ugly campaign to a whole new level.

Hollywood tells many tales of the news business: the music reporter after the big story in Almost Famous, the eager TV reporter with a lot to learn in Up Close and Personal, and the disgruntled anchor fired from his job in Network. Film buff Murray Horwitz names his favorites, so what's yours?

One day before the biggest speech of his life, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressed the American Legion's annual meeting in Indiana. He attacked President Obama for allowing deep Pentagon cuts that both parties in Congress agreed to.

For the third time in a month, Apple has rejected a proposed app that tracks American drone strikes. The company says the app is "objectionable and crude"; the developer says he wants to encourage more dialogue about drone attacks.

The most important speech of Mitt Romney's career reached out to skeptical female voters, spoke to those disillusioned with President Obama, and had its genuinely moving interludes. Was it enough to change lingering perceptions of the long-running candidate?

Ben Mattlin was born with a condition called spinal muscular atrophy. Many infants with the disease don't live past age 2, but Mattlin went on to attend Harvard, get married and have kids. "I had this dumb idea from childhood that I could do anything anybody else could do," he says.

The remnants of Hurricane Isaac have left Louisiana behind. But parts of the state will be rebuilding for a long time to come. The storm brought extensive flooding to communities that had been largely spared during earlier hurricanes.

For the last two weeks, President Obama has been visiting college campuses in swing states urging students to register and vote. Some 15 million Americans have turned 18 and have become eligible to vote since he was elected. Obama's campaign says it is also working to win the votes of young people who are not in school.

A family in England really wasn't expecting to find a 33-foot-deep medieval well under their living room floor. Colin Steer got about a foot down into the well before his wife made him stop. Now he's retired, and he's dug 17 feet. He's already found a sword and hopes for more treasures.

But there was also some good news coming out of Isaac: Its remnants will bring much-needed rain to the Midwest.