August 1, 2012: Afternoon
- Law providing American women with access to preventive health services goes into effect today.
- Arizona's new abortion law could force mothers to birth stillborns and babies with fatal defects.
- Late-term abortion legislation fails in DC.
- Obama's newest campaign slogan attacked for an alleged punctuation error.
- NYC's newest crime racket: Thieves load cardboard bales into trucks and sell it to recycling plants.
- Gore Vidal versus Norman Mailer on the Dick Cavett Show.
- How Natasha Vargas-Cooper does money.
- Elevated caffeine levels found in the Pacific near Oregon—evidence of human waste from a population that loves coffee.
- After a spiritual awakening in Jamaica, Snoop Dogg becomes Snoop Lion.
- Writer pranks Walmart contest, sends Pitbill to Kodiak, Ala.
- Matt LeMay's appreciation of the Olivia Tremor Control and Bill Doss, who died yesterday at 43.
- How not to write about female musicians.
- Why beach volleyball is empowering to women viewers.