| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
DNC Day 3: What we learned President Obama's speech was not the emotional gut punch that the press conference after the Sandy Hook shooting was. It didn't soar the way that his speech to the Muslim world from Cairo University in 2009 did. Last night's speech lived in the more prosaic world of politics and elections. What makes Obama unusual is his ability to bring that soaring rhetoric to build up Hillary Clinton and take down Donald Trump. In so doing, he presented a contrast to the almost dystopian vision of America that Trump presented last week. “America is already great. America is already strong. And I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump. In fact, it doesn’t depend on any one person. And that, in the end, may be the biggest difference in this election – the meaning of our democracy…. He’s selling the American people short. We are not a fragile or frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order. We don’t look to be ruled.” – President Obama 
REUTERS/Mike Segar Last night was also the first time most of America got a chance to hear Tim Kaine speak. He was … not Michelle Obama or Bill Clinton. 
Billionaire media mogul and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg skewered Donald Trump's business dealings, bankruptcies and lawsuits. "Trump says he wants to run the nation like he's running his business? God help us. I'm a New Yorker and I know a con when I see one." Tonight, Hillary Clinton makes her case.
Around the country - Republican Donald Trump invited Russia to dig up tens of thousands of "missing" emails from Hillary Clinton's time at the State Department, vexing intelligence experts and prompting Democrats to accuse him of urging foreigners to spy on Americans. "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," he said.
- Some U.S. intelligence officials suspect that Russian hackers who broke into Democratic Party computers may have deliberately left digital fingerprints to show Moscow is a "cyberpower" that Washington should respect. They note that this breach was less sophisticated than other cyber intrusions that have been traced to Russian intelligence agencies or criminals.
- Baltimore's top prosecutor dropped remaining charges against police officers tied to the death of Freddie Gray, after failing four times to secure convictions in a case in which the man died from a broken neck while in police custody. Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby accused police officers themselves of thwarting her investigation.
Around the world - A home flight simulator owned by the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was used to plot a course to the southern Indian Ocean where the aircraft is believed to have gone missing, according to the Australian agency in charge of the search. But the presence of the simulator data does not prove that the pilot had intentionally crashed the plane.
- China and Russia will hold "routine" naval exercises in the South China Sea in September, China's Defense Ministry said, adding that the drills were aimed at strengthening their cooperation and were not aimed at any other country. The exercises come at a time of heightened tension in the contested waters after an arbitration court in the Hague ruled this month that China did not have historic rights to the disputed territory.
- Abdel-Malik Nabil Petitjean, the second teenager involved in the killing of a priest in a church in France this week, was a 19-year-old who was known to security services as a potential Islamist militant, police and judicial sources said. The man also appears to be a suspect police were looking for days ahead of the attack on a tip that Petitjean was planning an attack, French media reported.
Around Wall Street Digit of the day: 5 percent Facebook sold more advertising and attracted more new advertisers than Wall Street expected, sending shares up 5 percent to a record high. It was a stark contrast to Twitter, which reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth in three years. - The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday but said near-term risks to the economic outlook had diminished, opening the door to a resumption of monetary policy tightening this year. The Fed said the economy had expanded at a moderate rate and job gains were strong in June.
- Yahoo never did find a compelling answer to social media, which contributed to its demise. But there was one sector that relied on its quaint technology, in particular Yahoo Messenger: The oil industry.
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