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1.	Republican pundits open fire on Sarah Palin
2.	Activists push ballot initiative to end state benefits for illegal immigrants and their U.S.-born children
3.	Hasheem Thabeet makes an impact in NBA Summer League debut
4.	Obama nominates Dr. Regina Benjamin, an Alabama physician, to be surgeon general
5.	As the Hollywood machine abandons L.A., its supporting workers struggle

Thursday: The day in photos

Running with the bulls in Pamplona

Remembering Michael Jackson

Military operation in Afghanistan's Helmand province

Fans mourn Michael Jackson

A history of video games

1961: Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Steve Russell creates Spacewar, considered the first interactive computer game.

1972: Magnavox sells the first home video game system, a TV console invented by Ralph Baer called Odyssey.

1972: Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney start Atari Inc. and hire Al Alcorn, who creates Pong, left. Their first arcade machine, set up in a bar in Sunnyvale, Calif., shuts down within days because its coin box is stuffed full of quarters.

1976: Bushnell sells Atari to Warner Communications Inc. for $28 million.