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something even rivals The Wanted acknowledged -- even though fans had to labor under a scorching sun with the temperature at 90 degrees.
• The sun was especially hot for Amber Rose, who accentuated her pregnant belly with a black lace gown as she and fiance Wiz Khalifa showed off a baby bump.
• "I'm hot, and my feet hurt, but I look gorgeous," Rose said.
• While touching, the moment didn't rise to the level of The Baby Bump -- when Beyonce showed her unannounced pregnancy on the red carpet last year -- Taylor vs. Kanye or The Kiss.
• Lil Wayne had one of the night's most tweeted performances when he debuted his heavily bleeped new song "No Worries." And Keys, who debuted "Girl on Fire," drew attention well before she took the stage. The singer and her producer husband Swizz Beatz were spotted with their almost 2-year-old son, Egypt, bobbing up and down on Beatz' lap during Pink's expletive-laden performance of "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)."
• There was hubbub on Twitter where several of Keys' fans noted the bawdy nature of the VMAs. Others just thought Egypt was cute.
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• CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- President Barack Obama's fall mission: Remind voters why they chose him in the first place, hope the economy doesn't get worse -- and paint Mitt Romney as an unacceptable alternative.
• "On every issue, the choice you face won't be just between two candidates or two parties. It will be a choice between two different paths for America," the Democrat said as he accepted his party's nomination.
• His re-election is far from certain and his task is far from easy, despite the built-in advantages of incumbency.
• In a sharp reminder of that, his administration was releasing its August jobs report early Friday, offering the latest snapshot on whether the country's 8.3 percent unemployment rate was improving. No president since Franklin D. Roosevelt has been re-elected with a jobless rate higher than 8 percent.
• Over the next 10 weeks, Obama -- the country's first black president -- will push to make history again. In ads and speeches, he'll try to do it by casting the campaign

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