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• 8. MICHAEL PHELPS VS. RYAN LOCHTE: ROUND TWO
• The two swimmers face off in the 200-meter individual medley, with preliminaries starting at 5 a.m. and the finals beginning at 2:30 p.m.
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• 9. AT THE GAMES, IT'S 'SHOW US THE MONEY' - IF YOU WANT TO SHOW YOUR LOGO
• Some say the Olympics committee has been heavy-handed in branding restrictions on companies that didn't bankroll the games.
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• 10. WHO IS GIVING THE BEST PARTIES AT THE OLYMPICS
• An eclectic guided tour of the best national houses shows which countries are sophisticated and which are outrageous when it comes to celebrating.
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AP News in Brief
AP: Holding immigrants a boon to private prisons, which have spent $45M on lobbying, campaigns
• MIAMI (AP) -- The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever, generating lucrative profits for the nation's largest prison companies, and an Associated Press review shows the businesses have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying lawmakers and contributing to campaigns.
• The cost to American taxpayers is on track to top $2 billion for this year, and the companies are expecting their biggest cut of that yet in the next few years thanks to government plans for new facilities to house the 400,000 immigrants detained annually.
• After a decade of expansion, the sprawling, private system runs detention centers everywhere from a Denver suburb to an industrial area flanking Newark's airport, and is largely controlled by just three companies.
• The growth is far from over, despite the sheer drop in illegal immigration in recent years.
• In 2011, nearly half the beds in the nation's civil detention system were in private facilities with little federal oversight, up from just 10 percent a decade ago.
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