Monday,  August 13, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 030 • 33 of 40 •  Other Editions

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• 6. HOW DELAYS IN DEALING WITH SOCIAL SECURITY WILL CUT BENEFITS
• With the surplus expected to run out in 2033, AP's Stephen Olemacher explains, that would leave only enough tax revenue to pay about 75 percent of benefits.
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• 7. WHY SOME STOCKS ARE SINKING DESPITE BIG PROFITS
• U.S. companies' revenue is so weak investors are scared: Six in 10 big companies have missed revenue targets, the financial data provider FactSet says.

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• 8. OBSTACLE COURSE RACING ALL THE RAGE
• Thousands of people are trekking to northeast Pennsylvania to scale walls, leap fire and crawl commando-style through a mud pit topped with barbed wire -- willingly. For kicks. And paying money to do it.
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• 9. IT'LL BE WEDDING BELLS AGAIN, FINALLY, FOR ANISTON
• After years of breathless anticipation -- at least on the part of the tabloids -- Jennifer Aniston is finally ready to wed again after she accepted "Wanderlust" co-star Justin Theroux's proposal.
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• 10. DOLPHINS RELEASE CHAD JOHNSON
• Miami cuts the six-time Pro Bowl receiver after his wife, Evelyn Lozada of "Basketball Wives," accuses him of head-butting her.
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AP News in Brief
Ryan and Obama in Iowa seeking votes; Romney's on the bus in Florida

• DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Newly tapped Republican vice presidential contender Paul Ryan is facing off against President Barack Obama as the front lines in the battle for the White House shift to Iowa.
• While Mitt Romney continues a Florida bus tour, Ryan will meet voters at the Iowa State Fair, campaigning alone for the first time in the same state where Obama launches a bus tour of his own. Monday's events may help determine whether con

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