July 3: Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down as Alaska's governor.

July 2: Just two days before his death, Michael Jackson was on stage rehearsing for what was meant to be his comeback tour. Concert promoter AEG Live released a clip of Jackson performing ?They Don?t Care About Us.?

Carl Lewis may have been a track and field all-star, but he doesn't even deserve a gold star for this performance!

Ernest Hemingway took his own life on July 2, 1961, after a long battle with depression.

July 1: The Consumer Product Safety Commission demonstrates the dangers of mishandling fireworks. Watch what happens.

ET on MSN: New details in the Michael Jackson investigation. According to Jackson's will, the King of Pop named Diana Ross as the guardian of Jackson's three kids if his mother Katherine is unable or unwilling to do the job.

July 2: Investigators in France on Thursday revealed more about what they believe happened to the Air France plane that fell into the Atlantic Ocean last month on its way from Rio to Paris. NBC's Tom Costello reports.

July 2: In his first interview since his brother?s sudden death last week, Jermaine Jackson, one of Michael?s older brothers, talks to Matt Lauer in a TODAY exclusive.

July 2: In a TODAY exclusive, Matt Lauer tours the Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson?s fantasy-filled private compound in Southern California.

Wimbledon is supposed to be genteel, and yet here we have a guy bowling over a young girl who's minding the net!