10 things you need to know today: July 21, 2016

Pence accepts the Republican VP nomination, an appeals court rules Texas' voter ID law discriminatory, and more

Ted Cruz speaks at the RNC
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1. Pence accepts VP nomination as Cruz fails to endorse Trump

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence accepted the Republican nomination for vice president on Wednesday night, praising the party's presidential candidate, Donald Trump, as a man who "never quits, never backs down, a fighter, a winner." He said the billionaire businessman is "a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers." The forceful speech came after Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump's strongest primary-season rival, upstaged the rest of the night's speakers by telling conservatives to "vote your conscience" in support of conservative policies, declining to endorse Trump and drawing boos from delegates.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.