PRESIDENTIAL RACE
ORANGEBURG, South Carolina — Hillary Clinton has had an up-and-down start to the 2016 presidential contests, but a sizable victory over Bernie Sanders in South Carolina on Saturday would be an emotional boost for her White House campaign.
MEXICO-TRUMP
MEXICO CITY — Mexicans backed former President Vicente Fox in his verbal spat with Donald Trump, after Fox called the Republican front-runner "crazy" and a "false prophet" and Trump replied that he ought to be "ashamed of himself" for using a profanity.
GUATEMALA-SEX ABUSE
GUATEMALA CITY — In a historic ruling, a Guatemalan court convicts a retired army officer and a former paramilitary for the sexual enslavement of women during the country's civil war. It sentenced them to 120 years and 240 years in prison respectively.
MEXICO-MONARCH BUTTERFLIES
MEXICO CITY — Monarch butterflies have made a big comeback in their wintering grounds in Mexico, after suffering serious declines, experts say.
PETROBRAS-PERUVIAN PRESIDENT
SAO PAULO — Brazilian police investigating a massive kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras are now looking closely at Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and a former Argentine transportation minister, according to an internal document obtained by The Associated Press.
BRAZIL-ZIKA VIRUS
JOAO PESSOA, Brazil — Officials in one of the epicenters of Brazil's Zika outbreak say they're turning to a program aimed at diagnosing pediatric heart problems to search out babies with the unusually small heads that have been linked to the mosquito-borne virus. By Jenny Barchfield.
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ZIKA VIRUS-PREGNANT WOMEN
NEW YORK — Zika infections have been confirmed in nine pregnant women in the United States, including one who gave birth to a baby with a rare birth defect, health officials say.
WASHINGTON SHOOTING
BELFAIR, Washington — A gunman who killed four people in rural Washington state called an officer he previously encountered to say he shot his family, leading to an hourslong standoff at a home that ended with his suicide, authorities say.
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