PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CLINTON

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton has jumped back into presidential politics, making a much-awaited announcement she will again seek the White House in 2016 with a promise to serve as the "champion" of everyday Americans in a country with growing income inequality.

BRAZIL-PROTESTS

SAO PAULO — Nationwide demonstrations calling for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff swept Brazil for the second day in less than a month, though turnout at Sunday's protests appeared down, prompting questions about the future of the movement. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-RUBIO

MIAMI — Sen. Marco Rubio is gathering his strongest supporters in Miami for a flashy political rally expected to serve as his launch into the 2016 Republican presidential race.

UNITED STATES-RUSSIA-INTERCEPT

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is protesting an intercept of a U.S. reconnaissance plane by a Russian fighter jet last week, calling it "unsafe and unprofessional" amid what it views as increasingly aggressive air operations by Moscow.

MEXICO-DRUG ARREST

MEXICO CITY — Mexican marines and police have arrested a man authorities describe as a leading cocaine trafficker for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, authorities say.

JAMAICA-SURINAME-ISLAMIC STATE

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Jamaican teenager has been detained in the South American country of Suriname on suspicion of being a would-be militant hoping to join Islamic extremists. 

HAITI-MINING BUST

CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti — The veins of gold thought to lie under a swath of northern Haiti will stay there for now as three mining projects have been scrapped because the government couldn't get mining regulations enacted. 

OBAMA-FOREIGN POLICY

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is finding stern challenges at home to his foreign policy, facing hard sells to skeptics over U.S. breakthroughs on Iran and now Cuba.