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Associated Press Saturday, 1 August 2015, 06:51 Last update: about 10 years ago

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CLINTON

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, earned more than $139 million between 2007 and 2014, according to eight years of federal income tax returns released by her campaign. 

MISSING TEEN FISHERMEN

OPA-LOCKA, Florida — After hundreds of rescue workers fanned out across a massive swath of the Atlantic for a full week, the Coast Guard's search for two teenage fishermen ended, a heart-rending decision for families so convinced the boys could be alive they're pressing on with their own hunt. 

KERRY-MIDEAST

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the Middle East on Friday for security talks in Egypt and discussions in Qatar with Arab foreign ministers whose countries are wary of the nuclear deal struck with Iran. He will not visit Israel, America's foremost Mideast ally and the primary foreign opponent of the Iran agreement. 

UNITED NATIONS-US-CUBA

UNITED NATIONS — Samantha Power makes the first visit by an American ambassador to the United Nations to Cuba's U.N. Mission in over a half-century. 

CHILE-PINOCHET-BURNING ATTACK

SANTIAGO, Chile — U.S. documents indicate dictator Augusto Pinochet covered up the military's role in the burning death of a 19-year-old U.S. resident during a 1986 protest, a case that drew worldwide condemnation and strained Chile's relationship with Washington. 

VENEZUELA-DEADLY LOOTING

CARACAS, Venezuela — A man was killed and dozens arrested as a mob looted a supermarket and other shops in an industrial Venezuelan city, Bolivar state authorities say.

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