CANADA-ELECTION

TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper triggers an election campaign and sets the vote for Oct. 19, when Harper and his Conservative party hope to earn a fourth term after almost a decade in power. 

OBAMA-POWER PLANTS

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama moves ahead with even tougher greenhouse gas cuts on American power plants, aiming to jolt the rest of the world to action. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CLINTON-AD

Hillary Rodham Clinton is spending $2 million airing the first television ads of her presidential race in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

ANALYSIS: US-TURKEY-THE GAMBLE

President Barack Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are both taking a big gamble as they agree to work together against the Islamic State group militants in Syria. 

CLASSIFIED MILITARY DOCUMENTS STOLEN

MIAMI — A Florida man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing classified documents while working at a U.S. military base in Honduras.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico City officials say they are pursuing all lines of investigation into the killing of a photojournalist whose body was found along with four slain women in the capital, where he had fled because of harassment in the state he covered. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-KOCH BROTHERS

DANA POINT, California — Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch warns America is "done for" if the conservative donors and politicians he gathered at a retreat this weekend don't rally others to their cause of demanding a smaller, less-intrusive government.