MONETA, Virginia — The fatal shooting of a reporter and cameraman unfolded on live TV during the early morning show, as tens of thousands of viewers watched a horrified anchor struggle to comprehend what had happened.

 

CARTAGENA, Colombia — The foreign ministers of Colombia and Venezuela promise to increase cooperation following talks to ease heightened tensions caused by the closure of a major border crossing and a weeklong crackdown on Colombian migrants and smugglers.

 

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Government leaders order schools, airports and even casinos to close and they prepare shelters as Tropical Storm Erika approaches the eastern Caribbean. By Danica Coto.

 

NEW ORLEANS — President Barack Obama marks 10 years since Hurricane Katrina by celebrating the revival of New Orleans.

 

CENTENNIAL, Colorado — Belittled by the judge and jeered by spectators, James Holmes is sent to prison for the rest of his life, while the survivors of his murderous attack on a Colorado movie theater wondered aloud how they would spend the rest of their days. By Sadie Gurman.

 

NEWARK, New Jersey — Not only is 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump an unconventional candidate, he's got a campaign operation that turns the conventional wisdom of electoral politics on its head.

 

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — When Lidia Guerrero met with Pope Francis in Rome last year, the pontiff made clear he knew about her son, who has been on death row in Texas for 19 years for killing a computer salesman outside of Dallas. "I've prayed for that young man from Cordoba," she says Francis told her, referring to the Argentine hometown of Victor Saldano. Now, Guerrero is praying that Francis, an outspoken critic of the death penalty, will bring up her son's case when he visits the United States in September.

 

CIUDAD CONSTITUCION, Peru — The elite police who work in the dense central jungles of the world's No. 1 cocaine-producing nation regularly raid the pits in which coca leaves are processed into the paste used to make the drug. They also seize the chemicals used in cocaine refining. By Franklin Briceno.