UNITED NATIONS-BRIBERY SCHEME-THE PRESIDENT

UNITED NATIONS — This is how a former president of the U.N. General Assembly, arrested this week in an alleged bribery scheme, paid himself, the criminal complaint says: John Ashe accepted more than $3 million in outside money, signed checks to himself and wrote on them "Salary." But no one's rushing to reform a job that's fertile ground for corruption. 

LATIN AMERICA-IMF RECONCILIATION

LIMA, Peru — The last time the IMF held its annual meetings in Latin America, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was trying to spread Cuba's revolution throughout the hemisphere and much of the region was under the thumb of repressive dictatorships. 

POLICE OFFICER-FATAL SHOOTING-NORTH CHARLESTON

NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina — A city in South Carolina approves a $6.5 million settlement with the family of an unarmed black man shot to death earlier this year by a white police officer. 

CONGRESS REPUBLICANS

WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suddenly withdraws from the contest for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, shocking colleagues just before they were to vote and producing ever-deeper chaos for the Republican controlled Congress.

OBAMA HISPANIC LEADERS

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama promises Hispanic leaders he will continue to champion a comprehensive change to the nation's immigration laws and said America's greatness comes from building opportunities, not walls.

MEXICO-CONQUISTADORS SACRIFICED

MEXICO CITY — Excavations at the site of one of the conquistadors' worst defeats in Mexico are yielding new evidence about what happened when the two cultures clashed and the Indians, temporarily, were on top — Spanish prisoners were gradually sacrificed and apparently eaten. 

TRAIN HERO STABBED

SACRAMENTO, California — U.S. airman Spencer Stone, celebrated as a hero for helping to stop a terror attack on a French train over the summer, is stabbed and seriously wounded outside a bar in his hometown in what police say was an alcohol-related brawl.