CALIFORNIA SHOOTINGS

SAN BERNARDINO, California — The FBI announces that it is investigating the mass shooting at a California office party as an act of terrorism, but the agency's director says there is no indication that the husband and wife who killed 14 were part of a larger plot or members of a terror cell. 

SYRIAN REFUGEES-TEXAS

DALLAS — Texas stops trying to block Syrian refugees from resettling in the state after suing the U.S. government over fears that new arrivals from the war-torn country could pose a security risk. 

ARGENTINA-INAUGURATION

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A growing spat between Argentina's outgoing president and president-elect over inauguration day logistics takes a strange turn, with the silversmith crafting a ceremonial baton saying an assistant was threatened by possible police action. 

BRAZIL-ARGENTINA

RIO DE JANEIRO — Argentine President-elect Mauricio Macri says he and Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff will be "closely observing" Sunday's election in Venezuela. 

RIO 2016-BUDGET CUTS

RIO DE JANEIRO — Olympic organizers change their minds and say competitors in next summer's game won't have to pay for air conditioning in their bedrooms at the athletes village.

CUBAN MIGRANTS

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rica has asked Belize to accept nearly 3,000 Cuban migrants who have been stuck at the Costa Rican border with Nicaragua for weeks, authorities say. 

TRUMP-UNIVISION LAWSUIT

NEW YORK — Univision strikes back at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's $500 million lawsuit claiming that it unjustly broke a contract to broadcast beauty pageants, citing his "disgraceful allegations" about Mexican immigrants. Univision lawyers file papers in Manhattan federal court asking a judge to toss out the lawsuit Trump filed in July.