PRESIDENTIAL RACE-TRUMP-CLINTON

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump rejects reports that he used vulgarity in describing Democrat Hillary Clinton's primary loss to now-President Barack Obama in 2008. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-REGIME CHANGE

WASHINGTON — America's 2016 presidential candidates are split on promoting regime change in the Middle East, but not along the usual party lines. By White House Correspondent Julie Pace. 

WOMAN DEAD IN JAIL

HEMPSTEAD, Texas — A grand jury decided that neither sheriff's officials nor jailers committed a crime in the treatment of a black woman who died in a Texas county jail last summer, but it has not yet determined whether the state trooper who arrested her should face charges, a prosecutor says. 

BERGDAHL

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl faces a military judge for the first time since the U.S. Army decided to proceed with a military trial that could result in a life sentence for his disappearance in Afghanistan in 2009. 

LAS VEGAS CAR CRASH

LAS VEGAS — A woman accused of intentionally plowing a car carrying her young daughter through crowds of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip was charged Tuesday with murder, child abuse and hit-and-run. 

WACKY WINTER WEATHER

SEATTLE — A weather pattern partly linked with El Nino has turned winter upside-down across the U.S. during a week of heavy holiday travel, bringing spring-like warmth to the Northeast, a risk of tornadoes in the South and so much snow across the West that even skiing slopes have been overwhelmed. 

RIO 2016-CORRUPTION PROBE

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's attorney general is investigating allegations that bribes were paid to a powerful lawmaker to help secure contracts for the building of venues and other works for next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. 

UNITED STATES-RUSSIA

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration imposes financial restrictions on 34 additional people and entities for helping Russian and Ukrainian companies evade U.S. penalties and other infractions, prompting threats of retaliation from the Kremlin.