PRESIDENTIAL RACE

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Marco Rubio's uneven debate performance just days before a pivotal New Hampshire primary has emboldened a trio of governors seeking to stem his rise in the Republican race for president. 

CHRISTIAN COLLEGE-HEADSCARF

CHICAGO — A professor at a Christian college who asserted Christians and Muslims worship the same God will leave her post, the school near Chicago announces.

CUBA-TATTOOS

HAVANA — Driven underground after the socialist revolution, tattoo parlors are on the rebound in Cuba, with hundreds of parlors operating largely unmolested across the country. 

ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTING

ORLANDO, Florida — A shooting erupts inside a nightclub packed with hundreds of people in the city's tourist district, killing two people and injuring 10 others, authorities say.

MEXICO-POPE-INDIGENOUS

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico — Pope Francis' visit to heavily indigenous Chiapas appears aimed at celebrating the "Indian church," a mix of Catholicism and indigenous culture once considered a thorn in the side of standard liturgy by the Vatican. 

HAITI-PRESIDENT'S DEPARTURE

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — President Michel Martelly makes his farewell speech to Haiti as he departs office with no successor yet chosen because a runoff election was scrapped last month amid violent protests and deep suspicions about vote rigging.