PRESIDENTIAL RACE

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Donald Trump claims a big victory in South Carolina's Republican primary, deepening his hold on the party's presidential field as the contest moved into the South. Out West, Hillary Clinton pulls out a crucial win in Nevada's Democratic caucuses. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-BUSH

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Republican Jeb Bush ends his campaign for the presidency after a disappointing finish in South Carolina, acknowledging his failure to harness the hopes of Republican voters angry at the political establishment. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-POPE

NEW YORK — When American politicians were confronted in recent years about how their policies fit their faith, the issue at hand was usually abortion and the targets were mostly Democrats. This week, Pope Francis manages to put the Republicans on the defensive by rebuking Donald Trump and doing so over a different issue: immigration. 

SUPREME COURT-SCALIA

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is remembered as a man of faith, family and the law in a funeral marked by church ritual and pageantry for the conservative jurist whose larger-than-life personality dominated the high court for nearly three decades.

NICARAGUA-OBIT-FERNANDO CARDENAL

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Fernando Cardenal, one of the priests who famously rebuffed a papal order to quit Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government, died in Managua on Saturday. He was 82 and long back in the good graces of the church.

ISLAMIC STATE-TRIAL

NEW YORK — A U.S. Air Force veteran and former airplane mechanic charged with trying to join the Islamic State will be among the first Americans to go on trial as a result of the U.S. government's pursuit of dozens of suspected sympathizers of the militant group.