ST LUCIA-POLICE HIT LIST

CASTRIES, St. Lucia — A team of independent investigators is alleging that St. Lucia's police force maintained "death lists" of people deemed to be criminals and planted guns at the scenes of police shootings to legitimize their unlawful actions, the Caribbean country's leader announced. 

BRAZIL-PRESIDENT

RIO DE JANEIRO — President Dilma Rousseff asks Brazilians for patience as the country deals with a flagging economy and a widening corruption probe involving the state-run oil company and dozens of top politicians. 

UNITED NATIONS-WOMEN'S EQUALITY FIGHT

UNITED NATIONS — Hillary Clinton, a likely U.S. presidential candidate, is urging the world to take action and address "the great unfinished business of the 21st century" — the achievement of equality for women that 189 nations called for at a groundbreaking U.N. conference 20 years ago.

UNITED NATIONS-SYRIA IMAGES

UNITED NATIONS — With the U.N. Security Council blocked from taking strong action on Syria, the United States and other nations are hoping to shame its government by sponsoring a graphic photo exhibit of detainees who've died in President Bashar Assad's prisons since the country's conflict began.

ANALYSIS-REPUBLICANS-TEA PARTY

WASHINGTON — The political chaos in the first two months of the new Congress, despite Republican control in both houses, may signal that the tea party is morphing into a quasi-third party, a deeply conservative band of legislators who routinely thwart Republican vows of effective government.

OTHER FERGUSONS

SEATTLE — The Justice Department's new report on Ferguson, Missouri, sounds familiar to residents in some communities across the U.S. who say they face the same struggles with their own police departments.

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-WAY TOO EARLY

WASHINGTON — Twenty months out from the November 2016 presidential election, no fewer than two dozen potential candidates are already maneuvering to run. Why is this exercise in democracy so long in the U.S.?