CONGRESS-TRADE
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his Republican allies on trade are thinking of restarting their legislative push in the Senate, a testament to a crucial miscalculation they made months ago.
PRESIDENTIAL RACE-TRUMP
NEW YORK — Donald Trump, the flamboyant U.S. real estate magnate and television personality who says his net worth is about $9 billion, announces a longshot bid for the presidency on the ticket of the Republican Party.
KERRY-IRAN
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says that a full accounting of Iran's possible past atomic weapons research is not necessarily critical to reaching a nuclear deal with Tehran. His comments came amid concerns the Obama administration is backing down on demands that Iran resolve concerns about previous work as part of an agreement that would curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
BERKELEY BALCONY COLLAPSE
BERKELEY, California — A 21st-birthday party thrown by a group of visiting Irish college students turns tragic when the fifth-floor balcony they were crowded on collapsed with a sharp crack, spilling 13 people about 50 feet onto the pavement. Six people were killed and seven seriously injured.
CUBA-US
HAVANA — Six months after presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama declared they were moving toward normalization after a half-century of hostility, the embassies in their countries have not been reopened, showing just how slowly change comes to Cuba.
PROPHET CARTOON CONTEST
PHOENIX — Calling him "off-the-charts dangerous," authorities outline the evidence against a Phoenix man who they say helped orchestrate a shootout on an anti-Islam event in Texas and had aspirations to join the Islamic State group and attack the Super Bowl.
UNITED STATES-CLIMATE
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden makes his first public appearance since burying his oldest son earlier this month, thanking major foundations and institutional investors for pledging to spend more than $4 billion on new technologies to reduce climate change pollution.