WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's resounding rejection of a conservative attempt to gut President Barack Obama's health care overhaul won't stop Republicans from attacking the law they detest. But now, their efforts will be chiefly about teeing up the issue for the 2016 presidential and congressional elections.

WASHINGTON — For President Barack Obama, it's become an all-too-frequent ritual: honoring the victims of mass shootings in communities across the country. On Friday, Obama will mourn with the city of Charleston, South Carolina, where nine people were killed last week at a historic black church.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A sightseeing float plane carrying eight cruise ship passengers and a pilot crashes against the granite rock face of a southeast Alaska cliff, and rescuers were trying to reach the site 800 feet (243 meters) above a lake to determine if there were survivors.

CANAAN, Haiti — Before the 2010 earthquake ravaged Port-au-Prince, skinny goats were the only occupants of the arid hills near the capital's northern edge. Today, some 250,000 homesteaders live there in an unregulated sprawl that has become Haiti's fourth largest urban district.

Peru — Chaccu is a yearly event dating back to Incan times at which locals shear the highly sought wool from their herds of vicuna and do traditional dancing in a festival atmosphere.

BOGOTA, Colombia — A woman who survived a plane crash with her months-old baby, drinking water to stay alive, was finally rescued after four days lost in the jungle, Colombia's air force and rescuers said.

BAHIA DE COHANA, Bolivia — A big die-off of giant frogs has been the most dramatic sign yet of the damage being done by sewage and industrial waste to Lake Titicaca, the source of food and livelihoods for the indigenous Aymara people.

WASHINGTON — The United States tags Iran and Cuba as serial human rights abusers even as the Obama administration accelerates attempts to improve relations with both countries.