POPE-SOUTH AMERICA

ASUNCION, Paraguay — Pope Francis will put into practice his insistence that the world's poor be not left on the margins of society by visiting a slum outside Asuncion on the final day of his three-country South American tour. 

POPE-MISSIONS

ASUNCION, Paraguay — Pope Francis is balancing out his apology for the crimes the Catholic Church committed against indigenous during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas with high praise for the Jesuit missions in Paraguay that brought Christianity and European-style education and economic organization to the natives. 

GOP 2016-TRUMP

PHOENIX — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump criticizes U.S. immigration and trade policies in speeches that veer from accusing Mexico of deliberately sending criminals across the border to professing respect for the Mexican government and love for its people.

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CLINTON

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton will make boosting middle class incomes and wages the focus of her economic agenda, pointing to stagnant paychecks as the central challenge facing the U.S. economy.