IRAN DEAL-CONGRESS

WASHINGTON — A trio of Obama administration officials will stand stalwart behind the Iranian nuclear deal despite deep concern on Capitol Hill that Iran will try to evade nuclear inspectors and use billions from sanctions relief to further destabilize the Middle East. 

OBAMA-POWER AFRICA

WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama returns to Africa this week, his signature program to help the continent double its access to electricity is in jeopardy, undermined by Congress' refusal to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. 

CUBA-DISSIDENTS

HAVANA — With detente blooming, American politicians have flooded Havana to meet with high-level officials, the country's new entrepreneurs and regular Cubans — but not the dissidents long at the center of Washington's policy on Cuba. 

CHILE-DICTATORSHIP BURNING ATTACK

SANTIAGO, Chile — Seven former members of the Chilean military have been arrested in the fatal burning of a 19-year-old U.S. resident who was killed in a 1986 protest against the military dictatorship then in power. 

PUERTO RICO-DRUG TRAFFICKING

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A group of 105 people in Puerto Rico face murder, drug and weapon charges in one of the largest racketeering cases in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice, authorities say. 

WOMAN DEAD IN JAIL

DALLAS — A woman whose death in a Texas jail has raised suspicions about the official conclusion that she hanged herself told a guard during the booking process that she had tried to kill herself in the past, the sheriff says.