HAVANA — A jubilant flag-raising at the reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana is giving way to serious talk about the road ahead in improving relations between the United States and Cuba.

HAVANA — On a historic day for U.S.-Cuban relations, Secretary of State John Kerry takes time out for a tour of cobblestoned Old Havana — just like many of the growing numbers of Americans traveling to the island since detente was announced eight months ago.

WASHINGTON — American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, U.S. intelligence officials told her family in June. The news is but the latest in a litany of horrors perpetrated by the Islamic State group, which has beheaded, burned and crucified male captives while passing around women as sex slaves.

WASHINGTON — Neither of the two emails sent to Hillary Rodham Clinton now labeled by intelligence agencies as "top secret" contained information that would jump out to experts as particularly sensitive, according to several government officials.

SAO PAULO — At least 19 people were shot to death within the span of about three hours in Brazil's biggest metropolitan area, and law enforcement officials are trying to figure out if they were related.

ASUNCION, Paraguay — Rogelio Livieres Plano, a former bishop in Paraguay who was revered by some for building a successful seminary but who was ousted by Pope Francis amid several controversies, has died. He was 69.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department is again evaluating potential U.S. facilities to house detainees from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, part of the Obama administration's renewed push to close the detention center. U.S. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said a team was surveying the Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on Friday and will do a similar assessment at the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina, later this month. Davis said the team will assess the costs associated with construction and other changes that would be needed in order to use the facility to house the detainees as well as conduct military commission trials for those accused of war crimes.

TOLEDO, Ohio — A zoo in the state of Ohio will take two cubs of a grizzly bear that was euthanized after it killed a hiker in Yellowstone National Park. Park spokeswoman Amy Bartlett said the cubs' mother was killed in Montana because she ate part of hiker Lance Crosby, 63, and hid the rest of the body — an abnormal behavior for a female bear defending its young.