PRESIDENTIAL RACE-REPUBLICANS

ST. LOUIS — A growing divide has emerged in the Republican Party's unruly presidential contest, as the race bid farewell to a once-powerful contender. On one side stands billionaire businessman Donald Trump and his allies, on the other are those who oppose him. A day after Rick Perry, Texas' longest-serving governor, ended his second Republican presidential run with a whimper, Trump marked the shake-up by embracing his role as his party's 2016 bully on Saturday. 

EX-TENNIS PLAYER-ARRESTED

NEW YORK — Former tennis star James Blake, whose caught-on-camera takedown by a plainclothes New York City police officer prompted apologies from the mayor and police commissioner, told The Associated Press on Saturday that the officer who wrongly arrested him should be fired. "I don't think this person should ever have a badge or a gun again," Blake, 35, said a day after surveillance video of the arrest outside a Manhattan hotel — and details about previous complaints over the officer's use of force — became public. 

COLOMBIA-PLANE CRASH

BOGOTA, Colombia — Actor Tom Cruise flew in a helicopter across the Colombian Andes just 10 minutes before a small plane on the same dangerous flight path crashed into a jungled mountain, killing two crew members from his upcoming movie, civil aviation authorities say. An official with the aviation agency, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the matter, says the cause of the crash Friday that killed two people and seriously injured a third is still under investigation. 

CHILE-BACHELET'S WOES

SANTIAGO, Chile — Michelle Bachelet was once among the world's most popular leaders. Earthquakes, protests and even a global economic crisis failed to dent the Chilean president's high approval rating, which reached 84 percent at the end of her 2006-2010 administration. The pediatrician, who also served as Chile's first female defense minister, was seen as a kind of charismatic mother figure. But today, support for Bachelet has fallen to 22 percent, and polls show that most Chileans believe the country, widely admired for its growth and stable institutions, has taken a turn for the worse. 

BRAZIL-BATTISTI

RIO DE JANEIRO — A former Italian communist militant who has avoided serving time for four murders in his home country has written a semi-autobiographical novel depicting the life of a man who joins a radical organization in Italy, falls in love, flees and becomes a political exile. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CLINTON EMAILS

WASHINGTON — The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email server says it has no knowledge that the served was "wiped," which could mean that more than 30,000 emails Clinton says she deleted from the device could be recovered, according to a report in The Washington Post. As she pursues the Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton has faced relentless questions and criticism regarding her use of a private email account for government business. The FBI has been investigating the security of Clinton's email setup.