PRESIDENTIAL RACE

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Democratic and Republican presidential candidates scramble across Iowa to close the deal with the first voters to have a say in the 2016 race for the White House, urging their supporters to take part the caucuses where outsiders Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are pinning their hopes on a large turnout. 

MISSING TEEN

BLACKSBURG, Virginia — Two Virginia Tech engineering students have been arrested in connection with the death of a 13-year-old girl whose disappearance last week from her Virginia home set off a frantic, four-day search. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CLINTON-SANDERS

AMES, Iowa — Hillary Clinton has begun channeling the economic indignation of her rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose unapologetically liberal campaign has tightened the Democratic race ahead of the leadoff caucuses and given him a lead in the New Hampshire primary contest that follows.

ZIKA VIRUS-RICH AND POOR

RIO DE JANEIRO — Pregnancy has become anguishing in Brazil, where worries over a possible link between the Zika virus and a birth defect are pushing women to take drastic measures. Wealthy women are jetting off to spend the riskiest part of pregnancies abroad, while poor women are left with few options. 

CUBA-INTERNET

HAVANA — Cuba says it is launching its first broadband home Internet service, a potentially major step forward in bringing the island online.