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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Friends and foes of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called each other "putchists" and "thieves" ahead of Sunday's vote in Congress' lower house on whether to proceed with her impeachment, as unprecedented levels of vitriol sparked fears of violence....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an extraordinary display of internal discord, the chairman of the Republican Party's rules committee accused top GOP officials Saturday of "a breach of our trust" by improperly trying to impede a proposed change in bylaws that would make it harder for party leaders to nominate a fresh candidate for president....

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama authorities say a Florence police officer has been shot and a suspect has died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot....

ASO, Japan (AP) -- The latest on the earthquakes in Japan (all times local):...

MASHIKI, Japan (AP) -- The power of the earthquakes was unlike any that most had experienced before. On back-to-back nights last week, the Japanese city of Kumamoto and nearby communities were rocked by earthquakes that knocked over dozens of homes, killed at least 41 and sent 180,000 people to temporary shelters. The voices of survivors convey the enormity of the shock that people felt and still feel today....

ASO, Japan (AP) -- Thousands of rescue workers searched a debris-strewn village in southern Japan for about a half-dozen missing people Sunday, as the Japanese government said U.S. military aircraft would join the relief mission for communities devastated by two powerful earthquakes that killed 41 people....

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along the country's Pacific coast, killing at least 41 people and causing damage in the capital and other major cities that were hundreds of miles (kilometers) away from the epicenter....

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- The Latest on the earthquake in Ecuador. (all times local):...

OZU, Japan (AP) -- The latest on the earthquakes in Japan (all times local):...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, killing at least 28 people and spreading panic hundreds of kilometers (miles) away as it collapsed homes and buckled a major overpass....