The LPGA Tour has seen its schedule shrink, and keeping the sagging economy from digging deeper into its future prompted a mandatory meeting in Virginia.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is criticizing President Obama’s performance at the just-concluded Latin summit, saying he bestowed a sense of legitimacy upon Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.

Latin American nations may be slipping into recession and the Caribbean’s tourism lifeblood may be drying up, but the region’s economic crisis has been overshadowed by the political developments at a summit of the hemisphere’s leaders.

Bolivia’s leftist president was headed to the airport Sunday when Barack Obama gave him what he requested the day before: public repudiation of an alleged attempt on his life.

President Barack Obama on Sunday suggested that Cuba release its political prisoners and defended his highly publicized handshakes with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, closing an overseas trip that he said heralded a new start in U.S. ties with Latin Am

The final declaration of the Summit of Americas, which Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and his leftist bloc refused to sign, turned out to have just one signatory.

The parting group photo of the Fifth Summit of Americas never happened.

President Barack Obama says the U.S. record in the Western Hemisphere hasn’t always been appreciated. But he says leaders at the Summit of the Americas would agree there is a new era in foreign policy.

President Barack Obama said Sunday he has seen positive signs from both Cuba and Venezuela in his four-day trip to Central America, but “the test for all of us is not simply words but also deeds.”

A book by an Uruguayan journalist that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave to President Barack Obama is now the No. 5 seller on Amazon.com.