Polls opened on Sunday in Chile's presidential election to choose a successor to Michelle Bachelet.
About 14 million people are eligible to cast ballots at more than 43,000 polling stations in a contest whose outcome is uncertain after a surge from the left.Read more
Two people were killed and two others were injured on Tuesday in a shootout in California that prompted a lockdown at two polling stations, authorities said.
The shooting took place in early afternoon in the city of Azusa, 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, Vanessa Lozano, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, told AFP.
Officers arrivingRead more