David Goldman
RIO DE JANEIRO - A New Jersey man made an emotional plea Friday for Brazilian authorities to let him take his son home in a custody fight that is expanding into a political tussle and testing the limits of an international child abduction treaty.

RIO DE JANEIRO - A New Jersey man fighting for custody of his 9-year-old son has asked Brazil's attorney general to join his battle before the nation's Supreme Court, and officials said Friday they are studying the request.

RIO DE JANEIRO - A New Jersey man fighting for custody of his 9-year-old son has asked Brazil's attorney general to join his battle before the nation's Supreme Court, and officials said Friday they are studying the request.

RIO DE JANEIRO - A long-running fight by a New Jersey man to win custody of his 9-year-old son from the Brazilian family of his deceased ex-wife has been delayed again - and the battle is turning ugly.