Monthly Archive: May 2016
Brazil’s Senate impeaches Rousseff, Wall Street darling assumes presidency with new cabinet Turkish ruling party uses long-dormant law to prosecute adversarial journalists and critics Philippines VP race still not called; voters elect first transgender...
The Fort McMurray wildfire, nicknamed “The Beast,” has grown to more than 550,000 acres and continues to burn across the north east of the Canadian province home to the tar sands. An evacuation order...
Brazil’s Senate voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff Thursday, thereby suspending the leader’s term in office while she faces trial on charges of fiscal mismanagement. The vote forced Rousseff to stand down immediately for...
Editors Note: The intro to this story was updated 5/12/2016 The EU-Turkey deal that aims to reduce the number of migrants arriving on Greek shores may be headed for collapse. As part of the...
About 40 million voters cast ballots in the Philippines this week. That’s more than 80 percent of registered voters in the country. They handily elected a new president, the brash and heavy-handed mayor of Davao,...
Brazil’s presidential impeachment vote was thrown into disarray yesterday, when acting lower house speaker annulled the legislative body’s pro-impeachment move just before the Senate vote on the same. President Dilma Rousseff is facing an...
*Editors Note: The introduction to this story was updated May 13, 2016 to add the Justice and Education Department letters. The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice are sending letters to public schools in the country,...
In Nevada, one of the sunniest states in the U.S., the rooftop solar industry that was thriving only a year ago is effectively dead. It was killed in a controversial decision by the Nevada...
Massive wildfire rages across tar sands region of Alberta, Canada Honduran authorities arrest four in connection to murder of activist Berta Cáceres Far-right, anti-immigrant Generation Identity seeks to galvanize nationalist French youth The Philippines...
A massive wildfire in the tar sands region of Alberta, Canada continues to rage. The entire town of Fort McMurray, with more than 80,000 residents, is already emptied. Extremely hot and dry conditions led...