Vincent Bevins –

USA's Kevin Durant and Jimmy Butler celebrate their win over Serbia in the gold medal basketball game on Aug. 21, 2016, at Carioca Arena 1 in Rio de Janeiro.

Spirits are low at Russia’s Olympic party house, with fans grumbling that doping bans are unfair

May 22, 2019 at 7:57 a.m.

As Beslan Mudranov walked into the Marimbas Yacht Club overlooking Copacabana beach the other day, he was met with hushed awe. A dozen or so photographers, VIPs and fans respectfully...

A home is demolished at Vila Autodromo, next to the construction site of the Olympic Park for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. A passage connecting the Olympic Park with the Athletes Village is planned to be built on the site.

The Faustian bargain that turned a poor neighborhood into an Olympic parking lot

August 21, 2019 at 7:31 p.m.

Before her neighborhood was slated for Olympic development, Iranis Cadete da Silva ran a restaurant in her house, where she lived with her extended family. Neighbors fished nearby, and their...

Cars drive above sewage flowing from the suburb of Sao Goncalo into Guanabara Bay, across the bay from Rio de Janeiro.

Antibiotics, plastic suits, bleach: How Olympic athletes are prepping for Rio’s polluted water

August 21, 2019 at 7:31 p.m.

The Summer Olympic Games are days away and Guanabara Bay is bustling. The British sailors make final preparations to their boats. Nearby, the Dutch crew members prepare inflatable rafts. And...

Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff participates in the presentation of a book addressing her impeachment process, "Resistance to the Coup of 2016," in Brasilia, the capital, on May 30, 2016.

Brazil’s government has sprung a leak and its secrets are gushing out

August 21, 2019 at 6:34 p.m.

There's a saying in Brazil: "Even the past is unpredictable." It seems particularly apt in the wake of leaked audio recordings that point to ulterior motives for the recent impeachment...

Above: Chicagoans react in 2009 after getting word from the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen that Chicago was eliminated in its bid to host the Summer Olympics. Below: Brazilians celebrate later that same day after the IOC announced Rio de Janeiro won the 2016 Games.

Three months before the Summer Olympics, Brazil is a mess

August 21, 2019 at 6:17 p.m.

The XXXI Olympiad begins in less than three months and the host country is facing a devastating recession, a Zika epidemic and more political turbulence now that the president has...

100 million Brazilians, half the nation, lose WhatsApp after a judge orders a 72-hour shutdown

May 23, 2019 at 2:02 p.m.

A judge in Brazil has ordered mobile phone providers to block the wildly popular WhatsApp messaging application for 72 hours, a decision apparently aimed at forcing the service to turn...

Lawmakers in Brazil demonstrate April 15 in favor of impeaching President Dilma Rousseff.

Brazilians watch helplessly as impeachment crisis nears climax

June 24, 2019 at 4:12 p.m.

Not long after former metalworker and union leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected Brazil's first progressive leader since the end of its dictatorship, he turned heads around the...

Mylene Helena Ferreira holds son David Henrique Ferreira, 5 months, in Recife, Brazil. David has microcephaly.

World health agency expects Zika virus, linked to birth defects, to reach U.S.

June 21, 2019 at 12:04 a.m.

For Gleicy Oliveira, the public health warnings about the Zika virus came too late. Her son, Guilherme, was born in October with a severe birth defect known as microcephaly —...

An aerial view of the Rio Doce, in a picture released on Nov. 23, 2015, by the Espirito Santo State Press Office.

As Brazil mine spill reaches ocean, its catastrophic extent becomes clear

June 19, 2019 at 7:04 p.m.

Since millions of gallons of mining waste burst from an inland iron ore mine a month ago, 300 miles of the Rio Doce stretching to the Atlantic Ocean has turned...

After World Cup, Rio de Janeiro shifts focus to Olympics

August 19, 2019 at 6:48 a.m.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil's World Cup was supposed to be a disaster. Stadiums were not finished, many infrastructure projects never got off the ground, costs, allegedly inflated by corruption,...

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