Toward the end of its life — which can span between 40 and 80 years — the palm tree sends up a central plume crowded with ...

At least 132 people, including four law enforcement officers, were killed Tuesday during a large-scale Brazilian police raid in Rio de Janeiro, according to media reports. The operation, which took ...

More than 130 people were killed in Rio de Janeiro's deadliest-ever police raid targeting a major drug cartel. One day after a deadly police raid in Rio de Janeiro that left more than 130 people dead, ...

At least 132 people have died in a massive police raid aimed at organized crime in Rio de Janeiro, the regional public defender’s office said on Wednesday. Among the dead are four Brazilian police ...

About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left more than 100 people ...

As Brazil prepares for its first Olympic Games, violence is flaring in the notorious favelas surrounding Rio de Janeiro. While a paramilitary policing initiative known as “pacification” stemmed the ...

Rafael Cosme was at a Rio de Janeiro antique fair six years ago when he found a pile of film negatives on the ground. No one wanted them, the vendor said. They were $2. “I carried home two bags of ...

Jack Nicas, The New York Times’s Brazil bureau chief, has lived in Rio de Janeiro since 2021. When you arrive, Rio de Janeiro hits you in the face. First, the humidity engulfs you. Next, you’re struck ...