Multiple people are dead after one of the deadliest police raids in a Brazilian city
A police raid in a Rio favela has ended in multiple deaths, in one of the deadliest operations in years.
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A raid in a Rio favela left 18 dead, sparking renewed police violence complaints
A raid of Rio de Janeiro's largest complex of favelas has sparked renewed complaints of excessive police violence and ignited debate over how to handle crime ahead of state and presidential elections.
Extreme drought in northern Mexico has left millions of residents without water
Two of the three reservoirs that serve the city are practically empty. In the long term, officials are trying to build more dams and reservoirs. The short term plan is to hope for rain.
2 men are indicted in the tractor-trailer case that left migrants dead in Texas
A federal grand jury indicted Homero Zamorano Jr. and Christian Martinez, both of Pasadena, Texas, on counts of transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in death.
A dire moment in the pandemic ... was the chance he'd been waiting for
How Sotiris Missailidis, head of R&D in Brazil's vaccine agency, used the COVID crisis to push through a game-changing effort for middle-income countries to invent their own mRNA vaccine.
In her memoir, author Ingrid Rojas Contreras shares her family's mystical history
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Ingrid Rojas Contreras about her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, and how writing it helped her rediscover herself after losing her memory.
A water crisis restricts usage to 6 hours a day in one of Mexico's largest cities
Scott Simon talks with Associated Press reporter Marcos Martinez Chacon about the water crisis affecting the residents of Monterrey, one of Mexico's largest cities.
The viral song 'Mi Bebito Fiu Fiu' narrates a salacious presidential scandal in Peru
There's a Peruvian political scandal behind the viral "Mi Bebito Fiu Fiu" song and meme on TikTok. Journalist Diego Salazar explains.
Mexico captures an infamous drug lord who killed a DEA agent
Rafael Caro Quintero has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a prison and returning to drug trafficking, an official confirmed.
These Brazilian besties are inventing an mRNA vaccine as a gift to the world
Pfizer and Moderna have refused to divulge details of how to make their cutting-edge COVID shots. Here's what two scientists — and longtime best friends — are doing about it.