RIO DE JANEIRO – Embattled incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro closed out his underdog campaign last night in his home state of Rio de Janeiro. Thousands of enthusiastic Bolsonaro supporters, clad in Brazil’s yellow soccer jerseys, packed the plaza in Campo Grande, a western suburb of Rio de Janeiro. Amidst scorching heat, which caused a few…
Amid an unprecedented spike in violent crime in Portland, Oregon, voters will be deciding this election if stronger gun control is the answer. Ballot Measure 114 would add Oregon to the list of 14 states that currently require people to obtain a permit before buying a gun. However, Oregon’s law would be the only one…
A pair of kayakers in Australia were captured on video saving an exhausted kangaroo stranded along a canal by pulling him through shark-infested waters to safety. Anne and Chris Aitken took action week when they were notified by their neighbor David Castro that a young kangaroo had become trapped along a canal at the bottom…
A library in a liberal D.C. suburb is under fire for sanctioning a drag queen story time event, in which the host performer encouraged children to act out and sing along to a reimagined version of “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” An announcement for a June event on the Montgomery County, Maryland Libraries…
Despite Stacey Abrams doubling down on voter suppression claims earlier this week, numbers from early voting show that a higher share of Black voters in Georgia are turning out in the midterm elections than in the 2020 election. According to figures from the United States Election Project, Black voters make up 30% of early votes cast…
Gun control opponents worry an Oregon ballot measure will make their communities less safe since police agencies will be forced to fund and operate a massive permit-to-purchase program. “This is the most extreme gun control measure in the country, or at least one of the most extreme,” Oregon State Shooting Association President Kerry Spurgin told…
A controversial new Senate report led by North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr was released Thursday. The interim report argues that the “likely” origin of the COVID-19 pandemic was a “research-related incident” in China. “While precedent of previous outbreaks of human infections from contact with animals favors the hypothesis that a natural zoonotic spillover is…
Residents of a 14-story Miami building have reportedly been evacuated. The building is located on the same avenue where a condominium collapse killed nearly 100 people in 2021. Miami Beach spokesperson Melissa Berthier told The Associated Press that the city posted an unsafe structure notice Thursday at the Port Royale Condominium. A structural engineering report…
Billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over Twitter Thursday night and immediately fired several top executives, sending shockwaves throughout the social media platform. CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and head of legal policy, trust, and safety Vijaya Gadde were all fired after Musk had accused them of misleading him and investors over the number of fake…
MSNBC host Jen Psaki traveled to a Pennsylvania town with an abortion rights activist and found that residents frequently brought up the economy and jobs as critical voting issues. Last Thursday, the former White House press secretary turned television personality traveled around the Pittsburgh suburb of Braddock with Robin Young, a canvasser for Planned Parenthood…