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Rivers around the biggest city in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, straining a society that has grown weary of increasingly frequent flooding.

Texas governor vows to defund state legislature after Democrats blocked voting restrictions bill  CBS News After Dramatic Walkout, a New Fight Looms Over Voting Rights in Texas  The New York Times Texas Gov. Abbott says he’ll target legislators’ pay after Democrats block

Britain on Tuesday reported zero daily deaths from Covid-19 for the first time since July 30 last year despite a recent rise in cases linked to the Delta variant. According to the latest government figures, 127,782 people in the UK

Her great-grandmother survived the Tulsa Race Massacre. She wants Biden to embrace reparations.  POLITICO Biden to announce new steps to help communities of color while honoring Tulsa Race Massacre  CBS This Morning Not Just Tulsa: Remembering the Memphis Massacre of 1866  WMC City

Biden Recognizes June as Pride Month, Vows to Protect LGBTQ Rights  The New York Times Banning uniformed officers at Pride sparks fresh debate over complex issue  CNN LGBTQ+ Pride Flag To Fly At Daley Plaza For Entire Month Of June  CBS Chicago As

It’s been a long time coming — around 3,000 years by some reckoning. But Athens finally has a museum to celebrate that most famous of Greek sporting achievements. The Olympic Games trace their origins to Greek athletic contests so ancient

To preserve its stranglehold over global vaccine production, the pharmaceutical industry’s army of lobbyists is waging an aggressive campaign to prevent European nations from supporting a temporary patent waiver backed by more than 100 nations around the world and recently

President Joe Biden will take part in a remembrance of one of the nation’s darkest moments of racial violence when he helps commemorate the 100th anniversary of the destruction of a thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The city of Rome on Tuesday dedicated a square beside the River Tiber to a late Italian president, but spoilt the inauguration by misspelling one of his first names. A marble street sign honoring Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was left veiled

The first major revision of Catholic canon law in nearly four decades redefines clerical sex abuse and mandates specific punishments. It also sets punishments for the attempted ordination of women. (Image credit: Remo Casilli/Pool via AP)