A foreign minister who served under former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called on the Biden administration to condemn his country’s ban on social media platform X, saying the U.S. has a ‘responsibility’ to speak up. Ernesto Araújo, who served as foreign minister under Bolsonaro from 2019 to 2021, said the U.S. has a ‘responsibility to...
Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes has died, Fox News Digital has learned. Mendes died peacefully Sept. 5 in Los Angeles with his wife, Gracinha Leporace Mendes, and his children by his side, a representative for the singer confirmed. “For the last several months, his health had been challenged by the effects of long term COVID,” a...
As the NFL prepares to host its first-ever game in South America on Friday, concerns over player safety have been a prominent part of the discussion. The Philadelphia Eagles will play host to the Green Bay Packers at Neo Quimica arena in São Paulo, Brazil on Friday with kickoff slated for 8:15 p.m. ET, marking...
Despite The Washington Post’s frequent sharp criticism of Elon Musk, the paper’s editorial board criticized the Brazilian government for moving to ban X, the social media platform owned by the tech billionaire. “The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX is correct when he says a Brazilian jurist’s move to unilaterally prohibit X, which he owns,...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 21 cases of Oropouche virus disease, also known as sloth fever, in travelers returning from Cuba. Twenty cases have been reported in Florida and one in New York. The disease is spread primarily through bites from midges and from some mosquitoes. Symptoms of the...
A Brazilian illegal migrant was arrested in Massachusetts by ICE officials after an alleged series of sex crimes. Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) announced that Jackson Bento-Pinheiro was apprehended in Wakefield, Massachusetts after illegally entering the U.S. Authorities said the 35-year-old was charged with assault to rape, indecent assault and battery, and domestic assault and...
Four American Airlines flight attendants were injured last week during turbulence, the company said Monday. The crew members were on flight 2905, which departed on Aug. 8 from Tampa International Airport in Florida to Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, the airline told Fox News Digital. WOULD-BE VOEPASS PASSENGERS SAY THEY MISSED DOOMED BRAZILIAN...
The pilot who manned the aircraft that plummeted to the ground, killing all 62 people onboard, has been identified as the investigation continues into the South American air disaster. Capt. Danilo Santos Romano, 35,was the first victimidentifiedafter the fiery crash Friday in Brazil, Dario Pacheco, the mayor of the city of Vinhedo in São Paulo,...
A plane operated by the Brazilian airline VoePass crashed in the country’s Sao Paulo state on Friday, killing all people on board, the company said Friday. The aircraft involved in the fiery wreck in a residential area in the city of Vinhedo was carrying 57 passengers and four crew, according to The Associated Press. The...
The United States women’s soccer team will have a chance to add to the program’s dominant history when it plays in the Paris Olympics gold medal match this weekend after a 1-0 extra-time win over Germany in a semifinal game Tuesday. Forward Sophia Smith led the charge, scoring her third goal of the Olympics five...
