As Brazil prepares to host COP30, residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas are mobilizing to make sure the voices of the world's informal settlements aren't left out of global climate talks.

Families in Rio de Janeiro have begun burying victims of the city’s deadliest gang raid. Residents in the Vila Cruzeiro ...

The images of the Memorial Park bathrooms in Logan Heights that NBC 7 aired in October were so disgusting that most of them ...

On October 28, Rio de Janeiro’s police besieged the Penha favela for 15 hours, killing at least 121 people in the city’s ...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have launched a massive operation in two favelas, resulting in 121 deaths, including four officers.

BRAZILIAN police have been accused of decapitating a teenage gangster and hanging his head from a tree like a trophy in a chilling warning to criminals. It came as Rio de Janeiro’s ...

In the Dreams favela, in the Brazilian city of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, Crislaine Fernandes da Silva strolls to work for her morning conference call. She works out of a shipping container that’s been ...

Rio has long lured visitors to its splashy seaside resorts and colorful communities, from Copacabana to Ipanema. But spectators watching the Olympics this summer will be hearing a cultural term used ...