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Brazilian Court Accepts Case Against Mastermind of Pereira and Phillips Murders

Brazilian Court Accepts Case Against Mastermind of Pereira and Phillips Murders

Journalist Dom Phillips (C). X/ @AmerQuarterly July 22, 2025 Hour: 9:30 am On Monday, the Federal Court of Amazonas accepted a lawsuit filed by Brazilian prosecutors against Ruben Villar Coelho (aka “Colombia”), who is accused of being the...

Love Forms

Love Forms

The following is from Claire Adam's Love Forms. Adam’s debut novel, Golden Child, was published by Sarah Jessica Parker’s SJP for Hogarth. It was listed as one of the BBC’s “100 Novels That Shaped Our World” and was awarded the Barnes & Noble...

The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta

The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta

Books & the Arts / July 24, 2025 Haley Cohen Gilliland’s A Flower Traveled in My Blood looks at the efforts of a human rights group to find the children and grandchildren who were disappeared by a dictatorship. Ad Policy Matilde “Sacha” Artes, of...

Caves, cocktails and dances with deers: 11 days on Mexico’s Copper Canyon railway route

Caves, cocktails and dances with deers: 11 days on Mexico’s Copper Canyon railway route

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Colombian Waste Pickers Inundate Iconic Bogota Square with Plastic Bottles to Protest Falling Wages

Colombian Waste Pickers Inundate Iconic Bogota Square with Plastic Bottles to Protest Falling Wages

By Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Dozens of Colombian waste pickers inundated Bogota’s iconic Bolivar Square with about 15 tons of recyclable goods Tuesday to protest decreasing income and tougher conditions for scavengers. They collect...

St. Tammany neighborhoods keep busy throughout the summer

St. Tammany neighborhoods keep busy throughout the summer

ANNIE: With pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie always charms hearts despite her tough start in life, having been left by parents outside a New York City orphanage in the 1930s. See her story when the Cutting Edge Theater brings "Annie, the...

Black Sox, Ohtani’s interpreter and more: A look at prominent sports betting scandals

Black Sox, Ohtani’s interpreter and more: A look at prominent sports betting scandals

Betting scandals have been a concern for professional sports leagues for as long as they’ve existed, but a U.S. Supreme… Betting scandals have been a concern for professional sports leagues for as long as they’ve existed, but a U.S. Supreme Court...

Boston Lyric Opera Announces its 49th Season, Book Ended by Verdi’s “Macbeth,” and Donizetti’s “Daughter of the Regiment” Set during the American Revolution

Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) announced its lineup for the 2025/26 Season – its 49th – with a diverse range of productions from classic opera to innovative contemporary works and a number of collaborations with other high-profile Boston cultural...

Argentina Women 1-0 Peru Women, Copa America Femenina 2025: Yamila Rodriguez Scores Late Winner As La Albiceleste Dominate to Book Semi-Final Berth

Argentina Women 1-0 Peru Women, Copa America Femenina 2025: Yamila Rodriguez Scores Late Winner As La Albiceleste Dominate to Book Semi-Final Berth

Argentina women's national football team edged past Peru women's national football team 1-0 in the Copa America Femenina 2025. The lone goal of the Argentina vs Peru match, being played at the Complejo Independiente del Valle in Quito, Ecuador,...

How digital entertainment is becoming part of Caribbean-American daily life

How digital entertainment is becoming part of Caribbean-American daily life

Across the United States, the Caribbean-American community has long maintained vibrant traditions rooted in heritage, family, and community life. From music and storytelling to cuisine and religion, this culturally rich group brings a blend of...

National Guard evicts Anna Sanders Seminary, seizes Assemblies of God property in Mexico City

National Guard evicts Anna Sanders Seminary, seizes Assemblies of God property in Mexico City

Eviction at the Anna Sanders Theological Seminary of the National Council of the Assemblies of God AR. Social Media A large-scale security operation was carried out in Mexico City last Friday (July 18) at the premises of the Anna Sanders...

Brazilian Indigenous Researcher Recovers Ancestral Knowledge, Finds Diabetes and Hypertension Treatment

Brazilian Indigenous Researcher Recovers Ancestral Knowledge, Finds Diabetes and Hypertension Treatment

The initial goal was to identify treatments for the three most common diseases among the Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe people of the Caramuru/Paraguassu indigenous land in southern Bahia: parasitic infections, diabetes, and hypertension. This is how the...

As Mexico’s LGBTQ+ community battles for inclusion, two drag performers have become internet stars – with more than 2 million TikTok followers

As Mexico’s LGBTQ+ community battles for inclusion, two drag performers have become internet stars – with more than 2 million TikTok followers

In January 2022, Erick Martínez, also known as Turbulence Queen, introduced a guest on his YouTube channel: Ivan “Momo” Guzmán, with the stage name Burrita Burrona, a drag performer wearing a cartoonish donkey costume topped by a wig. During their...

Larry Magid: How to organize, search and print your digital photos

Larry Magid: How to organize, search and print your digital photos

Modern smartphones have remarkably good cameras and make it easy to instantly share photos with friends, family or social media. But having a camera in your pocket also means you’re likely to take a lot more pictures than in the days when you had...

These 11 Disney World hotels are perfect for families of 5+

These 11 Disney World hotels are perfect for families of 5+

Walt Disney World Resort isn't just one of the most popular family vacation spots in the U.S., it's one of the most popular family vacation ideas in the whole world, period. With four Orlando theme parks to visit, two Disney water parks, and...

A new book reveals Sinéad O’Connor’s legacy beyond the headlines

A new book reveals Sinéad O’Connor’s legacy beyond the headlines

With her soaring voice, stunning songwriting and decades-spanning career, Sinéad O’Connor loomed larger than life. At 21, after the release of her first album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” the slight Irish singer, sporting a shaved head and...

Hanzbet forced to cease operations after dispute with Brazil licence holder

Hanzbet forced to cease operations after dispute with Brazil licence holder

Amid a dispute that means his Hanzbet brand will be forced to close, founder Eduardo Peres has described the operator's situation with its licence holder as a "dictatorship". Brazilian operator Hanzbet will cease operations by the end of July...

Latin America: journalist killings in 2025 already surpass last year's total

Latin America: journalist killings in 2025 already surpass last year's total

Mexico: Nearly two journalists killed per month Despite the president’s commitments and the establishment of dedicated protection mechanisms, Mexico remains the most dangerous country in the region for journalists. In July, three new murders in...

Venezuela’s authoritarian government has a new target: economists

Venezuela’s authoritarian government has a new target: economists

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Venezuela’s autocratic president, Nicolás Maduro, has crushed the opposition, jailed judges and politicians, and even arrested U.S. citizens to use as leverage in international negotiations. Now, he is going after a profession...

SHINAGAWA AQUARIUM Holds “Let’s solve questions with OHIGE no PON ‘NARUHODO’ Fun fact Exhibition,” Special Summer Event in Collaboration with Popular Picture Book “OHIGE no PON”

TOKYO, July 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The SHINAGAWA AQUARIUM in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward is holding “Let’s solve questions with OHIGE no PON ‘NARUHODO’ Fun fact Exhibition,” an informative summer event answering visitors’ questions about sea...

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