BRASILIA, Brazil-- Brazil's lower house of Congress voted late Sunday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, delivering a major blow to a long-embattled leader who repeatedly argued that the push ...

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Back in March 2014, when the scandal over Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras that would eventually topple the government was just getting started, some of President Dilma Rousseff's top aides ...

RIO DE JANEIRO --If the worst economic crisis in a decade, a massive corruption scandal centered on her ruling party and approval ratings in the single digits weren't rough enough for Brazilian ...

A total of 367 lawmakers in the Brazilian parliament’s lower house voted to impeach Dilma Rousseff, the country’s first female president, comfortably more than the two-thirds majority required by law.

Surrounded by the modest grandeur of the Palácio da Alvorada, for now still her official residence as the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff’s face softens as she recalls her youth as a rebel hunted ...

When her country signed on to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, Dilma Rousseff was there from the beginning. But now, with efforts to impeach the Brazilian President gaining steam, Rousseff could be ...

Dilma Rousseff shouldn't expect an apology with U.S. efforts to "move forward." — -- When Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff learned in 2013 that the National Security Agency was listening in on ...

BRASÍLIA, Brazil – A defiant Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday branded impeachment proceedings a “coup” and vowed to fight for her political life by every means possible. Rousseff, who ...

Reporting from Sao Paulo — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took the stand at her impeachment trial in the country’s Senate Monday, and accused Brazil’s elites of threatening democracy in Latin ...

Brazil’s senate has overwhelmingly decided to suspend President Dilma Rousseff from office. By 55 votes to 22, the upper house voted early Thursday morning she should face an impeachment trial on ...

Brazil's lower house of parliament is set to vote on Sunday in impeachment proceedings against embattled President Dilma Rousseff. This is the next step in a process that has sharply divided the ...