Global Issues

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Thousands of Indigenous people marched toward Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday to pressure justices expected to issue a ruling with far-reaching implications for land rights. Wearing feather headdresses and with their bodies painted, they sang and danced along their 5-kilometer (3-mile) route. The group, which has been camping all week in the capital behind the National...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Health Department is warning people not to use livestock medicine to try to treat COVID-19, after poison-control centers received calls about some ingesting it and becoming ill, including two people who were hospitalized. Meanwhile, as Mississippi continues seeing a sharp increase in coronavirus cases, state health officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs is reminding...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared July of this year as the hottest month on record across the entire planet. This tops a seven-year streak starting in 2014 with each one a little hotter than the last. Many federal, state and local officials use this data to point the finger squarely at human-induced climate change despite opinions to the contrary. The global battle...

Population migration shifts electoral maps and the political clout of one district to another. However, the net population loss in rural America recorded in the 2020 Census doesn’t mean a loss of federal help. Peter Tubbs has more. Vice President Kamala Harris: "On this vote, the yays are 69. The nays are 30. The bill as amended is passed." On Tuesday, the United States Senate passed a $1.2...