RIO DE JANEIRO – Rio de Janeiro’s governor declared a state of financial emergency Friday and requested federal funds to help fulfill obligations for public services during the Olympics that start Aug. 5. Rio state declares financial emergency, requests funding for Olympics Emergency measures are needed to avoid “a total collapse in public security, health, education, transport and environmental management,” a decree in the state’s... 

Brazil’s acting President Michel Temer is facing a tough situation in light of a series of leaked audiotapes Brazil’s tourism minister Henrique Eduardo Alves resigned on Thursday. Alves is the third minister to step down from the interim government headed by President Michel Temer. Temer, who had been a vice president earlier, assumed the presidency just over a month ago after President Dilma Rousseff was impeached and suspended. Temer has come...