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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro earlier this month at Mar-a-Lago. Jim Watson/Getty Images Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Start your free trial. Social media companies Facebook and Twitter have ramped up oversight of misinformation about…

Less than a week after he had been tested for the novel coronavirus following a trip to the United States, during which 22 of his fellow travelers came down with the illness, far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appeared at a news conference wearing a surgical mask. So did the rest…

The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today. On Sunday, Twitter deleted two tweets by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro because they contained false or…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil will cut back on efforts to fight environmental crimes during the coronavirus outbreak, an official at environmental agency Ibama told Reuters, despite concerns that reduced protection could lead to a spike in deforestation. FILE PHOTO: A deforested and burnt plot is seen in Jamanxim National Forest…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - When Europeans first arrived in the Amazon rainforest, their smallpox decimated local tribes. Then rubber tappers, gold miners and settlers brought malaria, measles and influenza. Indigenous men perform during a four-day pow wow in Piaracu village, in Xingu Indigenous Park, near Sao Jose do Xingu, Mato Grosso…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday stuck with his contention that concern about the new coronavirus is overblown, and accused Brazilian media of trying to stoke nationwide hysteria.Bolsonaro said in a nationally televised address that the media had seized on the death toll in Italy, which…

President Donald Trump reacts angrily to a question asking what he would say to Americans who are scared during his administration's daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, March 20, 2020.Jonathan Ernst/ReutersThe Trump Organization has been forced to shut down the Mar-a-Lago golf resort and several…

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Stephen EisenhammerBRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil began to process the accelerating horrors of the spread of the new coronavirus on Friday, slashing economic growth outlooks, warning of a healthcare collapse and announcing new measures to fight a crisis that has also taken a toll on President…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday underwent his second coronavirus test, after it has emerged in recent days that he has had contact with a growing number of people now known to have contracted the virus.The test results may be released later on Tuesday, the president's office…

President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, left, during a dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., March 7, 2020. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times)WASHINGTON — The lights were low and the disco balls spinning as a cake with a fiery sparkler shooting flames into the air…