Tag: Brazil

A major challenge, though, is the type of mosquito that is spreading Zika. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

White House’s answer to Zika: Kill off mosquitoes

Robert King · February 15, 2016 5:01 am

A few weeks ago officials in Rio de Janeiro, the city hosting the games in August, said they would fumigate Olympic facilities daily as the virus is primarily spread through mosquito bites. Brazilian officials also point out that mosquitoes won't be as prevalent there in August, since it's winter there, with an average high of 76 degrees. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Zika prompts dire Olympics warning

Robert King · February 8, 2016 4:55 pm

Spread through mosquitos and contact with certain bodily fluids, the Zika virus is spreading rapidly in south and central America and has been confirmed in the U.S. (AP file photo/Felipe Dana)

Carson, Christie support quarantine for suspected Zika patients

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 7, 2016 3:40 am

Feds: Pregnant women should abstain or use protection if their partner has traveled to a Zika-infected area. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

CDC’s advice to pregnant women on Zika: No sex

Robert King · February 5, 2016 5:16 pm

Zika virus raises new concerns for Olympics host

Zika virus raises new concerns for Olympics host

Robert King · January 28, 2016 5:01 am

The Zika virus spreads via a mosquito bite. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

CDC warns of rapidly spreading virus in Americas

Robert King · January 24, 2016 5:01 am

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff spoke in strident support of the multi-stakeholder model.Â (Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva via AP file)

Countries clash over who should run the Internet

Rudy Takala · November 16, 2015 5:01 pm

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Monday called for Russia to be banned from next summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after a commissioned investigation uncovered rampant doping among athletes. (AP Photo)

Russia faces possible ban from 2016 Olympics

Anna Giaritelli · November 9, 2015 6:43 pm

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen and others have been warning for years that they cannot keep the easy-money policies of the financial crisis in place forever. (AP Photo)

Emerging markets fear the Fed

Joseph Lawler · September 8, 2015 4:01 am

Using what he learned from Ludwig von Mises, Kim Kataguiri made a YouTube video about welfare in Brazil. (AP Photo)Â

Beltway Confidential

Brazil’s economic freedom fighters are an example for Americans

Jason Russell · August 8, 2015 4:01 am

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, right of center, applauds with other dignitaries after raising the Cuban flag over their new embassy in Washington, Monday, July 20, 2015. (AP Photo)Â

Beltway Confidential

Outside re-opened Cuban embassy, visitors hopeful for Cuba’s future

Emily Leayman · July 20, 2015 10:42 pm

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama arrive for a joint news conference in the East Room at the White House June 30, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Rousseff and Obama held meetings and the press conference almost two years after Rousseff accepted but then skipped an invitation to the White House due to revelations from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that the U.S. had spied on Rousseff and other Brazilians. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Wikileaks: NSA bugged Brazil

Robert King · July 4, 2015 8:13 pm