The grounds for it are baseless, and many of the legislators pushing it are themselves under indictment for serious crimes. A woman holds a sign that reads in Portuguese “Temer Out, No to the Coup,” ...

After Brazil impeached its first female president, Dilma Rousseff, her lawyer, former attorney general Jose Eduardo Cardozo, feels tired, sad and overwhelmed. “What she did is not illegal,” he said.

After enduring 8 months of political chemotherapy, Brazil's beleaguered president Dilma Rousseff was indicted in her impeachment trial on Wednesday as expected. Sixty-one senators out of 81 voted in ...

Brazil's senate voted 61-20 to oust suspended president Dilma Rousseff, in an impeachment trial over allegations she committed fiscal crimes while handling the federal budget. Photo: Reuters ...

BRASILIA, BRAZIL (AP) --Brazil's Senate has voted 55-22 to impeach the South American giant's first woman president. President Dilma Rousseff is accused of using accounting tricks to hide large budget ...

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 ...