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The country braced for a crucial impeachment vote, the U.S. president announced a historic trip, U.S. marriage trends continued to shift, and more.
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What We’re Following: But Wait, There’s More

The speaker of the lower house of Brazil’s Congress announced yesterday that he would try to annul the chamber’s recent vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, surprising everyone. Today, he reversed that decision, . Brazil’s Senate appears ready to proceed with a vote tomorrow to determine whether to continue the impeachment process—and the odds are not in Rousseff’s favor. If lawmakers vote to impeach, Rousseff will be suspended, replaced by the vice president, and put on a trial

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