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Aaron Rodgers will have the entire postseason to ponder his future. The four-time MVP and the Green Bay Packers will not be participating in the playoffs. Rodgers was intercepted by Kerby Joseph on what might have been the final pass of the future Hall of Famer’s career, and Green Bay lost 20-16 to the Detroit Lions on Sunday night in a game the Packers needed to win to reach the playoffs. Although he is under contract for next season, the 39-year-old Rodgers has said he does not know whether he will continue playing. “It’s a little raw right now....

Brazilian authorities were picking up pieces and investigating on January 9 after thousands of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace then trashed the nation’s highest seats of power. The protesters were seeking military intervention to either restore the far-right Bolsonaro to power or oust the newly inaugurated leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in scenes of chaos and destruction reminiscent of the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Rioters donning the green and yellow of the national flag on January 8 broke windows, toppled furniture, hurled computers and printers to the...

With a cheerful “soy Marcos,” Spanish for “I’m Mark,” Bishop Mark Seitz introduced himself to migrants eating soup in the shelter on the grounds of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso, less than two miles from the Mexico-United States border. The migration crisis roiling the borderlands is literally in the backyard of the new chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee, a ministry started a century ago. Seitz will be the first border bishop to serve in this role in at least two decades; he says it will allow him to bring “a new energy to...

Since he began volunteering two months ago for weekend shifts at a clinic in one of this border city’s largest shelters, Dr. Brian Elmore has treated about 100 migrants for respiratory viruses and a handful of more serious emergencies. But it is a problem he has not yet managed to address that worries him the most – the worsening trauma that so many migrants carry after long journeys north that often involve witnessing murders and suffering from kidnappings and sexual assault. “Most of our patients have symptoms of PTSD — I want to initiate a screening for every patient,”...

President Joe Biden walked a muddy stretch of the Mexico-U.S. border and inspected a busy port of entry on January 8 during his first trip to the region after two years in office, a visit shadowed by the fraught politics of immigration as Republicans falsely blame him for an inflated number of migrants crossing into the country. At his first stop, the president observed as border officers in El Paso demonstrated how they search vehicles for drugs, money and other contraband. Next, he traveled to a dusty street with abandoned buildings and walked along a metal border fence that...