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Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery (giving money for favors).

Example: Some large companies are corrupt with power.

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Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will stand trial on corruption and money laundering charges over an alleged scheme at the state oil company, Petrobras, a judge has said.

Prosecutors say he accepted 3.7m reais ($1.11m; £867,000) in bribes connected to the multi-billion dollar scheme.

Lula, 70, had already been charged in August with allegedly obstructing investigations.

He denies any wrongdoing and says the accusations are politically motivated.

"I am sad," Lula said. "It is a big farce, a big lie, a big pyrotechnic show.

"What's happening isn't getting me down, but just motivates me to go out and talk more."

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Judge Sergio Moro, who is overseeing Operation Car Wash, the investigation into corruption allegations at Petrobras, said there was "sufficient evidence of [Lula's] responsibility".

The money that the ex-president allegedly received was laundered through the purchase and renovation of a beach apartment, prosecutors say.

The flat was built by a construction company implicated in the scandal.

His wife, Marisa Leticia, and six others have also been indicted.

Lula was accused by prosecutors of being the "boss" of the scheme, estimated to have cost the company more than $2bn (£1.5bn).

Several politicians and Petrobras executives have been arrested and sentenced as a result of the two-year inquiry.

Investigators believe overpriced contracts with Petrobras were given in return for bribes.

Some of the illicitly-obtained money was used to finance the electoral campaign of top Brazilian politicians, they allege.

Lula, who served as president between 2003 and 2011, was one of Brazil's most popular leaders and is seen as a possible candidate for the 2018 presidential elections.

However, the popularity of his Workers' Party plummeted this year and his chosen successor Dilma Rousseff was impeached last month.

A criminal conviction would bar him from running in 2018.

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Brazil's Lula to be tried for corruption

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Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will stand trial on corruption and money laundering charges over an alleged scheme at the state oil company, Petrobras, a judge has said. Prosecutors say he accepted 3.7m reais ($1.11m; £867,000) in bribes connected to the multi-billion dollar scheme.

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A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.

Example:  In Detroit there are many tenements on the east side where poverty is high.

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The Tenement Museum on Manhattan's Lower East Side has long been known not only for its meticulously restored apartments that once housed immigrants, but also for its very strict 'no photo' policy.

All that changed earlier this month when the venerable institution at 97 Orchard Street lifted the photography ban for one day only, allowing visitors to capture every nook and cranny of the space on film.

Among the lucky few who arrived at the museum on December 6 armed with their cameras was professional photographer Tod Seelie, who returned from the visit with a treasure trove of fascinating images from inside the secretive museum.

Built in 1863, the tenement apartment building on Orchard Street was home to nearly 7,000 working-class immigrants struggling to eke out a meager living and build a new, better life for their families in the New World.

The Tenement Museum was the brainchild of historian and social activist Ruth Abram, whose goal was to celebrate the legacy of America's immigrants.

In 1988, Abrams and co-founder Anita Jacobson were scouring the Lower East Side for a suitable venue for their endeavor when they stumbled upon the former multi-family tenement house at 97 Orchard Street.

Entering a darkened hallway in search of a bathroom, Jacobsen discovered a turn-of-the century living space frozen in time.

'It was as though people had just picked up and left,' Jacobson recalled.

By that time, the tenement had stood shuttered for a half-century and all of the units inside the building were in shambles.

Determined to transform the building into a museum, its co-founders would spend the next four years researching tenement life and painstakingly restoring units once occupied by German, Irish and Jewish families.

In 1992, the museum unveiled its first exhibit: the 1878 apartment of the German-Jewish Gumpertz family.

Photos from inside the carefully reconstructed housing units depict a time capsule of immigrant life, as if the inhabitants had just stepped out and will be back any minute.

The oil lamps inside the tiny rooms are aglow, there are plates piled with food on the table, a stack on folded laundry rests on a desk and a dressing gown is carelessly hung on a hook in a cramped bedroom.

In some units, there are shirts and undergarments hung out to dry on a laundry line stretched between two walls.

Inside the old apartment of a Jewish family, there are clippings from a Yiddish-language newspaper and a pair of challahs laid out on a platter for Shabbos.

More than any other museum in the city, the Tenement Museum feels intimate and deeply personal, allowing the visitor a rare glimpse into long-forgotten immigrant stories.

The very cramped quarters, shabby furniture and plain working-class clothes provide clear evidence that life was a daily struggle for most newcomers to New York - a far cry from the streets-paved-with-gold myth.

But even under these harsh conditions, tenement inhabitants hungered for beauty, as reflected in faded murals on the wall of a darkened hallway, in a dog-eared calendar from 1894 decorated with a charming drawing, in flowery wall hangings and modest paintings and embroidered cushions.

The tenements - low-rise, narrow buildings - were New York's answer to a dire housing shortage sparked by an influx of immigrants between 1800 and 1880.

By 1900, more than 2.3million people - two thirds of the city's population - were living in tenements, according to History.com.

A typical tenement, like the one housing the Orchard Street museum, had five to seven stories and measured at 25 feet in width and 100 feet in length, each room 13 feet across housing a dozen people, with more than 20 people to a toilet.

The units inside the buildings were usually poorly constructed out of the cheapest materials, were terribly overcrowded, vermin-infested, with little light and air, and often with no indoor plumbing.

Occupied by some of New York's poorest residents living in close quarters with poor ventilation, tenement housing was a hotbed of disease.

By 1889, there was little improvement in the living conditions of tenement occupants despite the passage of the Tenement House Act 20 years earlier.

Determined to expose the horrors of urban slum living and spurn social change, writer and photographer Jacob Riis published in 1890 his seminal work How the Other Half Lives, which shocked the nation, ultimately leading to the phasing out of tenement housing.

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Photos from Tenement Museum shed light on Lower East Side's slum

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The Tenement Museum on Manhattan's Lower East Side has long been known not only for its meticulously restored apartments that once housed immigrants, but also for its very strict 'no photo' policy. All that changed earlier this month when the venerable institution at 97 Orchard Street lifted the photography ban for one day only, allowing visitors to capture every nook and cranny of the space on film.

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Coming to live permanently in a foreign country

Example: My parents immigrated from Laos to the United States.

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The number of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. remains steady at 11.1 million for the sixth straight year, as a drop in people coming from Mexico is offset by an increase from the rest of the world, according to a report released Tuesday.

After two decades of continuous growth, the country's undocumented immigrant population peaked at 12.2 million in 2007. Once the Great Recession started in 2008, that number dropped and has remained steady since 2014, according to the report from the Pew Research Center, based on the most recent data available.

That has changed the nature of undocumented immigrants in America, with more of them becoming long-term residents established in their communities. In 2014, 66% had lived in the U.S. for 10 years or longer, compared to just 36% in 2000.

"As the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population has stabilized, it also has become more settled," co-authors Jeffrey Passel and D'Vera Cohn wrote in the report.

The new numbers come as immigration dominates the race for the White House. Republican Donald Trump has called for building a giant wall along the southern border and for closer screening of would-be immigrants trying to enter the country. Democrat Hillary Clinton is pushing for more legal protections of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. and expanding programs to accept refugees from abroad.

Mexicans continue to make up the largest share of the undocumented immigrant population at 52%, according to Pew. But with Mexico's economy improving and an aging population, plus fewer job prospects in the U.S. and tighter border security, fewer people are making the trek to the United States, dropping Mexico's share of the undocumented population in recent years.

They have been replaced by people coming from sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Central America. Over the last six years, Pew estimates the number of people illegally immigrating from Africa has increased 37.5%, the number from Asia has increased 11.5% and those from Central America have increased 6.3%.

Pew cites a variety of reasons for those increases, from raging drug violence in Central America to limited economic opportunities in Africa and Asia.

The report was based on Pew's analysis of information from the Census Bureau.

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Number of undocumented immigrants in U.S. stays same for 6th year

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CLOSE The number of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. remains steady at 11.1 million for the sixth straight year, as a drop in people coming from Mexico is offset by an increase from the rest of the world, according to a report released Tuesday.