Fire forces evacuation:

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta — A raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, Alberta, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. About 88,000 residents successfully evacuated. No injuries have been reported.

Impeachment recommended:

RIO DE JANEIRO — A senator selected as a fact-finder by a special Senate commission considering the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff recommended Wednesday that she be put on trial for possible removal from office. The Senate’s website said Sen. Antonio Anastasia made the recommendation for a Senate trial in a 126-page report he presented to the 21-member commission. Rousseff is facing impeachment over allegations her administration violated fiscal laws by shifting government funds to plug budget holes.

Swedish sculptor dies:

HELSINKI — Carl Fredrik Reutersward, one of Sweden’s best-known modern artists and the creator of “Non Violence,” the iconic statue of a revolver barrel tied in a knot, has died at 81. The artist, who was a major influence in the modern Swedish art scene, died Tuesday, said Thomas Millroth, from the Carl Fredrik Reutersward Art Foundation. He gave no cause of death.

Justice Dept. on N.C. law:

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina law limiting protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights laws and can’t be enforced, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday, adding the state is in danger of being sued and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. The law, which requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that conform to the sex on their birth certificate, has been broadly condemned.

Details emerge in girl’s death:

SHIPROCK, N.M. — On the far side of a desert hilltop in the shadow of the Shiprock Pinnacle, a towering monolith sacred to the Navajo Nation, the stranger ignored the cries of an 11-year-old girl. She begged to be taken home, but he led her away from her 9-year-old brother and sexually assaulted her. Then he hit her twice in the head with a tire iron and left her for dead before driving off and also leaving the boy. Details of Ashlynne Mike’s final moments began to emerge Wednesday from court documents and family members, as the suspect, Tom Begaye, a 27-year-old Navajo man from a neighboring community, appeared before a federal magistrate on murder and kidnapping charges.