Arts Jan 22 Brazilian piano legend plays again thanks to ‘magic’ gloves Days before Christmas, acclaimed pianist João Carlos Martins ran to a Sao Paulo bar to show off his new gloves to friends. They were seemingly magical, enabling the 79-year-old to play songs on his Petrof piano with both hands for…
World Jan 21 Brazilian prosecutors accuse U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald in phone hacking case Brazilian prosecutors are accusing U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald of involvement in hacking the phones of officials involved in a corruption investigation, though Brazil's high court had blocked investigations of the journalist and his Brazil-based news outlet in relation to the…
World Mar 21 Arrest order issued for Brazil’s ex-president Michel Temer Temer is being investigated in several corruption cases.
World Mar 14 Brazil mourns victims of school shooting Seven were killed in the school shooting Wednesday, including five students, a teacher and a school administrator. Nine others were wounded.
World Jan 02 Brazil’s Bolsonaro targets indigenous groups, LGBTQ rights on 1st day as president Newly installed President Jair Bolsonaro issued executive orders on Brazil's indigenous groups, descendants of slaves and the LGBT community in the first hours of his administration.
World Oct 29 Brazil elects far-right president, worrying rights groups Jair Bolsonaro's victory moved Brazil, the world's fourth-largest democracy, sharply to the right after four consecutive elections in which candidates from the left-leaning Workers' Party won.
World Oct 22 Son of Brazil’s election front-runner says top court could be closed, setting off alarm Three Brazilian justices on Monday criticized the son of presidential front-runner Jair Bolsonaro for saying that the country's top court could be closed if it tried to remove his father from the presidency. The son tweeted that his statements were…
World Oct 07 Far-right presidential candidate wins first round in Brazil Far-right, former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, who expresses nostalgia for Brazil’s military dictatorship, won the first round of its presidential election by a large margin Sunday, but fell just short of getting enough votes to avoid a second-round runoff against…
World Sep 04 Out of the ashes of Brazil’s National Museum fire, fragments of hope Firefighters found bone fragments from a collection in the still-smoldering National Museum, an official said Tuesday, raising hopes that a famed skull might somehow have survived a massive blaze that turned historic and scientific artifacts to ashes.
World Apr 08 Still popular, Brazil’s Lula starts serving jail sentence Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva woke up in jail Sunday, in a stunning fall from grace for a man who rose from nothing to lead Latin America's largest nation and later became engulfed in corruption allegations.