Brazil's Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to slash the prison term of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who was ...

Police and soldiers are being deployed in large numbers to Brazil's northeast to fight a wave of gang violence fueled by the overloaded, collapsing prison system. More than 400 elite federal troops ...

FILE - The Statue of Justice stands in front of the Supreme Court during the verdict and sentencing phase of a trial for those charged in an alleged coup plot to keep Brazil's former President Jair ...