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FILE – Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro stands at the entrance of his home where he is under house arrest in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Nova, File)

US removes Brazilian Supreme Court justice and his wife from sanctions list

December 12, 2025 at 5:21 p.m.

The U.S. removed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes from its sanctions list on Friday after initially adding him over his role in leading the trial against former Brazilian...

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 Bolsonaro in office after his 2022 election defeat, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro arrested over alleged plot to escape, avoid 27-year prison term

November 22, 2025 at 2:19 p.m.

Brazil’s police on Saturday arrested ex-president Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he was plotting to escape and avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence.

Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce walks on the field Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, during a training session before a game against the Chargers in Sao Paulo. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Travis Kelce, asked in Brazil what changed since his engagement to Taylor Swift: ‘I got one more ring’

September 4, 2025 at 11:17 a.m.

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce said “life has been fun” since he began dating his fiancee, pop superstar Taylor Swift.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends an event at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil vows retaliatory tariffs against US if Trump follows through on 50% import taxes

July 11, 2025 at 7:45 a.m.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday that he will impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States if President Donald Trump follows through on a pledge to boost...

Leaders attending the G20 Summit pose for a group photo in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

G20 summit calls for more aid to Gaza and an end to the war in Ukraine

November 19, 2024 at 6:56 a.m.

Leaders of the world’s 20 major economies called for a global pact to combat hunger, more aid for war-torn Gaza and an end to hostilities in the Mideast and Ukraine.

Packers quarterback Jordan Love is attended to after suffering an injury late in the fourth quarter against the Eagles on Sept. 6, 2024, in Sao Paulo. (Wagner Meier/Getty)

Jordan Love injured in the final seconds of the Green Bay Packers’ 34-29 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Brazil

September 7, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.

Saquon Barkley scored three touchdowns in his Philadelphia Eagles debut, fueling a 34-29 victory against the Green Bay Packers on Friday in the first NFL game in South America.

This frame grab from video shows fire coming from a plane that crashed by a home in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (Felipe Magalhaes Filho via AP)

Plane crashes in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, killing all 61 people aboard, airline says

August 9, 2024 at 4:50 p.m.

A Brazilian airliner says a passenger plane with 61 people aboard has crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all who were aboard.

Venezuelan migrants eat breakfast at a shelter in Assis, Brazil, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Migrants pause in the Amazon because getting to the US is harder. Most have no idea what lies ahead

July 3, 2024 at 7:24 a.m.

Migrants, police, officials and analysts say Biden’s actions have caused a wait-and-see attitude among migrants who are staying in Latin America’s biggest economy, at least for now.

The field of the Pacaembu stadium is lined with metal frames as workers erect an open-air hospital to treat patients who have COVID-19 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, March 23, 2020.

Sao Paulo stadium turning into hospital for coronavirus

March 23, 2020 at 3:29 p.m.

Pacaembu Stadium in downtown Sao Paulo is being turned into an open-air hospital to handle cases from the coronavirus outbreak.

Brazilian pianist Joao Carlos Martins poses for pictures wearing bionic gloves, at his home in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Martins, 79, was for decades Brazil's most acclaimed pianist, but an accident an a degenerative disease forced him to stop playing with both hands since 1998. That changed a few months ago when a new friend came to him with a pair bionic gloves that suit him perfectly. He can now play again with nine out of ten fingers.

‘Magic’ gloves let acclaimed Brazilian pianist Joao Carlos Martins play again

January 23, 2020 at 11:43 a.m.

A few days before Christmas, renowned pianist Joao Carlos Martins summoned his friends to a Sao Paulo bar so he could show off the best gift he'd received in years:...

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