A justice froze dueling changes to a financial tax meant to shore up the federal balance sheet. Leaders now head to a July 15 ...

Brazil's Congress has rejected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's decree to increase a financial transactions tax.

Brazil's Congress enacted Constitutional Amendment 135/24 regarding the fiscal spending cut package, Agencia Brasil reported. The new legislation stemming from the Proposed Amendment to the ...

Brazil’s Congress voted to block President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s proposed tax increases on some financial transactions, ...

Alexandre de Moraes, a Supreme Court justice in Brazil, stepped into the middle of a high-stakes impasse between President ...

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes called a mediation hearing between the government and Congress on July 15 ...

Supporters of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro invade the Supreme Court, the National Congress building and surround the presidential palace in the country's capital, Brasilia.

Around 1,200 people have been arrested in Brazil after supporters of ousted president Jair Bolsonaro invaded Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court. The latest arrests came as ...

Brazil’s Belo Monte dam under construction. Dozens of new dams are proposed for the Amazon. The new constitutional amendment, if approved, would fast track such projects and not allow for ...

Mario Juruna, 58, a leader of the Xavante Indian tribe of central Brazil and the only Indian to serve in Brazil's Congress, died Tuesday in Brasilia of complications from diabetes.

Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro vandalize the interior of Planalto Palace during a demonstration against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in Brasilia, Brazil, January 8 ...