Brazil’s congress further weakened the first proposal of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s austerity package after the ...

Designed to curb the adverse effects on learning, the bill prohibits cellphone use in classrooms and during recess.

Brazil’s real has fallen to its weakest level against the dollar since the currency was introduced in 1994, undercut by ...

First it was a collapse in the currency. Now the rest of Brazil’s financial markets are in the cross-hairs as investors lose faith in the government’s ability to contain a deepening fiscal crisis.Most ...