Delivery riders staged a pro-Lula motorcycle demonstration in São Paulo, criticizing Flávio Bolsonaro's labor proposals while demanding fairer pay and protections without sacrificing flexible work.

Brazil’s airline lobby says the consumption-tax reform could raise fares. Its projection deserves scrutiny, but it should not become a blank cheque for corporate tax exemptions.

Lula banned online betting. Police are probing R$1.4bn in gambling-linked transactions involving a Flávio Bolsonaro ally, while betting-sector records reveal private-jet flights and a viral Polymarket wager raises questions about odds and influence.

Sunday demonstrations put education, workers’ rights and freedom to organize at the centre of Brazil’s presidential runoff, after courts refused sweeping restrictions sought by the right.

Lula’s campaign alleges unequal treatment as Brazil’s electoral court orders safeguards for Meta. A special report on ad failures, recommendations and the evidence still needed.

A tribute to Rosana de Oliveira, the São Paulo researcher and mother who helped families get food and stood up for her coworkers.

The Brazilian president says a constitutional amendment would make weekend and holiday travel free if reelected. The proposal is not yet law.

The Communist Party of Brazil increases its elected federal deputies from six to 11. Seven are women, with gains in Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina and the North.

By 75 votes to one, Brazil’s Senate backs a five-day workweek, two paid days off and shorter hours without wage cuts.

BRASÍLIA — Brazil’s demand for a two-day weekend has become so politically powerful that a presidential candidate who condemned the proposal days ago now says he will vote for it. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing Liberal Party contender facing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the October 25 runoff, announced on October 13 that he supports the proposed end of the common six-days-on, one-day-off work schedule. The reversal matters because the dispute is no longer

Brazilian journalist Rogério Tomaz Jr. was refused entry in Buenos Aires after his residency was cancelled. Officials cite migration rules; he questions whether politics played a role.

As Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro head for an October 25 runoff, Brazil's mineral wealth, industrial future, and relations with Washington are at stake.

Students flee a pro-Lula rally at the Federal University of Sergipe amid reports of an armed man and gunshots. Police investigate.

Flávio Bolsonaro wants Brazil to postpone the Senate fight over ending the 6×1 workweek until after the election, while defending a labor model built around flexibility, hourly pay and employer-worker negotiation.

After a first-round defeat to Flávio Bolsonaro, Lula’s campaign is retooling for Brazil’s October 25 runoff around social programs, turnout and voters it failed to reach.

Flávio Bolsonaro enters Brazil’s runoff backed by a strengthened family political machine, an amnesty agenda, market-friendly promises and fiscal arithmetic that remains far tougher than the campaign pitch.

Jones Manoel’s Pernambuco win was part of a wider set of communist and Marxist-left victories across Brazil, including Elias Jabbour and Humberto Matos.

Brazil votes in a tight Lula–Flávio Bolsonaro contest shaped by labor questions, sovereignty and mounting pressure from Washington.

Brazil’s Senate opens debate on ending the 6x1 schedule, cutting the workweek to 40 hours without reducing pay and guaranteeing two rest days.

Bolsonarismo survived Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency by becoming a wider political network. The documented record includes a coup conviction, militia-linked associations, a current investigation and transnational right-wing alliances.