RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A panel of Brazil's Supreme Court voted on Wednesday to convict a former lawmaker and his ...

Marylynn Roper is standing by in Santa Fe to anchor our coverage of the first anniversary of the penitentiary riot that occurred exactly 1 year ago today. The event, of course, shocked all of America ...

Two politicians and two former police officers were found guilty in the assassination of a rival, Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman who fought corruption and violence.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Former Peruvian Foreign Minister Augusto Blacker Miller, ‌who was arrested in Brazil in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Former Peruvian Foreign Minister Augusto Blacker Miller, who was arrested in Brazil in December, died in a prison hospital in Rio de Janeiro late last month, the ...

The Brazilian au pair who plotted with her lover to kill his wife and another man in Herndon, Virginia, in 2023 was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Fairfax County Chief Circuit Court Judge ...

Around 100 killed during a week of gang violence in Brazil prisons Hearts, intestines ripped out in Brazil prison killing spree Search for fugitives after deadly Brazil prison riot Rio cop confesses ...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. -- Brazilian au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães, who went along with former IRS agent Brendan Banfield in a northern Virginia double murder plot, was sentenced to 10 years in prison ...

Previously unreleased pictures of Jeffrey Epstein’s body and his jail cell following his death in 2019 are included among the millions of new documents dumped by the Department of Justice. The two ...

America talks about recidivism as if it were a mystery. It isn’t. It is a predictable outcome of how we run prisons. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has tracked what happens after release for ...