FILE - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, attend a meeting regarding school security, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil ...

Brazil is grappling with a wave of violence in its schools that resemble U.S.-style attacks. As the country scrambles for solutions, the U.S. has become its reference — both for what should be ...

Brazil’s president-elect, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, called the incident an “absurd tragedy.” “It’s with sadness that I was informed about the attacks at the Aracruz schools in Espirito ...

Brazil is experiencing an “epidemic” of violence in schools, according to the Brazilian government. Alarm bells began ringing earlier this month after a 25-year-old man hacked to death four ...

About two weeks after a man killed four children in a Brazilian daycare center, authorities already have rounded up some 300 adults and minors nationwide accused of spreading hate speech or stoking ...

SAO PAULO — About two weeks after a man killed four children in a Brazilian day care center, authorities already rounded up 302 adults and minors nationwide accused of spreading hate speech or ...

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said the notion of schools as safe havens has been "ruined." School violence in Brazil mirrors US, but reaction doesn't Skip to main content Skip to main content ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A former student armed with a semiautomatic pistol and wearing a bulletproof vest fatally shot three people and wounded 13 on Friday after barging into two schools in ...

A student from the Thomazia Montoro public school lights a candle during a vigil asking for peace the day after a student stabbed a teacher to death at the school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on March 28.

Twitter is facing condemnation in Latin America’s largest economy for its laissez-faire approach on content suspected of inspiring violence in schools. A sudden spike in killings in education ...