Congrats to our colleagues in the U.S and our amazing team in Brazil: David Biller, Yesica Fisch, Silvia Izquierdo, Andre Penner, Eraldo Peres, Mario Lobão, Diarlei Rodrigues, Tatiana Pollastri, Leo Correa, Lucas Dumphreys and our two great Brazilians loaned from Spain, Felipe Dana and Renata Brito.

Os dois PMs que respondem na Justiça pelo homicídio da menina Maria Eduarda, de 13 anos, seguem trabalhando na corporação e dão expediente no Centro de Recrutamento e Seleção de Praças — unidade responsável por fazer a triagem dos futuros policiais. extra.globo.com/casos-de-polic…

it's circus time!!! video by Lucas Dumphreys photos by Leo Correa for The Associated Press

AP Photos: COVID adds to challenges for Brazil's quilombos (from The Associated Press) ⁦Marcelo Silva de Sousa⁩ ⁦Lucas Dumphreys⁩ & photos by ⁦Silvia Izquierdo⁩ apnews.com/ef94598cfc7cfb…

After almost four months of being unable to perform due to the pandemic, clowns, jugglers, and artists of the Estoril Circus in Rio de Janeiro, found a "vaccine" to go back to the stage. Leo Correa Lucas Dumphreys apne.ws/p0YcRJT

De um lado, um consórcio de quase uma centena de traficantes de quatro favelas do Rio. Do outro, milicianos equipados com drones usados para tentar observar a movimentação dos rivais. Hoje, no Jornal Extra, mostro os bastidores da guerra pela Praça Seca. extra.globo.com/casos-de-polic…

Across Brazil, many hospitals are filling up again with COVID-19 patients. An The Associated Press team has visited the intensive care unit in the public Oceanico hospital in the Brazilian city of Niteroi. apne.ws/9Kqx8CJ

apnews.com/article/pandem… with Silvia Izquierdo 📷 + Diarlei Rodrigues

Former caddie Marcelo Modesto opened a golf training center in Rio de Janeiro's City of God favela. He hopes it'll start kids on the path to becoming professionals. No matter how intense practice gets, they remain alert for the sound of gunshots. apne.ws/sJjbIi4

Rio de Janeiro’s samba schools have begun putting on this year's delayed Carnival parades, the first after a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19-pandemic. apne.ws/NEtoBnY

Here’s our piece about @pejulio and São Paulo’s homeless bbc.com/news/av/world-… Lucas Dumphreys Jéssica Cruz Colm O'Molloy

Indigenous and family mourn expert killed in the Amazon. By Lucas Dumphreys and me. For The Associated Press. Thanks for all, Bruno Pereira. I am sure your little ones will be proud of you and your work. You will be missed. apnews.com/article/politi…

Minority women reaching for office in Brazil's elections By me, Lucas Dumphreys + Carla Bridi apnews.com/article/legisl…

Jair Bolsonaro considerably outperformed the polls in Brazil’s presidential election, proving that the far-right wave he rode to the presidency remains a force. He will face leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a high-stakes Oct. 30 runoff.

Brazil is days from a historic presidential election featuring two political rivals that could usher in four years of far-right politics or return a leftist to the nation’s top job. Here's what you should know about the high-stakes election:

Striking, beautiful images of the “Wyra’whaw” ritual in Alto Rio Guama Indigenous territory. Those Amazon lands have long been threatened by landgrabbers, and the govt. recently started working to expel them. 📷Eraldo Peres 📹@lucasdumphreys apnews.com/article/brazil…

Recovery of Brazil's Spix's macaw, popularized in 'Rio' films, threatened by climate change. Come along to Bahia state to meet the couple working to bring the bird back from the brink 📝F. Maisonnave 📸 ⁦Andre Penner⁩ 📹⁦Lucas Dumphreys⁩ apnews.com/article/climat…

Breakdancing will debut as an official Olympic sport at the Paris 2024 games and it has already changed the lives of dancers in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2010, the Flow021 crew has been active in Rio Comprido, a neighborhood surrounded by favelas like Morro do Turano.

Brazilian Santa Claus swaps sleigh for Jet Ski to deliver toys — and joy — to disabled children in Rio 📹Lucas Dumphreys apnews.com/article/santa-…

It’s perhaps Rio’s hardest trail, with one daunting section requiring a scramble that can cause hikers to freeze with fright. But this week, paraplegic athlete Ezequiel da Luz reached Pedra da Gavea’s peak that towers over the ocean. By Lucas Dumphreys apnews.com/article/brazil…