Image caption, About 160 million people are eligible to vote in Brazil's general election today Polls have closed in Brazil's general election, after voters queued in long lines for a tight first round of the presidential race. After casting his ballot, 80-year-old left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warned that the choice was between democracy and barbarism. His challenger, right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, said he wanted to free the Brazilian people. The result is forecast to be close. BBC Brazil's poll aggregator shows that the gap between Lula and Bolsonaro is only two points.

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Brazil will invest about 2.3bn reais ($444.2m) to bolster its artificial intelligence ecosystem, splitting projects between United States and Chinese tech firms in a strategic move that underscores its efforts to balance ties with both superpowers. Just more than half the total, 1.3bn reais ($251m), will fund a supercomputing infrastructure project in Rio de Janeiro developed in partnership with China's Huawei Technologies and iFlytek, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government said on Thursday. The machine will be installed in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte, chosen for its energy potential. Lula attended an announcement ceremony in the state on Thursday. The Reuters news agency quoted unnamed government officials as saying they expect US chipmaker Nvidia to win the tender.

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Pat McAfee wages war on Omaha's famous Jell-o shot bar after crew gets cold reception at College World Series NASCAR legend Tony Stewart calls mourning fans'a--holes' in tone-deaf rant about Kyle Busch Brewers' Jacob Misiorowski breaks brains and radar guns with hardest pitch ever by a starting pitcher US fans were out in full force ahead of the USMNT's first match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup MLB announces drive-in theater screenings of'The Sandlot' with live games and fireworks for July 4th California Democratic Party under fire for'you're not allowed to watch' World Cup post Victor Wembanyama isn't good or mature enough to be the face of the NBA -- at least not yet Trump praised for having'lots of energy' ahead of 80th birthday Trump calls Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner a'thug' Charter Space founder responds to critics' worries about SpaceX impact on market Rep. Byron Donalds shares his faith redemption story amid Florida gubernatorial run Iran's foreign minister says peace with US'has never been closer' GOP lawmaker says it's'really important' that US continues cartel crackdown Spencer Pratt's use of AI to boost campaign sparks debate FBI arrests first suspect on'most wanted fraudsters' list Brazil favored at -145 with the over at 2.5 +115, while Japan's tactical play could neutralize Haaland INSTANT REACTION FIFA World Cup Now reacts to USA's 4-1 dominant win over Paraguay Melissa Ortiz, Peter Crouch, Sacha Kljestan, Bob Bradley, Stu Holden, Brad Guzan and Mo Edu react to USA's 4-1 win over Paraguay. We are all jazzed up about the World Cup, right? I mean it is in our own backyard this year and the USA Men's National Team just won their first game with a dominant 4-1 victory over Paraguay. More importantly to me, we just won 1.35 units on the game because we took the over for it. I'm headed back to the pitch today for a couple of different plays.

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Kleber Mendonça Filho wants his films to reclaim lost history. For Kleber Mendonça Filho, filmmaking is an act of both provocation and preservation. Mendonça was born in 1968, in the early years of a ruthless military dictatorship--a time when cinema, like much else, was harshly constrained. His mother, Joselice Jucá, was a historian who studied Brazil's abolitionist movement, and she taught him that filling gaps in the cultural memory was a way to expose concealed truths. His relationship with film is inextricably linked with his home town, Recife--a port city where attractive beaches and high-rise developments coexist with sprawling favelas and rampant crime. In his youth, Mendonça was fascinated by the city's grand cinema palaces. He carried a Super 8 camera to the tops of marquees and shot dizzying images; he spent hours in projection booths, learning the mechanics of how films reached the screen. Over time, Mendonça watched those theatres fall into decline, an experience that he likened to being aboard a ship as it wrecked. But even as Recife lost its allure, he made the city a fixture of his films--a way of vindicating its place in history. His first narrative feature, "Neighboring Sounds," takes place on a street where he lived as a child, a setting that he spent years documenting. Later, he made "Pictures of Ghosts," a documentary about Recife told largely through its cinemas.