Brazilians are usually electrified by the World Cup. This year, they’re strikingly blasé. Here’s why.

Conforto knocked in four runs, and Steven Matz subdued Arizona to earn his third win of the season.

Hey, Google, order a large pizza! Alexa, I need vitamins! Voice shopping using smart speakers and smartphone apps is starting to gain traction among consumers, opening up a new “conversational commerce” channel and potentially disrupting the retail sector. Devices such as Amazon’s Alexa-powered speakers and Google Home, which use artificial intelligence to respond to voice commands, are offering new choices …

On May 24, 2018, the New York Times ran an article by Thomas Gibbons-Neff detailing an intense battle between U.S. special forces and Syrian government-allied troops and Russian mercenaries for control of the Conoco gas field east of Deir ez-Zor.

The White House says Trump plans to nominate Kathy Kraninger to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Under Acting Director Mick Mulvaney, the CFPB has lost much of its watchdog role. (Image credit: Gerald Herbert/AP)

The Trump Administration has been better than its predecessors when it comes to Asia. The United States Commerce Department has granted Chinese telecom company, ZTE, a reprieve from a seven-year ban on using U.S.-made parts—a bad that was effectively a corporate death sentence. This is going to hurt ZTE—and China’s Communist Party (CCP).

By Alonso Soto and Oswaldo Rivas MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) – Eight people died on Saturday in a shoot-out and fire that shattered a truce struck hours earlier between President Daniel Ortega and protesters, and civic leaders condemned the violence while vowing to continue talks with the government. Nicaragua’s crisis, the country’s bloodiest confrontations since a civil war ended in 1990, …

When they took his son away from him at an immigrant detention center in Texas, Edilberto Garcia thought he would lose the teen forever. “I felt a lot of fear,” Garcia recalled. Garcia can’t stop crying, still shaken by the terrifying ordeal and the relief he felt when he got his boy back four days later.

While Tiger Woods hunkered down in his 155-foot yacht, the Privacy, a group of competitors set up camp in recreational vehicles near Shinnecock Hills.