With less than a month until the first ball kick, Brazil continues to see protests against the biggest sporting event of the year. Preparations for the World Cup have been followed by a specter of popular discontent, and as the games near. more people hit the streets to voice their displeasure with the government and the Cup.
Hundreds of the nation's homeless and displaced citizens have banded together in small groups across the U.S. to form makeshift communities known as tent cities.
On Friday, General Motors was slapped with a record-breaking $35 million U.S. fine for its delayed response to an ignition switch defect in millions of vehicles that has been linked to at least 13 deaths.
U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) has garnered a reputation of questioning privacy implications for not only his constituents but for Americans across the country. With the release of the Samsung Galaxy S5, Franken wrote a letter to the company's executives regarding the smartphone's fingerprint scanner.
20 students at a Texas high school protested their school's dress code on Thursday after about 170 of their peers were suspended for violating the dress regulation rules earlier in the week.
The next New York Lotto drawing takes place on Saturday, May 17. The winning numbers for the New York Lotto drawing on May 14 were 2, 3, 12, 14, 16 and 38, and the bonus number was 9.
The excitement is growing for the May 17 Powerball jackpot, which has risen to a whopping $100 million. The drawing will take place Saturday at 11 p.m. EDT.
A large, influential conservative organization backed by big donors is urging Republican House members to vote against the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill next week if it includes a measure that would grant undocumented immigrants that serve in the military with a green card.
A White House aide has confirmed that House Speaker John Boehner did not say that he was committed to voting on the comprehensive immigration reform bill.
Texas has become a breeding ground for Hispanic-owned businesses and entrepreneurs, but wireless technologies appear to be a problem in targeting audiences and markets.
A shift in power is seen in India as the world's largest democracy elects Narendra Modi prime minister and give the BJP a grand majority in parliament.
In the United States, it's illegal for children under 18 to buy cigarettes. But it's permissible for those very same children to be a part of the cultivation and harvesting of tobacco, which produces side effects far worse than if they'd simply taken a puff.
