BRASÍLIA—For Victor Melo, the end began with a stolen iPhone. The 16-year-old had spent a balmy Saturday afternoon in May with his high school friends at a funk music party in Brasília’s central park, not far from the country’s presidential palace. As he headed home shortly after sundown, someone in the crowd grabbed his classmate…
Peter Lenkov knows how to make new TV shows out of old hits, and that’s a specialty in high demand at major broadcast networks these days. “Hawaii Five-0,” his update of the 1970s detective series, is in its ninth season on CBS. He also oversees “MacGyver,” a revamp of the 1980s show about a handy…
Hours after Robert Bowers allegedly opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, the right-wing social-media platform where he had posted anti-Semitic messages lost the partners that kept it running. In quick succession, Gab.com was dropped by its web-hosting firm, Joyent Inc., and GoDaddy Inc., the domain registrar that allows it to have an address…
Americans are holding on to their smartphones for longer than ever. Pricier devices, fewer subsidies from carriers and the demise of the two-year cellphone contract have led consumers to wait an average of 2.83 years to upgrade their smartphones, according to data for the third quarter from HYLA Mobile Inc., a mobile-device trade-in company that…
TECUN UMAN, Guatemala—Hundreds of Honduran migrants stranded at this border crossing with Mexico began to return home on Saturday, while others sought to cross the muddy river that divides the countries in a desperate attempt to continue their march north. The U.S.-bound caravan with close to 5,000 Honduran migrants was held at bay by Mexican…
The stage was set for a dramatic public hearing Thursday over sexual-assault allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, with Democrats planning to delve broadly into the Supreme Court nominee’s past and Republicans aiming to keep a narrow focus on the substance of the accusations. Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford, Judge Kavanaugh’s accuser, said Sunday that she…
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The world’s largest companies are squeezing their suppliers by taking months to pay their bills, and big investors are trying to profit from that tension.
MAE SAI, Thailand—For the first few days in the dark, panic reigned. When the 12 boys of the Wild Boars soccer team in northern Thailand realized they were trapped in a flooded cave, they “lost their minds—out of control,” crying day and night, one of the boys told his father. Another boy recalled teammates saying…
Despite seven interest-rate increases by the Federal Reserve since 2015, many banks have resisted rewarding deposit customers with higher rates. Some customers, however, are getting a far better deal. The recent moves from the Fed have set off a battle for deposits for the first time since the financial crisis. In an effort to stanch…