The Allen Police Department uses automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, as a tool to enhance public safety.

It comes as regional rivals like Taiwan, China and Japan are investing heavily in chip factories and other technology.

Just over a month into his job as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Kevin M. Warsh has embraced some conventions while signaling seismic shifts ahead.

In Celaya, Mexico, local cartels have turned soccer fields into bloody battlefields as they have co-opted a local league for teenagers as their latest business endeavor.

U.S. tariff pressure is pushing Europe and Brazil closer—opening new global doors for everything from aircraft parts to Brazil's cachaça, the base of the caipirinha.

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Supporters of Abelardo de la Espriella in Barranquilla, Colombia, on Sunday during the presidential runoff election.