FIFA World Cup 2014 kicks off in São Paulo, Brazil this evening with the opening ceremony following by the opening soccer game between Brazil and Croatia.

Until the final games are played on 13 July there will be 32 teams taking part which will play 64 games. These games will bring out the best in athletes and also the worst, especially after getting a call from a referee.

Theatrics have become a large part of these games because the World Cup is the greatest stage for some specialists to show off their athletic and thespian talents.

Location: Brazil

Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines – and partisan antipathy is deeper and more extensive – than at any point in the last two decades.

These trends manifest themselves in myriad ways, both in politics and in everyday life. And a new survey of 10,000 adults nationwide finds that these divisions are greatest among those who are the most engaged and active in the political process.

Virginia's 7th Congressional District experienced a political earthquake, with after shocks, which will surely be felt all across our nation. Brat's loud shouts of excitement and joy were not what Cantor wanted to hear.

US Representative and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va lost to a more conservative challenger Dave Brat. Mr. Brat's margin of victory was more than 10 percentage points, 44 percent for Cantor compared to 55 percent for Brat.

This means The Tea Party is alive and kicking butt. Stories stating that the Tea Party was not relevant anymore are wrong.

NY State officials are spending millions in road safety improvements. A total of $75.6 million in federal Highway Safety Improvement Program funding includes 33 projects to enhance mobility and safety on roadways across the state.

Projects for this highway safety funding are selected through a competitive process designed to support initiatives that have the greatest ability to reduce traffic fatalities and severe injuries. The following list includes neighborhood projects and our surrounding areas.

New York City

This country made huge investments and even larger sacrifices, with tousands of lives lost and the real cost for a US war in Iraq tops $1.7 trillion. All for what?

Militants continue to take back Iraq, controlling of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, and getting closer to the Iraqi capital, as soldiers and security forces abandon their posts after clashes with the Al-Qaida insurgents. Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took control today.

Talk about zingers... Checkmate is a chess game position in which one of the player's king is threatened.

US Department of Veterans Affairs has releases data on the quality and the access military veterans have to the healthcare they have earned. The results from its Nationwide Access Audit, along with facility level patient access data, medical center quality and efficiency data, and mental health provider survey data, for all Veterans health facilities.