July 2019

T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Is Approved by Justice Dept., Clearing Major Hurdle

[T-Mobile and Sprint attacked each other for years before they decided to team up.] Mr. Legere made numerous visits to both the F.C.C. and the Justice Department, documenting his activity on social media. A month after the deal was announced, Mr. Claure was a host of a fund-raiser for Representative Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican

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Cardinal Jaime Ortega, a Cuban Bridge to the U.S., Dies at 82

Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, the former archbishop of Havana, who helped re-establish relations between Cuba and the United States and revive Catholicism on the island, died on Friday in Havana. He was 82. His successor, Archbishop Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez, announced the death. In June he said that Cardinal Ortega was

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‘I Have a Moral Responsibility to Come Forward’: Colonel Accuses Top Military Nominee of Assault

The case has drawn the ire of sexual assault victims advocates, who note that the Pentagon has not issued a similar official lauding of Colonel Spletstoser, the alleged victim, despite her own 28 years in the Army, including two combat tours in Iraq and two in Afghanistan. She remains on active duty in the military.

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