Donald Trump Jr. Communicated With WikiLeaks During Campaign
Donald Trump Jr. had multiple online conversations during the 2016 presidential campaign with WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that released a hacked trove of Democrats’ emails, according to four...
View ArticleFCC's Inspector General Looks Into Changes That Benefited Sinclair
In April 2017, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, led the charge for his agency to approve rules allowing television broadcasters to greatly increase the number of...
View Article13 Russians Indicted by Special Counsel in First Charges on 2016 Election...
The special counsel investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian organizations owith illegally using social media platforms to...
View ArticleAT&T Chief Says Hiring Michael Cohen as Consultant a ‘Big Mistake’
Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive, said in a staffwide memo that the company had made a “big mistake” by hiring President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.“Our company has been...
View ArticleAT&T’s Time Warner Takeover Wins Judge’s Approval in Defeat for Justice Dept
Private sector development: AT&T | Time WarnerOn October 22, 2016, AT&T and Time Warner announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&T will acquire Time Warner in...
View ArticleComcast, in 2nd Try, Offers $65 Billion Cash for 21st Century Fox
Comcast announced an offer worth $65 billion for the bulk of 21st Century Fox’s businesses, setting up a showdown with the Walt Disney Company for Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. The all-cash bid by...
View ArticleYour Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
At least 75 companies receive anonymous, precise location data from apps whose users enable location services to get local news and weather or other information. Several of those businesses claim to...
View ArticleJudge Approves T-Mobile-Sprint Deal Affecting 100 Million Customers
Private sector development: Sprint|T-MobileJudge Victor Marrero of the United States District Court in Manhattan ruled in favor of T-Mobile’s takeover of Sprint in a deal that would further concentrate...
View ArticleJohn Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era
Representative John Lewis (D-GA), a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who then...
View ArticleSenate Passes $1 Trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
The Senate gave overwhelming bipartisan approval to the $1 trillion infrastructure bill to rebuild the nation’s deteriorating roads and bridges and fund new climate resilience and broadband...
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