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T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp. know their audience. Sensing that there may be regulatory opposition to their merger, the two companies have framed their combination around themes likely to appeal with the current administration, namely a better chance at victory in the tech race against China. All of this hinges on 5G technology, a new wireless standard that the carriers, along with many others, are racing to deploy. …read more […]

The home-price index from real estate data provider CoreLogic showed national yearly price growth of 7% in March. Annual price gains have averaged 6.5% so far in 2018, up from an average of 5.9% last year. CoreLogic said lopsided supply-demand dynamics are to blame. …read more […]

These two big pharma stocks have a lot in common. But only one is the better choice right now. …read more […]

An old F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet is being refurbished at a hangar at Boeing’s St. Louis headquarters, the first of many planes that will be sent there as the Pentagon spends the biggest budget in its history. (May 2) …read more […]

Dr.Sebastian Gorka, former strategist to President Trump, on the list of questions special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly wanted to ask President Trump and why the Russia probe needs to ends. …read more […]

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Tuesday lashed out at Republican allies of President Donald Trump who have drafted articles of impeachment against him, saying the Justice Department won’t be extorted or give in to threats. “I can tell you there have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time, and I think they should understand by now, the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted,” Rosenstein said, in response to a question about news reports on the articles of impeachment. …read more […]

Jim Cramer sees too many positive data points to make sense of the widespread weakness in the stock market. …read more […]

President Trump’s former secretary of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate penalty will likely raise the cost of health insurance through the program’s exchanges. “There are many, and I’m one of them, who believes that that actually will harm the pool in the exchange market, because you’ll likely have individuals who are younger and healthier not participating in that market, and consequently, that drives up the cost for other folks within that market,” Price told the World Health Care Congress in D.C., according to The Washington Times. Price …read more […]

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States sought the world’s attention as scores of migrants traveled through Mexico on a journey to escape their violent homelands. …read more […]

Surprise! The only actual “news” here is good. …read more […]

Not everyone loved the fourth season of Arrested Development. Each episode …read more […]

Apple also boosted its capital return program by $100 billion, with repurchases from the increase set to begin in the June quarter, and said it bought $23.5 billion of stock back in the March quarter, a sign that it is bringing back most of its hundreds of billions of dollars in cash to the United States. The share repurchases in the march quarter drove Apple’s cash net of debt down slightly to $145 billion. “We are returning the cash to investors as we have promised,” Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri told Reuters in an interview. …read more […]

Apple also boosted its capital return programme by $100 billion, with repurchases from the increase set to begin in the June quarter, and said it bought $23.5 billion of stock back in the March quarter, a sign that it is bringing back most of its hundreds of billions of dollars in cash to the United States. The share repurchases in the march quarter drove Apple’s cash net of debt down slightly to $145 billion. “We are returning the cash to investors as we have promised,” Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri told Reuters in an interview. …read more […]

Apple ended up with a pretty decent report for its second quarter, beating …read more […]

“God of War,” an exclusive that debuted in April for PlayStation 4, is one of the best games ever made because it does such a good job at nailing the fine details. This Shattered Gauntlet of Ages is a direct reference to the Infinity Gauntlet, the centerpiece of the new movie “Avengers: Infinity War.” The gauntlet is a weapon capable of combining the powers of the six Infinity Stones, which each control a fundamental aspect of life itself, in turn. …read more […]