WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two inmate calling service companies agreed to drop a merger bid after U.S. regulators recommended blocking the deal because of significant competitive concerns, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. Allowing Securus Technologies Inc and Inmate Calling Solutions LLC (ICS) to merge would not have been in the public interest, FCC Chairman […]
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(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. Health care is off the table, but in Democrats’ war chest. Above, Democrats at a health care rally at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. President Trump announced that Republicans would drop efforts to overhaul health care until after the […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two inmate calling service companies agreed to drop a merger bid after U.S. regulatory staff had recommended blocking the deal because of significant competitive concerns, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement he agreed that allowing Securus Technologies Inc and Inmate Calling Solutions LLC […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two inmate calling service companies agreed to drop a merger bid after U.S. regulatory staff had recommended blocking the deal because of significant competitive concerns, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement he agreed that allowing Securus Technologies Inc and Inmate Calling Solutions LLC […]
To the Editor: Re “Trump Directs State Dept. to End Aid to 3 Central American Countries” (nytimes.com, March 30): President Trump’s decision to cut off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras is the worst and most counterproductive decision that could possibly be made to deal with the immigration situation on our southern border. I […]
WASHINGTON — After two years of playing coy, the Trump administration is reportedly finally ready to unveil its plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The plan’s details remain confidential, but if it is anything like President Trump’s moves so far on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, it will be bold. Some of those steps have worked out far better […]
MILANO (Reuters) – U.S. fund Varde Partners has pulled out of a bidding process for troubled Italian bank Carige, a source close to Varde said on Tuesday. That leaves a fund managed by BlackRock as the only known potential bidder for Italy’s tenth largest lender. The Genoa-based bank was placed under special administration by the […]
The stalemate between Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over funding for the border wall has been politically damaging for the president. Most Americans blame him for the longest government shutdown in history. Plus he has been put in a difficult strategic corner as he needs a way to resolve the shutdown without looking like he […]
Gail Collins: Happy April, Bret! Since we’re past Fools’ Day, I will avoid any wisecracks about Donald Trump. Where are you on the Mueller report? Ready to consign it to the dustbin of history? Demanding to see the full document? I have to admit I’m sort of ready to give up and move on. Although […]
Eilis O'Hanlon: 'Being a citizen of Ireland comes with responsibilities as well as rights'
At this stage, we’re surely only days away from a charity single, perhaps sung to the tune of that England World Cup song: “She’s coming home, she’s coming home, Lisa Smith’s coming home.” And to be clear, the former Air Corps member and Muslim convert, currently being held at a camp in Syria for the […]