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“This is a unique opportunity to speed up the deployment of 5G throughout the United States and bring much faster mobile broadband to rural Americans,” said chairman Ajit Pai.

The nation’s broadcaster revamped its style and format — but not its message — after authorities ordered propagandists to “disregard the established customs” in the face of an influx of foreign info.

The low-pressure system is currently a few hundred miles southwest of Bermuda. It’s expected to become a tropical storm well before the official hurricane season starts on June 1.

About 7,000 white-collar jobs are being eliminated as part of Ford’s massive organizational restructuring. The automaker says it will save $600 million per year as a result.

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his inauguration speech, quoting Ronald Reagan.

Lightfoot is the city’s first black female and openly gay mayor. After her swearing in, she laid out a plan to make Chicago “a city that families want to move to, not run away from.”

A comedian wondered on Twitter: Does Elizabeth Warren have a plan to fix my love life? To the amazement and delight of many, the presidential contender promised to “figure this out.”

Alphabet’s Google, which makes the Android operating system, says it’s complying with a U.S. order banning companies from doing business with Huawei.

Americans, in bigger numbers than ever, like trade. But they also believe China doesn’t play fair in trade.

Pain is more than an unpleasant sensation. When pain signals reach the brain, they interact with areas involved in thinking, memory and emotion.

U.S. unemployment is at a nearly 50-year low. The jobless rate for Hispanics has never been lower. The past two years have been the best job market ever for African Americans. Shouldn’t we be excited?

After eight seasons, 73 episodes and a whole lot of characters saying “bend the knee” all the time, HBO’s massive fantasy series is finally over.

The billionaire founder of investment firm Vista Equity Partners made the surprise announcement in front of roughly 400 students while delivering the college’s commencement address on Sunday.

The awful scores of 101, 100, 108 and 102 were posted to Trump’s USGA-administered handicap system on Friday, according to Golfweek.

The former vice president, who saw Barack Obama win twice on a unifying message, is betting that will win out over anger. Will that be enough for Democrats, who feel they have good reason to be angry?

If you got a manicure lately, chances are your nail salon was run by Vietnamese entrepreneurs. In Nailed It, director Adele Free Pham investigates how refugees built a multi-billion dollar industry.

After losing protections under the DACA program, Gilberto Olivas-Bejarano was deported to his birth country. In the Mexican city of León, far from his former life, he says he has much to offer.

In the 1970s, Rich Isaacson was presented with what seemed like a crazy idea: using lasers to detect gravitational waves. It became the biggest project the National Science Foundation had ever funded.

A Filipina American discovers her favorite cheesy snack has a bloody origin story.

Ten years after leaving his childhood home in West Bengal, photographer Soumya Sankar Bose returned to find that stars of Jatra, a popular local form of folk theater, were fading from public view.

Lyft and Univision are among the critics of the citizenship question the Trump administration wants on the 2020 census. The businesses say it could harm the national head count and their bottom line.

The president said the South Bend, Ind., mayor’s marriage to a man is “absolutely fine.” In an interview with NPR, Buttigieg said he is “more interested in policies that affect LGBTQ people.”

Singers from 26 countries competed in the finals of the global song competition, which was held Saturday evening in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Morrison’s win defied analysts and pollsters, who had predicted his defeat for several months. “Tonight is about every single Australian who depends on their government to put them first,” he said.

The video appeared to show Heinz-Christian Strache offering business deals for political support. He called the taping a “targeted political assassination.” But the chancellor proposed snap elections.

The Latin American Library at Tulane University is digitizing a whopping collection of Cold War-era, must-hear entertainment — Spanish language radionovelas made by Cuban emigrés in Miami.

Women make up roughly 15% of Alaska’s commercial fishing industry, and sexual harassment is part of the job. Being on a boat for weeks at a time makes harassment hard to escape.

A new study finds that women who ate a low-fat diet and more fruits, vegetables and grains, lowered their risk of dying from breast cancer. But which of those factors provided the protective effect?

The Democratic presidential candidate regularly tells personal stories on the campaign trail. Booker shared one particularly powerful experience in an interview with the NPR Politics Podcast.

A plan to move USDA research groups out of Washington, D.C. has towns clamoring for high-paying jobs. But critics say it’s part of an effort to gut objective research and cut jobs at the two agencies.

Strikes by the government and its allies have dealt a devastating blow to Idlib province in the north, where the conflict has escalated since late April.