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T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4 billion deal. What it means for customers.
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T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4 billion deal. What it means for customers.

By Rebecca Mezistrano and Ross Kohan | The Street T-Mobile, one of the three largest wireless providers in the country, is about to get a little bigger. The company announced plans to acquire U.S. Cellular in a $4.4 billion deal. T-Mobile will gain stores, more spectrum rights, and all of Cellular’s 4-plus million customers. The deal, which includes up to $2 billion of assumed debt, is expected to be finalized by the middle of 2025. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said in a statement “As customers from both companies will get more coverage and more capacity from our combined footprint, our competitors will be forced to keep up – and even more consumers will benefit." READ THE FULL STORY AT THE STREET
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Elon Musk’s ‘X’ tops list of companies trampling on the 1st Amendment
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Elon Musk’s ‘X’ tops list of companies trampling on the 1st Amendment

By Hudson Crozier  | The Daily Signal Several major U.S. companies continue to flout First Amendment freedoms, according to a legal group’s new analysis and rankings.  Alliance Defending Freedom’s annual Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index ranks dozens of corporations based on their “respect for free speech and religious freedoms” both inside and outside of the companies.  In its third edition, announced Tuesday, the Top 10 list of shame for flouting those freedoms includes many companies on the same list last year. The companies’ scores ranged from 1% to 100%, measuring 43 different factors, including employee trainings, charitable donations, and various policies for consumers that reveal ideological bias.   ADF, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based legal no...
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Initiatives to open primaries, bring ranked choice voting challenged in Colorado Supreme Court
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Initiatives to open primaries, bring ranked choice voting challenged in Colorado Supreme Court

By Sherrie Peif | Complete Colorado DENVER — While two ballot initiatives dealing with Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) are already either gathering signatures or in the petition approval phase with the secretary of state, two more citizen-initiated measures that would completely upend Colorado elections are going through an appeals process with the Colorado Supreme Court. Ballot initiatives 188 and 310 “Concerning the Conduct of Elections,” would drastically change the way primary elections are held in Colorado. Only one of the two initiatives would actually go to voters, as they are near mirror images of each other, but either one would make Colorado’s primaries fully open and mandate use of RCV to conduct the elections. According to the final app...
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Congress preps for drama with spending, farm bill, Pentagon policy and election-year bombast
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Congress preps for drama with spending, farm bill, Pentagon policy and election-year bombast

By Lindsey McPherson | The Washington Times Memorial Day for Congress kicked off an election-year summer sprint in which serious legislating usually takes a backseat to partisan messaging bills. The Senate started voting on bills that the Democrats in control there know will fail but want to message on. That started last week with a second failed vote on a border policy bill and will continue next week when Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer plans a vote on a bill to establish a statutory right to contraception. The Republican-led House is more focused on bills it can pass but also wants to score points. House GOP leaders laid out an ambitious plan to pass all 12 annual spending bills in June and July. With what will soon be a two-vote GOP majority, they don’t have much ...
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Libertarians pick Chase Oliver as presidential nominee, rejecting RFK, Jr., and Trump
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Libertarians pick Chase Oliver as presidential nominee, rejecting RFK, Jr., and Trump

By BRITTANY GIBSON | Politico The Libertarian Party selected former Georgia Senate candidate Chase Oliver as their presidential nominee on Sunday, spurning appeals for support over the weekend from both Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The selection of Oliver, who has described himself as “armed and gay” and whose third-party candidacy helped force a runoff in the Georgia Senate race in 2022, came a day after Trump suggested he would be the best nominee for the party, drawing a sustained chorus of boos. The former president was deemed ineligible for the nomination by the Libertarian Party chair — Trump wrote on his social media platform that, as the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, he could not have accepted the nomination, anyway — while Kennedy was eliminated in the...
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Remembering those ‘that gave all’: Colorado Freedom Memorial in Aurora honors fallen servicemen
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Remembering those ‘that gave all’: Colorado Freedom Memorial in Aurora honors fallen servicemen

By Sage Kelley | The Denver Gazette A 1,000-pound bronze bell, forged in honor of Colorado's fallen, tolled several times during the Colorado Freedom Memorial on Saturday morning. The Colorado Freedom Memorial Foundation, along with the City of Aurora, held its 11th annual Colorado Remembers ceremony on Saturday, celebrating Memorial Day and those who gave everything for the country.  Cannon fire from the Colorado Army National Guard followed the ringing bell, bringing about silence throughout the park as over 100 attendees honored the nation's fallen servicemen and servicewomen. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Colorado vets go through hundreds of unclaimed cremated remains to give comrades dignified memorial
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Colorado vets go through hundreds of unclaimed cremated remains to give comrades dignified memorial

By Kevin Simpson | The Colorado Sun A motorcycle escort rumbled slowly along the pavement that cuts through meandering rows of identical white headstones at Denver’s Fort Logan National Cemetery, making its way toward a pavilion where dozens of military veterans converged under a brilliant late April sky for a long-overdue rite. While bagpipes played, 13 men in crisp white dress shirts beneath black vests bearing patches signifying their military affiliations each accepted a wooden box unloaded from the back of a hearse. Solemnly cradling them in white gloves, some with trembling hands, they delivered sets of cremated remains to a table. Once the boxes had been laid in a row, a folded American flag next to each, uniformed onlookers snapped a salute. The bagpipes quieted and speake...
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Lightning strike kills Northern Colorado rancher, 30 head of his cattle
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Lightning strike kills Northern Colorado rancher, 30 head of his cattle

By Jennifer Brown | Colorado Sun A lightning strike killed a Jackson County rancher and more than 30 of his cattle Saturday afternoon as the man tossed hay from the back of a trailer, the local coroner said Sunday.  Mike Morgan, 51, was feeding his herd as the strike hit, killing him and knocking the 100 or so cows and calves standing around the trailer off their feet, said George Crocket, coroner for the rural county in far northern Colorado.  “The 32 cattle did not get back up,” Crocket said.  “As best I can tell, it hit him on the trailer. The cattle were bunched up around the trailer and it hit them all.”  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Alaskans outraged after crew reportedly prevented from flying U.S. flag at Denali National Park
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Alaskans outraged after crew reportedly prevented from flying U.S. flag at Denali National Park

By Valerie Richardson | The Washington Times A flag flap erupted at Denali National Park in Alaska following a report that the superintendent has banned construction workers from flying the stars and stripes. The National Park Service denies the claim. Sen. Dan Sullivan, Alaska Republican, fired off a letter to National Park Service Director Charles Sams asking him to “immediately investigate” a claim that contractors on a major federal bridge project inside the park were told to stop flying U.S. flags because they detract from the “park experience.” “It is an outrage that on the lead-up to Memorial Day, a construction worker was prohibited from flying an American flag in a national park in Alaska,” Mr. Sullivan said this weekend on X. “I cannot conceive of a federal law or regula...
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Krannawitter: From Decoration Day to Memorial Day, the history of honoring those who gave all
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Krannawitter: From Decoration Day to Memorial Day, the history of honoring those who gave all

By THOMAS L. KRANNAWITTER, PH.D. | Liberty Lyceum What is now officially Memorial Day used to be called Decoration Day, a uniquely American holiday born from the ashes of the America War. The American Civil War raged from 1861 to 1865. The results included death, destruction, and devastation of every kind on scales that had never been witnessed before. After the fires were put out and the dead were buried, veterans who survived the war and other citizens wanted to honor and express appreciation for their fellow citizens who had given “the last full measure of devotion,” in the memorable words Abraham Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg. This included newly-freed former slaves, some of whom were freed by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, all of whom were freed by the 13th Amendm...
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