U.S. Government Is Tripping Over Itself in Race to Dominate 5G Technology

President Trump stood in front of hardhat-wearing cell-tower climbers this spring in the White House and declared deploying a superfast 5G wireless network a national priority. My administration is focused on freeing up as much wireless spectrum as needed, Mr…
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Gaza Militants Fire Rockets Into Israel After Islamic Jihad Leader Killed

TEL AVIVMilitants in Gaza fired rockets into Israel early Tuesday, setting off sirens and forcing people into bomb shelters across the country including in Tel Aviv, after Israels military killed a senior leader of the second-largest militant group in the Pal…
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Opinion | It’s tough being small in a big-suit world. We still spacewalked.

Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are NASA astronauts living aboard the International Space Station. They were the 14th and 15th women, respectively, to conduct a spacewalk. LOW-EARTH ORBIT Its tough being smaller in a big-suit world. Aerospace is an industry…
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Bolton and Kupperman oppose acting White House chief of staff Mulvaney’s bid to join impeachment lawsuit

In an 11-page filing, Kupperman attorney Charles J. Cooper asked a judge to reject Mulvaneys motion to join the lawsuit, instead suggesting the court hear it in tandem as a separate but related case. Mulvaney went to court Friday seeking to join the separati…
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Rank partisan solidarity is all Trump’s defenders have left

Would a partisan impeachment divide the country? If you havent noticed, the nation is pretty divided already. Its understandable to worry about the reaction of the nearly 45 percent of Americans who, according to the FiveThirtyEight average of polls, oppose i…
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John Bolton saw a ‘drug deal.’ Why won’t he tell the cops?

And yet Bolton so far chooses to cover for the drug dealers. Hes letting Cooper pursue a legal maneuver that whatever its intent would result in delaying Boltons testimony so long that he would likely avoid testifying at all. That the maneuver serves primaril…
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The incredible shrinking nations of Eastern Europe

If EastGermany were still a politically separate entity, it would also be on the list, which is headed by Bulgaria. That Slavic nations population is on track to decline 23 percent, from 7.2 million to 5.2 million by 2050, according to United Nations projecti…
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Congress, stop ducking. Free the ‘dreamers.’

As the Supreme Court hears legal arguments Tuesday on the Obama-era policy that provided a reprieve from removal and gave job permits to hundreds of thousands of young unauthorized immigrants, and on the Trump administrations 2017 attempt to rescind that poli…
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We thought Trump was the biggest con man. We were all wrong.

Trump claimed once upon a time that he was recruiting the best people to the White House and senior ranks of the executive branch. He now claims he got conned into hiring a cabal of covert Never Trumpers. The list of people who allegedly hustled the master h…
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick laying the groundwork for Democratic presidential bid, sources say

In one complication, he has also been trying to extricate himself from Bain Capital, the private equity firm where he has been a managing director since leaving office. The firm became a ripe target for Democrats in 2012 when Obama was running against Mitt Ro…
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