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WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the Department of Justice moved to block AT&T’s $85.4-billion takeover of Time Warner on antitrust grounds.

If you want to understand how AT&T’s proposed $85-billion purchase of Time Warner might affect you, you only have to be a Taylor Swift fan.

Poor people would be cut off from their communities and from potential employers under a proposal approved Thursday to dramatically shrink a program Ronald Reagan created to subsidize phone service for the destitute.

Federal regulators took steps Thursday to ease broadcast-ownership restrictions, a move seen as favorable for the Sinclair Broadcast Group’s proposed $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune Media.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, critics warn, is aiming to “destroy the internet as we know it and give even more gatekeeper power to a few huge companies like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon.”

In an age of massive deregulation, will fact-based journalism become an endangered species?

Injecting President Donald Trump’s business-friendly, anti-regulation urges into the media business, the Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission approved sweeping rollbacks of rules designed to limit monopoly control of local broadcast properties.

WASHINGTON — The FCC voted along party lines on Thursday to move forward plans to eviscerate the Lifeline program, which provides a modest $9.25 monthly subsidy to most recipients so that millions of poor people can connect to communications services.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to erase several longstanding media-ownership limits that prevented one broadcast company from controlling too much media in a single market.

The Lifeline service, which aims to give broadband to low-income people, has been derided by conservatives.