January 2025

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has waded into the politicized debate over NPR and PBS, ordering up an investigation that he said could be relevant in lawmakers’ decision about whether to continue funding the public news organizations.

Investment analysts expect President Donald Trump’s changes in U.S. immigration policy will have a profound effect on wireless carriers’ subscriber counts in 2025 and beyond, but the carriers themselves are reluctant to own up to any near-term impact. That’s in part because it’s a sensitive political subject—and it’s too early to tell. But there’s no denying that a crackdown in U.S. immigration will lead to a lower U.S. population, resulting in a smaller pool of customers for the wireless industry that already serves nearly everybody old enough to hold a cell phone.