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FILE- In this Jan. 9, 2019, file photo a sign advertises 5G at the Qualcomm booth at CES International in Las Vegas. 5G is a new technical standard for wireless networks that promises faster speeds; less lag, or “latency,” when connecting to the network; and the ability to connect many devices to the internet without bogging it down. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

AP Explains: The promise of 5G wireless - speed, hype, risk

By MAE ANDERSON and TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018 file photo, an asylum-seeking boy from Central America runs down a hallway after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego. Lawyers for eight immigrant families separated under Trump administration policy filed claims Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, against the U.S. government demanding $6 million each in damages for what they describe as lasting trauma. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Separated migrant families demand millions from US agencies

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Nevada seeks new injunction to block plutonium shipments

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2019 file photo, Marianna Trevino-Wright, Executive Director of the National Butterfly Center, talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Mission, Texas. The U.S. government is preparing to begin construction of more border walls and fencing in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley, likely on federally-owned land set aside as wildlife refuge property. Heavy construction equipment is supposed to arrive starting Monday. A photo posted by the nonprofit National Butterfly Center shows an excavator parked on its property.(AP Photo/ John L. Mone)

US prepares to start building portion of Texas border wall

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 24, 2014, file photo, a bend in the Rio Grand is viewed from a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter on patrol over in Mission, Texas. The U.S. government is preparing to begin construction of more border walls and fencing in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley, likely on federally-owned land set aside as wildlife refuge property. Heavy construction equipment is supposed to arrive starting Monday. A photo posted by the nonprofit National Butterfly Center shows an excavator parked on its property. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool, File)

Texas border wall construction set to begin in Rio Grande Valley

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

FILE - This Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, file photo shows a T-Mobile store in New York. A federal indictment accuses Huawei of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile, in the form of a robot designed to automatically test phones for problems. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Tappy the robot is behind part of charges against Huawei

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

Bolivarian National Police stand behind a burning roadblock set up by anti-government protesters who are showing support for a mutiny by some National Guard soldiers in the Cotiza neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. Venezuela's government said Monday it put down the mutiny. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Maduro foe claims Venezuela presidency amid protests

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Lawyers: Immigrant kids’ detention is prolonged, unexplained

Associated Press

Memphis museums offer free admission to shutdown workers

Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, speaks to reporters as she leaves an event with furloughed federal workers amid the partial government shutdown, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump grounds Pelosi after she imperils his big speech

By CATHERINE LUCEY, MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLER and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

US presses ahead with border wall in court despite shutdown

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Government workers, American Federation of Government Employees union members and members of supporting local unions, pose for a group photo during the rally to highlight the effect the federal shutdown, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, in Minneapolis. (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP)

How’s the US economy doing? Shutdown makes it harder to say

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2018 file photo, Haitian activists and immigrants protest on City Hall Plaza in Boston. A trial in New York over the Trump administration's move to cut off permission for thousands of Haitians to live in the U.S. is spotlighting emails between officials downplaying health and safety crises in the Caribbean nation as they tried to justify the change. The case centers on the Temporary Protected Status program, which has allowed about 50,000 people from Haiti to live and work in the U.S. temporarily since a devastating earthquake in 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Trump’s move to send Haitians home goes on trial in New York

By ADAM GELLER - Associated Press

In this Jan. 2, 2019, photo, a border patrol office inside his vehicle guards the border fence at the U.S. side of San Diego, Calif., as seen from Tijuana, Mexico. As the U.S. government remains shut down over President Donald Trump’s insistence on funding for his border wall, nearly half of Americans identify immigration as a top issue for the government to work on this year. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

AP-NORC Poll: Immigration among the top concerns in 2019

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and HANNAH FINGERHUT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, Salvadoran migrant Cesar Jobet, right, and Daniel Jeremias Cruz, hide from U.S. border agents, after they dug a hole in the sand under the border structure and crossed over to the U.S. side, in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico. The two youths were detected by U.S. border agents and ran back to the Mexican side. Some immigrant youth looking to start over in the United States after fleeing abusive homes are seeing their applications for green cards rejected because the Trump administration says they're too old. A program in place since 1990 has let young immigrants file paperwork before age 21. But the U.S. government says some of these immigrants are too old once they turn 18. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

Young immigrants seeking refuge from abuse face denials

By AMY TAXIN and DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press

Tourism authority helps keep Pearl Harbor attraction open

Associated Press

In this Thursday Dec. 20, 2018 photo, jobless newspaper workers protest near the Parliament, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan’s military and security agencies are exerting more pressure than ever on local media. The newly elected government is meanwhile slashing its advertising budget, squeezing a key source of revenue for private newspapers and TV stations. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan’s journalists complain of increasing censorship

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In his June 6, 2013, file photo, the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

ACLU sues U.S. over NSA phone snooping

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

ACLU sues government to learn about NSA call records program

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

FILE - This June 30, 2015, file photo shows a sign at the entrance to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. A judge has ordered Monday, Dec. 24, 2018, the U.S. government not to deport a Honduran woman without her 15-year-old daughter, who have been detained together at the center for six months and fear being attacked if forced to return. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Judge: Honduran mother can’t be deported without daughter

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press