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Sprint and T-Mobile try to join forces yet again; another deadly spate of attacks in Afghanistan targets journalists and schoolchildren.     Tonight's Sentences is written by Ella Nilsen and Rachel Wolfe. TOP NEWS It's merger time David A.Grogan/CNBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Mobile phone carriers Sprint and T-Mobile plan to merge, if US regulators under the Trump administration sign off on the $26 billion deal. [ The Verge / Colin Lecher ] This isn't the first Sprint–T-Mobile merger attempt; the two companies also tried to merge in 2014 but ended up canceling the deal because the FCC under the Obama administration signaled it wouldn't approve the deal. [ NYT / Michael de la Merced ] There's another r

Monday, April 30, 2018 - The Day's Most Fascinating News from Dave Pell Monday, April 30, 2018 1 TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK "Some evenings, when we force her to go to bed, she will pretend to go to sleep and then get back up and continue to do homework for another hour. The following mornings are awful, my daughter teary-eyed and exhausted but still trudging to school. I wonder: What is the exact nature of the work that is turning her into a sleep-deprived teen zombie so many mornings?" Are kids getting too much homework these days? Karl Taro Greenfeld definitely thought that was the case for his 13 year-old daughter. So he decided to do her homework for a week. From the The Atlantic back in 2013: My Daughter's Homework Is Killing Me . + It turns out the homework debate continued long after Greenfield turned in his assignments: Fro