Texas settles with T-Mobile, Sprint over merger - statement

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas' attorney general has settled with T-Mobile Inc and Sprint Corp and will drop his opposition to the $26.5 billion (20.5 billion pounds) merger, leaving just Democratic attorneys general fighting the combination.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had been the only Republican among the state attorneys general who had filed a lawsuit to stop the merger of the No. 3 and No. 4 wireless carriers. Without Texas, 14 states and the District of Columbia argue that the deal..