OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — An Oshkosh-based company and a Dutch firm have been awarded a $342 million contract to produce equipment trailers for the U.S. Army. Oshkosh Defense announced Monday that it will partner with Broshuis, B.V., to produce an estimated 557 Medium Equipment Trailers. The six-axle trailer and its tractor can transport military equipment
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man intends to plead guilty to threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Jon Tester under a deal with federal prosecutors. The plea deal disclosed Monday calls for the dismissal of a second charge that alleged the man also threatened to kill President Joe Biden. Anthony James Cross of Billings faces
Continue ReadingCNN By Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — C.J. Rice could soon be a free man. Rice, whose case and ineffective representation in court we told you about on CNNand in a cover story in The Atlantic in October 2022, was granted a petition for writ of habeas corpus on Monday by Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro,
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Thanks to the offshore, or Santa Ana, winds, we remain quite dry here on the surface. Dew points and relative humidity both remain very low. Moisture levels will increase throughout the day on Tuesday. While the surface remains dry, our skies have been filled this afternoon with some upper-level clouds, setting the stage for another
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– A una semana del inicio de las precampañas electorales por la presidencia de México, la candidata del partido oficialista Morena, Claudia Sheinbaum, nombró este lunes a los integrantes de su equipo. Entre ellos, a tres de sus cinco antiguos rivales por la postulación: Adán Augusto López, Ricardo Monreal y Gerardo Fernández
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A woman who was shocked in the back with a Taser while lying on the ground in Pueblo, Colorado, last year is suing the police officer who stunned her and the city’s police chief, accusing the police department of failing to report excessive force by the officer
Continue ReadingManuela Castro (CNN Español) — Javier Milei partió a Estados Unidos este domingo por la noche, en su primer viaje oficial como presidente electo de Argentina. En Washington se reunirá con funcionarios de la Casa Blanca y el Departamento del Tesoro, entre ellos el asesor de seguridad nacional de la presidencia, Jake Sullivan, dijo el
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After a pugnacious first turn on the witness stand, former president Donald Trump plans to testify again next month in his civil fraud trial, his lawyers said Monday. He is to return Dec. 11, defense attorney Christopher Kise said. Trump had plenty to say during his
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild have fired coach Dean Evason and assistant Bob Woods. General manager Bill Guerin announced the moves. Guerin did not say who would be replacing Evason on an interim basis. The Wild have lost 14 of their first 19 games this season. Evason was nearly a quarter of
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Niger’s junta says it has signed a decree revoking a 2015 law that was enacted to curb the smuggling of international migrants traveling through a key migration route in Niger en route to Europe. A government circular issued on Monday noted that all those convicted under
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York cannabis regulators have approved a deal to settle lawsuits that have blocked recreational marijuana shops from opening. The state’s Cannabis Control Board approved the settlement on Monday. It still needs a judge’s approval before if can take effect. The deal would lift a court order that has blocked the
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A Texas border crossing was closed to vehicles Monday, and traffic at an Arizona crossing was limited to shift more resources to illegal entries, U.S. authorities said in the latest sign of how fast-changing migration routes are challenging the government to keep up. Customs and Border Protection said it was closing one
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A Texas border crossing was closed to vehicles Monday, and traffic at an Arizona crossing was limited to shift more resources to illegal entries, U.S. authorities said in the latest sign of how fast-changing migration routes are challenging the government to keep up. Customs and Border Protection said it was closing one
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — At age 99, former President Jimmy Carter has been many things: humanitarian, Sunday school teacher, woodworker, naval lieutenant, father, husband. Now he’s facing a role that’s new to him but familiar to millions of older adults: that of a widower. Carter’s wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, died November 19.
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election subversion case in Washington, DC, denied the former president’s effort to subpoena records from the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Trump’s attorneys had claimed in their motion to subpoena records from the committee,
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A 44-year-old woman was arrested after being accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl while she was playing in the front yard of a home in Twentynine Palms. The incident was reported on the afternoon of Nov. 20. According to the Morongo Basin Sheriff Station, as the 9-year-old was outside, a woman grabbed her and forcefully
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — For a year, New York’s Adult Survivors Act suspended the usual legal deadlines to give sexual assault victims one last chance to file lawsuits over misconduct that occurred years or decades ago. By the time the law expired last week, more than 3,700 legal claims had been filed, with many of
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Billionaire Ken Langone plans to meet with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley next week, becoming the latest prominent Republican donor to publicly weigh backing her White House bid. Langone, a Home Depot co-founder, said he has not decided whether to throw his financial support behind Haley in the 2024 GOP
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is too busy for an international climate summit at the moment. He is not expected to make a third annual trip to the Conference of the Parties, COP28, the annual United Nations-sponsored event at which countries consider collective action to mitigate the effects of
Continue ReadingSALEM, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say an 83-year-old woman has died after she fell through rotting floorboards in a century-old South Carolina house and down a well shaft the owner didn’t know was there. Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis says it took rescuers nearly four hours Sunday to get the women’s body out of the
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