Ford and Volkswagen are in talks about building VW vehicles in some of Ford’s U.S. factories. VW CEO Herbert Diess told reporters after a meeting at the White House that the automaker in talks with Ford. The meeting was held ...
Read More »Historic 1920s Delta Queen riverboat can cruise again
After a decade in dock, the historic 1920s-era Delta Queen riverboat will cruise again. President Donald Trump signed legislation on Tuesday authorizing the 285-foot-long riverboat immortalized in poems and songs to cruise again along the Mississippi and several other rivers. ...
Read More »Kelly wants to roll back cash-assistance rules
Kansas’ new Democratic governor wants state lawmakers to roll back a work requirement and other cash-assistance rules championed by a Republican predecessor as she prepares to grapple with problems in the state’s child-welfare system. Gov.-elect Laura Kelly, a veteran state ...
Read More »Bankruptcy filing provides rare window into diocese finances
New Mexico’s largest Catholic diocese has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent months on lawyers to fight claims of clergy sex abuse and to prepare for a potentially lengthy battle in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The Archdiocese of Santa ...
Read More »California family goes to court to seek return of art
The great-grandson of a Jewish woman who surrendered her priceless Camille Pissarro painting to escape the Holocaust watched Tuesday as his lawyer relentlessly grilled officials of the Spanish museum where it hangs, expressing incredulity that they didn’t know it was ...
Read More »Prosecutors recommend no jail time for cooperative Flynn
President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser provided so much information to the special counsel’s Russia investigation that prosecutors say he shouldn’t do any prison time, according to a court filing that describes Michael Flynn’s cooperation as “substantial.” The filing ...
Read More »Supplies low for shelters helping migrants as holidays near
An exhausted Alonzo Juan Jose sat still on a cot inside a shelter in southern New Mexico. For six days, the 24-year-old migrant from Huehuetenango, Guatemala, says he and his 5-month-old daughter, Allison Yajaira Juan Miguel, slept on a concrete ...
Read More »‘Hellholes’ list goads Missouri lawmakers to pass tort bills
The American Tort Reform Association still doesn’t think much of the courts in St. Louis, but this year it likes those in New York City even less. The city of St. Louis, a perennial target of the national business lobbying ...
Read More »SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justices employ signature phrases
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wants you to know she’s sorry. Justice Neil Gorsuch is only asking for some help. When you sit through almost all the Supreme Court arguments in a week, a month or even a term (as The Associated ...
Read More »Three legislators resign before end of term
Three Missouri lawmakers have resigned before a new constitutional amendment takes effect forcing lawmakers to wait longer to become lobbyists. Democratic Sen. Jake Hummel said in a statement Tuesday that he left office early because he wanted to preserve his ...
Read More »Children return to school 3 weeks after California wildfire
Eight-year-old Bella Maloney woke up next to her little brother in a queen-size bed at a Best Western hotel in Yuba City, California, and for breakfast ate a bagel and cream cheese that her mother brought up from the lobby. ...
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