Ryan Wilson

Sep 16, 2024 | ccenterdispatch.com | Ryan Wilson

(The Center Square) - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday declared the Venezuelan gang, Tren De Aragua (TDA) as a foreign terrorist organization. Texas Department of Public Safety is aggressively targeting gang members who were released into country by Biden administration, he said. "I will not allow them to use Texas as a base of operations to terrorize our citizens," Abbott said at a news conference in Houston.

Sep 16, 2024 | ccenterdispatch.com | Ryan Wilson

BOONE, Iowa -- A new autonomous grain cart kit from PTX Trimble can pair with any grain cart and any combine. The OutRun retrofit kit was in action in August at the Farm Progress Show demonstration site in Boone. An Elmer's Haulmaster grain cart pulled by a driverless John Deere 8R tractor followed a Fendt combine through the field.

Sep 16, 2024 | ccenterdispatch.com | Ryan Wilson

(The Center Square) - Eleven national labor unions gathered Monday in Philadelphia, calling on Vice President Kamala Harris for help in solving the future of higher education in the United States. Several union leaders representing faculty and staff at hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the country held a press conference on the campus of Community College of Philadelphia to release a signed Statement of Unity.

Sep 16, 2024 | ccenterdispatch.com | Ryan Wilson

Two assassination attempts against Donald Trump, bomb threats impacting a town's immigrant community, and a fringe party urging Kamala Harris's murder. The United States' coarsening political discourse has led to mounting menace and actual violence. In a neck-and-neck US presidential election, tensions have soared along with the rhetoric: people have been killed, and the country's presidential candidates and others are in the crosshairs of extremists swept up in the divisive language of the race.

Sep 16, 2024 | ccenterdispatch.com | Ryan Wilson

The Philippines insisted on Monday that it had not given up a South China Sea reef, two days after it pulled out a ship stationed there following a months-long standoff with rival claimant China. Manila had deployed the coast guard flagship BRP Teresa Magbanua to Sabina Shoal in April to stop Beijing from building an artificial island there, as it has atop several other disputed spots in the strategic waterway.