Florida excavation company Tomahawk announced that it's planning to roll out autonomous dump trucks to help with the construction of a housing development. The trucks are made by California-based company Teleo, which says full automation on construction vehicles is still years away, but that its truck can operate with limited supervision by a human operator.
SUNNY D WITH ALCOHOL
SunnyD, known for its popularity among kids, is releasing an alcoholic seltzer drink. The SunnyD Vodka Seltzer comes in a four-pack for $9.99 and will begin sales at Walmart on Saturday, March 11. Each drink is 95 calories. The company joins a growing number of drink brands that have released an alcoholic option to keep up with rising demand for hard seltzers.
The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year's Day, it was estimated to stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday.
UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. Wisconsin-La Crosse fired Gow on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, after learning Gow and his wife have been producing and appearing in pornographic videos. Gow maintains the firing violated his free speech rights.
The U.S. military is now putting independent lawyers in charge of its investigations of sexual assault and other major crimes, what Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has called the "most important reform" to the military justice system in recent history.
A decades-old law bans Medicare from paying for weight loss drugs. Now, drugmakers and a wide-ranging bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are gearing up to push for that to change next year.
Barring a court order, in March Texas police will start being able to arrest people they suspect have entered the U.S. illegally, but increases in border crossings since a 2021 law authorizing some arrests shows the limits of that approach in the face of desperation that causes people to risk everything and travel thousands of miles to the U.S.
Mexico began clearing tents, both occupied and unoccupied, from the encampment in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, starting Tuesday.
