Well-known Wyoming trial lawyer Gerry Spence has died at age 96.

Today is Friday, Nov. 13, the 318th day of 2020. On Nov. 13, 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18. In 2000, lawyers for George W. Bush failed to win a court order barring manual recounts of ballots in Florida. President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the White House, where they pledged to slash Cold War-era nuclear arsenals by two-thirds.