Administration awards $1.3 billion border wall contract to firm favored by Trump

A North Dakota construction company that has previously been praised by President Trump has been awarded a $1.3 billion border wall contract by the administration, the largest border wall contract the federal government has issued.Fisher Sand and Gravel, the winning firm, will be constructing wall on a 42-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border south of Tucson, Ariz., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson Raini Brunson told The Washington…