Profiles
Staring at the brightly colored ball lying in his path, Brian Brigham pulls back his club and swings forward, hitting his ball, which slightly pushes the other out of the way. With a clear view,...
Artificial intelligence means different things to different people. It can be as simple as helping someone create a work e-mail to monitoring and stopping cyberattacks.
The University of Nebraska-...
There is perhaps nothing harder on Earth, than to lose a loved one, whether it’s quick and sudden or a prolonged illness – be it a favorite grandparent or someone still in the prime of their life....
Sherry Kolli, a registered nurse, healing-touch practitioner, co-founder of Peaceful Hearts Hospice and board member of Holistic Hearts Foundation. (Courtesy Photo)
There is no cure, the best we can do is offer palliative care to ease the discomfort. For anyone who has ever heard these dreaded words, know their world is about to crumble.
But there are people and...
She emigrated from Russia to Minnesota, fresh after graduating college, with scant money to her name – to no doubt achieve the American dream.
At that point, a law career wasn’t even visible on the...
Today’s News
Kel Guerin, Fauna Robotics VP of platform architecture, demonstrates how to operate Sprout, Fauna Robotics' new robot, remotely during a demonstration in New York, Jan. 14, 2026. (Seth Wenig / AP Photo)
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout designed to be a friendly addition to social spaces like homes...
After nine days of deliberation, a Los Angeles jury found Google and Meta liable for harms stemming from the design of their social media products on Wednesday and ordered them to pay $3 million in...
The disruptions from the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran spread quickly to commercial aircraft, shipping lanes and the world’s energy supply. Those repercussions have already hit fuel costs,...
(Soloviova Liudmyla / Shutterstock)
Recently I had written an article about what I coined as the “Corruption of Lawfulness,” (I do not know if this is termed something else in some philosophical school-of-thought, made up prior by...
The University of Nebraska at Omaha is one of the campuses participating in the new Nebraska Leaders program designed to identify, develop and retain the “elite” of Nebraska’s undergraduate talent and, say organizers, to combat “brain drain.” (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
OMAHA — An effort described as an anti-brain drain program “on steroids” has been launched to identify and nurture cream-of-the-crop college talent in hopes they won’t flee Nebraska.
Called the...
This Week's News
Kel Guerin, Fauna Robotics VP of platform architecture, demonstrates how to operate Sprout, Fauna Robotics' new robot, remotely during a demonstration in New York, Jan. 14, 2026. (Seth Wenig / AP Photo)
03/31/2026 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout designed to be a friendly addition to social spaces like homes and schools.
The e-commerce giant is already a...
03/31/2026 - 12:00am
After nine days of deliberation, a Los Angeles jury found Google and Meta liable for harms stemming from the design of their social media products on Wednesday and ordered them to pay $3 million in compensatory damages to a plaintiff who said that...
03/31/2026 - 12:00am
The disruptions from the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran spread quickly to commercial aircraft, shipping lanes and the world’s energy supply. Those repercussions have already hit fuel costs, including for motorists, truckers and fishermen, and are...
(Soloviova Liudmyla / Shutterstock)
03/31/2026 - 12:00am
Recently I had written an article about what I coined as the “Corruption of Lawfulness,” (I do not know if this is termed something else in some philosophical school-of-thought, made up prior by someone else quicker than I). This idea asserts (in...
The University of Nebraska at Omaha is one of the campuses participating in the new Nebraska Leaders program designed to identify, develop and retain the “elite” of Nebraska’s undergraduate talent and, say organizers, to combat “brain drain.” (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
03/31/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — An effort described as an anti-brain drain program “on steroids” has been launched to identify and nurture cream-of-the-crop college talent in hopes they won’t flee Nebraska.
Called the Nebraska Leaders Program, it brings together the...
03/30/2026 - 12:00am
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived Thursday in Saudi Arabia on an unannounced visit, days after revealing that Ukraine is helping five countries in the Middle East and Gulf region counter drone attacks on their territory during the Iran...
03/30/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday were waiting to hear back from Democrats after they sent them a new offer to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which has been shut down since mid-February.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R...
03/30/2026 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means’ nomination to be U.S. surgeon general is stalled a month after senators of both major political parties grilled her on vaccines and other health topics during a tense confirmation hearing,...
03/30/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — A 21-year-old Salvadoran woman who crossed into the United States as an “unaccompanied minor” and found a home in Lincoln was let go from a two-month ICE detention per a March 13 order by a federal judge in Omaha.
Days before, an...
03/27/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration on Tuesday for access to evidence they say they need to independently investigate three shootings by federal officers, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
The...
03/27/2026 - 12:00am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first jury verdict in a series of social media child safety trials this year is in — and it's not looking good for Meta. A jury in New Mexico found on Tuesday that the social media giant's platforms are harmful to children’s...
03/27/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — In a U.S. Senate race marked by allegations of planted candidates, an unusual thing happened on the filing deadline day: Democratic candidate Cindy Burbank paid the $1,740 filing fee for Legal Marijuana NOW Party candidate Mike Marvin,...
Industrial smoke from the zinc works of the American Steel and Wire Co., in Donora, Penn., blew across the Monongahela river to Webster, Penn., April 18, 1949. (Danny Jacino / AP Photo)
03/26/2026 - 12:00am
In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc ore into pure zinc metal – poured out of the...
The $108 million Tenaska Center for Performing Arts Engagement had a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday and plans open houses on Sunday, March 22, 2026. (Courtesy of Omaha Performing Arts)
03/26/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — A $108 million facility aimed at educating and drawing Nebraskans into the performing arts has officially opened in the downtown of the state’s most populated city.
The new Tenaska Center for Arts Engagement was funded primarily by private...
United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez (foreground right) addresses a large crowd at a rally in Calexico, Calif., Feb. 27, 1979. (Wally Fong / AP Photo)
03/26/2026 - 12:00am
Nebraskans from Omaha to Lincoln to cities and towns across the state are making plans and readying placards to join the next installment of the No Kings protests on Saturday.
Assembly is a freedom enshrined in the Bill of Rights. For those who...
03/26/2026 - 12:00am
This coverage is made possible through partnerships between Grist and WABE in Georgia, Blue Ridge Public Radio in North Carolina, Flatwater Free Press in Nebraska, Interlochen Public Radio in Michigan and WBEZ in Chicago. Reporters Jake Bittle,...
Quinlan children, Mary (left) and John (right) arrive at the Morris County Courthouse Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1975. In back is Paula Steelman (left) Patty Steinback (center) and right foreground is Cory Gaffny, all friends of Mary Quinlan. (Jack Kanthal / AP Photo)
03/25/2026 - 12:00am
March 31, 2026, marks 50 years since a landmark decision that shapes American patients’ rights every day: the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, who had suffered an irreversible coma.
Quinlan’s case established for the...
This undated photo shows Mónica Ramírez, the head and founder of Justice for Migrant Movement, who has been a leader in a grassroots movement to fight against widespread sexual abuse against women farmworkers. (Tara Todras-Whitehill / Elevate Prize Foundation via AP)
03/25/2026 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Almost two decades ago, legendary labor rights activist Dolores Huerta joined Mónica Ramírez at a Chicago event to promote the Bandana Project, a campaign Ramírez had launched to raise awareness about sexual violence against women...
