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04/19/2024 - 12:07am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are set for the first time to pass a bill that would block the public from voting on a ballot measure initiated by citizens of the state, setting up what could be a long battle over whether to fund private...
04/19/2024 - 12:06am
There is no place like Nebraska. Well, Maine is like Nebraska. But just Nebraska and Maine are the only two places where the states divide the Electoral College votes.
We really dodged a bullet here. If the push had been made earlier in the...
04/19/2024 - 12:05am
LINCOLN — U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts is bankrolling a conservative ballot effort to ban abortions in the Nebraska constitution after the first trimester, or 13 weeks of pregnancy.
Ricketts, R-Neb., gave $500,000 to the effort. He was the only donor...
04/19/2024 - 12:04am
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s broadcasters are mounting an 11th-hour advertising blitz in hopes of overturning a proposed new tax on “digital ads” by Gov. Jim Pillen to finance his property tax relief plan.
The ads, which started running over the weekend on...
04/19/2024 - 12:03am
Boeing was the subject of dual Senate hearings Wednesday as Congress examined allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer, which has been pushed into crisis mode since a door-plug panel blew off a 737 Max jetliner...
04/19/2024 - 12:01am
As the Republican National Committee ramps up plans to monitor the polls for illegal voting this fall, the national party is increasingly working with a loose network of anti-fraud extremists who have been found to routinely spread election lies....
04/18/2024 - 12:07am
OMAHA — Responding to a growing demand from students, the University of Nebraska’s main medical training campus is diving into new territory: building new on-campus student housing.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center hopes to self-finance a...
04/18/2024 - 12:06am
BUTLER, Pennsylvania -- On Friday, just hours before United States Steel shareholders approved the sale of the legendary Pittsburgh-based company to Japan's Nippon Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves stood in front of a packed room of...
04/18/2024 - 12:05am
On April 22, 2024, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could radically change how cities respond to the growing problem of homelessness. It also could significantly worsen the nation’s racial justice gap.
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson began...
04/18/2024 - 12:04am
BELLEVUE — Despite not getting all the state funding hoped for this year, a cybersecurity-centric campus that proponents believe will thrust Nebraska into the forefront of national security efforts is moving forward.
Construction could start by the...
04/18/2024 - 12:03am
SPARROWS POINT, Md. (AP) — Nearly three weeks since Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed under the impact of a wayward cargo ship, crews are using the largest crane on the Eastern Seaboard to haul the wreckage to a nearby salvage yard.
The...
04/17/2024 - 12:06am
There are reportedly 54.2 million anglers in the United States, according to a 2023 study by the American Sportfishing Association.
This time of year, all over the country, fishermen and fisherwomen head out to their favorite fishing holes in search...
04/17/2024 - 12:05am
In the 1930s in Nebraska, after an extended drought, great clouds of dust picked up and blew away the very topsoil that this state – and the entire Midwest – depends on to support farms, families and this nation.
It would lead to the displacement of...
04/17/2024 - 12:04am
Before the collapse of the Afghan government in August 2021, girls’ access to education was steadily improving.
In 2019, the Ministry of Education introduced the country’s first Girls Education Policy, known as the GEP. This policy sought to improve...
04/17/2024 - 12:03am
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — In a large, empty parking lot outside Atlanta, one car slowly careened around parking spaces. From the passenger seat, driving instructor Nancy Gobran peered over large sunglasses at her student, a 30-year-old Syrian...
04/17/2024 - 12:02am
If you call 911 in rural Georgia, the nearest emergency responders might come from the local prison.
In 1963, the Georgia Department of Corrections began a program to train incarcerated people as firefighters to support not only their prisons, but...
04/17/2024 - 12:01am
PARIS (AP) — World donors pledged more than $2.1 billion in humanitarian aid for Sudan after a yearlong war that has pushed its population to the brink of famine, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday.
Macron spoke at the end of an...
04/16/2024 - 12:06am
MIAMI (AP) — Having fled economic and political chaos in Venezuela, Luisana Silva now loads carpets for a South Carolina rug company. She earns enough to pay rent, buy groceries, gas up her car — and send money home to her parents.
Reaching the...
04/16/2024 - 12:05am
Eighteen years ago, my friend and I started a business selling handmade, custom-churned ice cream. Our one-of-a-kind flavors – like red velvet cake and maple blonde brownie – have made our old-fashioned parlor a longtime favorite in Omaha.
But our...
04/16/2024 - 12:04am
WASHINGTON — As Congress gears up for negotiations ahead of the 2017 tax law’s expiration, economists and small business owners urged U.S. lawmakers Thursday to extend or make permanent the Trump-era tax cuts.
Business owners from West Virginia and...
04/16/2024 - 12:03am
OMAHA — While Nebraskans might be more accustomed to seeing the Google brand sprawled on suburban data centers, a Google subsidiary is now carving out a home in an office building in Omaha’s urban core.
Google Fiber, a new-to-market high-speed fiber...
04/16/2024 - 12:02am
Few ideas in business are as misunderstood as DEI.
While opposition to DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion – has a long history, it has picked up steam recently.
In 2023, when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, detractors claimed that the bank’s focus...
04/15/2024 - 12:06am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that U.S. defense commitment to Pacific allies was “ironclad” as he gathered Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House on Thursday in...
04/15/2024 - 12:05am
"I'm very pro-choice," Donald Trump said in 1999, when he first flirted with the idea of running for president. "Just very briefly, I'm pro-life," he announced at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2011. In 2016, campaigning for the...
04/15/2024 - 12:04am
LINCOLN — The Nebraska State Bar Foundation is the winner of this year’s Sandra Day O’Connor Award for the Advancement of Civics Education.
The award comes from the National Center for State Courts and recognizes an organization, court, program or...
04/15/2024 - 12:02am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands more firearms dealers across the United States will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores, according to a Biden administration rule that will...
04/15/2024 - 12:02am
What factors must a court consider when the National Labor Relations Board requests an order requiring an employer to rehire terminated workers before the completion of unfair labor practice proceedings?
That’s the central question that the Supreme...
04/15/2024 - 12:01am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Don Beyer's car dealerships were among the first in the U.S. to set up a website. As a representative, the Virginia Democrat leads a bipartisan group focused on promoting fusion energy. He reads books about geometry for fun.
So...