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Costco Becomes Biggest Company Yet To Demand Refund Of Trump Tariffs

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/09/2025 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Costco is joining other companies that aren't waiting to see whether the Supreme Court strikes down President Donald Trump's most sweeping import taxes. They're going to court to demand refunds on the tariffs they've paid.

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Netflix To Acquire Warner Bros. Studio And Streaming Business For $72 Billion

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/09/2025 - 12:00am

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from "One Battle After Another."
(Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, the legacy Hollywood giant behind “Harry Potter” and “Friends,” to buy its studio and streaming business for $72 billion.

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State Hunts Way Forward After Nebraska Got ‘Butts Kicked’ By Tyson Plant Closure

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/02/2025 - 12:00am

Cattle grazing on the Fass Farms property just outside the city limits of Syracuse, Nebraska. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen said his team is “working our tails off” to “make lemonade” out of the sour announcement that the Lexington Tyson Foods plant is to close in January.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Nebraska “got our butts kicked” by the Tyson Foods decision to close a Lexington beef plant employing about 3,200 people, Gov. Jim Pillen said Monday. But he sees a possible Hail Mary pass to resurrect the industrial property.

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Weakening The IDEA Threatens Millions Of Disabled Americans Like Me

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/02/2025 - 12:00am

Weakening the IDEA Threatens Millions of Disabled Americans Like Me

Ives-Rublee: Federal law made it possible for disabled students like me to go to school. Those opportunities may vanish for the next generation.

By Mia Ives-Rublee

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Sellers In Other Countries Struggle To Maintain US Customers As Holiday Shopping Season Starts

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/02/2025 - 12:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — At Fleece & Harmony, a woolen mill and yarn shop in bucolic Belfast, Prince Edward Island, in Canada, owner Kim Doherty used to be able to send yarn skeins to U.S. customers across the border with little fanfare.

The yarn orders usually met an import tax exemption for packages valued at under $800, meaning it could be imported tariff-free and avoid the customs process.

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Treating Love For Work Like A Virtue Can Backfire On Employees And Teams

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/02/2025 - 12:00am

In this image released on Thursday, March 19, 2015, 57 dogs rescued by Humane Society International and Change for Animals Foundation from a dog meat farm in Hongseong, South Korea, arrive in San Francisco.
(Sammy Dallal / AP Images for Humane Society International)

It’s popular advice for new graduates: “Find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Love for one’s work, Americans are often told, is the surest route to success.

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Omahans Explore ‘Brain Drain,’ Prepare For Next 20 Years

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/02/2025 - 12:00am

OMAHA — The City of Omaha is hosting a free interactive lecture and panel discussion Dec. 2 (today!) to explore why people and workers are leaving Nebraska’s most populated city for opportunities elsewhere and to help find solutions to “brain drain.”

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BP Finds Leak In Major Pacific Northwest Pipeline, Resumes Delivering Fuel To Seattle-Tacoma Airport

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/02/2025 - 12:00am

SEATTLE (AP) — Oil company BP has found the source of a leak in a major Pacific Northwest pipeline system, allowing it to restart the flow of jet fuel to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Tuesday and help avoid any major disruptions to Thanksgiving travel.

Separately, Washington state regulators announced they were fining the company $3.8 million for a 2023 spill from the same pipeline system nearby.

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Trump Allows More Foreign Ag Workers, Eases Off ICE Raids On Farms

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/25/2025 - 12:00am

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins with Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Agriculture in Washington, Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Photo)

In a tacit admission that U.S. food production requires foreign labor, the Trump administration is making it easier for farmers to employ guest workers from other countries.

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France Will Investigate Musk’s Grok Chatbot After Holocaust Denial Claims

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/25/2025 - 12:00am

PARIS (AP) — France’s government is taking action against billionaire Elon Musk 's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz, officials said.