Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 02/10/2025 - 2:00am
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico (AP) — A line of Mexican National Guard and Army trucks rumbled along the border separating Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, among the first of 10,000 troops Mexico has sent to its northern frontier following tariff threats by President Donald Trump.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 02/03/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — President Donald Trump’s call to possibly eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency has Nebraska officials waiting and worrying, with two former disaster response officials saying that doing away with FEMA would leave a void that would prove difficult to fill.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 02/03/2025 - 6:00am
Death and taxes are two assurances that will face everyone in this life, though some people will go to great lengths to avoid both. Likely everything else should have some degree of optionality – no one but advertisers enjoy billboards planted like forests along the highway (or anywhere), interjecting some inane new product into your field of view. An exception to the rule is when the advertisement is traded. You watch a clip before a YouTube video and thus don't have to pay money to view the following content.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 02/03/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law, giving federal authorities broader power to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally who have been accused of crimes. He also announced at the ceremony that his administration planned to send the “worst criminal aliens” to a detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 02/03/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — In his first annual address to lawmakers Tuesday, Nebraska’s new Supreme Court chief justice called for more funding for court areas such as language interpreters, cybersecurity, veterans’ courts and an “archaic” case document filing and management system.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 02/03/2025 - 3:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two senate hearings as he tries to make the case to become President Donald Trump’s health secretary.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 01/27/2025 - 5:00am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Thursday the kingdom wants to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years, comments that came after President Donald Trump earlier put a price tag on returning to the kingdom as his first foreign trip.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 01/27/2025 - 3:00am
How often do you think about the Roman empire? Elon Musk claims to think about it every day. Given his frequent references to Roman antiquity, I think we can take him at his word.
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — Several minutes into President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech on Monday, as he began talking about immigration, Yvena Jean François dug through a desk drawer for a notebook and pen.