President Joe Biden listens as Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at White House in Washington, June 23, 2021. (AP)
President Joe Biden is nominating eight new leaders for U.S. attorney positions across the country, including in the office overseeing the prosecutions of hundreds of defendants charged in the Jan. 6...
Several states scaled back their reporting of COVID-19 statistics this month just as cases across the country started to skyrocket, depriving the public of real-time information on outbreaks, cases,...
The Jackson Women’s Health Organization clinic, more commonly known as “The Pink House,” is shrouded with a black tarp so that its clients may enter in privacy in Jackson, Miss., May 19, 2021. (AP)
The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn its landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide and let states decide whether to regulate abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb, the...
President Joe Biden speaks about the economy and his infrastructure agenda in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington, July 19, 2021. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 54% of Americans judge the economy to be in poor shape. That’s compared with 45% who say conditions are good. (AP)
President Joe Biden is banking on the idea of making life more affordable for middle-class families — and that’s where the recent bout of inflation poses both a political and an economic risk.
The U....
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh stands before a ceremonial swearing-in in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Oct. 8, 2018. (AP)
Senate Democrats are raising new concerns about the thoroughness of the FBI’s background investigation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after the FBI revealed that it had received thousands...
Legal News
07/23/2021 - 5:00am
Fraser Stryker’s Smilin’ Steve Hogan came away with an upset victory against Marvelous Mallory Hughes of Berry Law in the second round of the Omaha Bar Association’s “Battle of the Guest BARtenders.”
A rowdy and raucous crowd packed into a Berry Law...
Business News
07/20/2021 - 12:00am
New research from UNO’s College of Business Administration shows that unemployment numbers alone fail to provide a full picture of Omaha’s economic recovery from the pandemic.
The report on economic conditions and projections for the Omaha-Council...
In Memoriam
05/13/2021 - 4:53pm
Steven E. Achelophl
July 15, 1950 — April 17, 2021
Omaha attorney and former head of the Nebraska Democratic Party Steven Achelpohl died last month due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 70 years old.
Born in Wichita, Kansas in 1950,...
Sponsored Features
06/18/2020 - 5:00am
The COVID-19 pandemic has virtually flipped the business marketplace on its head, making experience all the more important for those looking to buy or sell a small business.
David Bandars, owner of RPR Business Associates Inc., is at the ready to...
