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.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/25/2025 - 12:00am
The world’s most valuable publicly listed company, US microchip maker Nvidia, has reported record $US57 billion revenue in the third quarter of 2025, beating Wall Street estimates. The chipmaker said revenue will rise again to $US65 billion in the last part of the year.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/25/2025 - 12:00am
I have been keeping chickens off and on for over 10 years now. In fact, in 2016 I made my very first Instagram post (@jerkofalltradeshebert), showing my one and only attempt at delving into meat birds after raising laying hens for a year or two. For the record, I would raise chickens for meat again but put a lot more thought into the planning. Now, I could have made an economic case for the meat birds.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/25/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — At least 25 bills have been introduced this Congress to further limit lawmakers and their family members from trading individual stocks, and representatives across the aisle renewed pressure Wednesday on U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson to take up the issue.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/25/2025 - 12:00am
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.
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.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/25/2025 - 12:00am
“We’re Broken”: As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Are Leaving in Droves for ICE
After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a new challenge: Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/18/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — State Sen. John Cavanaugh picked up two more endorsements from local unions in his bid to be the Democratic nominee in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.
The two endorsements came from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the Nebraska State Legislative Board and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. This brings Cavanaugh’s union endorsements to six.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/18/2025 - 12:00am
I started writing what would become my first novel when I was a junior in high school way back in 2004. I continued to tinker and add to it over the next ten years. Through college, landing my first big boy job, and getting married it would always stay in the periphery, until I found a reasonable conclusion. But what then? It was 2015, I had no experience with self-publishing and didn’t know what to do with it once I did get it published.