Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/28/2025 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — The legislative committee mulling how to help implement Nebraska’s voter-led medical cannabis laws awaits an amendment before lawmakers vote on whether to advance the bill.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/28/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration can stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. but has to allow in people who were conditionally accepted before the president suspended the nation’s refugee admissions system, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The order narrowed a ruling from a federal judge in Seattle who found the program should be restarted.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/21/2025 - 10:01am
President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act on March 15, 2025, and deported about 200 Venezuelan immigrants his administration alleged have ties to a Venezuelan gang. U.S. District Court Judge James Bloasberg verbally issued an order that same day telling the government that the planes carrying the deportees must return to the United States.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/21/2025 - 9:59am
LINCOLN — A legal battle has erupted over whether a felony theft charge against the former director of History Nebraska, Trevor Jones, should finally be dismissed.
The issue is whether the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office failed to promptly file an appeal over the dismissal of a theft by deception charge that had been filed against Jones.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN – After public pressure from Gov. Jim Pillen, Nebraska lawmakers advanced to the full Legislature a winner-take-all bill and a separate proposed constitutional amendment to let voters alter how the state awards Electoral College votes for president.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 6:00am
I was talking to someone the other day about a camping trip I go on each year, and how I camp on “BLM," land. They kind of scowled and pulled back, then went, "What does the land have to do with "Black Lives Matter?”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A union for U.S. Agency for International Development contractors asked a federal judge Tuesday to intervene in any destruction of classified documents after an email ordered staffers to help burn and shred agency records.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators looking into the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people recommended a ban on some helicopter flights Tuesday, saying the current setup “poses an intolerable risk.”