Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/23/2024 - 7:00am
As U.S. parents struggled to find baby formula during a nationwide shortage in May of 2022, the Biden administration frantically sought ways to restock empty store shelves. Among the options was lifting steep tariffs on formula imported from other countries.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/23/2024 - 6:00am
The Nebraska Commission of Industrial Relations, a state agency charged with settling disputes between public employees and their government employers, recently made a high-profile decision regarding remote work assignments for state employees that may affect all Nebraskans.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/23/2024 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska taxpayers are likely to see a small bump in property tax relief on their tax statements for next year, but much less relief than Gov. Jim Pillen requested.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/23/2024 - 3:00am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hundreds of photos of a slain investigative journalist's home and neighborhood were found on the cellphone and computer of a local Democratic politician accused of “lying in wait” and killing the reporter, who had written several articles critical of the official, a Nevada jury was told Monday.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/23/2024 - 2:00am
A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated copies of copyrighted books.
While similar lawsuits have piled up for more than a year against competitor OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, this is the first from writers to target Anthropic and its Claude chatbot.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/23/2024 - 1:00am
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — George Santos, who spun lies about his life into an 11-month stint in Congress, pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in a case that led to his expulsion from office. He blamed his ambition for clouding his judgment and said he was “flooded with deep regret.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/16/2024 - 8:00am
A Mesa County jury found Tina Peters guilty Monday on seven of 10 criminal charges related to a security breach that occurred in the spring of 2021 in the elections office she oversaw as the Mesa County clerk and recorder.
The jury returned the verdict just hours after closing arguments.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/16/2024 - 7:00am
TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of 15 states, including Nebraska, in an attempt to stop President Joe Biden from expanding health care access to DACA recipients by making them eligible for participation in the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/16/2024 - 6:00am
It’s not surprising but it is disappointing. Nebraska has joined 14 other states to file a lawsuit to block President Biden’s plan to extend the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, to the 600,000 DACA residents currently living in America.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/16/2024 - 5:00am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the University of California, Los Angeles, cannot allow pro-Palestinian protesters to block Jewish students from accessing classes and other parts of campus.
The preliminary injunction marks the first time a U.S. judge has ruled against a university over the demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses earlier this year.