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Rules Debate, Tax Shift Appetite Among Five Things To Watch In 2024 Session Of Nebraska Legislature

Published by jason@omahadail... on Fri, 01/05/2024 - 3:00am

LINCOLN — Wednesday marked the start of the 2024 session of the Nebraska Legislature, a 60-day session that several lawmakers said they hope is less acrimonious than last year’s filibuster-fest.

Here’s some things to watch in the session, based on discussions with senators and lobbyists:

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard Is Free And Reflecting On Prison Term For Conspiring To Kill Her Abusive Mother

Published by jason@omahadail... on Fri, 01/05/2024 - 2:00am

Gypsy Rose Blanchard said she has found a way to forgive her mother — and herself. But it has been a long journey from years of abuse and the darkest parts of her life splashed across tabloids to living in prison.

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Plagiarism Charges Downed Harvard’s President. A Conservative Attack Helped To Fan The Outrage

Published by jason@omahadail... on Fri, 01/05/2024 - 1:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — American higher education has long viewed plagiarism as a cardinal sin. Accusations of academic dishonesty have ruined the careers of faculty and undergraduates alike.

The latest target is Harvard President Claudine Gay, who resigned Tuesday. In her case, the outrage came not from her academic peers but her political foes, led by conservatives who put her career under intense scrutiny.

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Judge: 800-Year-Old English Charter Doesn’t Protect Tree Thief

Published by josie@omahadail... on Fri, 12/29/2023 - 5:00am

An important, centuries-old English charter that established commoners’ rights to use public lands cannot be cited to justify a Rolfe man’s contemporary theft of trees from a wildlife management area, a judge has ruled.

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Body Cameras Were Sold as a Tool of Police Reform. Ten Years Later, Most of the Footage Is Kept From Public View.

Published by josie@omahadail... on Fri, 12/22/2023 - 5:00am

It’s been a decade since police departments across the U.S. began outfitting officers with body cameras. But today, the footage from fatal police encounters more often than not remains hidden from the public, a ProPublica survey found. In fact, of the 79 police killings recorded by body cameras in June 2022, footage of 46 has not been released to the public.
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In the last 10 years, taxpayers have spent millions to outfit police officers across the country with body-worn cameras in what was sold as a new era of transparency and accountability. But a survey by ProPublica shows that when civilians die at the hands of police, the public usually never sees the footage.

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Boston Mayor Apologizes To Black Men Wrongly Accused In 1989 Murder That Shone Spotlight On Racism

Published by josie@omahadail... on Fri, 12/22/2023 - 5:00am

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued a formal apology Wednesday to two Black men who were wrongly accused in a 1989 murder of a white woman, a case that coarsened divisions in a city long split along racial lines and renewed suspicion and anger directed at the police department by the city's Black community.

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After 50 Years Of Global Effort To Abolish Torture, Much Work Remains

Published by josie@omahadail... on Fri, 12/22/2023 - 5:00am

A group of Spanish people have filed a lawsuit seeking compensation for torture they and others experienced under the Franco regime from 1939 to 1975. David Zorrakino/Europa Press via Getty Images

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Is The Death Penalty Dying? Sentences, Executions Remain Low

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 12/15/2023 - 5:00am

The number of states imposing or performing executions in 2023 was at a 20-year low, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a group that complies such statistics.

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Epic Wins Its Antitrust Lawsuit Against The Play Store. What Does This Verdict Mean For Google?

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 12/15/2023 - 4:00am

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google lost an antitrust lawsuit over barriers to its Android app store, as a federal court jury has decided that the company's payments system was anticompetitive and damaged smartphone consumers and software developers.

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The Judiciary Has Policed Itself For Decades. It Doesn’t Work.

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 12/15/2023 - 3:00am

For decades, judges have relied on a select group to make sure the judiciary adheres to the highest ethical standards: themselves.

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Rules Debate, Tax Shift Appetite Among Five Things To Watch In 2024 Session Of Nebraska Legislature

Gypsy Rose Blanchard Is Free And Reflecting On Prison Term For Conspiring To Kill Her Abusive Mother

Plagiarism Charges Downed Harvard’s President. A Conservative Attack Helped To Fan The Outrage

Judge: 800-Year-Old English Charter Doesn’t Protect Tree Thief

Body Cameras Were Sold as a Tool of Police Reform. Ten Years Later, Most of the Footage Is Kept From Public View.

Boston Mayor Apologizes To Black Men Wrongly Accused In 1989 Murder That Shone Spotlight On Racism

After 50 Years Of Global Effort To Abolish Torture, Much Work Remains

Is The Death Penalty Dying? Sentences, Executions Remain Low

Epic Wins Its Antitrust Lawsuit Against The Play Store. What Does This Verdict Mean For Google?

The Judiciary Has Policed Itself For Decades. It Doesn’t Work.

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