Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — Heather Nelson fell asleep anxious, troubled by a mother’s emotions broadcast on the evening news — but more so that she’d missed a deadline to support a related bill before Nebraska lawmakers.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 6:00am
President Donald Trump held true to campaign promises to overhaul the U.S. immigration system by signing 10 executive orders focused on immigration on his inauguration day. The sweeping nature of these orders has rocked immigrant communities across the country.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 5:00am
For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work for regular Americans, including the New Deal and the Great Society reforms.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 4:00am
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was exploring whether he can move forward with El Salvador’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals in the “most severe cases" even as he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both say it raises clear legal issues.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 3:00am
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report, lawyers for his family said Wednesday.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 2:00am
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. to someone in the country illegally, calling citizenship a “most precious right.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 1:00am
LINCOLN — He isn’t yet responding to requests to talk to Nebraska media. But others are talking a lot about former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Luke Farritor’s reported role in Elon Musk’s effort to reduce federal government spending.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — State lawmakers, Gov. Jim Pillen and the president of the University of Nebraska were among those Tuesday seeking to understand the state-level impacts of a federal pause and review of certain financial assistance programs by the Trump administration.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week — an unprecedented move to shrink the U.S. government at breakneck speed.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on whether a group of gun owners needs to run afoul of Lincoln weapons ordinances and an executive order by Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird before suing the city for enacting them.