Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:22am
LINCOLN — Lawmakers advanced a proposal Monday designed to expand syphilis blood testing for expectant mothers to stem a rising tide of maternal and congenital syphilis.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:19am
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has issued a nationwide order preventing the National Institutes of Health from changing how much the agency pays universities and medical schools for “indirect costs” that come along with research grants.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:15am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight government watchdogs have sued over their mass firing that removed oversight of President Donald Trump's new administration.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington asks a judge to declare the firings unlawful and restore the inspectors general to their positions at the agencies.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:13am
LINCOLN — Lawmakers advanced a proposal Monday designed to help new mothers and newborns shortly after birth through postpartum at-home nurse visitations.
Legislative Bill 22, from State Sen. George Dungan of Lincoln, expands on his Nebraska Prenatal Plus Program enacted in 2024, which provides multiple supports for at-risk, low-income families for “healthy moms and healthy babies.”
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.”