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FireAid Delivered Loads Of Surprises. Here Are Some Of The Best Moments From The Musical Benefit

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 5:00am

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The FireAid benefit was fueled by some of music’s best performers to raise money for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief efforts.

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Crews Begin Removing Wreckage From Last Week's Deadly Midair Collision From The Potomac River

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 4:00am

Rescue and salvage crews with cranes work near the wreckage of an American Airlines jet in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Arlington, Va.
(Jose Luis Magana / AP Photo)

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Crews began removing wreckage from the Potomac River on Monday, five days after 67 people were killed in a midair collision over Washington, D.C., between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter. The crash was the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001.

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Nonprofits That Provide Shelter For Homeless People, Disaster Recovery Help, And Food For Low-Income Americans Rely Heavily On Federal Funding – They Would Be Reeling If Trump Froze That Money

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 2:00am

On Jan. 27, 2025, the Trump administration ordered a freeze on federal grants and contracts covering a wide array of aid programs to take effect at 5 p.m. the following day. This freeze was partially prevented when a judge responded to a lawsuit filed by the National Council of Nonprofits and other organizations. The flow of funds on grants that had already been awarded was at least temporarily protected by the judge’s action.

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Kid Mental Health Is a Bipartisan Issue. Meet 4 Legislators Making a Difference

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 01/29/2025 - 6:00am

From abortion to taxes to private school choice, many issues divide along party lines. But as youth suicide, self-harm and related challenges remain at crisis levels, mental health can and must remain a bipartisan issue.

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After Shaky Few Years, Omaha Community Playhouse Going Strong In Celebratory 100th Season

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 01/29/2025 - 5:00am

A 2024 performance of “A Christmas Carol” by the Omaha Community Playhouse. The Playhouse’s Nebraska Theatre Caravan dropped its national tour of “A Christmas Carol” in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Playhouse still stages the show here in Omaha every holiday season.
(Courtesy of Omaha Community Playhouse)

Tony Award-winning actor Norbert Leo Butz remembers the start of his journey to Broadway. Fresh out of college in the early ‘90s, he set out with the Nebraska Theatre Caravan. The decades-long touring program run by the Omaha Community Playhouse gave many young actors their professional start.

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‘The Geezer Game’ – A Nearly 50-Year-Old Pickup Basketball Game – Reveals Its Secrets To Longevity

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 01/29/2025 - 4:00am

Donald Trump’s polarizing political rise in the past decade has driven many groups – and some families – apart.

But a long-running pickup basketball game that I play in, made up of people with various political leanings, including Trump supporters, remains intact. I explored the group’s dynamics in my 2020 memoir. In March 2025, we will celebrate its 50th anniversary.

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Auschwitz Memorial Holds Observances On The 80th Anniversary Of The Death Camp's Liberation

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Survivors and relatives attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025.
(Czarek Sokolowski / AP Photo)

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend.

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He Fought In A Separatist Rebel Group That Burned Schools. Now He's A Teacher Emphasizing Peace

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 01/29/2025 - 1:00am

Ateasong Belts Tajoah shows a bullet scar on his neck during an interview with The Associated Press in Dschang, Cameroon, Friday, Dec. 1, 2024.
(Robert Bociaga / AP Photo)

DSCHANG, Cameroon (AP) — In a classroom nestled in Cameroon’s lush highlands, a former rebel fighter teaches logic and philosophy. His students know him as calm and thoughtful, but his past tells a more turbulent story.

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Hundreds Of Private Burial Sites Dot Nebraska. They Rely On Guardian Angels To Keep Blight At Bay.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 01/22/2025 - 7:00am

Ernest Kobs stands next to the state historical marker for Kobs Pioneer Cemetery in Glacier Creek Preserve south of Bennington. Kobs’ great-grandparents bought a farm in the area in the 1870s and established the family cemetery.
(Rebecca S. Gratz / Flatwater Free Press)

Ernest Kobs knows his family history.

He knows his great-grandparents both emigrated from Germany, married in 1870 and, in 1874, bought and then worked a farm in northwest Douglas County. He knows they’re both buried on the land, but pinpointing exactly where is a bit fuzzy.

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The Great Connector: Why Data Literacy Is Vital To Students’ Future Success

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 01/22/2025 - 6:00am

You can hardly make it through one quick scan of the news or scroll through social media without finding a new discussion about artificial intelligence (AI). The same holds true within education discourse.

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Non-Profit News

FireAid Delivered Loads Of Surprises. Here Are Some Of The Best Moments From The Musical Benefit

Crews Begin Removing Wreckage From Last Week's Deadly Midair Collision From The Potomac River

Nonprofits That Provide Shelter For Homeless People, Disaster Recovery Help, And Food For Low-Income Americans Rely Heavily On Federal Funding – They Would Be Reeling If Trump Froze That Money

Kid Mental Health Is a Bipartisan Issue. Meet 4 Legislators Making a Difference

After Shaky Few Years, Omaha Community Playhouse Going Strong In Celebratory 100th Season

‘The Geezer Game’ – A Nearly 50-Year-Old Pickup Basketball Game – Reveals Its Secrets To Longevity

Auschwitz Memorial Holds Observances On The 80th Anniversary Of The Death Camp's Liberation

He Fought In A Separatist Rebel Group That Burned Schools. Now He's A Teacher Emphasizing Peace

Hundreds Of Private Burial Sites Dot Nebraska. They Rely On Guardian Angels To Keep Blight At Bay.

The Great Connector: Why Data Literacy Is Vital To Students’ Future Success

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