Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/07/2025 - 12:00am
As the recent stench of war grew stronger, I noticed once again how much we love our machines, be they bunker-busting or surgical, life-saving or high-earning, analog, digital or artificially intelligent. But what happens when our doodads and thingamajigs act human … you know … err?
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/07/2025 - 12:00am
One of President Donald Trump’s first executive orders relating to immigration and immigrants is a direct attack on the long-standing constitutional principle of birthright citizenship. That’s the declaration in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen, regardless of their parents’ nationalities or immigration status.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/07/2025 - 12:00am
States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up
by Jennifer Berry Hawes
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Upheaval at the nation’s top disaster agency is raising anxiety among state and local emergency managers — and leaving major questions about the whereabouts of billions of federal dollars it pays out to them.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/07/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has put on hold $6.8 billion in federal funds for K-12 schools, according to an Education Department notice obtained by States Newsroom.
The agency informed states on Monday that it would be withholding funding for several programs, including before- and after-school programs, migrant education and English-language learning, among other initiatives.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/07/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — As the federal “one big beautiful bill” continues to move through Congress, one provision related to AI that Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and 16 other Republican governors opposed has been removed, at least for now.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/30/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — The Douglas County Board appears poised to appoint a retired chief deputy of the County Treasurer’s Office to fill the top spot in the office left open earlier this month after John Ewing Jr. was elected mayor of Omaha.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/23/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — Federal officials announced criminal charges this week against five people — four of them protesters — for encounters with immigration agents during the June 10 worksite enforcement raid at Omaha’s Glenn Valley Foods.