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Trump Administration Tells States It’s Freezing $6.8 Billion For K-12 School Programs

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.

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Nebraska’s Pillen Among 17 Republican Governors To Oppose Congressional AI Moratorium

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/07/2025 - 12:00am

Gov. Jim Pillen (right) presents a signed version of Legislative Bill 383 to State Sen. Brian Hardin of Gering, a bill that included a provision from Hardin at Pillen’s request to outlaw child sexual abuse material generated with artifical intelligence, May 30, 2025.
(Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

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.

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Looking For Moral Being Attachments

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?

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Trump’s Attack On Long-Standing Principle Of Birthright Citizenship Stands, As Supreme Court Sidesteps Constitutional Issue − For Now

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/07/2025 - 12:00am

Shown is a copy of a photograph taken in the 1800s of slave Dred Scott that was found in the historic courthouse located in Thebes, Ill. Scott, the slave whose legal fight for freedom became a landmark U.S. court ruling, is said to have done time in the dungeons below the old courthouse.
(The Southeast Missourian / AP Photo)

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.

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States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/07/2025 - 12:00am

Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator W. Craig Fugate talks on the telephone Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, in Paterson, New Jersey.
(Mel Evans / AP Photo)

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.

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Women Have Long Fought To Protect The Florida Everglades, The Site Of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/07/2025 - 12:00am

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, grand old dame of the Everglades, shown at her 102nd birthday in 1992, died in Miami, Fla., Thursday, May 14, 1998, at the age of 108. In 1947, she helped lead the successful push to have nearly 1.6 million acres designated as Everglades National Park.
(Lynne Sladky / AP Photo)

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Federal Funding Threats Are Pressuring Nebraska Colleges To Ax Scholarship Preferences. Some Donors Are Pulling Their Money.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/30/2025 - 12:00am

Metropolitan Community College officials eliminated scholarship requirements giving preference to specific student groups in the wake of a U.S. Department of Education letter threatening to pull federal funding if colleges didn’t end practices deemed discriminatory. Losing federal funding would be devastating for MCC and the region, an official said.
(Abiola Kosoko / Flatwater Free Press)

Bob Benzel had quite a few people on his mind in 2019.

The students who the former Ralston High School art teacher watched drop out after becoming pregnant.

His mother, who, in her late 30s, earned her GED and associate’s degree while raising four kids by herself.

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Douglas County Board Hints At Treasurer Replacement For John Ewing Jr.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/30/2025 - 12:00am

Roger Garcia, Douglas County Board chair.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

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.

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A New Trump Plan Gives DHS And The White House Greater Influence In The Fight Against Organized Crime

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/30/2025 - 12:00am

A New Trump Plan Gives DHS and the White House Greater Influence in the Fight Against Organized Crime

by Tim Golden

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Court Records Describe Omaha Immigration Raid, K-9 Unit Meets Hiding Worker, ‘Agitated’ Protester

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/23/2025 - 12:00am

Immigration agents converge at Glenn Valley Foods on June 10, 2025 for an immigration raid.
(Courtesy of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

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.

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Trump Administration Tells States It’s Freezing $6.8 Billion For K-12 School Programs

Nebraska’s Pillen Among 17 Republican Governors To Oppose Congressional AI Moratorium

Looking For Moral Being Attachments

Trump’s Attack On Long-Standing Principle Of Birthright Citizenship Stands, As Supreme Court Sidesteps Constitutional Issue − For Now

States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up

States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up

Women Have Long Fought To Protect The Florida Everglades, The Site Of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Federal Funding Threats Are Pressuring Nebraska Colleges To Ax Scholarship Preferences. Some Donors Are Pulling Their Money.

Douglas County Board Hints At Treasurer Replacement For John Ewing Jr.

A New Trump Plan Gives DHS And The White House Greater Influence In The Fight Against Organized Crime

A New Trump Plan Gives DHS and the White House Greater Influence in the Fight Against Organized Crime

Court Records Describe Omaha Immigration Raid, K-9 Unit Meets Hiding Worker, ‘Agitated’ Protester

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