Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/11/2024 - 5:00am
Nikki Haley, whose unlikely trajectory from polling in single digits to becoming Donald Trump’s last remaining rival made history for women in Republican politics, is suspending her presidential campaign.
Haley announced her decision during a speech in Charleston, S.C., Wednesday morning, after a series of defeats on Super Tuesday all but closed off her path to the nomination.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/08/2024 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — Attorneys challenging and defending Nebraska’s new law combining tighter restrictions on abortion and gender-affirming care for minors made their case Tuesday to the state’s high court.
The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments in Planned Parenthood’s appeal of a Lancaster County District Court ruling that it was legal for the Legislature to fold a more restrictive abortion measure into Legislative Bill 574, whose original purpose was to limit gender-affirming care. Planned Parenthood is being represented by attorneys for the ACLU.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/08/2024 - 5:00am
Federal authorities unveiled a third superseding indictment targeting Sen. Bob Menendez that adds obstruction of justice and conspiracy to commit the same to the growing list of criminal charges the embattled Democrat faces.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/06/2024 - 5:00am
ALBION, Pa. (AP) — “You are the Lighthouse in someone’s storm,” reads the message above a mural of a sailboat bobbing on ocean waves under a cloud-studded azure sky. It’s an unexpected slogan for a prison wall.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/05/2024 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — One service provider billed the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services for 32 hours of work she supposedly performed in a 24-hour day.
In another situation, the agency reportedly authorized a provider of “personal assistance services” to be paid for 118 hours of service in a typical 40-hour work week.
Yet another provider billed DHHS for client care allegedly provided on nine days when Facebook postings showed her to be traveling during that time to Indianapolis, Dallas and Phoenix.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — A proposal to use nitrogen gas to carry out executions in Nebraska brought out a parade of opponents to capital punishment on Wednesday.
Opponents, ranging from the ACLU of Nebraska to the Nebraska Nurses Association, called using suffocation via nitrogen gas “untested, dangerous and explicitly inhumane” during a public hearing before the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON — U.S. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi blocked a bill from passing Wednesday that would have preserved access to in vitro fertilization nationwide, stalling a push by Democrats following a landmark Alabama state Supreme Court decision.
The court ruled earlier this month that frozen embryos counted as children under state law and that parents could collect damages for their destruction, putting IVF programs in the state on hold.