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04/25/2024 - 12:06am
WASHINGTON — A majority of U.S Supreme Court justices Monday seemed inclined to side with an Oregon town’s law that bans homeless people from sleeping outdoors, in a case that could have broad implications for local ordinances related to...
04/25/2024 - 12:04am
In recent weeks, the real estate industry has been navigating through the choppy waters stirred up by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) settlement. This landmark agreement, promising to reshape the landscape of real estate commissions, has...
04/25/2024 - 12:03am
LINCOLN — Mouse droppings led to a “eureka moment” for Dr. Megan Sandel, who at the time was a pediatric resident in Boston.
Sandel, speaking Wednesday in Nebraska, back then had been caring for a child who was admitted to the intensive care unit...
04/25/2024 - 12:02am
LINCOLN — A $62 million federal grant awarded Monday to a Nebraska nonprofit is expected to launch a new era of solar energy use across the state, making it more accessible and affordable to a wider audience.
The “Solar for All” grant, on a...
04/24/2024 - 12:06am
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Their childhood memories are still vivid: warnings against drinking or cooking with tap water, enduring long lines for cases of water, washing from buckets filled with heated, bottled water. And for some, stomach aches, skin...
04/24/2024 - 12:05am
As the Nebraska Legislature put another session in the books last week, my thoughts went to U.S. Sen. George Norris of Nebraska, the fiercely independent progressive Republican and progenitor of the state’s Unicameral. Norris was one of eight...
04/24/2024 - 12:04am
LINCOLN — We’ll soon know whether some documents buried inside a concrete monument erected by poet/author John Neihardt 100 years ago survived three floods and decades of harsh winters on the plains of northwest South Dakota.
On April 27, the...
04/24/2024 - 12:03am
LINCOLN — Roughly 7,000 Nebraskans today can directly benefit from a newly passed state law that eliminates a two-year waiting period and immediately restores voting rights to felons upon completion of their sentence, advocates of the law said...
04/23/2024 - 12:07am
DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers’ ambitious drive to expand its reach to nonunion factories across the South and elsewhere faces a key test Friday night, when workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will finish voting on...
04/23/2024 - 12:06am
When we consider how leaders get to the top, we might think of somebody like Jordan Belfort, the millionaire stock broker portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Wolf of Wall Street. And humility is probably not the word that comes to mind.
However,...
04/23/2024 - 12:05am
LINCOLN — It was hard for Mark Gentert to admit, but the COVID-19 pandemic was probably good, in a “twisted way,” for sales at his small-town meat locker outside of Hastings.
“The grocery stores were running out of meat,” Gentert said. “It started...
04/23/2024 - 12:04am
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — BNSF Railway attorneys are expected to argue before jurors Friday that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an asbestos-contaminated Montana town, one of the deadliest...
04/23/2024 - 12:04am
LONDON (AP) — Olympic organizers unveiled their plans Friday to use artificial intelligence in sports, joining the global rush to capitalize on the rapidly advancing technology.
The International Olympic Committee outlined its agenda for taking...
04/22/2024 - 12:07am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Joe Biden suggested to cheering, unionized steelworkers on Wednesday that his administration would thwart the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company, and he called for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel,...
04/22/2024 - 12:06am
Paying "hush money" to keep an extramarital affair quiet is not a crime. And falsifying business records to cover it up is not a felony. What makes it one - or 34, the number of felony counts Trump has been charged with -- is an "intent to defraud"...
04/22/2024 - 12:05am
Like many Americans, Ron Theusch is getting more worried about climate change.
A resident of Alden, Minnesota, Theusch has noticed increasingly dry and mild winters punctuated by short periods of severe cold — symptoms of a warming planet.
As he...
04/22/2024 - 12:04am
WASHINGTON — U.S. House members tasked with addressing what happens to loads of user data collected by big tech companies see a “long overdue” opportunity for a national privacy standard, particularly for children and teens.
Lawmakers on a subpanel...
04/22/2024 - 12:03am
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans unveiled three bills Wednesday that would provide $95 billion overall in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, instead of voting on a similar bipartisan Senate-approved package that’s been waiting around for...
04/19/2024 - 12:07am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are set for the first time to pass a bill that would block the public from voting on a ballot measure initiated by citizens of the state, setting up what could be a long battle over whether to fund private...
04/19/2024 - 12:06am
There is no place like Nebraska. Well, Maine is like Nebraska. But just Nebraska and Maine are the only two places where the states divide the Electoral College votes.
We really dodged a bullet here. If the push had been made earlier in the...
04/19/2024 - 12:05am
LINCOLN — U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts is bankrolling a conservative ballot effort to ban abortions in the Nebraska constitution after the first trimester, or 13 weeks of pregnancy.
Ricketts, R-Neb., gave $500,000 to the effort. He was the only donor...
04/19/2024 - 12:04am
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s broadcasters are mounting an 11th-hour advertising blitz in hopes of overturning a proposed new tax on “digital ads” by Gov. Jim Pillen to finance his property tax relief plan.
The ads, which started running over the weekend on...
04/19/2024 - 12:03am
Boeing was the subject of dual Senate hearings Wednesday as Congress examined allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer, which has been pushed into crisis mode since a door-plug panel blew off a 737 Max jetliner...
04/19/2024 - 12:01am
As the Republican National Committee ramps up plans to monitor the polls for illegal voting this fall, the national party is increasingly working with a loose network of anti-fraud extremists who have been found to routinely spread election lies....