Tuesday, September 9, 2025

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‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Projected To Cost Nebraska Over $216 Million In Tax Revenue

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/08/2025 - 12:00am

LINCOLN — A report from Nebraska’s Department of Revenue projects that the federal budget reconciliation bill will cost state government more than $216 million over the next two years.

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Trump Moves Space Command From Colorado To Alabama, Capping Yearslong Fight

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/08/2025 - 12:00am

A solider wears a U.S. Space Force uniform during a ceremony for U.S. Air Force airmen transitioning to U.S. Space Force guardian designations at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., Feb. 12, 2021.
(Noah Berger / AP Photo)

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the U.S. Space Command will permanently relocate to Huntsville, Alabama, vacating its temporary headquarters in Colorado.

The move reverts back to Trump’s plans during his first administration to locate the combatant command in Alabama to oversee Space Force, the military branch he created in 2019.

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Rubio Says US And Mexico Will Strengthen Security Collaboration

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and the United States on Wednesday agreed during U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to keep collaborating on cross-border security, including fighting the trafficking of drugs, guns and fuel, but made clear it would be done from their respective sides of the border, respecting each other's sovereignty at a time of heightened concerns over U.S. intervention in the region.

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Trump Says US Would Be On 'Brink Of Economic Catastrophe' Unless Justices Rule His Tariffs Are Legal

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/08/2025 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is seeking a swift and definitive decision on tariffs from the Supreme Court that he helped shape, saying the country would be on “the brink of economic catastrophe” without the import taxes he has imposed on U.S. rivals and allies alike.

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CDC Director Susan Monarez Is Fired And Other Agency Leaders Resign

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/01/2025 - 12:00am

Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump's nominee to be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, arrives to testify before the Senate HELP Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
(J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)

NEW YORK (AP) — The director of the nation's top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have resigned.

Susan Monarez isn't “aligned with” President Donald Trump's agenda and refused to resign, so the White House terminated her, spokesman Kush Desai said Wednesday night.

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Nebraska Lawmakers Seek Legislative Hearing Into Nebraska-ICE Detention Center Plans

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/01/2025 - 12:00am

State Sens. from left: John Cavanaugh of Omaha, Machaela Cavanaugh of Omaha, Terrell McKinney of Omaha, Victor Rountree of Bellevue, Danielle Conrad of Lincoln and George Dungan of Lincoln meet off the floor of the Legislature, March 26, 2025.
(Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Thirteen progressive state lawmakers called on the chair of the Nebraska Legislature’s Judiciary Committee to host a public hearing into a federal-state plan to morph a state prison into an immigration detention center.

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License Plate Readers In Nebraska Help ICE Conduct Immigration Enforcement Efforts

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/01/2025 - 12:00am

Authorities have conducted at least 20 immigration-related searches of the Flock Safety surveillance networks in Nebraska’s two largest counties since January. The systems, traditionally used by local law enforcement to investigate car thefts and other crimes, are being used in immigration-related cases across the U.S.
(Illustration by Hanscom Park Studio)

When federal immigration agents arrested Melvin Varela Perez in the Omaha area on July 9, they were quick to thank the local cops and other federal officials who helped crack the case.

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Blink Twice If You Are OK!

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/01/2025 - 12:00am

Visitors to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. have made some stark observations about our nation’s legislative body. One visitor pleaded with the Daily Record’s handsome interviewer to remain nameless out of fear that people might associate his name with anyone in Congress, or, just anyone in D.C.

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Justice Lindsey Miller-Lerman, First Woman To Serve On Nebraska Supreme Court, To Retire

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/01/2025 - 12:00am

Nebraska Supreme Court justices Edward Hannon and Lindsey Miller-Lerman look over shared evidence during the Hergert impeachment trial in the Nebraska Supreme Court, Thursday, May 11, 2006, in Lincoln, Neb. University of Nebraska Regent David Hergert was called by prosecutors to testify Thursday in his impeachment trial.
(Robert Becker / The Lincoln Journal Star / AP Photo)

LINCOLN — Nebraska Supreme Court Justice Lindsey Miller-Lerman, the first woman to serve on the state’s high court and its longest-serving current member, announced her retirement effective Oct. 31.

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Nebraska’s ICE Facility ‘Symbolic’ Of State’s Support For Immigration Enforcement Push

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/25/2025 - 12:00am

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen meets with troops at the southern border in Texas.
(Courtesy of the Governor’s Office)

LINCOLN — The media spectacle of Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen unveiling plans for a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the southwestern part of the state follows a political playbook from the Trump administration.

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