Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 03/04/2025 - 3:00am
About 19 million children under 5 around the world suffer from severe acute malnutrition every year. This life-threatening condition kills 400,000 of them – that’s one child every 10 seconds.
These numbers are staggering, especially because a lifesaving treatment has existed for nearly three decades: “ready-to-use therapeutic food.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 5:00am
New York on Thursday sued some of the country’s biggest distributors of electronic cigarettes, accusing the companies of violating state laws that prohibit the sale of vaping flavors and designs that appeal to children.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON — Hundreds rallied in support of former and current federal scientists and health workers Wednesday in Washington, D.C., as President Donald Trump’s administration slashes the workforce across federal agencies.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 4:00am
On top of efforts to fire potentially tens of thousands of federal workers, an early executive order from President Donald Trump’s second term seeks to reclassify the employment status of as many as 50,000 other federal workers – out of more than 2 million total – to make them easier for the president to fire as well.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 3:00am
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor leagues.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/18/2025 - 7:00am
In 2015, I got in a van with Dante chef and owner Nick Strawhecker and we drove out into Nebraska to see where a handful of his restaurant’s ingredients came from.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/18/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers are considering a legislative proposal that would put the state in sync with nearly all, if not all, other states in allowing access to unemployment insurance benefits to immigrants who have permission to work in the U.S. but who lack permanent residency.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 02/18/2025 - 3:00am
BEIJING (AP) — Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier.