Profiles
Dan Schultz transitioned from a military career as an electronic warfare officer to opening a housecleaning franchise. He embraces his military training in building the franchise. (Tim Trudell / The Daily Record)
Dan Schultz likely could have had his pick of jobs when he retired from the Air Force. Defense-related contractor positions were within his grasp. With two master's degrees, maybe he could have used...
I hate America - hardly. But it wasn’t one person speaking ... It was millions, collectively united as one.
From sea to shining sea and beyond our nation’s shores, people rallied together in rural,...
It is set in stone, unlike the Constitution, our nation’s rule of law, many are valiantly defending to this day.
On Aug. 10, 1875, six attorneys convened at the Douglas County Courthouse to...
With visions of a resurgent neighborhood, supporters of redevelopment in the Saddle Creek see couples strolling through the neighborhood enjoying date nights, families grabbing a bite to eat and...
Writing this article from the perspectives of local, Omaha-Metropolitan mechanics was more difficult than I imagined it being. The idea behind this piece was to provide data on reliable cars (and...
Today’s News
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is seen in Park Ridge, Ill., Sept. 19, 2025. (Erin Hooley / AP Photo)
“We’re Broken”: As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Are Leaving in Droves for ICE
After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s...
Elon Musk listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (Evan Vucci / AP Photo)
PARIS (AP) — France’s government is taking action against billionaire Elon Musk 's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas...
In a tacit admission that U.S. food production requires foreign labor, the Trump administration is making it easier for farmers to employ guest workers from other countries.
At the same time, U.S....
President Barack Obama signs the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, Wednesday, April 4, 2012, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (Carolyn Kaster / AP Photo)
WASHINGTON — At least 25 bills have been introduced this Congress to further limit lawmakers and their family members from trading individual stocks, and representatives across the aisle renewed...
Matt's homemade coops over the years. (Matt Hebert)
I have been keeping chickens off and on for over 10 years now. In fact, in 2016 I made my very first Instagram post (@jerkofalltradeshebert), showing my one and only attempt at delving into meat...
This Week's News
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is seen in Park Ridge, Ill., Sept. 19, 2025. (Erin Hooley / AP Photo)
11/25/2025 - 12:00am
“We’re Broken”: As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Are Leaving in Droves for ICE
After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is...
Elon Musk listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (Evan Vucci / AP Photo)
11/25/2025 - 12:00am
PARIS (AP) — France’s government is taking action against billionaire Elon Musk 's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz, officials said.
Grok, built by...
11/25/2025 - 12:00am
In a tacit admission that U.S. food production requires foreign labor, the Trump administration is making it easier for farmers to employ guest workers from other countries.
At the same time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in recent...
President Barack Obama signs the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, Wednesday, April 4, 2012, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (Carolyn Kaster / AP Photo)
11/25/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — At least 25 bills have been introduced this Congress to further limit lawmakers and their family members from trading individual stocks, and representatives across the aisle renewed pressure Wednesday on U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson...
Matt's homemade coops over the years. (Matt Hebert)
11/25/2025 - 12:00am
I have been keeping chickens off and on for over 10 years now. In fact, in 2016 I made my very first Instagram post (@jerkofalltradeshebert), showing my one and only attempt at delving into meat birds after raising laying hens for a year or two. For...
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11/25/2025 - 12:00am
The world’s most valuable publicly listed company, US microchip maker Nvidia, has reported record $US57 billion revenue in the third quarter of 2025, beating Wall Street estimates. The chipmaker said revenue will rise again to $US65 billion in the...
President Donald Trump speaks at the McDonald's Impact Summit, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)
11/24/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed into law late Wednesday a bill compelling the release of unclassified investigative files from the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he shared a well-documented friendship,...
11/24/2025 - 12:00am
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
The predictive intelligence program has...
The federal immigration court sits less than two miles southwest of Eppley Airfield in Omaha. (Jeremy Turley / Flatwater Free Press)
11/24/2025 - 12:00am
Judge Matthew Morrissey fired off their names one by one over the course of an hour.
Castro, Leiva, Galicia, Durán, Cucul, Oporta, Pérez, Sierra.
Appearing in colored jumpsuits on a screen in Morrissey’s courtroom, the men come from different...
Tim Royers, president of the Nebraska State Education Association (left), and former State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan of the Elkhorn area participate in a debate on Nebraska education policy, including school choice, at the 50th annual Nebraska Ecumenical Legislative Briefing Day at Christ United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Feb. 8, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
11/24/2025 - 12:00am
In late September, Gov. Jim Pillen held a press conference to announce that he would opt Nebraska into the newly created federal school-choice tax credit program.
He could have used that moment to rally Nebraskans around a shared belief that every...
11/24/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — In the officially nonpartisan Nebraska Unicameral, the Democratic-leaning minority bloc currently has 16 seats, including progressive Omaha nonpartisan State Sen. Megan Hunt.
That means the Legislature’s partisan minority, when united,...
11/21/2025 - 12:00am
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Online influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers, was facing allegations of sex trafficking...
11/21/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Faculty leaders at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday expressing “no confidence” in Chancellor Rodney Bennett and urging his bosses to reconsider his employment.
It is the first “no confidence”...
11/21/2025 - 12:00am
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ruled there would be no prison time for a former Alaska Airlines pilot who had taken psychedelic mushrooms days before he tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in...
11/21/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Every member of Nebraska’s all-Republican congressional delegation voted for a bill to compel the U.S. Department of Justice to release all files related to its investigation into late Florida sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
After months of...
11/20/2025 - 12:00am
As America’s aging roads fall further behind on much-needed repairs, cities and states are turning to artificial intelligence to spot the worst hazards and decide which fixes should come first.
Hawaii officials, for example, are giving away 1,000...
Alaska Owns Dozens Of Deteriorating Schools. Now It Wants Under-Resourced Districts To Take Them On.
11/20/2025 - 12:00am
Alaska Owns Dozens of Deteriorating Schools. Now It Wants Under-Resourced Districts to Take Them On.
For more than a decade, the Kuspuk School District asked Alaska’s education department for the money to fix a rotting elementary school. The school...
11/20/2025 - 12:00am
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford Motor Co.’s new headquarters, the carmaker's first central office switch since Dwight Eisenhower was president, is double the size of its old one with room for twice as many employees.
The new HQ has seven restaurants as...
Sudan's military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan (center) is greeted by troops as he arrives at the Republican Palace, recently recaptured from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, in Khartoum, Sudan, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)
11/20/2025 - 12:00am
Through America suffers her blind, and irreverent children who believe the differences of their disputes are irrecoverable, for the last two and a half years mass-killings have gone on in a civil-war in the nation of Sudan. So savage is this...
11/20/2025 - 12:00am
When local activist Frank Arcoleo found out over the summer that a data center was coming to his neighborhood in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he said he was furious. There’d been no votes or public hearings.
The first phase of the data center project...
People arrive at El Nuevo San Juan Health Center in the Bronx brought of New York, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. When telehealth is not a possibility for patients due to equipment, wi-fi or technology skills, El Nuevo San Juan Health Center tries to bring care to them instead, especially older members of the community. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AP Photo)
11/19/2025 - 12:00am
Affordable health care was the primary point of contention in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, which hit 43 days on Nov. 12, 2025.
This fight highlights a persistent concern for Americans despite passage of the landmark Affordable...
11/19/2025 - 12:00am
SYRACUSE, Neb. — Life on the Fass farm was a lot different before that final day of the 2021 Otoe County Fair.
Eric Fass was just one year into his role as the town’s volunteer fire chief. He and wife Amanda also had been growing a small farm they...
11/19/2025 - 12:00am
“Who are you, Maggie?”
Maggie Malone Hardin began to answer the therapist’s question.
“I’m a D-1 athlete … I’m actually a Nike athlete and …”
“No,” the therapist interrupted. “Who are you?”
Malone Hardin shifted positions on the large gray couch,...
