Profiles
Staring at the brightly colored ball lying in his path, Brian Brigham pulls back his club and swings forward, hitting his ball, which slightly pushes the other out of the way. With a clear view,...
Artificial intelligence means different things to different people. It can be as simple as helping someone create a work e-mail to monitoring and stopping cyberattacks.
The University of Nebraska-...
There is perhaps nothing harder on Earth, than to lose a loved one, whether it’s quick and sudden or a prolonged illness – be it a favorite grandparent or someone still in the prime of their life....
Sherry Kolli, a registered nurse, healing-touch practitioner, co-founder of Peaceful Hearts Hospice and board member of Holistic Hearts Foundation. (Courtesy Photo)
There is no cure, the best we can do is offer palliative care to ease the discomfort. For anyone who has ever heard these dreaded words, know their world is about to crumble.
But there are people and...
She emigrated from Russia to Minnesota, fresh after graduating college, with scant money to her name – to no doubt achieve the American dream.
At that point, a law career wasn’t even visible on the...
Today’s News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration on Tuesday for access to evidence they say they need to independently investigate three shootings by federal officers, including...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first jury verdict in a series of social media child safety trials this year is in — and it's not looking good for Meta. A jury in New Mexico found on Tuesday that the social...
(Courtesy of Martinez campaign)
In politics, as in life itself, you win some and you lose some.
Congratulations to the Douglas County Republican Party. They were able to do something the Douglas County Democratic Party wished they...
LINCOLN — In a U.S. Senate race marked by allegations of planted candidates, an unusual thing happened on the filing deadline day: Democratic candidate Cindy Burbank paid the $1,740 filing fee for...
Industrial smoke from the zinc works of the American Steel and Wire Co., in Donora, Penn., blew across the Monongahela river to Webster, Penn., April 18, 1949. (Danny Jacino / AP Photo)
In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc...
This Week's News
03/27/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration on Tuesday for access to evidence they say they need to independently investigate three shootings by federal officers, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
The...
03/27/2026 - 12:00am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first jury verdict in a series of social media child safety trials this year is in — and it's not looking good for Meta. A jury in New Mexico found on Tuesday that the social media giant's platforms are harmful to children’s...
03/27/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — In a U.S. Senate race marked by allegations of planted candidates, an unusual thing happened on the filing deadline day: Democratic candidate Cindy Burbank paid the $1,740 filing fee for Legal Marijuana NOW Party candidate Mike Marvin,...
Industrial smoke from the zinc works of the American Steel and Wire Co., in Donora, Penn., blew across the Monongahela river to Webster, Penn., April 18, 1949. (Danny Jacino / AP Photo)
03/26/2026 - 12:00am
In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc ore into pure zinc metal – poured out of the...
The $108 million Tenaska Center for Performing Arts Engagement had a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday and plans open houses on Sunday, March 22, 2026. (Courtesy of Omaha Performing Arts)
03/26/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — A $108 million facility aimed at educating and drawing Nebraskans into the performing arts has officially opened in the downtown of the state’s most populated city.
The new Tenaska Center for Arts Engagement was funded primarily by private...
United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez (foreground right) addresses a large crowd at a rally in Calexico, Calif., Feb. 27, 1979. (Wally Fong / AP Photo)
03/26/2026 - 12:00am
Nebraskans from Omaha to Lincoln to cities and towns across the state are making plans and readying placards to join the next installment of the No Kings protests on Saturday.
Assembly is a freedom enshrined in the Bill of Rights. For those who...
03/26/2026 - 12:00am
This coverage is made possible through partnerships between Grist and WABE in Georgia, Blue Ridge Public Radio in North Carolina, Flatwater Free Press in Nebraska, Interlochen Public Radio in Michigan and WBEZ in Chicago. Reporters Jake Bittle,...
Quinlan children, Mary (left) and John (right) arrive at the Morris County Courthouse Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1975. In back is Paula Steelman (left) Patty Steinback (center) and right foreground is Cory Gaffny, all friends of Mary Quinlan. (Jack Kanthal / AP Photo)
03/25/2026 - 12:00am
March 31, 2026, marks 50 years since a landmark decision that shapes American patients’ rights every day: the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, who had suffered an irreversible coma.
Quinlan’s case established for the...
This undated photo shows Mónica Ramírez, the head and founder of Justice for Migrant Movement, who has been a leader in a grassroots movement to fight against widespread sexual abuse against women farmworkers. (Tara Todras-Whitehill / Elevate Prize Foundation via AP)
03/25/2026 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Almost two decades ago, legendary labor rights activist Dolores Huerta joined Mónica Ramírez at a Chicago event to promote the Bandana Project, a campaign Ramírez had launched to raise awareness about sexual violence against women...
03/24/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he launched a crusade to shift the country away from renewable energy, drastically undoing the climate-friendly policies of his Democratic predecessor to focus instead on...
03/24/2026 - 12:00am
The Reuben sandwich — Omaha’s own sandwich — is simple. Just five ingredients: bread, kraut, cheese, dressing and corned beef.
Countless Omaha restaurants serve 100 versions of it at Irish pubs, high-end spots and your average bar and grill.
It’s...
A child care provider and toddler look out the window at Rise for Baby and Family in Keene, N.H. A new analysis of federal data found the gender pay gap between women and men widened last year. (Maya Mitchell / New Hampshire Bulletin)
03/24/2026 - 12:00am
The earnings gap between men and women slightly widened last year, according to a new analysis published Thursday.
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute calculated women last year earned 18.6% less than men per hour on average. That’s up...
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks to reporters on the SAVE America Act alongside Republican leadership and supporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (Tom Brenner / AP Photo)
03/24/2026 - 12:00am
Many words have entirely lost their impact. In the same way that Hollywood has desensitized people to death, “journalists" and advertisers have only continued to find words with more ‘oomph’ to catch the doom-scrolling eye. "BREAKING news!...
03/23/2026 - 12:00am
Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress
The $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, under construction between Manhattan and New Jersey, will improve passenger rail service, an important issue...
Chris Backermeyer is running as a Democratic candidate in eastern Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District. (Courtesy of the Backemeyer Campaign)
03/23/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the escalating war in Iran, the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs would ordinarily be at the center of the geopolitical fray.
The bureau’s role would be to coordinate U.S. foreign policy across an 18-country...
Republican Nebraska Senator Pete Ricketts is up for re-election this year against Independent Dan Osborn. (Courtesy of Pete Ricketts Campaign)
03/23/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — The U.S. Senate appears poised to puff from the long-held public disclosure pipe dream of greater financial accountability for congressional stock trading.
U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., on Wednesday proposed the Senate companion to a...
