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12/30/2025 - 12:00am
TOPEKA, Kansas — The Kansas City Chiefs are moving to Kansas with a deal to use more than a billion dollars in taxpayer funding to help build a domed stadium, entertainment district, new team headquarters and a training facility, Kansas officials...
12/30/2025 - 12:00am
A small number of state employees dramatically boost their annual salaries by clocking extreme amounts of overtime hours.
At least 27 state employees made more money in overtime than they did from their base salaries during the fiscal year that...
12/30/2025 - 12:00am
Me and the fam were on our way down to Falconwood Park for their Frosty Lights event, and we needed somewhere to eat. But where in the near-food-desert of Southern Bellevue can one find a drop-in type place that isn’t the new McDonalds on Capehart...
12/30/2025 - 12:00am
The restaurant itself was beautiful. It had no need of the men in pressed suits or the women in autumn colored dresses. Nor would those few revelers who were passing by the broad windows have any effect on the ambiance inside. At a small table in...
12/29/2025 - 12:00am
PHOENIX (AP) — Vice President JD Vance said Sunday the conservative movement should be open to everyone as long as they “love America,” declining to condemn a streak of antisemitism that has divided the Republican Party and roiled the opening days...
12/29/2025 - 12:00am
This story was originally reported by Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet Grace and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.
Trump administration officials on Thursday announced new proposed regulations targeting gender-affirming...
12/29/2025 - 12:00am
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a new warning to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the U.S. Coast Guard steps up efforts to interdict oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea as part of the Republican...
12/29/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers criticized President Donald Trump’s efforts to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana as local advocates applauded the change.
Trump, via a new executive order he signed Thursday, seeks to expedite...
12/26/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal status, including their work authorizations and deportation protections, due to President Donald Trump’s aggressive revocation...
12/26/2025 - 12:00am
Dec. 15, 2025 – the deadline for enrolling in a marketplace plan through the Affordable Care Act for 2026 – came and went without an agreement on the federal subsidies that kept ACA plans more affordable for many Americans. Despite a last-ditch...
12/26/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers has sued tech company Resideo, alleging “deceptive and unfair business practices” and that some of the video surveillance cameras the company sells risk leaving Nebraska consumers’ “intimate images...
12/25/2025 - 12:00am
LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — On a frigid day after Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in rural Nebraska, worshippers shuffled into the basement and sat on folding chairs, their faces barely masking the fear gripping their town.
A pall hung over the room...
12/25/2025 - 12:00am
In his 15 years of farming full time, Quentin Connealy has weathered his share of storms — literally.
The first major flood hit in 2011. Three more came in 2019. The waters rose again in 2024 and ruined about 20% of his crops. This past summer, he...
12/25/2025 - 12:00am
The ‘Institute for Middle East Understanding’ is a pro-Palestinian education group that focuses on human rights, which surveyed over 1,200 Republicans in the United States who were under the age of 45. Three out of every four of those polled...
12/25/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Husker athletics is revealing more information as to what it will charge for people to rent out its premier spaces for corporate gatherings, weddings and other events.
And the department is hoping new marketing will bolster venue interest...
12/24/2025 - 12:00am
ATLANTA (AP) — Millennial and Generation Z Christian influencers are increasingly filling a void in American religion, growing audiences across digital platforms by steering young people to biblical answers to tough questions that aren't always...
12/24/2025 - 12:00am
Deleting DEI
According to this year’s tax filing, the American Athletic Conference, the $150 million collegiate sports league that includes schools like Rice and Tulane, is striving to be a leader in inclusion, but no longer in diversity or equity....
12/24/2025 - 12:00am
Tessa Domingus found purpose on the back deck of a Lincoln rehabilitation home, conversing with a man who didn’t want to spend his next paycheck on alcohol.
Sunlight shone through the leaves of a large tree in the backyard as they talked. It was the...































