Profiles
While conducting vehicle searches in Anbar Province in Iraq, Corporal Jason L. Dunham engaged the driver of a vehicle after he hopped out of it and physically challenged American troops. The Iraqi...
In more traditional times, a hog was roasted on the patio, downed by kegs of beer, amid lively music, hearty helpings of cornbread and coleslaw, whilst the whiskey “flowed” to the farmers, who...
The news flashes reports across the screen of ICE agents infiltrating communities stoking fears among their targeted sector, our Hispanic community, in a steady stream nationwide, including right...
Such is civilization: built on the glories of the past, or even on the bones of defeated kingdoms, and even for hundreds and thousands of years in the aftermath of ancient wars and collapsing...
Imagine a world in which you would flee your homeland, risking life and limb, possible deportation and/or prison to build a better life for you and your family. Against all odds, the perils of the...
Today’s News
When the federal government threatened to cancel billions in research funds from Harvard University – as it has also done to other research universities – the message was clear: Institutions that...
Monday, May 2, 2016, Jay Spencer lies in a hyperbaric chamber as Stacie Blad attends to him at Logan Regional Hospital, in Logan, Utah. (Eli Lucero / The Herald Journal via AP)
Just before 8 a.m. on Jan. 31, an explosion rocked a nondescript one-story office building in an affluent suburb of Detroit.
The building was home to The Oxford Center, a health clinic that provided...
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Tuesday dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state's case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but he kept the state's second-...
The McCook Work Ethic Camp in McCook, Nebraska. (Courtesy of Nebraska Department of Correctional Services)
Nebraska and the federal Department of Homeland Security on Aug. 19 announced that the state’s Work Ethic Camp in McCook would be converted into a federal immigration detention facility, which...
LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen this week directed about $20 million in unused property tax relief funds and higher-than-expected casino revenues to instead be distributed to taxpayers.
Pillen, in...
This Week's News
09/19/2025 - 12:00am
When the federal government threatened to cancel billions in research funds from Harvard University – as it has also done to other research universities – the message was clear: Institutions that speak or think in ways elected officials dislike can...
Monday, May 2, 2016, Jay Spencer lies in a hyperbaric chamber as Stacie Blad attends to him at Logan Regional Hospital, in Logan, Utah. (Eli Lucero / The Herald Journal via AP)
09/19/2025 - 12:00am
Just before 8 a.m. on Jan. 31, an explosion rocked a nondescript one-story office building in an affluent suburb of Detroit.
The building was home to The Oxford Center, a health clinic that provided hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat a variety of...
09/19/2025 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Tuesday dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state's case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but he kept the state's second-degree murder charges against him.
In a written...
The McCook Work Ethic Camp in McCook, Nebraska. (Courtesy of Nebraska Department of Correctional Services)
09/19/2025 - 12:00am
Nebraska and the federal Department of Homeland Security on Aug. 19 announced that the state’s Work Ethic Camp in McCook would be converted into a federal immigration detention facility, which Homeland Security branded the “Cornhusker Clink.”
About...
09/19/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen this week directed about $20 million in unused property tax relief funds and higher-than-expected casino revenues to instead be distributed to taxpayers.
Pillen, in an executive order Monday, said the state had...
Valentine Middle School seventh graders review a water quality test of the Niobrara River. (Courtesy of National Parks Service)
09/18/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska would have to dig into its pocketbook if it wants to take over management of the scenic Niobrara River from the National Park Service.
That seems clear after officials from Ohio, a state that has a rare “cooperative agreement” to...
09/18/2025 - 12:00am
Mortgage fraud is back in the news. Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, is being investigated by the Department of Justice for allegedly making false statements when applying for a mortgage. Members of Donald Trump’s Cabinet are accused of...
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09/18/2025 - 12:00am
Texas seems to be spearheading the Conservative effort to put the Ten Commandments in classrooms around the United States. The liberals who decry this are missing a golden opportunity.
You mean to tell me that your political opponent wants to frame...
09/17/2025 - 12:00am
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Ever since wildfires destroyed Lahaina two years ago, hundreds of students have struggled mentally — and not all have received the help they need.
The Hawaii Department of Education estimates more than a third of Maui students...
Reeves first sought out gymnastics but instead found a gym in Grimes, Iowa, offering adult ninja training. (Courtesy Clayton Reeves)
09/17/2025 - 12:00am
This story was originally reported by Christopher Wiggins, Advocate of The 19th. Meet Christopher and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.
With transgender athletes facing escalating political attacks and sports bans...
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Salt Lake City is pictured on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (McKenzie Romero / Utah News Dispatch)
09/17/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood clinics throughout the country began telling Medicaid patients Friday that their routine health care appointments will no longer be covered as a federal court order takes effect.
The change, which could remain in...
09/17/2025 - 12:00am
When playwright Beaufield Berry recently needed actors in New York City for a reading of her musical about Black cowgirls, the Omaha native did what most people would do: She put out a call online.
Among those who auditioned: two fellow Omahans. At...
A panel of union members and community leaders from the Central Valley discuss the impacts of President Trump's One Big Beautiful Act Bill on health care access in their region at a town hall organized by California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, Thursday, Aug. 14, in Bakersfield, Calif. (Jeff Lewis / AP Content Services for National Nurses United)
09/16/2025 - 12:00am
The share of doctors who belong to unions is rising quickly at a time when organized labor is losing ground with other professions. The Conversation U.S. asked Patrick Aguilar, a Washington University in St. Louis pulmonologist and management...
09/16/2025 - 12:00am
Rural letter carrier Roger McDonald missed driving his 150-mile route outside Scottsbluff in northwestern Nebraska earlier this year. He was injured in a serious car accident that kept him from mail delivery for three months. He had an appointment...
(Photo by Matt Hebert)
09/16/2025 - 12:00am
We live in an era of ever-sprawling franchise and chain eateries. They continue to grow and expand. Regional favorites have become national contenders. But as they continue to crowd out the local byways and fill in the empty stalls in strip malls,...
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09/16/2025 - 12:00am
To love is one of the greatest joys a human can endure: that bearing the weight of loss only made that time which you were allowed to soar on tender wings like Icarus all the greater. How wonderful after a long day of work, when arriving at your...
09/15/2025 - 12:00am
WOHYN, Poland (AP) — Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described Wednesday as a deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down. A NATO spokesman said it was the first time the...
09/15/2025 - 12:00am
The fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, has drawn widespread condemnation and renewed attention to the climate of political violence in the United States. To...
09/15/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — A siren blared down one of Washington, D.C.’s busiest thoroughfares. And then, a loud noise.
Residents in nearby apartment buildings peered through windows and from balconies to find a dark-colored SUV bumped up against a moped lying...
