LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature is trying to clean up a new law meant to be tough on foreign adversaries.

State Sen. Eliot Bostar of Lincoln, who authored the Foreign Adversary and Terrorist Agent Registration Act that passed in 2025 with Gov. Jim Pillen’s blessing, offered an amendment to an unrelated bill this year, Legislative Bill 1096, that would tweak a definition to fix the issue.

ATLANTA (AP) — Battery company SK Battery America Inc. laid off nearly 1,000 workers at a manufacturing plant northeast of Atlanta on Friday amid automakers' changing electrification plans and uncertain consumer demand for EVs.

The company said Friday marked the last working day for 958 plant employees, about 37% of its workforce, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, notice filed by human resources chief Chuck Moore. Impacted workers will be paid through May 6. The plant will continue to employ about 1,600 workers.

LINCOLN — A new economic forecast effectively doubled the size of Nebraska’s projected deficit from what state lawmakers had reduced it to so far this legislative session.

Lawmakers entered the session aiming to fix a $471 million budget deficit, based on October projections from Nebraska’s Economic Forecasting Advisory Board. Budget cuts made by the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee through Wednesday had narrowed the projected shortfall to roughly $155 million, according to Legislative Fiscal Analyst Keisha Patent.