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07/03/2025 - 12:00am
Her Family Needed Housing. They Spent Months in New York Hotels, Left to Fend for Themselves.
by Spencer Norris, New York Focus
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07/03/2025 - 12:00am
If there’s one thing that U.S. politicians and activists from across the political spectrum can agree on, it’s that rents are far too high.
Many experts believe that this crisis is fueled by a shortage of housing, caused principally by restrictive...
07/03/2025 - 12:00am
The partnership established by the federal government and universities to support high-level research has been a success story for our country.
That investment has produced a return — measured in technology, innovation and the nurturing of...
07/03/2025 - 12:00am
Justin Kennedy had long envisioned more than a cornfield when he gazed at the plot of family land a half-mile from where he grew up.
It was “the perfect setup” for building his dream retirement house in rural Stanton County.
He planted a...
07/02/2025 - 12:00am
The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across nearly 23 million acres of northern Alaska. It’s called the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, but despite its industrial-sounding...
07/02/2025 - 12:00am
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — In the time before widespread vaccination, devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children and leaving others with lifelong health problems.
Over the next century, vaccines virtually...
07/02/2025 - 12:00am
Christopher Pelkey was shot and killed in a road range incident in 2021. On May 8, 2025, at the sentencing hearing for his killer, an AI video reconstruction of Pelkey delivered a victim impact statement. The trial judge reported being deeply moved...
07/02/2025 - 12:00am
In Mandi Sedlak’s world, everything seems to fit. Even in her worst moments.
It’s true of her golf game, her husband, her career and the prosthetic leg connecting these threads. The Kearney native will be relying on the list’s last item when she...
07/01/2025 - 12:00am
Conagra Brands, the parent company of Duncan Hines, Slim Jim and other brands, is the latest big food company to say it’s discontinuing the use of artificial dyes.
In a statement released Wednesday – the same day as a similar statement from Nestle...
07/01/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — While completing a master’s degree in data analysis, Palwasha Zahid moved from Dallas to a town near Silicon Valley. The location made it easy to visit the campuses of tech stalwarts such as Google, Apple, and Nvidia.
Zahid, 25,...
07/01/2025 - 12:00am
The minimum wage will increase in 15 states and cities in July, though lawmakers in other states have worked to slow down wage hikes.
Wage floor increases beginning July 1 in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C., will benefit more than 880,000...
07/01/2025 - 12:00am
Nebraska U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., is the current owner of an IOU worth millions of dollars. The chit is the result of his vote for the small-minded, unattractive and unpopular bill working its way through Congress, part of which will cut funding...
07/01/2025 - 12:00am
The darkness of that 80’s cigarette-stained basement was ever suffocating. Pallid and lethargic in my seat, a savior approached.
“Come with me if you don’t want to suffer the feeling of being overfull!” The Afghan held out his hand, helping me rise...
06/30/2025 - 12:00am
A New Trump Plan Gives DHS and the White House Greater Influence in the Fight Against Organized Crime
by Tim Golden
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06/30/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — The Douglas County Board appears poised to appoint a retired chief deputy of the County Treasurer’s Office to fill the top spot in the office left open earlier this month after John Ewing Jr. was elected mayor of Omaha.
During its weekly...
06/30/2025 - 12:00am
Bob Benzel had quite a few people on his mind in 2019.
The students who the former Ralston High School art teacher watched drop out after becoming pregnant.
His mother, who, in her late 30s, earned her GED and associate’s degree while raising four...
06/27/2025 - 12:00am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Washington state man who was charged with aiding the bomber of a fertility clinic in Southern California died Tuesday in federal custody, just weeks after his arrest, prison officials said.
Daniel Park, 32, was accused of...
06/27/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — As U.S. B-2 bombers headed home from bombing three key Iranian nuclear sites this weekend, Nebraska’s federal delegation cheered the Trump administration’s strikes as a “necessary step” and “something that needed to happen.”
The Nebraska...
06/27/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats have succeeded in eliminating more than a dozen policy changes from Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” after successfully arguing before the chamber’s parliamentarian that the elements didn’t comply with the strict...
06/27/2025 - 12:00am
Since 1953, no president has ever entered office at less than 50% approval, that is, except for President Trump, who, when inaugurated for the second time, had just 47% approval. This same data Gallup showed that, except for briefly with George H.W...
06/27/2025 - 12:00am
Can he have his cake, and eat it, too ...
That’s the million dollar – or even perhaps trillion dollar question as President Donald Trump recently celebrated his 79th birthday, coinciding with Flag Day and an even more divisive military parade, to...