Profiles
He bought the farm. To many it may simply mean he passed away. But in a spectacular turn of events, this lofty purchase, in a very roundabout way, ties together generations past.
In fact it is a...
After 30 years, it's not often that Andrea Bocelli performs in a new city, but that will be the case when he takes the stage at CHI Health Center Omaha Feb. 6.
The Italian tenor looks forward to...
In popular culture and in card games, deuces signifies a card, say a two of diamonds.
A team of seven students from Duchesne brought home the state mock trial championship for the second year in a...
When my Editor came to me and asked if I wanted to get paid to head to 36th and V Street to write about street tacos, I did my very best to hide my enthusiasm and remain as professional as possible...
As most stories that begin with a guy sitting alone at a bar, it’s usually about a woman; this time at least… it was about interviewing one. While waiting, I took out my little black book and started...
Today’s News
LINCOLN — President Donald Trump’s executive orders to define “male” and “female” and mandate that student-athletes participate on sports teams according to their sex are bolstering legislative...
Jeremy Nordquist, president of the Nebraska Hospital Association, speaks during a press conference on Jan. 30, 2023, in Lincoln. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
Nebraska hospitals have a North Star that guides them. Wherever a patient lives in Nebraska, they deserve access to quality care. We must work to ensure our health care providers do not have to...
“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump
by Sharon Lerner and Pratheek Rebala
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President Donald Trump meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (Evan Vucci / AP Photo)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump's proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents was swiftly rejected and...
Pictured from left: State Sens. Jen Day, John Cavanaugh, Megan Hunt, Machaela Cavanaugh, Wendy DeBoer, George Dungan and Danielle Conrad. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s all-Republican congressional delegation largely applauded the work of billionaire technologist Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” while nine largely...
This Week's News
02/10/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — President Donald Trump’s executive orders to define “male” and “female” and mandate that student-athletes participate on sports teams according to their sex are bolstering legislative efforts to do the same in Nebraska.
State Sen. Kathleen...
Jeremy Nordquist, president of the Nebraska Hospital Association, speaks during a press conference on Jan. 30, 2023, in Lincoln. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
02/10/2025 - 6:00am
Nebraska hospitals have a North Star that guides them. Wherever a patient lives in Nebraska, they deserve access to quality care. We must work to ensure our health care providers do not have to choose between financial survival and delivering...
02/10/2025 - 5:00am
“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump
by Sharon Lerner and Pratheek Rebala
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories...
President Donald Trump meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (Evan Vucci / AP Photo)
02/10/2025 - 4:00am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump's proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents was swiftly rejected and denounced on Wednesday by American allies and...
Pictured from left: State Sens. Jen Day, John Cavanaugh, Megan Hunt, Machaela Cavanaugh, Wendy DeBoer, George Dungan and Danielle Conrad. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
02/10/2025 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s all-Republican congressional delegation largely applauded the work of billionaire technologist Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” while nine largely Democratic state senators are calling for oversight and...
Mexican National Guards prepare to board an aircraft at the International Airport in Merida, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, to travel north to reinforce the country's border with the United States. (Martin Zetina / AP Photo)
02/10/2025 - 2:00am
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico (AP) — A line of Mexican National Guard and Army trucks rumbled along the border separating Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, among the first of 10,000 troops Mexico has sent to its northern frontier following...
02/07/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — Heather Nelson fell asleep anxious, troubled by a mother’s emotions broadcast on the evening news — but more so that she’d missed a deadline to support a related bill before Nebraska lawmakers.
An idea would later jolt the Omaha college...
Mercedes Lopez holds a sign calling on keeping immigrant families together. (Rogelio V. Solis / AP Photo)
02/07/2025 - 6:00am
President Donald Trump held true to campaign promises to overhaul the U.S. immigration system by signing 10 executive orders focused on immigration on his inauguration day. The sweeping nature of these orders has rocked immigrant communities across...
02/07/2025 - 5:00am
For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work for regular Americans, including the New Deal and the Great Society reforms.
But they also met a conservative backlash seeking...
02/07/2025 - 4:00am
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was exploring whether he can move forward with El Salvador’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals in the “most severe cases" even as he and Secretary of State Marco...
This image provided by the New York State Attorney General office shows body camera footage of correction officers beating a handcuffed man, Robert Brooks, 43, at the Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, N.Y., on Dec. 9, 2024. (New York State Attorney General office via AP)
02/07/2025 - 3:00am
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report, lawyers for his family said Wednesday.
The report issued by the county medical examiner's office last week...
In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, a woman in Sullivan City, Texas, who said she entered the country illegally, walks with her daughter who was born in the United States, but was denied a birth certificate. (Eric Gay / AP Photo)
02/07/2025 - 2:00am
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. to someone in the country illegally, calling...
A screenshot from a video the University of Nebraska-Lincoln did with Luke Farritor before he joined Elon Musk’s DOGE effort. (Courtesy of UNL)
02/07/2025 - 1:00am
LINCOLN — He isn’t yet responding to requests to talk to Nebraska media. But others are talking a lot about former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Luke Farritor’s reported role in Elon Musk’s effort to reduce federal government spending....
02/06/2025 - 7:00am
The freezing wind swept across the asphalt. People clutching their coats hustled inside the midtown Omaha Target, scurrying past a shopping cart piled with blankets. Inside, Jonathan Martin sipped his Starbucks as he listened to the questions.
“What...
The floor of Nebraska’s Unicameral Legislature. (Rebecca S. Gratz / Nebraska Examiner)
02/06/2025 - 6:00am
Eventually, the Nebraska Legislature will address this year’s impending deficit and the state’s annual property tax angst, the latter a required subject each session.
Smart money says it gets there soon. Besides, a keyword search indicates over...
02/06/2025 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — Real estate representatives told state lawmakers Wednesday what they feel is coming: attempts by cities in Nebraska to control rent on private property.
“It’s not made up that this is a boogeyman,” said Dennis Tierney of the Metro Omaha...
Construction workers walk around Parque da Cidade, or City Park, in Belem, Brazil, Sept. 24, 2024, a project being built for the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit. (Paulo Santos / AP Photo)
02/06/2025 - 4:00am
SAO PAULO (AP) — Nine months ahead of this year's annual U.N. climate summit, known as COP30, lodging prices in the Brazilian host city of Belem are turning heads—and may soon turn off would-be attendees from the first such meeting in the Amazon...
02/05/2025 - 7:00am
Balloons in his favorite colors — black, blue and white — drifted up from the courtyard at Underwood Tower.
His family, wearing matching T-shirts made for the occasion, and a group of his old neighbors gathered in the scorching heat to release the...
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02/05/2025 - 6:00am
To begin an article with the word “Hark," might be too archaic, but I know of no other word that is as serious and as commanding as it; used to plead for attention to an important issue in a single word that foregoes the need for begging.
Hark! I...
Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers performs during the FireAid benefit concert on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. (Chris Pizzello / AP Photo)
02/05/2025 - 5:00am
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The FireAid benefit was fueled by some of music’s best performers to raise money for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief efforts.
The event at the Kia Forum and the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, on Thursday night...
02/05/2025 - 4:00am
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Crews began removing wreckage from the Potomac River on Monday, five days after 67 people were killed in a midair collision over Washington, D.C., between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter. The crash was the deadliest U.S...
Stacy Pfeifer of the State Treasurer’s Office announces changes to the state’s “Enable Savings Plan” that lets Nebraskans with disabilities open accounts for future savings on Aug. 14, 2024. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
02/05/2025 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraskans with disabilities would be able to apply for expanded savings accounts propelled by tax breaks for private donations to a new state fund aimed at boosting them, under a new legislative proposal.
Legislative Bill 391, from State...
Volunteers Anja Lichtenau (left) and Marlene Rotstein organize food in a walk-in refrigerator at the non-profit Nourishing Hope food pantry, which receives federal funding to provide food and other social services, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Chicago. (Erin Hooley / AP Photo)
02/05/2025 - 2:00am
On Jan. 27, 2025, the Trump administration ordered a freeze on federal grants and contracts covering a wide array of aid programs to take effect at 5 p.m. the following day. This freeze was partially prevented when a judge responded to a lawsuit...
02/04/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska would step up its role against illegal immigration under a newly proposed state law requiring businesses with at least 25 workers to use an online system aimed at ferreting out undocumented workers.
State Sen. Kathleen Kauth of...
02/04/2025 - 5:00am
Three days before his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump launched a meme coin, a type of cryptocurrency whose value is buoyed by social media and internet culture, rather than any sort of functionality or intrinsic value.
The coin – officially...
02/04/2025 - 4:00am
MONTCLAIR, Va. (AP) — In a wine shop an hour outside of Washington, owner Arthur Lampros sampled a wine from a part of the world that was totally new to him, racking his brain to pin down the tastes on his tongue.
Was there a body of water near the...
02/04/2025 - 3:00am
When people think of wildlife trade, they often picture smugglers sneaking in rare and endangered species from far-off countries. Yet most wildlife trade is actually legal, and the United States is one of the world’s biggest wildlife importers.
New...
Justin Hubly, executive director of the Nebraska Association of Public Employees, leads a news conference Dec. 7, 2023, in Lincoln regarding Gov. Jim Pillen’s executive order mandating state employees return to in-peson offices by Jan. 2, 2024. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
02/04/2025 - 2:00am
LINCOLN — The largest labor union representing state government employees has voted to accept a contract with the state that includes pay raises of between 6.5% and up to 19% over a two-year period.
Another step in the right direction is a...
Justin Hubly, executive director of the Nebraska Association of Public Employees, leads a news conference Dec. 7, 2023, in Lincoln regarding Gov. Jim Pillen’s executive order mandating state employees return to in-peson offices by Jan. 2, 2024. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
02/04/2025 - 2:00am
LINCOLN — The largest labor union representing state government employees has voted to accept a contract with the state that includes pay raises of between 6.5% and up to 19% over a two-year period.
Another step in the right direction is a...
Justin Hubly, executive director of the Nebraska Association of Public Employees, leads a news conference Dec. 7, 2023, in Lincoln regarding Gov. Jim Pillen’s executive order mandating state employees return to in-peson offices by Jan. 2, 2024. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
02/04/2025 - 2:00am
LINCOLN — The largest labor union representing state government employees has voted to accept a contract with the state that includes pay raises of between 6.5% and up to 19% over a two-year period.
Another step in the right direction is a...
