Profiles
People walk past them in places like the Old Market, ignoring their existence. The only time they seem to get noticed is when they act "crazy" or stand at medians, asking for money. They're Omaha's...
Years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus – in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws in 1955, helping spark the nationwide Civil Rights Movement – Black women in Omaha...
Fundraising efforts are underway for the new Great Plains Black History Museum, to be located at 22nd and Lake streets, with 40 percent of the $15 million already raised. Nationally renowned, the museum has the largest collection devoted to the Great Plains Black experience, with more than 100,000 periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, rare books, research material and film. (Courtesy of the Great Plains Black History Museum)
“If you build it, he will come …”
A famous quote from the movie, “Field of Dreams,” in reference to the legends of baseball. Although often misquoted, as they will come, the phrase has become a...
While most people look at an ear of corn and wonder how it may taste, Tammy Zentic looks at it and wonders how the kernels will look as a necklace or bracelet.
Zentic, a retired Fremont, Nebraska,...
In keeping with National Law Day’s theme, “The American Dream,” here is one family fulfilling the ideals our Forefathers envisioned, helping make life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – even...
Today’s News
Senate Will Begin Voting On Funding Immigration Enforcement After Trump's Settlement Fund Is Dropped
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Senate will start voting Wednesday on legislation to fund immigration enforcement agencies after forcing the White House to drop its settlement fund for political...
MIAMI (AP) — The state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing...
Congress is looking to roll back state animal welfare laws as it wrangles over reauthorization of the federal farm bill.
The farm bill, which Congress generally reworks every five years, includes...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, speaks during a primary runoff election night event Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in Plano, Texas. (Tony Gutierrez / AP Photo)
I don’t normally write about political battles that don’t affect us here in Nebraska, but I have to admit I am fascinated, perplexed, concerned, amused and saddened, by what just happened in Texas...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen ceremonially signs LB 1261 alongside introducer State Sen. Barry DeKay of Niobrara (right), and promoter State Sen. Mike Moser of Columbus (left). (Erin Bamer / Nebraska Examiner)
LINCOLN — As demand for electricity grows across Nebraska, Gov. Jim Pillen expressed his preference for establishing public-private partnerships to shoulder some of the cost burdens of new...
This Week's News
Senate Will Begin Voting On Funding Immigration Enforcement After Trump's Settlement Fund Is Dropped
06/05/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Senate will start voting Wednesday on legislation to fund immigration enforcement agencies after forcing the White House to drop its settlement fund for political allies and stripping a separate proposal for...
06/05/2026 - 12:00am
MIAMI (AP) — The state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing serious risks, including offering instructions to...
06/05/2026 - 12:00am
Congress is looking to roll back state animal welfare laws as it wrangles over reauthorization of the federal farm bill.
The farm bill, which Congress generally reworks every five years, includes money and federal rules for food assistance programs...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen ceremonially signs LB 1261 alongside introducer State Sen. Barry DeKay of Niobrara (right), and promoter State Sen. Mike Moser of Columbus (left). (Erin Bamer / Nebraska Examiner)
06/05/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — As demand for electricity grows across Nebraska, Gov. Jim Pillen expressed his preference for establishing public-private partnerships to shoulder some of the cost burdens of new infrastructure.
Pillen ceremonially signed Legislative Bill...
Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte walks outside the White House, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington. (Mark Schiefelbein / AP Photo)
06/04/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has tapped Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to be the acting director of national intelligence — putting a real estate scion and fierce Trump loyalist in a key national security post as...
06/04/2026 - 12:00am
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — When Senegalese farmer Abou Sow first watched U.S. missiles strike Iran on social media, he had a sinking feeling it would soon affect agriculture in the West African nation. Since the war began on Feb. 28, fertilizer prices...
From left: Tim Ridgway, vice president of health affairs and Sanford School of Medicine dean, speaks with medical students including Tanner Smith and Tanner Berg, as well as South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden, at the Canopy by Hilton in downtown Sioux Falls on Aug. 14, 2025. (Makenzie Huber / South Dakota Searchlight)
06/04/2026 - 12:00am
As of 2024, 0.3% of practicing physicians in the nation were Native American.
A proposed Indigenous School of Medicine in Rapid City could help change that.
The school would be the first of its kind in the nation, said Donald Warne, a physician,...
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06/04/2026 - 12:00am
‘Virtus’ is a Latin word built from the root ‘vir’ which means ‘man’, as is in the English word ‘virile’. The Romans used virtus as an ascription to one's “manly excellence’, courage, and worth as shown in public life,” as per etymology.life. It was...
06/04/2026 - 12:00am
This story is made possible through a partnership between Flatwater Free Press and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization.
Applause echoed through the halls of the Gage County courthouse. The county board had just approved new, more...
Nebraska Public Media General Manager and CEO Stacey Decker. (Courtesy of Nebraska Public Media via Nebraska Examiner)
06/03/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — Nebraska Public Media is launching its own dedicated station in Omaha to expand its statewide reach and better utilize two recently added reporters in the state’s largest city.
NPM recently purchased KOOO, located at 101.9 on the FM dial and...
06/03/2026 - 12:00am
This story was originally reported by Jasmine Mithani and Mariel Padilla of The 19th. Meet Jasmine and Mariel and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.
Our Sister’s House used to staff a 24-hour hotline. No matter what time of...
06/03/2026 - 12:00am
A few years ago, Emily Rau decided she needed friends.
Rau had moved to Lincoln in 2014 for graduate school at the University of Nebraska. By 2021, most of her fellow students had left town, but she stayed and took a job as a professor with the...
Connor Champion, president of Austin Christian University in Texas, addresses students at the school. Some of the nation’s biggest megachurches are getting into the college business, prioritizing hands-on job training and church culture over a more traditional liberal arts focus. (Courtesy of Austin Christian University via Stateline)
06/02/2026 - 12:00am
In the heart of the Bible Belt, a small Methodist college graduated its final class in May 2024, shutting its doors after 168 years.
Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama, was a Christian private liberal arts school that counted among...
06/02/2026 - 12:00am
Major League Baseball owners made their long-expected salary cap proposal to the players’ association on Thursday, a system the union has vowed never to accept, setting the sides on course for a confrontation that threatens the 2027 season and...
President Donald Trump (right) shakes the hand of Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh during Warsh's swearing-in in the East Room of the White House, Friday, May 22, 2026, in Washington. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)
06/02/2026 - 12:00am
Americans don’t need a press release to know that inflation is rising. Gasoline is above $4 per gallon amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and the release of key price data on May 28, 2026, underscores...
The Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads are working toward a merger that would create the first transcontinental railroad. (Courtesy of Norfolk Southern)
06/02/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — The federal government on Thursday paused a proposed merger of two railroad behemoths, Nebraska staple Union Pacific and Georgia-based Norfolk Southern.
The U.S. Surface Transportation Board, an independent federal agency which regulates...
New York Police officers arrest a demonstrator from the group, Jewish Voice for Peace, who protested inside Trump Tower in support of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, Thursday, March 13, 2025, in New York. (Yuki Iwamura / AP Photo)
Chilling Effects Of Trump’s War On Free Speech Extend Far Beyond Campus Walls – And That’s The Point
06/01/2026 - 12:00am
Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it.
Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many...
President Donald Trump, next to Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth (right) speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in Washington, as Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche (front left) and Vice President JD Vance (front right) look on. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo)
06/01/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces carried out new defensive strikes on Iran on Wednesday after President Donald Trump asserted that Iran is “negotiating on fumes” and insisted that November’s midterm elections in the United States won’t make him rush...
06/01/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — A handful of Democratic state attorneys general said Tuesday that expert officials from their offices were denied access to a major White House anti-fraud meeting convened by Vice President JD Vance and attended by Republican AGs.
Two...
06/01/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A former Nebraska state lawmaker and U.S. Army veteran hopes his ninth trip to Ukraine since Russia’s February 2022 invasion this week keeps a spotlight on what he fears has become a “forgotten war.”
Former State Sen. Tom Brewer, a 36-year...
