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10/09/2024 - 11:43am
Capturing the fast pace vibe of entrepreneurs, co-founders of the first Hustle Conference, CurtDrew and Eric Gautschi, have held fast to this dream for more than a decade. Today, October 9,their first supporter Anthony Hendrickson PhD, dean of...
10/09/2024 - 7:00am
OMAHA — A new “Trees for Tomorrow” initiative is to launch Saturday with the planting of 75 new trees in the Elkhorn area’s Ta-Ha-Zouka Park.
About 80 community volunteers who will be planting a dozen different native species in that area were...
10/09/2024 - 6:00am
This morning a bizarre random thought popped into my head.
I wonder how Al Gore feels. Is he angry? Is he smug and thinking “I told you so?”
I’ll admit it’s not a thought I ever had before. Being concerned about Al Gore, or any politician’s feelings...
10/09/2024 - 5:00am
As the Hurricane Helene-driven waters rose around the Nolichucky River in Tennessee, Boone McCrary, his girlfriend and his chocolate lab headed out on his fishing boat to search for a man who was stranded by floodwaters that had leveled his home....
10/09/2024 - 4:00am
At a private college in the Northeast, a first-year student said it was the highlight of her day whenever she would lie on the floor of her adviser’s office and cuddle with a therapy dog, a Leonberger named Stella.
At a large public university in...
10/09/2024 - 3:00am
When Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered a new molecule they called microRNA in the 1980s, it was a fascinating diversion from what for decades had been called the central dogma of molecular biology.
Recognized with the 2024 Nobel Prize in...
10/09/2024 - 2:00am
Banned Books Find Shelter in Maryland ‘Sanctuary Library’
After beginning in 2022 in Chicago, sanctuary libraries have since spread to 12 other library systems in North America.
By Sofia Appolonio, Capital News Service
This story first appeared at...
10/09/2024 - 1:00am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) last week on Korean adoptions. The investigation reported dubious child-...
10/08/2024 - 7:00am
Twenty-two pork-production states are pushing for an appeal of a federal district court ruling that upheld a 2016 ballot measure in Massachusetts to prohibit the sale of pork, poultry and veal from livestock that were “confined in a cruel manner.”...
10/08/2024 - 6:00am
Isn’t it funny how the political party that’s always talking about state’s rights tried to take away one of ours?
Kudos to the one Republican senator in the state who dared to stand up to the convicted felon running for President. Kudos to Mike...
10/08/2024 - 5:00am
As a top producer of children’s entertainment, Disney is no stranger to America’s culture wars.
Liberals have long criticized the company for its products’ promotion of gender stereotypes and racist tropes. Meanwhile, conservatives have excoriated...
10/08/2024 - 4:00am
Though food service workers and economists have long worried about the impact technology would have on the restaurant labor force, pilot programs in several fast-casual restaurants over the last few years have shown it may not have the negative...
10/08/2024 - 3:00am
DETROIT (AP) — Some 45,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports are returning to work after their union reached a deal to suspend a strike that could have caused shortages and higher prices if it had dragged on.
The International Longshoremen’s...
10/08/2024 - 2:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS is expanding its program that allows people to file their taxes directly with the agency for free.
The federal tax collector’s Direct File program, which allows taxpayers to calculate and submit their returns to the...
10/07/2024 - 7:00am
OMAHA — Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, running to fill out the remainder of his first term in federal office, rolled out some law enforcement union endorsements Tuesday.
The former Nebraska governor received endorsements from the Omaha Police...
10/07/2024 - 6:00am
KITTANING, Pennsylvania -- Jennifer Krantz was in the checkout line at Sprankle's grocery store in this Armstrong County city with her three boys, Brayden, Eddie and Frederick, along with her husband, Bryant, when former President Donald Trump...
10/07/2024 - 5:00am
OMAHA — Nonprofit executive Jasmine Harris, who has spent years helping Nebraskans re-enter society after serving their criminal sentence, is trying a second time to become Omaha’s mayor.
The director of public policy and advocacy for justice-...
10/07/2024 - 4:00am
Few people expected the campaign to elect the first woman president to spark a referendum on masculinity, but what it means to be a man has become “arguably the most dominant theme of this year’s elections,” according to MSNBC’s Ja'han Jones.
The...
10/07/2024 - 3:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign after the issue lingered on the margins for months.
Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Wednesday to...
10/07/2024 - 2:00am
Originally published by The 19th
Former first lady Melania Trump defends abortion rights in her new memoir, The Guardian reported Wednesday.
Melania Trump wrote in the book, set to publish Tuesday, that abortion is a “personal freedom” — a framing...
10/07/2024 - 1:00am
A Law Was Meant to Target Teen Violence. Instead, 17-Year-Olds Are Being Charged as Adults for Lesser Offenses.
by Richard A. Webster, Verite News
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10/04/2024 - 7:00am
OMAHA — Allegations flew Monday in Nebraska’s most competitive U.S. Senate race, with one campaign threatening legal action over campaign advertising and a report about talk of “Hitler Youth.”
Nebraska nonpartisan candidate Dan Osborn’s campaign...
10/04/2024 - 6:00am
At a donor event last week with Miriam Adelson, the widow of Las Vegas casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, Donald Trump promised to be the best friend Jews have ever had in the White House. The event was entitled "Fighting Antisemitism in America."...
10/04/2024 - 4:00am
The cost of fertilizer is up; crop prices are down. Farmers have struggled through drought, and ranchers sold off huge swaths of their herd.
To top it all off, Congress has yet to pass a new iteration of the farm bill, which expired Monday, and is...
10/04/2024 - 4:00am
ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) — As lawmakers voted on a budget deal at the U.S. Capitol, a different kind of balloting was taking place a dozen miles away in a sun-filled Virginia preschool classroom. At stake: which animated dog was the best character on the...
10/04/2024 - 3:00am
As the Democratic primary for mayor in New York approached in the spring of 2021, most of my friends and colleagues were supporting one of three candidates.
My lefty friends were all rallying around progressive standard-bearer Maya Wiley. My more...
10/04/2024 - 2:00am
A Hospital Kept a Brain-Damaged Patient on Life Support to Boost Statistics. His Sister Is Now Suing for Malpractice.
by Caroline Chen
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10/04/2024 - 1:00am
In the 2024 election cycle, voters without children are under the microscope.
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance has said that “childless cat ladies” and older adults without kids are “sociopaths” who “don’t have a direct stake in this...
10/03/2024 - 7:00am
The 35th annual Commercial Real Estate Summit, a landmark gathering of real estate agents, brokers, investors, and fellow stakeholders was held at the CHI Health Center in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska on August 23.
Nearly 900 people gathered with a...
10/03/2024 - 6:00am
Dream with me for a moment.
Imagine driving into downtown Omaha and seeing a state-of-the-art professional soccer stadium as a part of the city’s gateway and hearing the roar of thousands of soccer fans fill the air. Omaha already knows the thrill...
10/03/2024 - 5:00am
As a first-time renter straight out of high school, Spencer Antrim didn’t know what to expect of his landlord when he signed a lease at Camelot Village Apartments.
The restaurant worker assumed it was normal to have some unresolved maintenance...
10/03/2024 - 4:00am
OMAHA — For Donell Brown, the pieces of a budding real estate business fell into place rather naturally.
By day, he’s a supply chain manager at a Fortune 500 company. But a friend’s suggestion prompted him to soak up Spark’s “developer academy”...