Profiles
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around, does it make a sound … Well, without our air, which is filled with molecules, the world would be silent. Sound is a vibration carried by acoustic...
With a booming thud, the drum group begins playing traditional Native American dance music. The group’s singers belt out Lakota (Sioux) lyrics as a woman dressed in regalia begins performing a jingle...
Flying drones. Changing oil and rotating tires. Taking care of elderly patients. At Bellevue Public Schools, it's all part of a day at school.
Vocational education has gained attention as public...
There is a conversation to be had about mental health that hasn’t happened yet. Not anywhere in all the earth has it happened to any degree of merit because the person that needs to have it, has yet...
Some days ago, I got a phone call from The Daily Record, and the first of two questions that was asked of me was,
“Do you like anime?"
I froze, and some part of me was dragged back to middle school...
Today’s News
LINCOLN — Speaker John Arch of La Vista this week outlined the Nebraska Legislature’s biggest 2025 issue as lawmakers return to Lincoln: the state budget.
Arch, who is so far running unopposed to...
Gov. Jim Pillen sits down with the Nebraska Examiner at the Governor’s Mansion in Lincoln on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
Governor Pillen is back in the Governor’s Mansion slowly healing from the terrible spill he took on his horse shortly before Christmas. He has recently done a series of media interviews to show that...
Luigi Mangione is escorted into Manhattan Criminal court for his arraignment on state murder and terror charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, in New York. (Seth Wenig / AP Photo)
My book “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It” was thrust into the spotlight recently, after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and...
LINCOLN — A new state law could lead to greater efficiency in setting rules, regulations and safety standards for some of Nebraska’s smallest school districts.
Nebraska Education Commissioner Brian...
Anchorage Police Say They Witnessed a Sexual Assault in Public. It Took Seven Years for the Case to Go to Trial.
by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
This Week's News
01/10/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — Speaker John Arch of La Vista this week outlined the Nebraska Legislature’s biggest 2025 issue as lawmakers return to Lincoln: the state budget.
Arch, who is so far running unopposed to helm Nebraska’s legislative branch for two more years...
Luigi Mangione is escorted into Manhattan Criminal court for his arraignment on state murder and terror charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, in New York. (Seth Wenig / AP Photo)
01/10/2025 - 5:00am
My book “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It” was thrust into the spotlight recently, after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in what authorities say was a targeted attack...
01/10/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — A new state law could lead to greater efficiency in setting rules, regulations and safety standards for some of Nebraska’s smallest school districts.
Nebraska Education Commissioner Brian Maher reclassified or shifted roughly 80% of the...
01/10/2025 - 3:00am
Anchorage Police Say They Witnessed a Sexual Assault in Public. It Took Seven Years for the Case to Go to Trial.
by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story...
Paul Feilmann asks tenants questions about bug infestations at Omaha Housing Authority apartments. For months, the activist sat outside Underwood Tower with a sign calling on the housing authority to improve living conditions for tenants. (Jeremy Turley / Flatwater Free Press)
01/09/2025 - 7:00am
A class-action lawsuit filed Monday alleges the Omaha Housing Authority failed to eliminate bed bug infestations at high-rise apartments for low-income residents.
The new lawsuit, brought by a pioneering firm in bed bug litigation, comes after a...
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01/09/2025 - 6:00am
I’m going to give you a reading test. Ready? Say these words out loud:
Chip
Hill
Jars
Bep
Fod
Glork
If you’re an adult seeing this, with years and years of reading experience, your brain probably processed the list pretty quickly. You...
01/09/2025 - 5:00am
GRETNA, Nebraska — When State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan proposed legislation to create good life districts two years ago, she envisioned the result would be a Nebraska tourist magnet akin to Kansas City’s Legends retail complex or Minnesota’s Mall of...
01/09/2025 - 4:00am
LONDON (AP) — A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years, researchers said Thursday.
The...
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The Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Omaha, Neb. with steam rising out of the Missouri River on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. (Chris Machian / Omaha World-Herald via AP)
01/09/2025 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — First a bridge and now a Navy destroyer has been named after former Nebraska governor and U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey.
This week, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer...
Jackson Strohbeck, with Baxmeyer Construction Co. Inc, dumps a load of snow on, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, as he and several other front-loader operators work to clear the parking lot at the Crossings at Northwest in St. Ann, Mo. (Christian Gooden / St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
01/09/2025 - 2:00am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The plunging polar vortex brought subfreezing temperatures Tuesday to some of the southernmost points of the U.S., threatening to dump snow on parts of Texas and Oklahoma in the coming days and contributing to a power outage...
01/08/2025 - 7:00am
Slow and steady, 25-year-old Jake Harvath rode his trusty white mare, Bella, down Highway 189 toward Charleston, Utah, with his other two mustangs, Denver and Eddy, in tow.
Motorists roared by in the comfort of their modern modes of transport, but...
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01/08/2025 - 6:00am
In a bit of linguistic gymnastics, a number of states have now banned book bans in public libraries and public schools.
Nebraska should be next in banning book bans. We’ve already hitched the Big Red Wagon to other states in lawsuits from voter...
Students sit on the floor as they have their meals during the kick off of President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious free meal program to feed children and pregnant women nationwide at an elementary school in Banten, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (Tatan Syuflana / AP Photo)
01/08/2025 - 5:00am
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's new government started an ambitious project on Monday to fight malnutrition by feeding nearly 90 million children and pregnant women that is expected to cost $28 billion through 2029, although critics question...
01/08/2025 - 4:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — CES, the annual trade show of all things tech, is upon us.
The multi-day event, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, kicks off this week in Las Vegas — where swaths of the latest gadgets and advances across industries...
01/07/2025 - 7:00am
Former national talk show host Dick Cavett invited social revolution into viewers’ homes courtesy of the 1960s icons he interviewed. And this Nebraskan who gave counterculture a mainstream platform stayed busy in the decades after his show ended –...
01/07/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has blocked the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel — affirming his earlier vow on the presidential campaign trail to prevent the acquisition of...
01/07/2025 - 3:00am
After nearly a week of searching for a suspect in the hit-and-run death of an 81-year-old St. Helena, California woman this summer, police found and arrested a man with the help of license plate reading cameras that registered him near the scene....
The Turo logo is shown in the entryway of Turo in San Francisco, April 29, 2019. (Eric Risberg / AP Photo)
01/07/2025 - 2:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Two deadly incidents on New Year's Day — an attack being investigated as an act of terrorism in New Orleans and an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas — both involved vehicles that were rented on Turo, a peer-to-peer car...
New Orleans police and federal agents investigate a suspected terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's Day on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (Chris Granger / The New Orleans Advocate via AP)
01/06/2025 - 7:00am
NEW ORLEANS — The death toll from a suspected terror attack on Bourbon Street was updated to 15 Wednesday afternoon after a pickup truck tore through Bourbon Street where crowds were celebrating the arrival of the New Year in the early hours of the...
U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb, addresses a business forum in Ashland, after her from left: Sen. Pete Ricketts, Rep. Adrian Smith, Rep. Mike Flood and Rep. Don Bacon listen. (Aaron Sanderford / Nebraska Examiner)
01/06/2025 - 6:00am
The New Year brings a “say so” for Nebraska U.S. Sens. Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts as the president-elect fills a new cabinet. Advising and consenting on such matters is part of Fischer’s and Ricketts’ responsibilities as members of the “world’s...
01/06/2025 - 5:00am
Trump Has Promised to Build More Ships. He May Deport the Workers Who Help Make Them.
by Nicole Foy
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01/06/2025 - 4:00am
The U.S. looks set to have its first-ever Cuban American secretary of state in 2025, after President-elect Donald Trump nominated U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida for the role. But don’t expect that to mean cozier relations between Havana and...
01/06/2025 - 3:00am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The person inside the Tesla Cybertruck that burst into flames outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel suffered a gunshot to the head before the explosion, officials said Thursday.
Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill...
