Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — From crypto coins to bibles, overseas development deals to an upcoming line of cellphones, President Donald Trump's family businesses have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars since his election.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are in merger talks to create the largest railroad in North America that would connect the East and West Coasts.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00am
On a bitter October morning in 1982, Chuck Zangger stood in his field near North Loup, staring at the brittle, ruined stalks of corn. The early frost had stolen the popcorn grower’s harvest — 600 acres of kernels that would never pop.
He knelt, scooping a handful of hard, lifeless seeds into his palm, rubbing them between his fingers as the wind whistled through the empty husks. Years of work, gone overnight.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/15/2025 - 12:00am
The tyranny of the sun is only so without shade; on a hot Omaha day, wood chip paths wound under well-maintained tree-cover. Almost out of sight, birds somersaulted in tandem in their ever-dance under and above the outstretched branches holding back the heat – and if the harshness of the day still attempted to join the earth, it had to pass the awning of leaves where it was then filtered into pleasant sunbeams.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/15/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — As commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick oversees the U.S. government’s vast efforts to monitor and predict the weather.
The billionaire also ran a financial firm, which he recently left in the control of his adult sons, that stands to benefit if President Donald Trump’s administration follows through on a decade-long Republican effort to privatize government weather forecasting.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/15/2025 - 12:00am
At its heart, pizza is deceptively simple. Made from just a few humble ingredients – baked dough, tangy sauce, melted cheese and maybe a few toppings – it might seem like a perfect candidate for the kind of mass-produced standardization that defines many global food chains, where predictable menus reign supreme.