Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 12/27/2024 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The economic and technological rivalry between the United States and China has come to the drone market, where Chinese-made flying devices are a dominant player.
Lawmakers in Washington are seeking to ban new sales of drones from two dominant Chinese manufacturers, arguing they could be used to spy on Americans and that the low-cost models are hurting the U.S. drone industry.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 12/27/2024 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., won’t let former U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., stall his trial in hopes that the next leaders of the Justice Department will drop the felony charges prosecutors have re-filed against him.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 12/27/2024 - 2:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation early Saturday to boost Social Security payments for millions of people, pushing a longtime priority for former public employees through Congress in one of its last acts for the year.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 7:00am
KEARNEY, Neb. — Legislative leaders are embracing potential changes to state law meant to reinforce their oversight role after Nebraska’s top prosecutor last year questioned the constitutional scope of two legislatively empowered investigators.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 4:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from a Pennsylvania jail.
Luigi Mangione already was charged with murder in the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson, but the terror allegation is new.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska on Monday became the first state to sue Tennessee-based Change Healthcare over the company’s massive data breach that cost at least 575,000 Nebraskans their personal information and medical records.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 12/13/2024 - 6:00am
LATROBE, Pennsylvania -- The making of whiskey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has often been fraught with a fair amount of drama. Whether it was those trying to make it or those trying to drink it, the government has sought to tax and sometimes even ban both activities.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 12/13/2024 - 5:00am
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The man charged with murder in the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare made it clear he wasn’t going to make things easy for authorities, shouting unintelligibly and writhing in the grip of sheriff’s deputies as he was led into court and then objecting to being taken to New York to face trial.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 12/13/2024 - 3:00am
President-elect Donald Trump often said during the 2024 presidential campaign that he plans to launch the nation’s largest-ever mass deportation operation in his second term.
Trump has pledged to carry out this work by using an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.