Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/19/2024 - 12:01am
As the Republican National Committee ramps up plans to monitor the polls for illegal voting this fall, the national party is increasingly working with a loose network of anti-fraud extremists who have been found to routinely spread election lies.
The extremists also have close ties to the prominent far-right conspiracy theorists who tried to overturn the 2020 results of the presidential election.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 04/15/2024 - 12:02am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands more firearms dealers across the United States will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores, according to a Biden administration rule that will soon go into effect.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/12/2024 - 12:06am
WASHINGTON (AP) — For most of her life, Angela Crawford considered herself a fairly conservative Republican — and she voted that way. But then a wave of court rulings and Republican-led actions in states restricted abortion and later in vitro fertilization, the very procedure that had helped her conceive her daughter. It helped change her politics.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/12/2024 - 12:05am
Donald Trump has done it again. And again.
In a series of social media posts, the former president personally attacked the daughter of the judge presiding over his criminal trial in New York state.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/12/2024 - 12:04am
LINCOLN — Officials in public schools or other Nebraska political subdivisions could be held liable if they fail to protect children in their care through a proposal inching forward in the Legislature.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/12/2024 - 12:03am
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday as a Michigan judge lamented missed opportunities that could have prevented their teenage son from possessing a gun and killing four students in 2021.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/12/2024 - 12:02am
The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized strict limits on certain so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they can be reliably measured. Officials say this will reduce exposure for 100 million people and help prevent thousands of illnesses, including cancers.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/05/2024 - 12:06am
Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor’s long fight to preserve the practice.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/05/2024 - 12:05am
Former President Donald Trump claims that the president of the United States is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution.
On March 19, 2024, Trump filed his brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith for Trump’s alleged criminal attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 04/05/2024 - 12:03am
LINCOLN — A state lawmaker seeking to define all K-12 school bathrooms and sporting teams based on students’ sex at birth received legal support Tuesday from the state’s top attorney.