Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 4:00am
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was exploring whether he can move forward with El Salvador’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals in the “most severe cases" even as he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both say it raises clear legal issues.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 3:00am
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report, lawyers for his family said Wednesday.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 2:00am
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. to someone in the country illegally, calling citizenship a “most precious right.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/07/2025 - 1:00am
LINCOLN — He isn’t yet responding to requests to talk to Nebraska media. But others are talking a lot about former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Luke Farritor’s reported role in Elon Musk’s effort to reduce federal government spending.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — State lawmakers, Gov. Jim Pillen and the president of the University of Nebraska were among those Tuesday seeking to understand the state-level impacts of a federal pause and review of certain financial assistance programs by the Trump administration.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week — an unprecedented move to shrink the U.S. government at breakneck speed.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on whether a group of gun owners needs to run afoul of Lincoln weapons ordinances and an executive order by Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird before suing the city for enacting them.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/24/2025 - 6:00am
There is probably an image of a bleeding-heart progressive dying on a cross that they put themself on at the top of many articles or videos made about why you should support Ukraine, with headlines and themes like, “It’s morally right!" and "look at the cruelty in the war!”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/24/2025 - 5:00am
OMAHA — Police chiefs in Nebraska’s two largest cities said Tuesday they are unaware of any planned immigration raids or other enforcement activities coming to their areas as a result of President Donald Trump’s promised crackdown on illegal immigration.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 01/24/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on his first full day in office Tuesday defended his decision to grant clemency to people convicted of assaulting police officers during the 2021 attack on the Capitol and suggested there could be a place in American politics for the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, extremist groups whose leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy against the U.S.