Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/09/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A new state law that took effect this week authorizes emergency medical services crews to provide care or transportation to Nebraska K-9s if one is ever injured in the line of duty.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/09/2025 - 12:00am
The world is ever-changing, and politics are along with it. These things are given; however, am I the only one who thinks that people are just getting dumber? It was a general feeling I had, and I wondered after it and chased it down.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/09/2025 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — The former Librarian of Congress abruptly fired by President Donald Trump has found a new position with the country's largest philanthropic supporter of the arts.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/09/2025 - 12:00am
The legislative package that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, has several provisions that will shrink the safety net, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, long known as food stamps. SNAP spending will decline by an estimated US$186 billion through 2034 as a result of several changes Congress made to the program that today helps roughly 42 million people buy groceries – an almost 20% reduction.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/09/2025 - 12:00am
FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The humble road rumble strip, used around the world to alert drifting drivers to potential hazards or lane departures, can play Beethoven on a mountain highway in the far reaches of the United Arab Emirates.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — In the time before widespread vaccination, devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children and leaving others with lifelong health problems.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am
The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across nearly 23 million acres of northern Alaska. It’s called the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, but despite its industrial-sounding name, the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, or NPR-A, is much more than a fuel depot.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am
In Mandi Sedlak’s world, everything seems to fit. Even in her worst moments.
It’s true of her golf game, her husband, her career and the prosthetic leg connecting these threads. The Kearney native will be relying on the list’s last item when she competes in the U.S. Adaptive Open at Woodmont Country Club in Maryland July 7-9.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am
Christopher Pelkey was shot and killed in a road range incident in 2021. On May 8, 2025, at the sentencing hearing for his killer, an AI video reconstruction of Pelkey delivered a victim impact statement. The trial judge reported being deeply moved by this performance and issued the maximum sentence for manslaughter.