Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/08/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A former state tax commissioner and Republican who served in the Legislature is leading a Lincoln effort to change the dates of city elections, let certain residents outside city limits vote in municipal elections and place term limits on Lincoln City Council members.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/08/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information under a deal with the Justice Department that could allow him to avoid prison time, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/08/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed a resolution Wednesday to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran and require congressional approval for further military action in the country.
The 215-208 vote, in which four Republicans voted with all Democrats to adopt the resolution, is the strongest rebuke to date against Trump’s handling of the months-long war that has left more than a dozen military troops dead, killed thousands of Iranian civilians and disrupted global supply chains of fertilizer and oil with the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/08/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — When nearly all the scheduled musical performers pulled out of a concert series marking America’s 250th anniversary — fearing the event had become too closely tied to President Donald Trump — he responded by making it official.
Trump announced he'd now be the headlining act of the Great American State Fair.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/01/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A former Nebraska state lawmaker and U.S. Army veteran hopes his ninth trip to Ukraine since Russia’s February 2022 invasion this week keeps a spotlight on what he fears has become a “forgotten war.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/01/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — A handful of Democratic state attorneys general said Tuesday that expert officials from their offices were denied access to a major White House anti-fraud meeting convened by Vice President JD Vance and attended by Republican AGs.
Two dozen Democratic attorneys general had earlier declined invitations for their own attendance at the White House anti-fraud roundtable, citing extremely short notice and a lack of an agenda in a letter to Vance, who has helmed the Trump administration’s sweeping anti-fraud effort.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces carried out new defensive strikes on Iran on Wednesday after President Donald Trump asserted that Iran is “negotiating on fumes” and insisted that November’s midterm elections in the United States won’t make him rush into a deal to end the nearly three-month-old conflict.
U.S. Central Command forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that posed a threat around the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. officials who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/01/2026 - 12:00am
Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it.
Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent.
This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has involved lawsuits, arrests, deportations and expulsions.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 05/25/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has hired a new campaign team — one with deep ties to President Donald Trump.
Republican campaign consultant Ryan Smith will serve as the campaign’s general or top consultant, replacing Axiom Strategy’s Jessica Flanagain, whom many know for her work with U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts.
Florida-based Smith has been involved with Republican campaigns and causes across the country for 20 years, the Florida Politics noted. Smith also served as an advisor to MAGA Inc, a super PAC that functions as Trump’s primary outside political operation.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 05/25/2026 - 12:00am
“Death and taxes,” my father would tell me as a child, “are the only things a man cannot escape.” Those words were spoken with the iron assurance of a man who had seen the many avenues of life, and with time, I came to know them to be true as well. Like any living entity, a government seeks the resources it needs to sustain itself and grow; what it needs is money, almost exclusively drawn from taxes. As any sane man would, I should add that I am not in love with taxes, but I understand their necessity if not the scalping, gutter-scraping nature with which politicians apply them.