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States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 07/07/2025 - 12:00am

Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator W. Craig Fugate talks on the telephone Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, in Paterson, New Jersey.
(Mel Evans / AP Photo)

States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up

by Jennifer Berry Hawes

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Upheaval at the nation’s top disaster agency is raising anxiety among state and local emergency managers — and leaving major questions about the whereabouts of billions of federal dollars it pays out to them.

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Federal Funding Threats Are Pressuring Nebraska Colleges To Ax Scholarship Preferences. Some Donors Are Pulling Their Money.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/30/2025 - 12:00am

Metropolitan Community College officials eliminated scholarship requirements giving preference to specific student groups in the wake of a U.S. Department of Education letter threatening to pull federal funding if colleges didn’t end practices deemed discriminatory. Losing federal funding would be devastating for MCC and the region, an official said.
(Abiola Kosoko / Flatwater Free Press)

Bob Benzel had quite a few people on his mind in 2019.

The students who the former Ralston High School art teacher watched drop out after becoming pregnant.

His mother, who, in her late 30s, earned her GED and associate’s degree while raising four kids by herself.

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Douglas County Board Hints At Treasurer Replacement For John Ewing Jr.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/30/2025 - 12:00am

Roger Garcia, Douglas County Board chair.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — The Douglas County Board appears poised to appoint a retired chief deputy of the County Treasurer’s Office to fill the top spot in the office left open earlier this month after John Ewing Jr. was elected mayor of Omaha.

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A New Trump Plan Gives DHS And The White House Greater Influence In The Fight Against Organized Crime

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/30/2025 - 12:00am

A New Trump Plan Gives DHS and the White House Greater Influence in the Fight Against Organized Crime

by Tim Golden

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Court Records Describe Omaha Immigration Raid, K-9 Unit Meets Hiding Worker, ‘Agitated’ Protester

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/23/2025 - 12:00am

Immigration agents converge at Glenn Valley Foods on June 10, 2025 for an immigration raid.
(Courtesy of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

OMAHA — Federal officials announced criminal charges this week against five people — four of them protesters — for encounters with immigration agents during the June 10 worksite enforcement raid at Omaha’s Glenn Valley Foods.

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House-Passed Budget Bill Will Devastate Nebraska Communities

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/23/2025 - 12:00am

The House-passed budget reconciliation package in Washington, D.C., will strip away basic health care and food assistance from hundreds of thousands of Nebraskans and their families.

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G7 Leaders Fail To Reach Ambitious Joint Agreements On Key Issues After Trump's Exit

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/23/2025 - 12:00am

European Council President Antonio Costa (from left) Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pose for a family photo during the G7 Summit, in Kananaskis, Alberta, Monday, June 16, 2025.
(Suzanne Plunkett / Pool Photo via AP)

KANANASKIS, Alberta (AP) — Six of the Group of Seven leaders discussed Russia's war in Ukraine and the Israel-Iran conflict but failed to reach major agreements on those and many other top issues — closing a summit that was forced to try and show how the wealthy nations’ club might still shape global policy despite the early departure of U.S. President Donald Trump.

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U.S. Sen. Padilla Blasts Trump ‘Path Toward Fascism’ In LA Immigration Crackdown

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/23/2025 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat who was forcibly removed from a press conference with the secretary of Homeland Security, said Tuesday that his home state is the testing ground for President Donald Trump’s push to deploy the military within the United States.

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Iran's Leader Rejects Call To Surrender, Saying US Intervention Would Cause 'Irreparable Damage'

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/23/2025 - 12:00am

This picture released on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, by the Iranian armed forces claims to show an Israeli drone after being targeted in the central city of Isfahan area, Iran.
(Iranian Armed Forces via AP)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday rejected U.S. calls for surrender in the face of more Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage to them."

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Iran's Leader Rejects Call To Surrender, Saying US Intervention Would Cause 'Irreparable Damage'

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/23/2025 - 12:00am

This picture released on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, by the Iranian armed forces claims to show an Israeli drone after being targeted in the central city of Isfahan area, Iran.
(Iranian Armed Forces via AP)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday rejected U.S. calls for surrender in the face of more Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage to them."

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