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Zelenskyy Visits Saudi Arabia As Ukraine Provides Expertise Against Iranian Drones

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/30/2026 - 12:00am

A member of the Finnish Border Guard takes part in an exercise, during the JEF leaders' visit on the Finnish Border Guard offshore patrol vessel Turva, prior to the Joint Expeditionary Force JEF Leaders' Summit in Helsinki, Finland, Thursday March 26, 2026.
(Adrian Dennis / Pool Photo via AP)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived Thursday in Saudi Arabia on an unannounced visit, days after revealing that Ukraine is helping five countries in the Middle East and Gulf region counter drone attacks on their territory during the Iran war.

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Nebraska Cases Highlight Legal Morass From ICE Detention

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/30/2026 - 12:00am

Virginia Lissbeth Pineda Lemus, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska, on March 13 was ordered released from ICE custody to build her case against deportation to El Salvador. The release followed a lawsuit filed by the civil liberties nonprofit on her behalf that challenged ICE’s refusal to provide her with a bond hearing.
(Courtesy of ACLU of Nebraska)

OMAHA — A 21-year-old Salvadoran woman who crossed into the United States as an “unaccompanied minor” and found a home in Lincoln was let go from a two-month ICE detention per a March 13 order by a federal judge in Omaha.

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Means' Surgeon General Nomination Is Stalled As Senators Question Her Experience And Vaccine Stance

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/30/2026 - 12:00am

Dr. Casey Means testifies during a Senate Health, Education Labor and Pension Committee confirmation hearing for U.S. Surgeon General on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, in Washington.
(Tom Brenner / AP Photo)

NEW YORK (AP) — Wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means’ nomination to be U.S. surgeon general is stalled a month after senators of both major political parties grilled her on vaccines and other health topics during a tense confirmation hearing, deepening doubts about her ability to secure the votes she needs for the role.

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Lawmakers Spar Over Homeland Security Funding Deal As Shutdown Strains Airport Security

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Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, speaks at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 17, 2025.
(Ben Curtis / AP Photo)

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday were waiting to hear back from Democrats after they sent them a new offer to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which has been shut down since mid-February.

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Ricketts Carries Senate Version Of GOP Bill On Stock Trading Limits, Sales Disclosures

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/23/2026 - 12:00am

OMAHA — The U.S. Senate appears poised to puff from the long-held public disclosure pipe dream of greater financial accountability for congressional stock trading.

U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., on Wednesday proposed the Senate companion to a House proposal to limit and disclose the stock purchases and sales by members of Congress.

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A Hollowed-Out State Department Strains To Manage The Iran War, Officials Say

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/23/2026 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the escalating war in Iran, the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs would ordinarily be at the center of the geopolitical fray.

The bureau’s role would be to coordinate U.S. foreign policy across an 18-country region, much of which has become a chaotic battlefield scarred by drone and missile strikes as the U.S. and Israel remain locked in conflict with Iran.

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Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands To Sean Duffy’s Son-In-Law As He Runs For Congress

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/23/2026 - 12:00am

Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress

The $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, under construction between Manhattan and New Jersey, will improve passenger rail service, an important issue for New York City commuters. It would seem to have nothing to do with what’s happening in northern Wisconsin.

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Nebraska’s U.S. Senators Might Split On Changing Senate Filibuster For ‘SAVE America Act’

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/16/2026 - 12:00am

LINCOLN — Nebraska’s two Republican U.S. senators might be split on weakening the Senate filibuster as Senate leadership tries to cool down calls to nuke the upper chamber’s legislative brakes using a procedural move to temporarily lower the voting threshold.

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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/16/2026 - 12:00am

Images from the missile strike in southern Iran were more horrifying than any of the case studies Air Force combat veteran Wes J. Bryant had pored over in his mission to overhaul how the U.S. military safeguards civilian life.

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Trump Administration Kicks Off New Process To Try To Replace Tariffs Struck Down By Supreme Court

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 03/16/2026 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday opened a new trade investigation into manufacturing in foreign countries — an effort that comes after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s previous use of tariffs by declaring an economic emergency.

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Zelenskyy Visits Saudi Arabia As Ukraine Provides Expertise Against Iranian Drones

Nebraska Cases Highlight Legal Morass From ICE Detention

Means' Surgeon General Nomination Is Stalled As Senators Question Her Experience And Vaccine Stance

Lawmakers Spar Over Homeland Security Funding Deal As Shutdown Strains Airport Security

Ricketts Carries Senate Version Of GOP Bill On Stock Trading Limits, Sales Disclosures

A Hollowed-Out State Department Strains To Manage The Iran War, Officials Say

Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands To Sean Duffy’s Son-In-Law As He Runs For Congress

Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress

Nebraska’s U.S. Senators Might Split On Changing Senate Filibuster For ‘SAVE America Act’

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.

Trump Administration Kicks Off New Process To Try To Replace Tariffs Struck Down By Supreme Court

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