Published by jason@omahadail... on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — A Sandhills-area school district will pay $227,500 and hold cultural sensitivity training for its staff as part of a settlement over an incident in which two Lakota students hair was cut without permission.
Another aspect of the federal lawsuit consent decree on Wednesday bans the Cody-Kilgore School District from cutting any student’s hair without parental permission or during a head lice check.
Published by jason@omahadail... on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — Days after Nebraska’s gender care restrictions took effect, lawmakers are asking for more information, including immediate guidance on how physicians should carry out the law.
Published by jason@omahadail... on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 2:00am
Back in March, Hawaii state Sen. Chris Lee introduced legislation urging the U.S. Congress to consider the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence technologies.
But he didn’t write it. Artificial intelligence did.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 10/02/2023 - 5:00am
Republican women are twice as likely as Republican men to say there are too few women in high-profile political offices, and they are less certain about the prospect of achieving equal representation than men of both parties, a new survey from the Pew Research Center found.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 10/02/2023 - 4:00am
The ax cut through the thick rope, sending 38 Santee Dakota men to their deaths. The largest mass execution in American history happened in freezing temperatures on Dec. 26, 1862, before hundreds of residents in Mankato, Minnesota.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 10/02/2023 - 3:00am
Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Does this sentence constitute “propaganda,” as Vice President Kamala Harris proclaimed, “an attempt to gaslight us?”
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 09/25/2023 - 4:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old Australian media magnate whose creation of Fox News made him a force in American politics, is stepping down as leader of both Fox's parent company and his News Corp. media holdings.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 09/25/2023 - 3:00am
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — When former President Donald Trump visits Detroit this week, he'll be looking to blunt criticisms from a United Auto Workers union leadership that has said a second term for him would be a "disaster" for workers.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 09/18/2023 - 5:00am
HOUSTON (AP) — While a federal judge on Wednesday declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, he declined to order an immediate end to the program and the protections it offers to recipients.