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04/18/2024 - 12:07am
OMAHA — Responding to a growing demand from students, the University of Nebraska’s main medical training campus is diving into new territory: building new on-campus student housing.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center hopes to self-finance a...
04/18/2024 - 12:06am
BUTLER, Pennsylvania -- On Friday, just hours before United States Steel shareholders approved the sale of the legendary Pittsburgh-based company to Japan's Nippon Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves stood in front of a packed room of...
04/18/2024 - 12:05am
On April 22, 2024, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could radically change how cities respond to the growing problem of homelessness. It also could significantly worsen the nation’s racial justice gap.
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson began...
04/18/2024 - 12:04am
BELLEVUE — Despite not getting all the state funding hoped for this year, a cybersecurity-centric campus that proponents believe will thrust Nebraska into the forefront of national security efforts is moving forward.
Construction could start by the...
04/18/2024 - 12:03am
SPARROWS POINT, Md. (AP) — Nearly three weeks since Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed under the impact of a wayward cargo ship, crews are using the largest crane on the Eastern Seaboard to haul the wreckage to a nearby salvage yard.
The...
04/17/2024 - 12:06am
There are reportedly 54.2 million anglers in the United States, according to a 2023 study by the American Sportfishing Association.
This time of year, all over the country, fishermen and fisherwomen head out to their favorite fishing holes in search...
04/17/2024 - 12:05am
In the 1930s in Nebraska, after an extended drought, great clouds of dust picked up and blew away the very topsoil that this state – and the entire Midwest – depends on to support farms, families and this nation.
It would lead to the displacement of...
04/17/2024 - 12:04am
Before the collapse of the Afghan government in August 2021, girls’ access to education was steadily improving.
In 2019, the Ministry of Education introduced the country’s first Girls Education Policy, known as the GEP. This policy sought to improve...
04/17/2024 - 12:03am
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — In a large, empty parking lot outside Atlanta, one car slowly careened around parking spaces. From the passenger seat, driving instructor Nancy Gobran peered over large sunglasses at her student, a 30-year-old Syrian...
04/17/2024 - 12:02am
If you call 911 in rural Georgia, the nearest emergency responders might come from the local prison.
In 1963, the Georgia Department of Corrections began a program to train incarcerated people as firefighters to support not only their prisons, but...
04/17/2024 - 12:01am
PARIS (AP) — World donors pledged more than $2.1 billion in humanitarian aid for Sudan after a yearlong war that has pushed its population to the brink of famine, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday.
Macron spoke at the end of an...
04/16/2024 - 12:06am
MIAMI (AP) — Having fled economic and political chaos in Venezuela, Luisana Silva now loads carpets for a South Carolina rug company. She earns enough to pay rent, buy groceries, gas up her car — and send money home to her parents.
Reaching the...
04/16/2024 - 12:05am
Eighteen years ago, my friend and I started a business selling handmade, custom-churned ice cream. Our one-of-a-kind flavors – like red velvet cake and maple blonde brownie – have made our old-fashioned parlor a longtime favorite in Omaha.
But our...
04/16/2024 - 12:04am
WASHINGTON — As Congress gears up for negotiations ahead of the 2017 tax law’s expiration, economists and small business owners urged U.S. lawmakers Thursday to extend or make permanent the Trump-era tax cuts.
Business owners from West Virginia and...
04/16/2024 - 12:03am
OMAHA — While Nebraskans might be more accustomed to seeing the Google brand sprawled on suburban data centers, a Google subsidiary is now carving out a home in an office building in Omaha’s urban core.
Google Fiber, a new-to-market high-speed fiber...
04/16/2024 - 12:02am
Few ideas in business are as misunderstood as DEI.
While opposition to DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion – has a long history, it has picked up steam recently.
In 2023, when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, detractors claimed that the bank’s focus...
04/15/2024 - 12:06am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that U.S. defense commitment to Pacific allies was “ironclad” as he gathered Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House on Thursday in...
04/15/2024 - 12:05am
"I'm very pro-choice," Donald Trump said in 1999, when he first flirted with the idea of running for president. "Just very briefly, I'm pro-life," he announced at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2011. In 2016, campaigning for the...
04/15/2024 - 12:04am
LINCOLN — The Nebraska State Bar Foundation is the winner of this year’s Sandra Day O’Connor Award for the Advancement of Civics Education.
The award comes from the National Center for State Courts and recognizes an organization, court, program or...
04/15/2024 - 12:02am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands more firearms dealers across the United States will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores, according to a Biden administration rule that will...
04/15/2024 - 12:02am
What factors must a court consider when the National Labor Relations Board requests an order requiring an employer to rehire terminated workers before the completion of unfair labor practice proceedings?
That’s the central question that the Supreme...
04/15/2024 - 12:01am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Don Beyer's car dealerships were among the first in the U.S. to set up a website. As a representative, the Virginia Democrat leads a bipartisan group focused on promoting fusion energy. He reads books about geometry for fun.
So...
04/12/2024 - 12:06am
WASHINGTON (AP) — For most of her life, Angela Crawford considered herself a fairly conservative Republican — and she voted that way. But then a wave of court rulings and Republican-led actions in states restricted abortion and later in vitro...
04/12/2024 - 12:05am
Donald Trump has done it again. And again.
In a series of social media posts, the former president personally attacked the daughter of the judge presiding over his criminal trial in New York state.
Among other claims, his posts include allegations...
04/12/2024 - 12:04am
LINCOLN — Officials in public schools or other Nebraska political subdivisions could be held liable if they fail to protect children in their care through a proposal inching forward in the Legislature.
Legislative Bill 25, introduced by State Sen....
Michigan School Shooter's Parents Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Not Stopping A 'Runaway Train'
04/12/2024 - 12:03am
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday as a Michigan judge lamented missed opportunities that could have prevented their teenage son from possessing a...
04/12/2024 - 12:02am
The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized strict limits on certain so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they can be reliably measured. Officials say this will reduce...