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01/13/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Calling affordable child care vital to Nebraska’s workforce, business leaders joined other advocates Thursday in championing a proposed state law to extend current income eligibility levels for a child care subsidy.
Hunter Traynor,...
01/13/2026 - 12:00am
Imagine you are searching for a new mattress online and find something surprising. The retailer displays an ad featuring a “Mattress Comfort Scale” running from 1 (soft) to 10 (firm), followed by the message that if your firmness preference is at...
01/13/2026 - 12:00am
Ah, the new year! What a good time to change bad habits in one’s life. A time in which people make ‘new-year’s resolutions’, or perhaps more accurately, what they make as self-promises are actually prophecies which most hope will be fulfilled. At...
01/13/2026 - 12:00am
Dr. Ali Khan knelt down outside a Karachi doorway and extended his hand. The young girl who, moments earlier, had just received the polio vaccine extended her hand and a skeptical look toward the smiling doctor in a red hat emblazoned with a white N...
01/12/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate advanced a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, sounding a note of disapproval for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere....
01/12/2026 - 12:00am
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The federal government is reducing the number of vaccines it formally recommends to all children in...
01/12/2026 - 12:00am
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis was on edge Thursday following the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal officer taking part in the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown, with protesters venting their outrage, the governor urging...
01/12/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers are preparing to suspend legislative rules to speed up the process of expelling a state senator for the first time in state history.
The Executive Board, a group of legislative leaders that serve as the human resources...
01/09/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it launched what it described as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out by the agency — with 2,000 federal agents and officers expected in the...
01/09/2026 - 12:00am
With Congress back in session, legislators will take up a set of issues they haven’t comprehensively addressed since 2018 – the year the last farm bill passed.
Farm bills are massive pieces of legislation that address a diverse constellation of...
01/09/2026 - 12:00am
MIAMI (AP) — In 2017, as political outsider Donald Trump headed to Washington, Delcy Rodríguez spotted an opening.
Then Venezuela's foreign minister, Rodríguez directed Citgo — a subsidiary of the state oil company — to make a $500,000 donation to...
01/09/2026 - 12:00am
I knew this artist once who had been working on his craft for some years off and on. We related to each other on the same activities and often met up to talk about current artworks and projects. One day, his work passed in front of the right person...
01/09/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska officials explored the statewide implications if the U.S. gets involved in a major war or “armed conflict” as part of a new state report issued this month on external threats.
Gov. Jim Pillen briefed the press Monday on the new...
01/08/2026 - 12:00am
SPRING CITY, Pa. (AP) — Tech companies and developers looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don’t want to...
01/08/2026 - 12:00am
James Bruton grew up in rural Texas where the night skies were full of constellations.
As he moved to larger cities, before ultimately settling in Des Moines, evening star gazing faded away for Bruton and could only be found with intentional trips...
01/08/2026 - 12:00am
As of Dec. 30, there were 46 high wind warnings in Nebraska in 2025. That count ties the record high since the agency started keeping track of that statistic 20 years ago.
Rick Peters had a 30-foot pine tree in the backyard of his Lincoln home until...
01/07/2026 - 12:00am
Across the United States, political polarization has deepened to historic levels. In a report published in May 2025, the Pew Research Center found that Americans are more divided and less trusting of one another than at any point in recent decades....
01/07/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere to be found.
It’s not on display at the Capitol, as is required by law...
01/07/2026 - 12:00am
Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling city air. The famed “Crying Indian” commercial of 1971 became a symbol of widespread environmental damage across the United...
01/07/2026 - 12:00am
One of the first times I walked into Swine Dining, it was still the Old Fontenelle Gun Shop, my dad was working some part-time hours, and I had just finished school suspension at the “Success Center” across the street. I don’t remember what I did,...
01/07/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — The Nebraska Medicine board announced Sunday that it had launched an “informational website” aimed at shaping public opinion against letting one of the nonprofit’s owners sell its 50% leadership stake to the other, the University of Nebraska...



































