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04/23/2024 - 12:07am
DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers’ ambitious drive to expand its reach to nonunion factories across the South and elsewhere faces a key test Friday night, when workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will finish voting on...
04/23/2024 - 12:06am
When we consider how leaders get to the top, we might think of somebody like Jordan Belfort, the millionaire stock broker portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Wolf of Wall Street. And humility is probably not the word that comes to mind.
However,...
04/23/2024 - 12:05am
LINCOLN — It was hard for Mark Gentert to admit, but the COVID-19 pandemic was probably good, in a “twisted way,” for sales at his small-town meat locker outside of Hastings.
“The grocery stores were running out of meat,” Gentert said. “It started...
04/23/2024 - 12:04am
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — BNSF Railway attorneys are expected to argue before jurors Friday that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an asbestos-contaminated Montana town, one of the deadliest...
04/23/2024 - 12:04am
LONDON (AP) — Olympic organizers unveiled their plans Friday to use artificial intelligence in sports, joining the global rush to capitalize on the rapidly advancing technology.
The International Olympic Committee outlined its agenda for taking...
04/22/2024 - 12:07am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Joe Biden suggested to cheering, unionized steelworkers on Wednesday that his administration would thwart the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company, and he called for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel,...
04/22/2024 - 12:06am
Paying "hush money" to keep an extramarital affair quiet is not a crime. And falsifying business records to cover it up is not a felony. What makes it one - or 34, the number of felony counts Trump has been charged with -- is an "intent to defraud"...
04/22/2024 - 12:05am
Like many Americans, Ron Theusch is getting more worried about climate change.
A resident of Alden, Minnesota, Theusch has noticed increasingly dry and mild winters punctuated by short periods of severe cold — symptoms of a warming planet.
As he...
04/22/2024 - 12:04am
WASHINGTON — U.S. House members tasked with addressing what happens to loads of user data collected by big tech companies see a “long overdue” opportunity for a national privacy standard, particularly for children and teens.
Lawmakers on a subpanel...
04/22/2024 - 12:03am
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans unveiled three bills Wednesday that would provide $95 billion overall in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, instead of voting on a similar bipartisan Senate-approved package that’s been waiting around for...
04/19/2024 - 12:07am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are set for the first time to pass a bill that would block the public from voting on a ballot measure initiated by citizens of the state, setting up what could be a long battle over whether to fund private...
04/19/2024 - 12:06am
There is no place like Nebraska. Well, Maine is like Nebraska. But just Nebraska and Maine are the only two places where the states divide the Electoral College votes.
We really dodged a bullet here. If the push had been made earlier in the...
04/19/2024 - 12:05am
LINCOLN — U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts is bankrolling a conservative ballot effort to ban abortions in the Nebraska constitution after the first trimester, or 13 weeks of pregnancy.
Ricketts, R-Neb., gave $500,000 to the effort. He was the only donor...
04/19/2024 - 12:04am
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s broadcasters are mounting an 11th-hour advertising blitz in hopes of overturning a proposed new tax on “digital ads” by Gov. Jim Pillen to finance his property tax relief plan.
The ads, which started running over the weekend on...
04/19/2024 - 12:03am
Boeing was the subject of dual Senate hearings Wednesday as Congress examined allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer, which has been pushed into crisis mode since a door-plug panel blew off a 737 Max jetliner...
04/19/2024 - 12:01am
As the Republican National Committee ramps up plans to monitor the polls for illegal voting this fall, the national party is increasingly working with a loose network of anti-fraud extremists who have been found to routinely spread election lies....
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...