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State auditor finds $1 billion in errors in Lancaster County Treasurer’s office Nebraska Public Media

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Nebraska counties got money meant to combat the opioid crisis. Some are spending it on Flock cameras and other police tools. Flatwater Free Press

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Gov. Pillen backs ICE crackdown. His company employs undocumented workers. Flatwater Free Press

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A Nebraska city voted to ban Flock cameras. The county wants to keep surveilling drivers anyway. Flatwater Free Press

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Updated: Electric shock gloves already in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha Nebraska Public Media

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Nebraska's U.S. House Delegation split over GOP ag temporary worker bill Nebraska Public Media

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WASHINGTON — As the November midterms approach, vulnerable U.S. House Republicans voted late Tuesday to require congressional approval for President Donald Trump to continue his war in Iran. Seven Republicans broke ranks and joined all Democrats to pass a War Powers Resolution sponsored by Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat. Tuesday’s vote marked the third […]

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WASHINGTON — Voters are much more likely to support U.S. Senate candidates in the November midterm elections if they have a plan to avoid an automatic cut to Social Security benefits in 2032, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Peter G. Peterson Foundation. “Senators elected this fall will be in office in […]

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A growing number of states are making an equal split between parents the default child custody option in divorce cases. Louisiana and Mississippi this year joined at least five other states that have adopted the so-called 50-50 standard — four of them since 2021, as more legislators rework divorce-related laws that remained mostly unchanged for years. The […]

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The official poverty rate in the United States dipped slightly by half a percentage point last year to a historic low of 10.2%, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesday. The supplemental poverty rate, a more holistic figure that includes an individual’s non-cash resources, remained essentially unchanged at 13.1%, according to the bureau’s annual […]

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LINCOLN — Forty-eight Nebraska judges face an up-or-down vote this November on whether they can stay in office through 2032, including two Workers’ Compensation Court judges who serve statewide. Depending on the county where they live, Nebraska voters will see at least two judges and as many as 15 on their ballots. The most are in […]

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LINCOLN — A newly released state audit alleges nearly $1 billion in accounting “blunders” and a “gross mishandling” of local tax revenues by the Lancaster County Treasurer’s Office. The 37-page report from Nebraska State Auditor Mike Foley details what he called “systematic issues” and accounting errors in the public office that has custody and control of […]

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday moved forward on a sweeping bipartisan bill that would set national standards for college athletes’ compensation. The measure breezed through its first procedural vote that needed 60 senators to advance, 74-24. The legislation is the latest congressional push to overhaul the college sports landscape, which continues to wrestle with […]

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The Trump administration will comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s order this week blocking new restrictions on mail voting for this year’s elections, but President Donald Trump was right to attack the ruling, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said during a wide-ranging White House press conference Tuesday. Concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence are […]

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WASHINGTON — FBI Director Kash Patel sidestepped questions about FBI agents at polling places in the midterm elections at a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday that also featured a tense exchange between GOP Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey. With the November midterm elections fast approaching and the parties […]

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WASHINGTON — Three former U.S. Education Department secretaries and the union representing agency workers on Tuesday urged the department’s top watchdog to investigate the cost and impact of mass firings last year. Former U.S. Education Secretaries Arne Duncan and John B. King Jr., who led the department during the Obama administration, and Miguel Cardona of the […]

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WASHINGTON — The cost of U.S. military operations in Iran has exceeded $40 billion and the war will continue to cost taxpayers between $2 billion and $3 billion per month, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The ongoing bombing campaign, which President Donald Trump launched alongside the Israeli government […]

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LINCOLN — Nebraska’s tax receipts for August broke a string of five straight months of revenues falling below economic forecasts, due to continued high sales and use tax collections. The state Department of Revenue’s report on August’s tax receipts showed a net gain of 1.2% compared to what Nebraska’s Economic Forecasting Advisory Board had predicted […]

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WASHINGTON — With the U.S. Senate set to hold a procedural vote in the coming days on a sweeping bill to overhaul college sports, dueling press conferences Monday underscored the fierce debate over how to tackle the biggest issues plaguing that landscape. Supporters of a bipartisan measure to set national standards for college athletes’ compensation, […]

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WALTHILL — For 37 years, Vida Stabler raised a family and carefully maintained a two-and-a-half story, Folk Victorian home in this reservation town. It was a fixer-upper, she said, but ideal for her and her husband, newly married. “I loved every morning here,” Stabler said. “Sitting out on the porch. Being surrounded by all the […]