CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law banning firearms advertising that officials determine produces a public safety threat or ap…
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This month, I am traveling across the state to visit with Nebraskans and update them on what I've been working on as a member of the U.S. Sena…
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Deb Fischer provides an update about her work in the U.S. Senate.
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Pete Ricketts provides an update on his work in the U.S. Senate.
OMAHA — An attempt Friday by an attorney for the Nebraska Freedom Coalition to sidestep State Sen. Megan Hunt’s defamation lawsuit is being taken under advisement for at least the weekend by a Douglas County District Court judge. District Judge Todd Engleman will decide on the motion to dismiss. He is hearing the civil case […]
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No immediate decision was reached Friday in a lawsuit alleging a political action committee defamed a Nebraska lawmaker by accusing her of grooming her transgender son.
The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the state's ban on the sale or possession of the type of semiautomatic weapons used in hundreds of mass killings nationally.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is asking Congress to approve more than $40 billion in additional spending for Ukraine, border security, FEMA’s disaster response and wildland firefighters pay. The supplemental spending request comes in the middle of Congress’ annual August recess, giving lawmakers weeks to mull over the proposal for additional spending before returning to […]
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WASHINGTON — The new Republican chairwoman of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee said just before taking over the panel that she planned to “tweak” how the chamber earmarks spending for community projects — coveted state and local funding that members of Congress request. Some of those changes hinted at by Kay Granger of Texas have […]
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The Fremont City Council hosted its shortest meeting of 2023 on Tuesday night, Aug. 8, with only five of the eight member council present for the roughly 29-minute gathering.
The specific terms of a pipeline company’s contracts with ethanol plants in Iowa are key to a decision about whether it deserves a permit to build, an administrative law judge has decided. As such, the judge said last week that Summit Carbon Solutions should be required to provide that information to the Iowa Farm Bureau […]
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Nebraska's congressional delegation insisted Tuesday that despite the state's workforce issues, any reshaping immigration policy will start with the Southern border.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is spending more than $3 billion to cultivate more American farmers and forest landowners as partners to mitigate climate change — even while some Republicans on Capitol Hill try to stop the program entirely. The administration launched a new farm program, Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities, this year. It is […]
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(CNN) — Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California was hospitalized for a short time Tuesday after a fall, according to a spokesperson, th…
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ASHLAND, Nebraska — Workers are hard to come by, and Congress should help. State business leaders shared that message and more with Nebraska’s all-GOP congressional delegation Tuesday during the annual summit held by the Nebraska, Omaha and Lincoln Chambers of Commerce at the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum. Local chamber members and Christine Scullion, […]
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Attorneys general in Iowa and Nebraska have filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force it to end the federal waiver for a common ethanol blend to be sold during the summer in those states. Here’s the idea behind the lawsuit: Eliminating that waiver would force refiners to reduce the volatility of gasoline […]
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The next few months could prove critical to the biggest environmental program in last year’s climate, tax and health care law: the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. House Republicans seek to rescind much of it.
America’s democracy, long admired and imitated around the world, now seems to be hurtling uncontrollably toward a 2024 presidential election campaign discombobulation unlike anything we have ever seen -- or our visionary Founders even imagined.
In 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that states could not impose congressional term limits — it would take a constitutional amendment to accomplish the objective. Nearly 30 years later, it may be time to embark down such a path.
LINCOLN — Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers recently joined counterparts in 26 other states in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn or clarify a legal precedent that could have major implications for federal regulatory authority. Nebraska was one of 27 states that joined a July 24 filing to the Supreme Court regarding the deference that […]
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(CNN) — Bernie Hayes has spent most Mondays since the overturning of Roe v. Wade meeting with friends outside of an Iowa Planned Parenthood trying to stop abortions one at a time. He huddles monthly with other like-minded activists plotting more wholesale paths to halting the procedure.
JERUSALEM — Israel is being rocked by a wave of mass protests calling for the country's democracy to be upheld. But the pro-democracy movement…
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Deb Fischer provides an update about her work in the U.S. Senate.