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WASHINGTON — Every child in the United States with a valid Social Security number is now enrolled in a tax-advantaged investment account, titled a “Trump Account,” President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. Parents must claim the accounts by downloading a Trump Account mobile app. Children born from 2025 through 2028…
Urban hospitals are closing at roughly the same rate as rural ones, and the shuttered hospitals are more likely to have served communities with high poverty rates and fewer transportation options, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal JAMA. Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
New preliminary research from the University of Michigan shows women living in states with post-Dobbs abortion bans may be more likely to shoulder costs for employer-sponsored health insurance premiums, with federal data reflecting a 5.4% increase in annual premium expenditures for those women after 2022, when most…
The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, and weighed using undercover agents to investigate voter registration efforts by nonprofit groups. The reports from May and June by…
Candidates are asking Nebraskans for our votes again. Before we give them one, we should ask for something in return. Give us the facts. Give us the numbers. Show us the data. Then show us the plan. That should be our standard for anyone who wants to be our governor or represent Nebraska in the
LINCOLN — A Lincoln state senator accused city officials Wednesday of improperly taxing residents outside city limits and pledged to seek legislation to force refunds to taxpayers. State Sen. Beau Ballard, one of 10 state senators whose districts include part of Lincoln, announced his office had received evidence from…
LINCOLN — A nearly $19 million financial boost is coming to help rescue Nebraska grasslands. “Unprecedented” is how the state grant coordinator, Laura Rubeck, described the investment by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service to help Nebraska landowners implement conservation…
WASHINGTON — Nearly all of the U.S. senators elected this year will be in office when Congress debates how to restructure Social Security to prevent an automatic drop-off in retirement benefits in 2032. Very few candidates in competitive races, however, have policy proposals on their campaign websites and many, when…