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News Articles: Nebraska

Richie poses for a portrait behind a restaurant last month in Fremont, Neb. Richie left El Salvador earlier this year and crossed to the U.S. through the CBP One app. He is now working at a factory in town. His wife and daughter are still in El Salvador.

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  • National

Immigrants drive Nebraska's economy. Trump's mass deportations pledge is a threat

Nebraska is one of the top meat producers in the U.S. It also has one of the worst labor shortages. The incoming Trump administration has promised mass deportations on an unprecedented scale. We asked Nebraskans what that could mean.

January 17, 2025
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  • Jasmine Garsd
The Nebraska State Capitol is seen in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 14, 2024.

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  • Politics

A GOP push to change how Nebraska awards its electoral votes appears to have stalled

Republicans have sought to have the state switch to a winner-take-all system. The change would block one of Vice President Harris' main paths to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.

September 24, 2024
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  • NPR Washington Desk
Heavy rains cause high water levels at the Rapidan Dam near Mankato, Minn., on Monday, June 24, 2024. Officials say the dam is threatened with “imminent failure.”

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  • Weather

More rain is possible in the deluged Midwest as flooding kills 2 and threatens a dam

Severe storms are forecast for Tuesday in parts of western Iowa and eastern Nebraska and showers and storms are also possible in parts of South Dakota and Minnesota.

June 25, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

The abortion debate is headed to the ballot box. Here's where voters will decide

From Florida to Arizona, reproductive rights supporters seek to add abortion access to state constitutions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion in 2022.

May 29, 2024
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  • The NPR Network

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  • Elections

Here are Nebraska's 2024 primary election results

Voting concludes Tuesday in Nebraska's presidential, U.S. Senate and U.S. House primary contests. Follow the live results.

May 14, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Terry Kicking sifts through the damage after a tornado leveled his home on Friday in Omaha, Neb.

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  • Weather

Tornadoes collapse buildings and level homes in Nebraska and Iowa

Tornadoes wreaked havoc Friday in the Midwest, causing a building to collapse with dozens of people inside and destroying and damaging hundreds of homes, many around Omaha, Neb.

April 27, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Gopala Penmetsa walks past his house after it was leveled by a tornado near Omaha, Neb., on Friday.

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  • Weather

Midwest tornadoes cause severe damage in Omaha suburbs

Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska but the most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into suburbs northwest of Omaha. Hundreds of homes and other structures have been damaged.

April 26, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks during an interview with The Associated Press on Nov. 8, in Des Moines. Iowa will not participate this summer in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs while school is out.

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  • National

Iowa, Nebraska won't participate in U.S. food assistance program for kids this summer

The federal program gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs while school is out. A Democratic Iowa lawmaker called it a "cruel and short-sighted decision."

December 25, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Sharon Hudson (left) has advanced Alzheimer's. But she smiles and giggles when her daughter, Lana Obermeyer, visits at the Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Syracuse, Nebraska.

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  • On Aging

Rural nursing home operators say new staff rules would cause more closures

The Biden administration says a recently proposed minimum staffing standard would help ensure quality care, but nursing home leaders predict it will accelerate a trend of closures in rural America.

September 14, 2023
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  • Tony Leys
Juju Tyner of Lincoln, right, leads the singing of "Over the Rainbow" during the protest of LB 574, which limits gender-affirming care for trans youth, on Friday, May 19, 2023, in Lincoln, Neb.

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  • National

Nebraska passes 12-week abortion ban and restrictions on gender-affirming care

The state's Legislature passed a 12-week abortion ban and restrictions on gender-affirming care for people under 19. The state's Republican governor has promised to sign it into law.

May 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Students help run the Circle C Market in rural Cody, Neb., as part of classwork. As rural areas struggle to keep traditional grocery stores, some communities are finding innovative ways to keep the stores running.

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  • Health

Rural grocery stores are dying. Here's how some small towns are trying to save them

When a town loses its grocery store, it also loses a local source of healthy food and a place for neighbors to gather and connect. But some communities are finding innovative ways to keep shops open.

April 19, 2023
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  • Aaron Bonderson
Protesters line the street June 4 around the front of the Nebraska State Capitol during an Abortion Rights Rally in Lincoln, Neb.

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  • National

A Nebraska woman is charged with helping her daughter have an abortion

Police say that in Facebook messages they've obtained, Jessica Burgess tells her 17-year-old daughter that she has abortion pills to end her 24-week pregnancy. They're both charged with felonies.

August 10, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Nebraska, center, speaks with the media outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles, on Thursday.

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  • Politics

Nebraska Rep. Jeff Fortenberry is found guilty in contributions probe

The Nebraska congressman was charged after denying to the FBI that he was aware he had received illicit funds from Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian billionaire of Lebanese descent.

March 25, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Workers install cryptocurrency mining computers inside a converted shipping container at the Compute North facility in Nebraska.

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  • World

How the U.S. benefits when China turns its back on Bitcoin

Until the middle of last year, most cryptocurrency mining took place in China. Then authorities pulled the plug. So Chinese bitcoin miners began moving their gear to U.S. towns like Kearney, Nebraska.

February 24, 2022
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  • John Ruwitch and
  • Emily Feng
GPB News NPR

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  • Strange News

There Can Only Be One: Battle Of The Joshes Brings Hundreds To Nebraska

Armed with pool noodles, hundreds of people who share the first name Josh gathered Saturday in Lincoln, Neb., to vie for the right to their name.

April 25, 2021
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  • Chloee Weiner
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