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Federal officials on Monday announced $10 billion in awards across all 50 states in the second year of the Rural Health Transformation Fund, grants created by Congress to bolster rural health in response to concerns about Medicaid cuts. Texas received the largest grant for the 2027 fiscal year — almost $282 million —…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday his mass deportation campaign, which helped propel his return to the Oval Office, had gone too far and potentially led to Republicans losing the U.S. House and Senate in the midterm elections. “I think it might be too tough, yeah,” Trump said…
The U.S. Department of Justice is dismissing a lawsuit that tried to force California to set aside the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters, marking the formal end of the Trump administration’s most aggressive effort to control vote counting in the lead-up to the midterm elections. The Justice Department filed a…
WASHINGTON — Voters may have given Democrats control of Congress in the midterm elections, but Republicans will remain in charge of both chambers during the lame-duck session that spans November and December. The relatively brief five-week schedule, which begins Monday, gives GOP leaders a chance to wrap up unfinished…
OMAHA — After months of legal wrangling with city officials, a planned $323 million campus of housing, retail and entertainment venues appears back on track at the former home of Omaha’s storied Civic Auditorium. The roughly eight acres of prime downtown real estate had been cleared for development a decade ago, and…
Last week’s national “blue wave” stayed mostly off on Nebraska’s reliably red shores. The changing tide, however, moved closer. That was not only evident in Democrat Denise Powell’s victory in the 2nd Congressional District, the state’s “Blue Dot,” but also in the vote totals of three closely watched races: for…
LINCOLN — A pros-and-cons discussion about one of Nebraska’s most controversial yet championed economic development tools took center stage at a legislative hearing Friday: Is TIF out of control? What, if any, changes should lawmakers pursue? TIF stands for tax-increment financing, and state Sen. Danielle Conrad of…
OMAHA — An incumbent state senator eyed as the frontrunner for speaker of the Nebraska Legislature has conceded his Omaha-area race in a rematch with his 2022 challenger. State Sen. Brad von Gillern of Elkhorn, in a statement Friday, congratulated state Sen.-elect Cindy Maxwell-Ostdiek of Omaha. Since joining the…