By Zach Wendling | Reporter
“Allowing people of obvious means to infiltrate a program, like WIC, aimed at helping our low-income citizens, is simply wrong.” — Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts Mike Foley, addressing a recent audit of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program.
A SNAP and EBT sign in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Aug. 1, 2023. (Getty Images)
HEALTH
By Erin Bamer
LINCOLN — Nebraska Auditor Mike Foley highlighted deficiencies in the state’s implementation of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program in a Tuesday report, noting multiple beneficiaries that exceeded the income threshold for eligibility.
Lina Traslaviña Stover is among a slate of speakers at a South Omaha rally reflecting on the impact of an ICE raid a year ago. (Cindy Gonzalez/Nebraska Examiner)
LABOR & GROWTH
By Cindy Gonzalez
OMAHA — A year has passed since roughly 80 federal and local agents plus a canine unit converged on Omaha’s Glenn Valley Foods and in buses hauled away roughly 75 undocumented workers. It was the biggest immigration raid in Nebraska since 2018.
Nebraska U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts during his campaign event in Omaha on Jan. 16, 2026. (Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)
ELECTION 2026
By Juan Salinas II
LINCOLN — Nebraska U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts hosted a roughly one-hour tele-town hall Monday, during which he was asked about the Iran War, penalties for misusing government social programs, women’s sports, and the SAVE Act.
Registered nonpartisan U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn at a campaign event in Omaha on June 9, 2026. (Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)
ELECTION 2026
By Juan Salinas II
OMAHA — Registered nonpartisan U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn held a roundtable with small business owners Tuesday morning.
A dozen top law enforcement and elected officials in Nebraska gather for a news conference June 8, 2026, at the Omaha home of the NCAA men’s College World Series to urge vigilance about human traffickers who prey during big events. Gov. Jim Pillen is at the microphone. (Cindy Gonzalez/Nebraska Examiner)
ICYMI
By Cindy Gonzalez
OMAHA — With a national spotlight and economic impact set to hit Omaha this week with the start of the men’s College World Series, a lineup of Nebraska officials met Monday at the baseball stadium to underscore the underbelly of such crowd-drawing events: human trafficking.
President Donald Trump looks on prior to a game between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks in Game Three of the 2026 NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden on June 8, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
D.C. BUREAU
By Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — U.S. forces launched renewed strikes on Iran late Tuesday, in response to the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter a day earlier, according to U.S. Central Command.
The Social Security Administration field office in Madison, Wisconsin, pictured in October, 2025. (Photo by Erik Gunn/Wisconsin Examiner)
D.C. BUREAU
By Jennifer Shutt
WASHINGTON — Congress must act to shore up Social Security during the next six years to avoid an automatic drop-off in benefits in 2032, according to a report released Tuesday.
U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks to reporters in the basement of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
D.C. BUREAU
By Jennifer Shutt
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans on Tuesday approved three years of funding for immigration enforcement without any new guardrails on how federal agents operate.
A voter deposits a mail-in ballot at the drop box outside the Chester County Government Center on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Peter Hall/Pennsylvania Capital-Star)
D.C. BUREAU
By Jonathan Shorman
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is walking back, for now, a plan to sweep up data on millions of Americans who vote by mail under President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail ballots.
Actor Rainn Wilson, known for playing Dwight Schrute on “The Office,” at an event Tuesday, June 9, 2026, on Capitol Hill, marking 250 years of religious freedom in United States. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
D.C. BUREAU
By Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — As various officials and groups aim to use the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, with the help of a famed sitcom actor, turned the spotlight Tuesday to a central tenet of U.S. democracy: religious freedom.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Nebraska officials certify results for May primary | Zach Wendling
Work requirements waiver sought for Dawson County | Zach Wendling
COMMENTARY
EDITOR'S CHOICE
Former Nebraska chamber executive to take top spot | Cindy Gonzalez
Nebraska DED official leaves for Omaha post | Cindy Gonzalez
DHHS reviewing federal Medicaid work requirements rule | Zach Wendling
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