By Erin Bamer | Reporter
A woman signs a Support Our Schools petition in Omaha. July 8, 2024. (Aaron Sanderford/Nebraska Examiner)
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
By Zach Wendling
LINCOLN — As Nebraska’s fledgling Nebraska Working People Party and America First Party navigate dueling lawsuits, new data indicates where supporters gathered signatures in pursuit of the November ballot.
Nebraska Deputy Solicitor General Zach Pohlman, representing Nebraska Secretary of State of Bob Evnen, presents his case during a hearing at the Lancaster County Courthouse on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, in Lincoln. (Photo by Kenneth Ferriera-Pool/Lincoln Journal Star)
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
By Juan Salinas II
LINCOLN — Attorneys for Nebraska’s two major parties and two potential new political parties in court Wednesday got into the weeds of a law meant to stop a candidate or party from deliberately confusing voters.
A voting booth at the Lancaster County Election Commission office on April 24, 2026. (Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
By Zach Wendling
LINCOLN — A lawsuit led by the Republican National Committee challenging a Nebraska law allowing certain overseas voters to vote in the Cornhusker State is over.
Proposed Nebraska for Volleyball (N4VB) youth-centric volleyball complex that is to be financed largely by a state tax incentive, or “turnback tax,” requires buy-in from Lincoln voters on the Nov. 3 general election ballot. This is a southwest view of the facility that would rise at 30th Street and Folkways Boulevard. (Rendering courtesy of Davis Design)
LABOR & GROWTH
By Cindy Gonzalez
LINCOLN — Lincoln voters on Nov. 3 will determine the fate of a $17 million volleyball facility that supporters say would boost the city’s status as a youth sport destination.
The full slate of candidates challenging U.S. Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., center, as he seeks an 11th term for Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District in Congress. His challengers, from top left, clockwise, are Macey Budke of North Platte, a registered nonpartisan write-in candidate; Mark Cohen of Lemoyne, a registered nonpartisan who petitioned to appear on the ballot; Democrat Becky Kelly Stille of South Sioux City; and David Else of Overton, nominee for the Legal Marijuana NOW party. (Candidate photos courtesy of respective campaigns | U.S. Capitol photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
ELECTION 2026
By Zach Wendling
LINCOLN — Registered nonpartisan Mark Cohen of Lemoyne will appear on the ballot for Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District. He’s the second independent to qualify for a Nebraska congressional race this year.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks Feb. 21, 2025, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)
D.C. BUREAU
By Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will step down from her position at the end of August to spend more time with her family, President Donald Trump announced on social media Wednesday.
An executive order President Donald Trump signed earlier this week says the attorney general will take legal action against states that do not provide “religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirements.” (Photo by Parker Michels-Boyce for the Virginia Mercury)
HEALTH
By Tim Henderson
A largely overlooked part of the executive order President Donald Trump issued this week scaling back the schedule for childhood vaccines threatens legal action against the four states that don’t allow personal or religious exemptions to school vaccine requirements.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
COMMENTARY
OPINION: Belief, popularity differ from the truth | George Ayoub
EDITOR'S CHOICE
Legal Marijuana NOW candidate says he never planned to leave Senate race | Juan Salinas II
Judge declines to force Nebraska Dems to replace Cindy Burbank | Juan Salinas II
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