By Erin Bamer | Reporter
“I’ve looked at the numbers. I won’t be your next senator. So I have withdrawn my bid for U.S. Senate.” - Democrat Cindy Burbank, in a Facebook post explaining her reasoning for dropping out of Nebraska’s U.S. Senate race.
Cindy Burbank, the Democratic nominee for Nebraska’s U.S. Senate race, talks with a voter following a town hall on June 22, 2026. Burbank has submitted paperwork to be removed from the November ballot. (Photo by Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)
ELECTION 2026
By Juan Salinas II
LINCOLN — Cindy Burbank, Nebraska’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate race, submitted paperwork Friday to remove herself from the November ballot, a move that could clear the way for nonpartisan candidate Dan Osborn to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts.
Lancaster County District Judge Lori Maret listens to attorneys during a hearing where the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office is challenging a Lincoln city ordinance enacted in response to a new state minimum wage law at the Lancaster County Courthouse on Thursday, July 2, 2026, in Lincoln. (Pool photo by Kenneth Ferriera/Lincoln Journal Star)
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Lancaster district judge grants injunction in state lawsuit against Lincoln’s minimum wage ordinance
By Juan Salinas II
LINCOLN — A district judge Friday blocked the city of Lincoln from starting a local minimum wage that would pay a different rate than the state’s.
The Tyson beef plant in Lexington, shown in December, is set to close around Jan. 20, eliminating 3,212 jobs. (Photo by Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)
HEALTH
By Cindy Gonzalez
LINCOLN — Federal officials have approved a temporary exemption from new Medicaid work requirements to Dawson County — home of the now-shuttered Tyson Foods plant that ended about 3,000 jobs.
People gather near the scene of 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti on Jan. 24, 2026, the third shooting in as many weeks. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)
IMMIGRATION
By Ariana Figueroa
WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on July 13 killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian national with legal work authorization, in Maine, making him the 22nd person shot at by federal immigration officers during President Donald Trump’s second term.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on July 17, 2026, it has linked an outbreak of cyclosporiasis in five states to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taco Bell restaurants. (Photo courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
HEALTH
By Jennifer Shutt
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that public health officials have linked the ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis in five states to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taco Bell restaurants.
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