By Erin Bamer | Reporter
Court records shed light on how law enforcement identified five out-of-state individuals arrested for suspected fraud in connection to three petitions looking to restructure Lincoln elections.
The backroom of the Lancaster County Election Commission office on April 24, 2026. Backers of three petitions seeking to restructure city elections in Lincoln submitted signatures this week to send their ideas to voters in the capital city this November. (Photo by Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)
ELECTION 2026
By Zach Wendling
LINCOLN — Court records indicate new details on how law enforcement narrowed in on five out-of-state individuals arrested in connection with gathering allegedly fraudulent signatures on Lincoln petitions, which have led to 10 felony charges so far.
A Nebraska Democratic Party office in Omaha on April 3, 2026. (Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
By Juan Salinas II
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Democratic Party and the national Working Families Party have sued Nebraska’s Working People Party to block it from the fall ballot.
The 2026 “Coolest Thing Made in Nebraska” contest is underway, with nomination phase currently ongoing and public voting to begin in September. (Courtesy of Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
LABOR & GROWTH
By Cindy Gonzalez
LINCOLN — The fifth annual “Coolest Thing Made in Nebraska” competition has started, with nominations to be accepted through August followed by public voting in September.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives with his then-personal attorney Todd Blanche in court for opening statements in his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 22, 2024, in New York City. Trump was convicted of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. Since his election, he’s nominated Blanche to be attorney general of the United States. (Photo by Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images)
D.C. BUREAU
By Sam Gauntt
WASHINGTON — Todd Blanche took the oath of office as U.S. attorney general at a brief ceremony in the Oval Office Monday, following the Senate’s narrow vote to approve his nomination as the nation’s top law enforcement official over the weekend.
Vials of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine are displayed on a counter at a Walgreens Pharmacy on Jan. 26, 2015 in Mill Valley, California. (Photo by Illustration Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
D.C. BUREAU
By Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order that aims to reshape guidance surrounding childhood vaccines, standing alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and was met with immediate pushback.
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