By Erin Bamer | Reporter
The Nebraska Secretary of State’s Office confirmed that Mark Cohen of Lemoyne submitted about 3,680 signatures in his bid for Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District. State law mandates at least 2,000 valid signatures from voters in the district to appear on the ballot.
Mark Cohen of Lemoyne, a registered nonpartisan seeking to qualify as a nonpartisan candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, Nebraska 3rd Congressional District, submitted signatures July 30, 2026, seeking access on the Nov. 3 ballot. (Courtesy of Cohen campaign)
ELECTION 2026
By Zach Wendling
LINCOLN — A second registered nonpartisan submitted signatures Thursday seeking to qualify as an independent candidate for one of Nebraska’s congressional races this fall ahead of Monday’s deadline.
Tractor trailers sit parked in a row at a truck stop in Bloomsbury, N.J. (Photo by Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor)
D.C. BUREAU
By Ariana Figueroa
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced an initiative Thursday for veterans to quickly obtain commercial driver’s licenses, as the administration attempts to fill vacancies in the industry after pausing license renewals for foreign-born truck drivers.
Diseases like measles have surged to the highest level in decades in the United States. (Photo by Getty Images Plus)
D.C. BUREAU
By Jennifer Shutt
WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged during his confirmation hearing to do everything in his “power to put the health of America back on track.”
Margie Quin, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, has been named as a defendant in two proposed class action lawsuits alleging DCS warehouses and mistreats children. Tennessee fared poorly in a new federal audit examining the number of foster children placed in hotels, office buildings and other potentially unsafe settings. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
SOCIAL SERVICES
By Robbie Sequeira
More than 9,000 children in foster care had to temporarily stay in hotels, office buildings and other potentially unsafe settings when states couldn’t find suitable places for them, according to a new federal audit.
Voters fill out their ballots at a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, polling place during the South Dakota primary election on June 2, 2026. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)
D.C. BUREAU
By Amelia Twyman
WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not planning an aggressive campaign at voting sites during the upcoming midterm elections, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday in response to a States Newsroom inquiry about a letter from U.S. Senate Democrats voicing concerns about armed federal agents at polling places.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
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COMMENTARY
EDITOR'S CHOICE
Ricketts outraises Osborn in Nebraska US Senate race | Juan Salinas II
Douglas County sees continued rise in cyclospora infections | Cindy Gonzalez
Omaha moviemaker says state-funded film venture is paralyzed | Cindy Gonzalez
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