Immigrants drive Nebraska’s economy. Trump’s mass deportations pledge is a threat from NPR Jasmine Garsd
Nebraska is one of the top meat producers in the U.S. It also has one…
Immigrants drive Nebraska’s economy. Trump’s mass deportations pledge is a threat from NPR Jasmine Garsd
Nebraska is one of the top meat producers in the U.S. It also has one of the worst labor shortages. The incoming Trump administration has promised mass deportations on an unprecedented scale. We asked Nebraskans what that could mean. (Image credit: Lexi Parra) Read More
Ohio’s Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to fill U.S. Senate seat vacated by JD Vance from NPR Karen Kasler
In making his announcement, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he wanted a “workhorse” in the U.S. senate who would focus on Ohio as well as the rest of the country. (Image credit: Paul Vernon) Read More
CNN settles lawsuit after $5 million defamation verdict from NPR David Folkenflik
CNN settled with a security consultant after a Florida jury found the network had defamed him in a story that suggested he was charging “exorbitant prices” to evacuate people from Afghanistan in 2021. (Image credit: CNN via Internet Archive/Screenshot by NPR) Read More
Newly discovered poems show Virginia Woolf as a fun aunt from NPR Andrew Limbong
A researcher — who was looking for something else — stumbled onto two poems by Virginia Woolf. The silly, punny, quickly drafted poems were written for her niece and nephew sometime after March 1927. (Image credit: George C. Beresford) Read More
Justin Baldoni has sued Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds for $400 million from NPR Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Baldoni, his studio Wayfarer, and their publicists are alleging civil extortion, defamation and a slew of contract-related claims about the film It Ends With Us. (Image credit: Combination photo) Read More
A planet parade of Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars shines in the skies this month from NPR Juliana Kim
All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy. (Image credit: Ginnette Riquelme) Read More
Federal sentencings for 5 former officers delayed until after state trial in death of Tyre Nichols from The Independent Adrian Sainz
A judge has ruled that sentencings for five former Memphis police officers convicted of federal charges in the beating death of Tyre Nichols will take place after an April state court trial on second-degree murder
Air traffic controllers rush to divert aircraft after Elon Musk’s rocket explodes from NPR Geoff Brumfiel
Debris streaking across the Caribbean appeared to cause confusion and delays. (Image credit: Eric Gay) Read More
Yellen says Treasury will use ‘extraordinary measures’ on Jan. 21 to prevent hitting debt ceiling from The Independent Fatima Hussein
In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, on January 21, in a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday afternoon
TikTok CEO flatters Trump ahead of US ban deadline from the Verge Lauren Feiner
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images In his first statement since the Supreme Court upheld a law that could ban TikTok from the US on Sunday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew offered no insight into what would happen to the app in just a few days. Instead, he took the opportunity to appeal…
