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Nebraska
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 11 stories to Nebraska since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Nebraska.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Nebraska
10 storiesNebraska Gov. Pillen's hog company employed undocumented workers at least 20 farms while he lent ICE a state prison and troopers, a Flatwater Free Press and New York Times investigation finds.
Zero ICE audits in 15 years
Omaha superintendent bars police from carrying electric shock gloves in schools after officers used the devices ICE plans to buy on 2 students.
One deployment at special-needs program
The FTC and four states sue the leading transgender-health provider group, alleging it falsely marketed gender-affirming care for minors as medically necessary.
Major medical groups back gender-affirming care
HHS Secretary Kennedy overrules his own department's medical reviewer to keep a symptom-free cruise passenger locked in a federal quarantine facility against her doctors' recommendation.
She alleges retaliation for criticizing HHS
FTC forces ad firms Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP to settle, barring brand-safety standards conservatives say hurt Breitbart and Musk's X.
Settlements include DEI in protected criteria
Internal ICE documents reveal plans for a privately run detention network spanning Minnesota and four neighboring states, with capacity to transfer 1,000 detainees up to 400 miles.
Contract between $20 and $50 million
Arkansas Governor Sanders moves forward Wednesday with a ban on buying candy and soda with SNAP benefits, days after a federal judge struck down identical restrictions in five states.
Same regulations the judge just vacated
Nebraska's largest wildfires in state history burn more than 800,000 acres across four fires as Gov. Pillen seeks a federal disaster declaration and ranchers scramble to relocate livestock.
Red flag warnings persist statewide
Five states begin restricting SNAP benefits for soda and candy on New Year's Day, affecting 1.4 million recipients as RFK Jr. pushes to reshape $100 billion program.
42 million Americans receive SNAP
Nebraska legislative board unanimously recommends expelling freshman state senator after staffer alleged he groped her at end-of-session party, citing "pattern of behavior."
Elected 1 year ago
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesCNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Kavanaugh cites insufficient time to implement
Stars and Stripes' editor, publisher and a reporter sue the Pentagon to block firings set for Saturday, calling them retaliation for criticizing its takeover of the paper.
Fired after USS Lincoln morale story
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