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I was born and raised in Nebraska. I left Nebraska in 1981 after receiving my B.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln because economic op…
A University of Chicago student who happens to be white objected to an undergraduate anthropology class titled “The Problem of Whiteness.”
CHICAGO — Northwestern University has relieved Jim Foster as head baseball coach days after news surfaced of controversy surrounding him. Foster’s dismissal as coach one year into the job was announced to players on a video call Thursday afternoon with Northwestern University President Michael Schill and athletic director Derrick Gragg, sources told the Chicago Tribune. Assistant coach Brian ...
After a 30-year career with the nonprofit, Tabitha President & CEO Christie Hinrichs will depart the organization next month.
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Actors will join screenwriters in a combined strike that will have huge consequences for Hollywood. Leaders of SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents the actors, voted Thursday to strike after contract talks collapsed with the studios and streaming services that hire them. It’s the first time actors from film and television shows have gone on strike since 1980. And the first time both actors and writers have been on strike since 1960. Industry leaders expressed disappointment in a walkout they said comes at the worst possible time. The group representing studios and streaming services said early Thursday that the actors' decision to end negotiations was their choice and will hurt thousands financially.
The S&P 500 is on track for its seventh winning week in the last nine amid hopes inflation is cooling enough for the Federal Reserve to end interest rate hikes.
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The head of this year’s United Nations climate talks is calling for governments and businesses to tackle global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in all regions and sectors if they want to stop the planet from passing a key temperature limit agreed on more than seven years ago. Sultan al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates told senior officials from Europe, Canada and China gathered in Brussels on Thursday that record-breaking heat seen across the world recently shows the need for urgent action to curb emissions. Al-Jaber laid out his strategy for the upcoming COP28 global climate talks in Dubai this fall. He says leaders “must be brutally honest” about what's caused the sharp rise in temperatures since preindustrial times.
Garth Glissman's impressive career in the sports world has taken another step.
LAS VEGAS — The NCAA has found 175 infractions of its sports-betting policy since 2018 and there are 17 active investigations, according to a …
WASHINGTON — Three large tax preparation firms sent "extraordinarily sensitive" information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook paren…
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NEW YORK — The Justice Department on Tuesday said Donald Trump can be held personally liable for remarks he made about a woman who accused him…
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Some governors and state legislators, including Nebraska’s, have conflated civic duty with moral certitude to create a spate of codified self-…
CHICAGO — The Northwestern hazing scandal resulted in the termination of football coach Pat Fitzgerald and heaped a ton of bad publicity upon the university. But many questions remain unanswered as Fitzgerald and his attorneys consider their options and the university tries to move forward from one of its worst weeks in memory. Here are four questions to chew on as we await the next round of ...
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Concerns are growing that Russia won't extend a United Nations-brokered deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to parts of the world struggling with hunger. Ships are no longer heading to the war-torn country’s Black Sea ports, and shipments have dwindled. The deal originally reached last summer to ease a global food crisis is up for renewal Monday, and Russian officials say there are no grounds for extending it. They’ve threatened it before, insisting an agreement to facilitate their food and fertilizer shipments hasn’t been applied. But data shows Moscow has been exporting record amounts of wheat. The U.N. is striving to keep the fragile deal intact, with Ukraine to benefit Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia.
A private memorial service is planned for James Q. Crowe, who led the development of Level 3 Communications in Omaha during the fiber optic telecommunications revolution.
At least three people died and 14 were injured following a bus crash in southern Illinois.
The United Auto Workers union set its sights on securing a foothold in the joint-venture plants that will make electric vehicle batteries.
Is non-English language music the future of the music business? Perhaps. Luminate, a source of music and entertainment industry data, found in their 2023 midyear report that global music streams are up 30.8% from last year. The global music industry surpassed 1 trillion streams in three months in 2023, a full month faster than in 2022. The company also found that two in five U.S. music listeners, enjoy music in a non-English language. Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, German, and Arabic are the most popular non-English languages, with Spanish and Korean leading the group. English-language music’s share of the top 10,000 most streamed songs has dropped 4.2% since 2021.
If everything were to fall into place, James Arthur Vineyards could break ground on a new event center and distillery in October.
Major retailers said they will no longer sell MyPillow products as CEO Mike Lindell falsely claims the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
Major retailers said they will no longer sell MyPillow products as CEO Mike Lindell falsely claims the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
