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Month: August 2025

Two dormitory-style housing units at the Nebraska State Penitentiary took serious damage from Saturday morning's storm.

NDCS assessing damage to state penitentiary after weekend storm displaced hundreds of inmates

By John Grinvalds Click here for updates on this story     LINCOLN, Nebraska (KETV) — Ferocious winds tore through Nebraska’s oldest prison complex on Saturday, leaving 387 incarcerated people displaced and the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services to pick the pieces. “It kind of peeled a lot of the roof off,” Doug Koebernick, Nebraska’s inspector general

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Trump tells Goldman Sachs CEO to hire a new economist after bank says consumers will pay bulk of tariff costs

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Days after Goldman Sachs’ top economists published research claiming price increases stemming from higher tariffs are poised to soon be borne mostly by consumers, President Donald Trump is urging the bank’s CEO, David Solomon, to get a new economist. “Tariffs have not caused Inflation, or any other problems for

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US President Donald Trump is seen here at West Point on May 24

Anti-affirmative action group drops lawsuits against West Point and Air Force Academy after policy changes

By Devan Cole, John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Months after President Donald Trump ordered the nation’s military academies to scrap policies that allowed admissions officials to consider race, an anti-affirmative action group this week dropped a pair of lawsuits against West Point and the Air Force Academy. Students for Fair Admissions threw out the two

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State Department human rights report scaled back, omits details on abuses in politically allied countries

By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US State Department on Tuesday released a pared-down version of its annual report meant to catalogue human rights concerns in countries around the world. The report covers the 2024 calendar year – before the Trump administration took office – and sources told CNN it was

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A former Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center doctor is facing multiple federal charges related to child pornography

Former Children’s doctor charged with federal child pornography crimes

By Molly Schramm Click here for updates on this story     CINCINNATI (WCPO) — A former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center doctor is facing multiple federal charges related to child pornography, said Dominick S. Gerace II, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. Howard M. Saal, a former geneticist and dysmorphologist at Cincinnati Children’s, was

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