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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska, announced Monday he will not seek reelection next year amid an increasingly polarized political climate.Bacon, 61, said at a news conference at Omaha’s airport that he would not seek a sixth term representing Nebraska’s second district with its so-called blue dot that includes many progressive voters around Omaha.Bacon has had to navigate an ever-thinning line between staying in his party’s and President Donald Trump’s good graces without alienating his increasingly Democratic district. He said he is proud of his bipartisan approach in the face of bitter partisanship in...

A House GOP centrist from a key battleground district, Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., announced Monday that he will not seek re-election next year. Bacon's announcement comes as Congress works overtime to pass President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" by their self-imposed July 4 deadline. Through the reconciliation process, the megabill seeks to deliver on the president's key campaign promises, including tax cuts, immigration reform and energy production. The moderate Republican has built a reputation for bucking Trump's agenda in the House. While Bacon ultimately voted with his Republican colleagues to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last month, the...

RINO Rep. Don Bacon will not seek reelection in 2026 in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.

This is one of those stories you sort of hear about a couple of weeks before, and maybe forget about unless some little nugget of information comes along that makes you want to dig a little deeper into it. Which is exactly what happened to me this morning.I do recall maybe even commenting on X when the first word about this broke. The big story was the raid on Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska, about two weeks ago. It wasn't so much the raid itself, but the number of illegals that they rounded up, which caught people's attention at...

Dozens of criminal illegal aliens were arrested on June 10 at an Omaha, Nebraska, food plant. All were using the stolen identities of Americans to lend legitimacy to their employment standing. The Department of Homeland Security put the number of those arrested at "approximately 70." All were detained during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a Green Valley Foods plant. ICE agents, carrying warrants, entered the facility to begin making arrests following a months-long investigative effort. Mark Zito leads the regional Homeland Security Investigations office involved in the case. He said some people in the area have offered misguided...

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Wednesday signed into law the Stand With Women Act, which forbids biological males from competing in women’s sports in K-12 schools as well as at colleges and universities. “Because of the physical differences between males and females, having separate athletic teams based on the sex of the athlete reduces the chance of injury to female athletes, promotes equality between the sexes, provides opportunities for female athletes to compete against their female peers rather than against male athletes, and allows female athletes to compete on a fair playing field for scholarships and other athletic accomplishments,” the...

LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - A bill on transgender athletes now goes to Gov. Jim Pillen’s desk. Wednesday night, state senators voted 33-16 to pass LB89, introduced by Omaha Sen. Kathleen Kauth. The bill was created to restrict trans athletes from participating in sports that align with their gender identity. Earlier this month, when the senators were debating the bill in the second round, lawmakers adopted Ralston Sen. Merv Riepe’s amendment, which removed part of bill that would have banned trans people from being able to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity in schools and state buildings

OMAHA, Neb. — Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced "justice will finally be served for Sarah Root." Rubio said on Friday that the Trump administration announced the extradition of Root's alleged killer from Honduras to the U.S. On Jan. 31, 2016, Root was killed in a crash near 33rd and L streets. Police believe Eswin Mejia was driving drunk and street racing when he hit Sarah's car at a stoplight. Mejia, who was in the country illegally, was not put on an immigration hold. He posted $5,000 of his bond and vanished.

Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) said Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that President Donald Trump was playing into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine conflict. Host Pamela Brown said, “Ukrainian President Zelensky will also be in Saudi Arabia but is not expected to attend these talks. Do you believe the white House is sidelining Zelensky in this peace process?” Bacon said, “That’s a terrible mistake not to have the Ukrainian leader in the talks.”

Tegucigalpa - The National Police of Honduras reported that it captured Eswin Mejía, also known as Edwin G. Mejía, Eswin Gabriel Mejía and Gabriel Eswin Mejía, who was wanted by the authorities of the United States of America for extradition purposes. Mejía is the alleged perpetrator of the death of American citizen Sarah Root in 2016 and has remained a fugitive from justice since then. The arrest took place on February 27, 2025 in the village of Río Frío, municipality of San Nicolás, department of Santa Bárbara. The operation was carried out by various special search and capture units of...

The story of a 1996 altercation in the parking lot of a Council Bluffs casino has seen new light after anonymous tips were made to news outlets in Seattle. Bruce Harrell, who was elected as the mayor of Seattle in 2021, allegedly confronted a person with a weapon and resisted arrest nearly three decades ago while outside the Ameristar Casino in Council Bluffs. The now-mayor said the incident was an example of racial profiling, and it inspired his position on police accountability. Harrell moved from Seattle to Omaha in the mid-1990s with his wife Joanne, who had accepted a job...

There is a private property rights battle brewing in rural parts of southeastern Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma and portions of the Dakotas, Nebraska and five Tribal Nations. The U.S. Department of Energy has plans to establish the National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors or NIETCs, in these areas and the corridors span five to 15 miles in width. If approved, in New Mexico about 2 million acres of mostly private property would be transferred to the control of the federal government potentially via eminent domain. In Colorado, farmers, ranchers and rural residents stand to lose control of 325,000 acres in...

I would have written about this one yesterday, but I was enjoying the experience of getting a colonoscopy. But the story is still timely and, more importantly, a perfect example of how the Democrats and the Pravda Media create a nasty hoax out of an innocent event. I am speaking of the Great Handshake Controversy of January 6th. It was, according to the left, a very dark day in American history. Scott Jennings snarkily called it the High Holy Day of January 6th. This time the horror that must be expressed was not the storming of the Capitol building but...

A Nebraska man is getting title to his home back, years after losing it over a $588 tax debt .... Kevin Fair of Scottsbluff has been involved in a legal dispute since 2018, when he lost title to the home he had owned for nearly three decades for failing to pay $588 in overdue property taxes. Scotts Bluff County sold the lien to a private investor, as allowed by Nebraska law at the time. When Fair couldn't repay the money along with interest and fees, the title went to the investor, though Fair was allowed to stay in the home...

Not soon after the general election, and within two weeks of each other, two major financial institutions have left a United Nations Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). This is after they joined three years ago, pledging to require environmental social governance standards (ESG) across their platforms, products and systems. According to the "bank-led and UN-convened" NZBA, global banks joined the alliance, pledging to align their lending, investment, and capital markets activities with a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, NZBA explains. Since April 2021, 145 banks in 44 countries with more than $73 trillion in assets have joined NZBA, tripling...

Nebraska voters voted pro-life on two key measures in last nights presidential election. Nebraska voters rejected an extreme abortion ballot proposal, Initiative 439, and simultaneously passed pro-life Initiative 434. First, Nebraska voters rejected the “Protect the Right to Abortion” amendment, which would enshrine abortion as a right in the state constitution – defeating it on a 51.2-48.8 margin. Secondly, they voted for a pro-life measure that would ban late-term abortions, adopting it on a 55.3-44.7 margin. Nebraska Right to Life and other pro-life advocates joins other members of the Protect Women and Children coalition in celebrating passage of the ballot...

Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., award all their presidential electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide. Then there’s Nebraska and Maine. Both states split their electoral votes between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election using rules that set them apart from the rest of the country. The two states each award two electoral votes to the winner of the statewide vote, as well as one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each congressional district. Nebraska has three congressional districts and five total electoral votes, while Maine has two congressional districts...

Jordyn Bahl, a two-time national champion and standout on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) softball team, is firing back after facing criticism for taking part in a political ad campaigning for a pro-life ballot measure in Nebraska. Bahl, 22, was one of six athletes from the university who appeared in a series of commercials encouraging Nebraskans to vote on two competing abortion measures that will be on the state’s general election ballot Tuesday, Initiative Measure 434 and Initiative Measure

CV NEWSFEED // Protect Women and Children on Monday released two new ads to encourage Nebraskans to vote on two major abortion initiatives on the state’s November ballot. The ads are in favor of the pro-life Initiative 434 and against the pro-abortion Initiative 439. The 30-second and 60-second ads feature female athletes from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: UNL volleyball star Rebekah Allick, a Catholic, and UNL softball players Malia Thomas, Hannah Camenzind, Lauren Camenzind, Jordyn Bahl, and Abbie Squier. The athletes shared their thoughts on the initiatives. “With out-of-state activists lying about the radical Initiative 439, my teammates and I...

Pro-lifers should vote FOR Initiative 434, and vote AGAINST Initiative 439. (Vote for “four” and decline “nine”!) Contrary to some well-meaning, but erroneous misinformation, initiative 434 DOES NOT create a right to abortion in the constitution. We’ve heard a few say that they are going to vote against 434 or simply abstain from 434. Avoid these key mistakes and make your pro-life vote count! Here is what Initiative 434 DOES : * Protects babies in the womb from abortion in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, except in cases of medical emergency, sexual assault or incest. * Preserves the many pro-life...