The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a ban on both transgender medical procedures for minors and abortion on Friday.
The <a href="https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/Slip/LB574.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a> bans abortions after 12 weeks, as well as transgender surgeries and puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for individuals younger than 18.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which works in Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois, filed the lawsuit against the law, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The abortion provider argued that the law violated the state constitution because it dealt with more than one issue. The state countered that both transgender medical interventions and abortion fall under healthcare.
“Ultimately, ‘if a bill has but one general object, no matter how broad that object may be, and contains no matter not germane thereto, and the title fairly expresses the subject of the bill, it does not violate’” the state constitution, Chief Justice Mike Heavican wrote for the court.
Pro-life advocates immediately hailed the court&#8217;s decision.
“This decision is a victory for Nebraska’s unborn children and their mothers who will continue to be protected from second- and third-trimester abortions,&#8221; said SBA Pro-Life America&#8217;s western regional director Adam Schwend, noting that Nebraska saw a &#8220;massive drop&#8221; in late-term abortions last year thanks to the law.
Last year, abortions in Nebraska <a href="https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/nebraska-abortions-decreased-in-2023-following-12-week-ban-passage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decreased</a> nearly 9% from 2022, even with women from Iowa coming in for abortions after Iowa passed a six-week ban.
&#8220;We must continue to guard this protection that prevents abortions of babies who can feel pain and stand firm against the abortion industry’s attempts to roll back the progress we have made in the greatest human rights struggle of our time,&#8221; Schwend said.
Meanwhile, critics have raised the alarm over transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for gender dysphoric children over the last several years. In Europe, several countries have pumped the brakes on these procedures.
Transgender surgeries are not reversible, and both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075">affect</a> bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
Nebraska joins a number of other states with Republican-controlled legislatures that have banned abortion or transgender medical interventions for minors, or both.
At least 25 states have <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/attacks-on-gender-affirming-care-by-state-map" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> restrictions on transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for minors, but the bans are blocked in court in Florida, Ohio, and Montana. Several other states have lawsuits proceeding as well, although the bans remain in effect for now.
At least 24 states have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> bans on abortion, although the bans are tied up in court in Montana, Wyoming, and Iowa.

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A coalition of 17 red states are challenging <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> over regulations that ban sale of new diesel trucks by 2036.
The lawsuit, led by Nebraska, argues that California’s <a href="https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/advanced-clean-fleets/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Advanced Clean Fleets</a> regulations on internal-combustion trucks and mandate for “zero emission vehicles” by 2036 violate federal law and will have a nationwide impact. The suit argues the regulations will disrupt supply chains, raise prices on goods, and slow interstate transportation.
“In a stunning gambit that both violates the constitution and threatens our nation’s economic security, an agency of the State of California has attempted to override federal law and arrogate to itself the power to ban internal-combustion engines in medium- and heavy-duty vehicles,” the <a href="https://ago.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/ACF%20Complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> says. “This attempted ban contravenes controlling law while defying real-world reality and burdening American families and businesses, already suffering from high inflation, with even more costs.”
The suit was <a href="https://ago.nebraska.gov/news/attorney-general-hilgers-leads-multi-state-coalitions-two-lawsuits-stop-electric-truck-mandates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> by Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming, as well as the Arizona State Legislature and the Nebraska Trucking Association. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers announced an additional suit against the Environmental Protection Agency for its regulations on tailpipe emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles. Critics argue that these regulations effectively take aim at traditional trucks in favor of pushing companies to manufacture and sell electric vehicles.
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The <a href="https://ago.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/PFR_File%20Stamped.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suit</a> against the EPA was joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming. The suit was filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
“California and an unaccountable EPA are trying to transform our national trucking industry and supply chain infrastructure. This effort — coming at a time of heightened inflation and with an already-strained electrical grid — will devastate the trucking and logistics industry, raise prices for customers, and impact untold number of jobs across Nebraska and the country,” Hilgers said in a statement.

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Tornadoes ripped through <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iowa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nebraska" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nebraska</a> on Friday, with no reported deaths despite whole neighborhoods being destroyed. 
Parts of Omaha, Nebraska, and northwest Iowa were severely damaged by the storms. Omaha Fire Chief Kathy Bossman said that there were many houses “flattened” and many more with “significant damage.” Bossman added that emergency crews had to deal with power outages, downed power lines, gas leaks, downed trees, and buildings that had been made structurally unsound by the fierce tornadoes. 
&#8220;They&#8217;re going to be putting together a strategic plan for a detailed search of the area, starting with the properties with most damage,&#8221; Bossman said, <a href="https://journalstar.com/news/state-regional/tornadoes-omaha-elkhorn-blair/article_c696711e-0441-11ef-808d-034419cac7da.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press. &#8220;We&#8217;ll be looking throughout properties in debris piles, we&#8217;ll be looking in basements, trying to find any victims and make sure everybody is rescued who needs assistance.&#8221;
Pat Woods, who lives  in Omaha’s Elkhorn neighborhood, told the AP he and his wife saw the tornado touch down not far from their home.  
“We watched it touch down like 200 yards over there and then we took shelter,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We could hear it coming through. When we came up our fence was gone and we looked to the northwest and the whole neighborhood&#8217;s gone.”
Multiple people were injured from the tornadoes, including three people in Lancaster County, Nebraska, who were in an industrial building, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tornadoes-hit-nebraska-severe-storms-tear-across-midwest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
&#8220;I have ordered that state resources be made available to assist with the emergency response and to support local first responders as they assess the damage,” Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen <a href="https://omaha.com/news/local/weather/jim-pillen-nebraskas-members-of-congress-on-the-aftermath-of-the-tornadoes-in-nebraska/article_cee53ab0-042f-11ef-b804-4f37f171b6cd.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Nebraskans are tough, resilient people, and our neighbors and communities will rally around affected families and businesses to assist them. Nebraskans are no strangers to severe weather and, as they have countless times before, Nebraskans will help Nebraskans to rebuild.&#8221;
Cities in Iowa were also hit hard, including Minden and Crescent, where the tornadoes traveled after ripping through Omaha. 
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Videos posted on social media showed the massive tornadoes ripping across the plains and the aftermath of the storms.
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TWIN tornadoes moments before turning into a massive wedge near Tennant, a moments ago <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/iawx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#iawx</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RadarOmega?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RadarOmega</a> <a href="https://t.co/OH9QLbSwxR">pic.twitter.com/OH9QLbSwxR</a>
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Nearly 10 minutes of video from multiple significant tornadoes via multiple supercells today in Nebraska and Iowa. Unreal tornado outbreak. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/kswx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#kswx</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/newx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#newx</a> <a href="https://t.co/q1jDJNhKxM">pic.twitter.com/q1jDJNhKxM</a>
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Minden, Iowa got sideswiped on the SE side by a violent <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tornado?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tornado</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanHallWX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JordanHallWX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/iawx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#iawx</a> <a href="https://t.co/iGBvxSy7KY">pic.twitter.com/iGBvxSy7KY</a>
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A bill in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nebraska" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nebraska</a> that would have kept males out of women’s restrooms and off of girls&#8217; sports teams at schools failed after two Republicans abstained from voting on the measure after they initially indicated support for the legislation. 
The <a href="https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_votes.php?KeyID=10782" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>, known as the “Sports and Spaces Act,” failed on Friday after it did not get enough votes to advance it past cloture for a vote on the actual legislation. It <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-bathrooms-sports-nebraska-01b7eeeb56874e2338e58d368765f66a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">needed</a> to get 33 votes in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature, but was blocked from moving forward after a 31-15 vote. 
Two Republicans, state Sens. Tom Brandt and Merv Riepe, both abstained from the cloture vote even though they had initially signed on as sponsors to the legislation. The measure, introduced by state Sen. Kathleen Kauth, would have defined male as someone with XY chromosomes and male anatomy and a female as someone with XX chromosomes and female anatomy. 
“A school should designate each group bathroom and locker room within such school building as either for use by biological females or for use by biological males,” the bill <a href="https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/Intro/LB575.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “An athletic team or sport designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to a biological male student.” 
Kauth <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-bathrooms-sports-nebraska-01b7eeeb56874e2338e58d368765f66a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the legislation was necessary because of the “significant sports performance gap between the sexes” and that males being allowed to compete on women’s sports teams presented “a significant barrier for female athletes to compete in sports.”
Democrats claimed the legislation was bigoted and meant to bully students. “This is not about protecting women,” Sen. Megan Hunt said. “It’s about the danger and the power of the imagination of a bigot, Sen. Kauth, and those who would support a bill like this.”
The Nebraska Freedom Coalition <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NebraskaFreedom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ripped</a> into Brandt and Riepe over their votes on the legislation.
“Two Republican state senators have failed to protect women in sports and spaces by stopping LB 575 from becoming law,” the group posted on Facebook. “Let&#8217;s hold them accountable for undermining the rights and opportunities and safety of women athletes.”
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Riepe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unacceptable-two-red-states-each-fail-to-pass-pro-life-protections-by-one-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously blocked</a> Nebraska from advancing pro-life protections for unborn babies at six weeks after claiming that Republicans “must embrace the future of reproductive rights.” 
Trump won Nebraska with nearly 59% of the vote in 2020 and there has not been a Democratic governor in the state since the 1990s. Governor Jim Pillen<a href="https://www.wowt.com/2024/04/05/nebraska-lawmakers-debate-bill-transgender-student-athletes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> had</a> supported LB 575, saying that it reflected “common sense Nebraska values.” 
“There’s nobody that wants their daughter to be in a locker room with a boy and there’s nobody that wants their son to be in a locker room with girls. It’s just not right, not the way we see it in Nebraska,” he said on Thursday.

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A state senator in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nebraska" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nebraska</a> announced on Wednesday that he was changing his party affiliation to Republican because the Democratic Party retaliated against him for taking a stand on abortion and transgender issues.
Mike McDonnell, a lawmaker <a href="https://nebraskalegislature.gov/senators/landing-pages/index.php?District=5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from Omaha</a> who is term-limited this year after winning elections in 2016 and 2020, made his plans known in a statement <a href="https://central.newschannelnebraska.com/story/50636795/mcdonnell-switches-to-gop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported by News Channel Nebraska</a>.
&#8220;I have asked the Democratic Party to respect my religious based Pro-Life position. Instead over the last year they have decided to punish me for being Pro-Life,&#8221; McDonnell said.
Among the issues he pointed out was the Nebraska Democratic Party censuring McDonnell last month over votes that helped the passage of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/politics/nebraska-abortion-gender-affirming-care/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restrictions on abortion</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nebraska-becomes-18th-state-to-ban-transgender-surgeries-on-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender surgeries</a> on children.
McDonnell also accused the Douglas County Democrats of taking revenge on him for being &#8220;Pro-Life&#8221; after they <a class="c-link" href="https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/02/01/douglas-county-democrats-withdraw-support-from-sen-mike-mcdonnell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/02/01/douglas-county-democrats-withdraw-support-from-sen-mike-mcdonnell/" data-sk="tooltip_parent">moved in February</a> to withdraw support from him in protest of the same votes.
&#8220;Being a Christian a member of the Roman Catholic Church and Pro-Life is more important to me than being a registered Democrat,&#8221; McDonnell said. &#8220;Today I am changing my party affiliation to Republican.&#8221;
Members of both parties reacted to McConnell&#8217;s announcement on Wednesday with statements reported by <a href="https://www.wowt.com/2024/04/03/nebraska-sen-mike-mcdonnell-changes-party-affiliation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local news station WOWT</a>.
&#8220;I am pleased to welcome Senator Mike McDonnell to the Republican Team. The extreme new Democrats are pushing common sense officials and voters to our party,&#8221; said Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE).
&#8220;The addition of Mike McDonnell to the Republican rolls in the legislature means for the first time in recent memory there is a filibuster proof Republican majority in the Unicameral,&#8221; he added.
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Nebraska Democratic Party head Jane Kleeb said the organization &#8220;will continue to stand up for reproductive freedom and the human rights of the LGBTQ community&#8221; and claimed the censure was not about him being a &#8220;pro-life Catholic.&#8221;
&#8220;Our decision was based on our party reaffirming our core values to protect women’s ability to make health decisions and to keep politicians out of our personal health decisions,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We respect the ongoing work of Senator McDonnell on behalf of unions and his commitment to protect a fair electoral vote system we have in our state.&#8221;

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A 16-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nebraska" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nebraska</a> teen was arrested earlier this week after allegedly stabbing and murdering her newborn.
The teen, identified on the Sheridan County Court docket as Chloe D. Coplen Anderson, was charged as an adult on two counts: first-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony.
Authorities responded to a call on Monday of a juvenile who had given birth at home, and that the baby wasn’t breathing.
According to an <a href="https://nebraska.tv/news/local/nebraska-teen-charged-with-first-degree-murder-in-newborns-death-details-emerge-from-arrest-affidavit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affidavit</a> obtained by NTV News, the responding officer heard the teen’s mother yelling that her daughter had hurt the baby, referred to as a boy. The officer reported finding the baby with its throat slit and bearing multiple stab wounds around its body.
The affidavit further reported that the child was discovered hidden in an empty plastic dog food bag and a trash bag, covered by clothes in his teen mother’s closet. The teen reportedly admitted to the murder of her child, per the mother’s account to police.
“[She said] it was dead, that she killed it,” said the teen’s mother.
Sheridan County Attorney Jamian Simmons confirmed in a statement <a href="https://chadronradio.com/gordon-teen-charged-with-1st-degree-murder-for-allegedly-stabbing-her-newborn-to-death/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">submitted</a> to ChadonRadio that they believe the teen committed the murder.
“[After] subsequent investigation, it is believed that a 16-year-old female gave birth at home to an infant and is alleged to have intentionally killed the infant by inflicting multiple stab wounds,” stated Simmons.
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Anderson’s next court hearing is scheduled for November 16 at 1:30 p.m. Her case number is CR230000392.
There have been several high-profile cases of teenage mothers allegedly killing their children this year.
In July, a 17-year-old Florida mother allegedly put a lethal dose of fentanyl in her baby’s bottle. The Nassau County teen claimed she thought she put cocaine, not fentanyl, in the bottle.
In September, an 18-year old Utah mother was arrested after allegedly killing her premature baby.
Arguably one of the more high-profile cases occurred at the start of this year.
19-year-old Alexee Trevizo, a senior in high school at the time, gave birth in a hospital bathroom in January and allegedly put her child in the trash, where the baby died. Trevizo claimed to police that her child was stillborn. The New Mexico teenager was arrested for first-degree murder in May.
An autopsy of the newborn declared homicide to be the cause of death.
During a pre-trial hearing in August, Trevizo asked for permission to attend New Mexico State University (NMSU) in person while awaiting trial. The judge granted Treviso permission to do so. Additionally, despite prosecutors’ opposition to pretrial release, the judge also granted Trevizo permission to attend prom, walk in her high school graduation, and spend the summer in Texas with her grandparents.
A petition <a href="https://www.change.org/p/get-alexee-trevizo-off-nmsu-campus?redirect=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created</a> in August for NMSU to retract Trevizo’s admission has nearly 28,000 signatures.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-air-force" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Air Force</a> has requested that Congress pass legislation to stop wind turbines from encroaching on nuclear missile sites throughout the U.S.
According to the Air Force, underground nuclear missile sites in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado need to be shielded from the growing wind turbine industry for safety and security concerns. The Air Force <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/air-force-asks-congress-protect-nuclear-launch-sites-104685988" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that 46 of the 450 underground nuclear missile sites have been “severely” encroached upon. Some wind turbines can stand 650 feet tall and present a barrier for helicopters carrying technicians or others who need to access the sites.
“When you think about a wind turbine, and even fields of wind turbines, they’ll stretch for miles,” Staff Sgt. Chase Rose, a UH-1 Huey flight engineer at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, told the Associated Press. “They’re monstrous, and then you have gigantic blades spinning on them as well. Not only is that a physical obstacle, but those turbines, they create the hazards like turbulence as well. That can be really dangerous for us to fly into. So it’s a very complex situation, when you have to deal with those.”
The Air Force is advocating for legislation that would mandate a 2-nautical-mile buffer zone around the hundreds of underground missile launch sites throughout the U.S. The Air Force and the American Clean Power Association drafted the legislation.
“The wind industry recognizes the nuclear missile silo mission is unique,&#8221; said American Clean Power Association spokesman Jason Ryan. “However, one-size-fits-all setbacks do not make sense for other [Department of Defense] missions or assets as site-specific and mission-specific evaluations are necessary to ensure military readiness.”
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Air Force Maj. Victoria Hight, a spokeswoman for F.E. Warren Air Force Base, said the wind turbines can hamper “safe helicopter transit and nuclear security operations” but that the Air Force supports &#8220;renewable energy efforts to include wind turbines, and we continue to work with energy industry partners to ensure the country’s green energy needs are met.” 

The Biden administration has <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/biden-harris-administration-advances-15-onshore-clean-energy-projects-potential-power" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggressively pushed</a> a “transition” to green energy, including announcing the development of onshore renewable energy projects across the West.
“Investing in clean and reliable renewable energy represents the [Bureau of Land Management&#8217;s] commitment to addressing climate change and supports direction from the President and Congress to permit 25 gigawatts of solar, wind and geothermal production on public lands no later than 2025,” the Bureau of Land Management said on Monday when announcing plans for 15 major projects throughout the West.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colorado" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado</a> head football coach Deion Sanders, commonly referred to as &#8220;Coach Prime,&#8221; did not disappoint in his home opener at Folsom Field on Saturday when the No. 22 Colorado Buffaloes trounced their arch rival, the Nebraska Cornhuskers, 36-14.
Colorado played in front of a sold-out stadium at home for the first time in years as they squared off against Nebraska — a rivalry for over a century that has in the past determined which team played for championships.
Ticket prices for the game averaged $476 per ticket — an amount <a href="https://www.actionnetwork.com/ncaaf/nebraska-vs-colorado-ticket-prices-higher-than-any-nfl-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher</a> than the average ticket price for the most expensive NFL game in week 1.
The game started off as a defensive match before repeated turnovers by a sloppy Cornhusker team proved to be too costly for the team to recover from against a superior Colorado team that was out of rhythm for much of the game.
Sanders had told his team that this game was &#8220;personal&#8221; and that they would not be allowed to wear red — Nebraska&#8217;s color — all week in the lead-up to the game.
&#8220;We didn&#8217;t just want to win, we wanted to dominate,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;The first half, we weren&#8217;t dominant, the second half, we got it together and we began to dominate. We wanted to really impose our will.&#8221;
Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders — a Heisman Trophy contender who is the son of the head coach — said that the motivation for the game was easy.
&#8220;It was extremely personal,&#8221; the younger Sanders said. &#8220;We go out there to warm up and you got the head coach for the other team (Matt Rhule) trying to stand in the middle of the Buff. It&#8217;s OK if a couple of players do it, it&#8217;s fine. Just enjoy the scenery, but when you&#8217;ve got a whole team trying to disrespect it, I&#8217;m not going for that at all, so I went in there and disrupted it.
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&#8220;The Buff means a lot to me,&#8221; he added.
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&quot;It was extremely personal&#8230; The coach said a lot of things about my Pops, about the program- but now he wanna act nice. I don&#39;t respect that.&quot;
Shedeur Sanders didn&#39;t hold back when asked about if the Nebraska rivalry was personal for him and Colorado ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/yZfQr2SzX9">pic.twitter.com/yZfQr2SzX9</a>
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The game was 36-7 late in the fourth quarter when Colorado decided to pull their top players and Nebraska scored a touchdown with only a few seconds left.
After the game, thousands of students stormed the field to celebrate the win.
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GO CRAZY COLORADO <a href="https://twitter.com/CUBuffsFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CUBuffsFootball</a> fans rush the field after their win against Nebraska <a href="https://t.co/mAU0qL2FMe">pic.twitter.com/mAU0qL2FMe</a>
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A college volleyball game on Wednesday has set a world record – for the largest attendance for a women&#8217;s sporting event in history &#8212; after more than 92,000 fans packed the Nebraska&#8217;s Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.
The event took place at the college football stadium when thousands of fans showed up to watch the five-time National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champions University of Nebraska Huskers battle the University of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks, <a href="https://people.com/nebraska-volleyball-breaks-world-record-for-womens-sports-attendance-7964147" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People magazine</a> reported. And the Huskers ended up claiming victory for the night, winning the matches 25-14, 25-14 and 25-13, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nebraska-volleyball-may-break-world-attendance-record/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS</a> noted.
The record was announced in between the matches and fans went wild, the outlet noted. A typical NCAA volleyball match usually takes place in 10,000 to 20,000 seating arenas.
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Nebraska just set the world record for largest attendance at a women’s sporting event.
92,003 fans filled Memorial Stadium for the Huskers&#39; volleyball match against Omaha <a href="https://t.co/GCEdWc0DFE">pic.twitter.com/GCEdWc0DFE</a>
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&#8220;Husker Nation, you’ve done it,&#8221; a message on the Husker&#8217;s X account later. &#8220;The WORLD RECORD for a Women&#8217;s Sporting Event lives in Lincoln.&#8221;
&#8220;Today&#8217;s attendance: 92,003. There is NO PLACE like Nebraska,&#8221; the post added.
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Husker Nation, you’ve done it.
The WORLD RECORD for a Women’s Sporting Event lives in Lincoln.
Today’s attendance: 9️⃣2️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣3️⃣
There is NO PLACE like Nebraska. <a href="https://t.co/lQFguWHyp8">pic.twitter.com/lQFguWHyp8</a>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s incredible. I don&#8217;t have enough words to describe it,&#8221; Nebraska middle blocker Andi Jackson said, according to <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/38294591/nebraska-volleyball-sets-world-record-attendance-women-sporting-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESPN</a>.
&#8220;We were walking out of the tunnel after the second set, and we heard on the speaker we had just broken the world record,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Everyone was trying to stay locked in, but we were also so excited. I can&#8217;t describe how grateful I am to be a part of it.&#8221;
Nebraska sophomore middle blocker Bekka Allick said during a press conference before the match that it was a &#8220;once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It honestly leaves me speechless … It&#8217;s hard to grasp 94,000 people,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nebraska-volleyball-may-break-world-attendance-record/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS</a> reported.
The Huskers fans surpassed the previous world record of 91,648 set on April 22, 2022, in Spain at a Champions League soccer match between FC Barcelona and Wolfsburg, the outlet noted.
The previous record set for a women&#8217;s sporting event in the United States was set on July 10, 1999, with 90,185 fans at the Women&#8217;s World Cup soccer final between Team USA and China at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
&#8220;I remember that like it was yesterday,&#8221; Nebraska coach John Cook said of that World Cup match, ESPN noted. &#8220;It was so impactful seeing those women compete and their celebration afterward. It made a mark on women&#8217;s sports in this country. They showed what could be done.&#8221;

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There&#8217;s a lot of bull in the news these days, but here&#8217;s a story that&#8217;s actually true: On Wednesday in Nebraska, police pulled over a man for driving down a highway with a gigantic Watusi bull in his passenger seat.
WSAZ 3 <a href="https://www.wsaz.com/2023/08/31/video-police-pull-over-man-with-bull-riding-shotgun/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Norfolk Police Division received a call from a concerned driver about a farm animal in the passenger seat of a car on Highway 275. When authorities found the vehicle in question, the responding officers got more than they bargained for.
“The officers received a call referencing a car driving into town that had a cow in it,” Police Captain Chad Reiman told the local media outlet. “They thought that it was going to be a calf, something small or something that actually fit inside the vehicle.”
Instead, officers met &#8220;Howdy Doody&#8221; — the African bull owned by the driver, Lee Meyer.  The monstrous bovine can be seen here:
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Police pulled over a man with a bull riding in the passenger’s seat. <a href="https://t.co/5kWanvn5UT">pic.twitter.com/5kWanvn5UT</a>
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It&#8217;s not the first time that Meyer has driven with the bull. During Neligh&#8217;s 2019 July 4th parade, Meyer drove what appears to be the same vehicle with the same passenger.
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Wednesday, Meyer was let off with a warning.
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&#8220;There were some citable issues with that situation. The officer chose to write him a warning and ask him to take the animal back home and to leave the city,” Reiman told the press.
Watusi bulls weigh between 1,000 and 1,600 pounds and have a <a href="https://www.thefarmatwalnutcreek.com/animal/watusi-cattle/#:~:text=The%20Ankole%2DWatusi%20is%20medium,remain%20small%20for%20several%20months." target="_blank" rel="noopener">life expectancy</a> of 20 years.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nebraska" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nebraska</a> Republican Rep. Don Bacon said on Tuesday that the FBI informed him that operatives from the Chinese Communist Party hacked his emails. 
Bacon’s announcement comes after it was previously reported that suspected Chinese hackers gained access to communications from officials at the State Department and the Commerce Department. 
“I thank the FBI for notifying me that the CCP hacked into my personal and campaign emails from May 15th to June 16th of this year. The CCP hackers utilized a vulnerability in the Microsoft software, and this was not due to ‘user error,&#8217;” Bacon <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDonBacon/status/1691187487350177793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said on X</a>. 
“Thus, there were other victims in this cyber operation. The Communist government in China are not our friends and are very active in conducting cyber espionage. I’ll work overtime to ensure Taiwan gets every $ of the $19B in weapons backlog they’ve ordered, and more,” he added. 
Bacon, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, has <a href="https://news.usni.org/2022/12/14/u-s-needs-to-clear-19b-in-arms-sale-backlog-to-taiwan-says-hasc-member" target="_blank" rel="noopener">consistently pushed</a> for more U.S. military equipment to be sold to Taiwan. He said the supplies are necessary for Taiwan to “deter” any action from China. 
News of the hacking of the federal agencies, which officials first discovered in June, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-open-probe-into-suspected-chinese-cyber-espionage-targeting-federal-agencies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first made public</a> in July. 
“Microsoft notified the department of a compromise to Microsoft’s Office 365 system, and the department took immediate action to respond,” a spokesman for the Commerce Department said last month. “We are monitoring our systems and will respond promptly should any further activity be detected.”
The communications of U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burn and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Daniel Kritenbrink <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/china-hackers-breach-emails-of-us-diplomats-nicholas-burns-kritenbrink.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were</a> also breached due to the hacking. 
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In March, the White House put out a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">framework</a> discussing the need for better cybersecurity, warning that China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran were all working to increase their cyber capabilities.
According to the framework, China represents “the broadest, most active, and most persistent threat to both government and private sector networks and is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do so.”

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A Nebraska mother has <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-charges-nebraska-704b4068ed53791710edad4124f7e750">pleaded</a> guilty to illegally giving her 17-year-old daughter abortion pills and helping her burn and bury the baby’s body.
Jessica Burgess, 42, of Norfolk, Nebraska, pled guilty to three felonies in a plea agreement with Madison County District Attorney Joe Smith. She admitted to providing an abortion after 20 weeks gestation, lying to police, and tampering with human remains.
As part of the plea deal, Smith dropped charges against Jessica for concealing the death of another person and providing an abortion by someone other than a physician. With the three remaining felonies, she could face up to five years in prison and $21,000 in fines. 
Burgess helped her daughter, Celeste Burgess, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nebraska-woman-pleads-guilty-burning-fetus-abortion-rcna85922">order</a> abortion pills on the internet in April 2022 when she was 29 weeks pregnant, in violation of Nebraska’s 20 week abortion ban. After taking the pills, the daughter gave birth to the aborted baby in the shower and put the body in a bag and a box, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-health-nebraska-government-and-politics-b94abeeed9a8c486cf479d6ae78c62aa">Associated Press</a>.
The pair then drove to a field outside of town, burned the baby’s dead body, and buried it. A detective wrote that the child’s body showed signs of “thermal wounds” and that a man who helped the duo confirmed the mother and daughter burned the baby’s dead body.
The mother-daughter duo was charged in August 2022, and they both initially pleaded not guilty. Celeste, now 18, reached a plea agreement in May and is scheduled for sentencing July 20, facing up to two years in prison. Jessica is scheduled for sentencing on September 22. 
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-allegedly-aborted-burned-and-buried-her-baby-heres-how-media-covered-it">reported</a>, mainstream media outlets obscured the facts of the case and instead focused on Facebook assisting law enforcement in enforcing an abortion law by handing over the duo’s messages. 
“Are we starting it today?” Celeste Burgess <a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/COURTDOC-comp.jpg">asked</a> her mother, to which her mom replied, “We can if u want,” adding, “the one will stop the hormones.”
The two discuss the process of taking the abortion pills before Celeste Burgess reminds her mother, “Remember we burn the evidence.”
“Yep,” her mother responds.
“Once everything is out,” the daughter continued.
“Yep,” the mom answers. “Thought u would b happy 2 hear the stuff came in.”
“Yes,” responds the daughter. “I will finally be able to wear jeans.”

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