Can someone’s behavior be an indicator that the person may carry out a mass shooting? That is the focus of a document published by the University of Nebraska’s National Counterterrorism, Innovation, Technology, and Education Center. In it, they connected federally recognized behaviors indicating someone may be planning violence to the shooter behind the mass killing in Buffalo, New York earlier this year. Nebraska Public Media’s William Padmore spoke with the author of the document Clara Braun and Center Director Dr. Gina Ligon.

The U.S. Congress passed the “Keep Kids Fed Act,” which returns the school lunch program to an income-based system. The act passed just days before the universal free lunch program was scheduled to end June 30.

VanLear was shocked and panicked to hear the news.

“Crap, I got to reach out [and] figure out the budget,” she said.

Who qualifies?

Penny VanLear works two jobs. One at H&R Block where she’s been for 12 years. The other at the City of Lincoln’s Treasury office.

VanLear said they didn’t have to worry about paying for lunches before the pandemic.

“We were still qualifying for free at that point, with the four kids,” VanLear said.

Adam, 19, has since graduated and goes to Southeast Community College in Lincoln.

Now with three dependents instead of four, VanLear is put into a different income bracket. She fears her three kids won’t qualify for free lunches.

Nebraska State Senator described visiting a town near the front where people have been living in basements for months.

Newly-elected Nebraska Republican Party Chairman Eric Underwood says he wants a more locally-centered, less "top-down" approach.

Nebraska State Senator Patty Pansing Brooks told Vice President Kamala Harris the fight to protect abortion rights in Nebraska will continue.

There aren’t any definite numbers about how many farmers belong to the LGBTQ community in the U.S, but many are making a point to become more visible in their rural communities.

Petition campaigns to put voter ID requirements and a raise in the minimum wage turned in far more signatures than required, while the campaign for medical marijuana was closer to the miniumum number required.

A U.S, Court of Appeals ruling could throw out at least one ballot initiative aimed for the November elections

Reports from campaigns to require voter ID, raise the minium wage, and legalilze medical cannabis detail fundraising and spending.

Following the reversal of Roe v. Wade, 24 senators urged President Biden to ensure American’s right to an abortion, according to a letter sent to the president. One part mentioned “using federal property and resources to increase access to abortion.”

A separate Supreme Court ruling states that non-natives can be prosecuted for violating state law on Native American land, which is federally owned. That and pushback from Native American spokespeople makes it unlikely for an abortion clinic to open on reservation land.