Will Bauer

Workers at the GM plant in Wentzville, Missouri, have been picketing for over 45 days, but to end the strike, union leaders and members still need to vote on the tentative deal announced Monday. Workers would get a 25% raise over almost five years.

Both parties agreed on Thursday to push back their next court appearance until July 20, meaning that the Missouri Attorney General's emergency rules on gender affirming care won't take effect until at least then. The restrictions would have applied to both minors and adults.

A North Platte television news director was fired by her station for helping collect signatures for a ballot initiative to ban abortions in the neighboring town of Curtis.

Durante décadas, el despanojado de maíz fue un trabajo de verano habitual para los adolescentes de Nebraska y del resto de la zona del Maíz. Sin embargo, en los últimos años, las empresas agrícolas están recurriendo más a la mano de obra inmigrante para realizar este trabajo a través de un programa de visas destinado a complementar la mano de obra local.

For decades, corn detasseling was a customary summer job for teenagers in Nebraska and the rest of the Corn Belt. In recent years, however, agriculture companies are relying more on migrant labor to do this work through a visa program meant to supplement the local workforce.