Effects of the war in Iran are beginning to show up to make their appearance through gas prices and people beginning to question their own country’s actions.
The whole plan to attack Iran was for the United States and Israel to prevent and take hold of Iran’s supply and development of nuclear...
War does more than destroy nations; it also damages economies around the world by increasing inflation, raising prices, and disrupting daily life for millions of people.
As global conflicts continue, one of the most immediate effects people are seeing today is rising oil prices. According to Global...
With conflicts happening around the world, more people are starting to ask what it means for the U.S. military a whether a draft could ever be used again.
As of April 2026, the U.S. is involved in global tensions and military operations. This has led to increased attention on the current state of...
Maya Valenti, Newspaper Co-Entertainment Editor
• April 6, 2026
In January of 2025, the White House issued an order for the termination of government DEI programs, as well as local governments limit information available at schools. This order is still having effects months into 2026, and has caused censorship of information throughout the United States as a whole...
Emily Hollars, Newspaper Co-Entertainment Editor
• April 6, 2026
U.S. PIRG Education Fund is that 86% of U.S. adults have now reported that they at least partially get their news from digital devices, which is the most commonly used news platform by a landslide.
As reported by MIT News, social media content moves faster in news, which adds onto Gallup’s report...
On October 3rd, 2025, Discord reported a data breach where approximately 70,000 users globally had official ID photos vulnerable to an unauthorized party.
Discord’s data breach closely involved age verification procedures, where if its AI facial estimation fails, the user may give a picture of their...
Lillian Herrick, Newspaper Sports Editor
• February 12, 2026
Due to recent changes in Nebraska’s budget, new requirements for Medicaid insurance will take effect May 1, 2026. Many Nebraskans and organizations could see impacts.
The bill titled, “One Big Beautiful Bill” was signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025. This bill makes changes...
Victoria Bogatz, Newspaper Co-Editor in Chief
• February 12, 2026
In December 2025, the University of Nebraska regents voted to cut several departments at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) due to a budget shortfall.
This deficit ultimately began when the Nebraska Legislature increased funding for the University of Nebraska system by 0.625% in 2025. UNL administrators...
Charlotte Palm, Newspaper Features Editor
• February 12, 2026
The State of Nebraska implemented new Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) restrictions at the beginning of this year, which includes the purchase of soda and energy drinks.
Back in April 2025, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) applied...
Maya Valenti, Newspaper Co-Entertainment Editor
• December 11, 2025
Option Enrollment is a program used by families all around Nebraska to allow students to attend schools that they don’t reside in the district boundaries for.
Nebraska officially started allowing option enrollment in the 1990-01 school year. This was done only two years after the first state, Minnesota,...
Victoria Bogatz, Newspaper Co-Editor in Chief
• December 11, 2025
Senior Rick Scarpello was ready for something new by the end of his sophomore year.
He had attended Ralston High School for two years, but he was searching for more options, especially in baseball. Scarpello decided to contact East’s baseball coaches about joining their team.
“I actually...
Emily Hollars, Newspaper Co-Entertainment Editor
• December 11, 2025
The Flatwater Free Press Association published an article on June 5 about Nebraska’s high option enrollment denial rates of children with individualized education programs (IEPs), which offer students the chance to all be able to learn no matter their circumstances, in comparison to their general classroom...
![University of Nebraska. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the oldest university in the state, recently eliminated several departments due to a budget deficit. One of the eliminated programs was the Department of Statistics. “We fought [the cuts] every way we could figure out how to fight,” UNL Associate Professor of Statistics Susan VanderPlas said.](https://beaststudentmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/banner-for-web-900x1200.png)
![Ruins. The damage of an old schoolhouse rests near Bridgeport, Nebraska on March 15. The schoolhouse was one of the first structures that burned down in the wildfires, and Bridgeport resident Naomi Loomis’s husband, Cody Loomis, attended the school when he was younger. “We're still, maybe in the mourning [phase],” Naomi Loomis said. “So, rebuilding is just every day, just trying to make plans, trying to meet with bankers and people that would help us rebuild our corrals or stuff like that.”](https://beaststudentmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/charp.1.jpg)
![Register. On the whiteboard in the front of her classroom, instructor Rebekah Sidzyik keeps a voter registration form for eligible students. The federal Department of Justice requested data on registered Nebraska voters such as names, dates of birth, and the last 4 digits of Social Security numbers with the federal Department of Justice. “The [Nebraska] Attorney General advised that this was a lawful request that we ought to honor,” Secretary of State Robert Evnen said.](https://beaststudentmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/voterregistrationcmyk-906x1200.png)
