‘Being really efficient’: How Omaha uses AI tool to rate streets, prioritize projects

Omaha is using artificial intelligence to help maintain city roads, a city engineer told KETV. A system adopted a few years ago means rating the condition of roads in order to prioritize projects is no longer subjective and much less time-consuming, he said.
Biden drops lawsuit seeking to block release of recordings of his interviews with a ghostwriter

Joe Biden has dropped a lawsuit in which he sought block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before the Delaware Democrat was elected president.
Sen. Pete Ricketts gears up for fair and festival season, pitches experience to voters

U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts isn’t taking the challenge of keeping his Senate seat lightly as independent challenger Dan Osborn strides across Nebraska’s 93 counties.
Next stop, Trump Station? Administration wants to rename New York’s Penn Station

The Trump administration is seeking to rename Manhattan’s Penn Station as part of a planned $8 billion redesign of the country’s busiest transit hub.
US military says it fired on another merchant vessel trying to breach its blockade of Iranian ports

The U.S. military said Friday that it fired on another merchant vessel that was trying to breach its blockade of Iranian ports, while Iran targeted American strongholds around the Persian Gulf.