Robert Prevost was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. Sign up for our NewslettersHe is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops.

After years in prison, a Nebraska man voted for the first time Tuesday, casting a ballot more than two decades after he lost his right to vote in 1995.

A Nebraska bill may let the Omaha and Lincoln city councils put their election dates on the ballot. Voters could choose to elect local officials at the same time as they pick a president.

Rep. Don Bacon has held his seat in Congress for four election cycles, but will the Nebraska Republican run again in 2026?

Dave Richardson got his first taste of voting when his aunt Marjorie lifted him up to the polling booth and let him fill in the bubble next to Adlai Stevenson’s name on her 1952 presidential ballot. For an 8-year-old infatuated with politics,

The General Election ballot includes a proposal to ban housing discrimination based on a renter’s or buyer’s source of income. Incumbents Bennie Shobe, Tom Beckius, and Sändra Washington are seeking reelection. While the race is officially nonpartisan, all three have been endorsed by Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird, a Democrat.

Lawmakers rejected a last-minute amendment to keep Lincoln city elections in off years, rather than with statewide elections.

THE OMAHA CITY ELECTION IS ONE WEEK FROM TOMORROW. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M ROB MCCARTNEY. I’M JULIE CORNELL MAYOR JEAN STOTHERT WAS THE CLEAR VOTE LEADER AFTER OMAHA’S PRIMARY, BUT DATA SHOWS IT WAS HER WORST PRIMARY PERFORMANCE IN 12 YEARS.

Lincoln and Omaha city officials would have the future option to move city elections and line them up with Nebraska statewide elections, under this year’s annual election cleanup