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Jonathan Alter was a senior editor, media critic and columnist for Newsweek, where he worked for 28 years and covered five administrations and seven presidential campaigns.

In this Feb. 16, 2005 file photo, Ameritrade chairman and founder Joe Ricketts talks to shareholders in Omaha, Neb.

Officials with the Republican National Convention have abruptly ended their working relationship with a senior adviser who was listed as a proposed member of the team that would have overseen a now-defunct proposal to raise the issue of President Obama's former spiritual adviser, the Rev.

It's not often that a story related to the Illinois Statehouse can involve the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.A But those worlds collided this week to create an interesting sub-plot during the last two scheduled weeks of the current legislative session.A In terms of background, the owners of the ... (more)

The Big Ten announced on Friday that the 2014 conference baseball tournament will be held at Omaha's TD Ameritrade Park.

Source: Omaha World Herald By Roseann Moring About a dozen people protested outside the Omaha headquarters of online stock broker TD Ameritrade because of a national controversy involving retired company founder Joe Ricketts.

Big Ten baseball teams hoping to earn a postseason trip to Omaha after the 2014 season won't have to wait for the College World Series.

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This is what's in the news for Thursday May 17, 2012. The Wall Street Journal reports following the losses at J.P. Morgan Chase , the White House is seeking to ensure a tough interpretation of a regulation designed to prevent banks from making bets with their own money.

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In this March 25, 2012 file photo, Rev. Jeremiah Wright speaks in Jackson, Miss.

The Facebook Inc. logo is displayed on a computer screen and reflected in water droplets in San Francisco.

Joe Ricketts, whose American Film Company produced The Conspirator , arrives at the film's premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010.

This morning we learned about the latest far-right smear campaign in the works, aimed at using race against President Obama in a series of SuperPAC-funded ads.

There's a persistent belief on the right that President Obama snuck into office in 2008 because an awestruck media refused to look into his background and personal associations, preventing voters from learning about all sorts of radical, anti-American connections that would have turned them against the Democratic nominee.

The Go staff is looking up at the best and brightest of this summer's pop culture.

A little-known Nebraska rancher who bills herself as "sharp as barbed wire and tougher than a cedar fence post" will ride an upset win in the state's Republican primary for U.S. Senate this week into a general election that could help flip control of the chamber this fall.

Iowa won its final road game of the season Tuesday afternoon, coming from behind to beat Creighton 5-4 in at TD Ameritrade Park in downtown Omaha.

Follow along with live updates as Nebraskans go to the polls, and chime in with your own experiences.

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning makes calls to potential voters from his campaign office in Omaha, Neb., on May 14, 2012.