Midterm elections are typically a referendum on the party in power, creating a more beneficial environment for challengers to ...

A race that no one is talking about is threatening to upend Republicans’ high hopes to control the U.S. Senate after November’s election. Incumbent Deb Fischer, one of the 10 most unpopular ...

Nebraska previously had an independent senator in George Norris, who left the GOP in 1936 before his election to a final term.

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President Donald Trump seeks to do what two previous GOP administrations talked about but didn’t — strip federal funding from ...

Independent Dan Osborn announced another bid to represent Nebraska in the Senate on Tuesday, challenging GOP Sen. Pete ...

Dan Osborn, a pro-labor steamfitter, is trying to unseat Nebraska Republican Deb Fischer in the U.S. Senate, in part by running as an Independent.

Gov. Jim Pillen announced appointments to Nebraska’s new School Financing Review Commission on school funding and property ...

The Senate map is so difficult for Democrats this November that one of their best chances of taking away a seat from Republicans is in ruby red Nebraska — with a candidate who isn’t even a ...

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (LINCOLN, N.E.) — Over the past few weeks, independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn has shaken up what many thought was a predictable race in ...

An election forecaster moved Nebraska’s contentious Senate race slightly toward Sen. Deb Fischer’s (R) challenger, Independent candidate Dan Osborn. Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted the Senate c… ...

The Senate map is so difficult for Democrats this November that one of their best chances of taking away a seat from Republicans is in ruby red Nebraska — with a candidate who isn’t even a ...