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SPONSOR OF KEYSTONE XL PULLING PLUG The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline says it is pulling the plug on the contentious project after Canadian officials failed to per-suade the Biden administration to reverse its cancellation of the com-

pany’s permit on the day the president took office. Calgary-based TC Energy said Wednesday it would work with government agencies “to ensure a safe termination of and exit from” the partially built project. The pipeline would have transported crude from the oil sand fields of western Canada to Steele City, Nebraska. Construction on the 1,200-mile line began last year when former President Donald Trump revived the long-delayed project after it had stalled under the Obama admini-stration.

NEBRASKA SCHOOL DISTRICTS “RESCUE” MONEY Nebraska school districts learned this week how much money they’ll get from the giant pot of federal “rescue” money Congress approved to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19. Now the question is how to spend what is, for some districts, a major infusion of money. The Omaha Public Schools is slated to receive $194 million that’s about $3,700 per stu-dent. In all, the American Rescue Plan will provide $491.3 million for

Nebraska K-12 schools, with an additional $54.6 million going to the Nebraska Department of Education. High-poverty districts get the lion’s share of the money, which is intended to help schools reopen, operate safely and catch up students who fell behind during the pandemic. Pub-lic schools in some of the nation’s cities are expected to receive more than $1 billion, including Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Districts with a low percentage of students living in poverty, in some cases, still receive some aid. Schools must reserve 20% for summer programs and other efforts to address learning loss, but they expect to have wide flexibility in how to use most of the aid. The districts have more than three years to spend the new money. Nebraska Education Commissioner Matt

Blomstedt said he hopes district officials will make investments that will yield long-term educational impacts.

CYBERATTACKS HAVE INCREASED The U.S. government and American businesses have found themselves on the defensive lately as cyberattacks have threatened critical infrastruc-ture, the food supply chain and people’s personal data. In hopes of preempting an attack, some businesses have hired groups, known as red teams, to hack into their systems like would-be terrorists and expose cybersecurity weaknesses. Brian Halbach and Jonathan Studebaker, two of these hackers, spoke to “Nightline” while “targeting” two different companies in two nights. “The bad guys, they’re getting more sophisti-cated,” Halbach, a security consultant at RedTeam Security, said. “They’re coming up with new ways, new tricks of their trade. So, busi-nesses also have to react fast and they have to think fast.” After a ran-

somware attack against the Metropolitan Police Department in Wash-ington, D.C., last month, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro May-orkas warned that cyberattacks, particularly ransomware attacks, had increased 300% in the past year. He said these cyberterrorists have targeted everything from government agencies to small businesses, and that $350 million in ransom had been paid for these attacks in 2020.

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Six distinguished student-athletes make up the 2021 University of

Nebraska Athletic Hall of Fame class, announced yesterday. The

class includes Therese Alshammar (women’s swimming & diving,

1998-99), Jordan Burroughs (wrestling, 2007-11), Bob Cerv

(baseball and men’s basketball, 1947-50), Kelsey Griffin (women’s

basketball, 2006-10), Larry Jacobson (football, 1969-71) and Cathy

Noth (volleyball, 1981-84). The six members of the class came to

Nebraska from five states and one foreign country. The 2021 Ne-

braska Athletic Hall of Fame class is an outstanding group who

each accomplished historic “firsts” in their respective sports. The

class will be permanently enshrined with a granite plaque with the

names of the six members added to the University of Nebraska

Athletic Hall of Fame Plaza. This year’s Hall of Fame Induction

Ceremony will take place on Friday, Oct. 1, a day before Nebraska

takes on Northwestern in the annual Homecoming Game at Memo-

rial Stadium.

Max Anderson racked up another postseason award on Wednes-

day, as he was named a freshman All-American by Collegiate

Baseball Newspaper. It’s the third-straight season Nebraska has

produced a freshman All-American, as Colby Gomes (NCBWA) was

honored in 2019 and Leighton Banjoff (Collegiate Baseball) was

picked in 2020. Anderson, the 2021 Big Ten Freshman of the Year,

put together one of the top freshman seasons at Nebraska in

recent history. The Omaha finished the year second on the team in

both average (.332) and hits (61). Anderson added seven home

runs and 32 RBIs in 45 games. He produced 19 multi-hit games in

2021, including a team-best nine three-hit games and tied for the

team lead with a pair of four-hit performances.

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