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WASHINGTON — U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries got one step closer to becoming the next speaker after Democrats delivered a sweeping victory in the midterm elections. If elected by a majority of House members, Jeffries would make history as the first Black person to hold the gavel. The 56-year-old Brooklynite…
Republican incumbent Roby Smith was leading a tight race against Democratic challenger John Norwood early Wednesday, with all Iowa precincts reporting. Smith had 50.3% of the vote to 49.6% percent for Norwood in unofficial results, with 100% of precincts reporting. That amounts to a lead of over 10,100 votes for…
Democrat Taylor Wettach was leading Republican Lt. Gov. Chris Cournoyer by a slim margin early Wednesday in the contest to replace Rob Sand as the state auditor. With 96% of the vote counted, the Associated Press had yet to declare a winner. Unofficial results showed Wettach had claimed 50.9% of the vote, to 49.1% for
Republican Mike Naig was expected to keep his job as Iowa Secretary of Agriculture as unofficial results from the Associated Press early Wednesday showed him leading Democratic challenger Chris Jones. Results late Tuesday showed a lead from Naig of less than 1%, but by early Wednesday morning, as a greater share of…
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate held on to win reelection over his Democratic challenger, Ryan Peterman, the Associated Press projected, with final precincts reporting early Wednesday. Pate, a Republican had received 53% of the vote to 47% for Peterman in unofficial results, with 100% of precincts reporting. Pate…
Iowa lawmakers are likely to need a supermajority vote to increase personal and corporate income taxes after approval for a proposed constitutional amendment took the lead Tuesday night. Amendment 1 had received 56% yes votes to 44% no votes with with all 99 counties reporting Wednesday morning, according to the Iowa…
Democratic challenger Nate Willems declared victory late Tuesday over GOP incumbent Brenna Bird in the race for Iowa attorney general. Unofficial results showed that with 85 percent of the vote counted, Willems had claimed 53% of the vote in unofficial results, while Bird had claimed 47% of the ballots. The Associated…
Voters across the country administered a sharp reprimand to President Donald Trump and Republicans who hold majorities in Congress, with Democrats gaining comfortable majorities in the Senate and the House. Several U.S. Senate and House races remained uncalled by The Associated Press as Election Day ended on the East…
Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District will have a Democratic representative as state Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott won the district over Republican incumbent Zach Nunn, according to unofficial results. Iowa Secretary of State figures show Trone Garriott pulled in 54% of the vote to Nunn’s 46%, with all precincts reporting…
Democrat Lindsay James has been elected by Iowa voters to Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District seat, the Associated Press has projected. James has flipped the seat, previously held by Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson but left vacant due to her U.S. Senate campaign, from Republican to Democrat. She received 50% the vote in…
Democrat Christina Bohannan has won the seat for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District after Iowans cast their election ballots Tuesday, the Associated Press has projected, unseating incumbent Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks on her third run for the office. Bohannan received 54% of their district constituents’ votes…
Josh Turek defeated Republican Ashley Hinson in the U.S. Senate race Tuesday, the Associated Press has projected, becoming the first Iowa Democrat to hold the seat since former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin was in office. Unofficial results show Turek with nearly 50% of the vote and Hinson with 47% with 97% of Iowa’s precincts…
Republican Chris McGowan has won the race to represent Iowa’s 4th Congressional District against Democrat Dave Dawson, according to unofficial results. Dawson will take the place of U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, who did not run for reelection due to an attempted run for governor. While the district has been redrawn…
Democrat Rob Sand will be Iowa’s next governor, the Associated Press projected Tuesday, ending more than a decade of a Republican trifecta of control at the Iowa Capitol with his defeat of Republican Zach Lahn. The race has received significant attention as it represented a chance for Democrats to break up GOP control…
WASHINGTON — In a stunning upset, Democrats ousted Republicans and flipped control of the U.S. Senate Tuesday night, effectively establishing a barricade for President Donald Trump’s agenda for the last two years of his term. Democrats will now have the power to block many of Trump’s nominees, both executive and…
WASHINGTON — Democrats will regain control of the U.S. House early next year, after voters throughout the country rejected the policies that Republicans and President Donald Trump implemented during the last two years. The Associated Press, which States Newsroom looks to for the projected winner of congressional…
America voted. After the Trump administration pressured election officials, after concerns that armed federal agents would deploy to the polls, after fears U.S. Department of Justice election monitors would intimidate voters — ballots were cast by the millions Tuesday, mostly without incident. Across the United…
Nearly a half-million Iowans had already voted by the beginning of Election Day. The Iowa Secretary of State’s office reported at 8 a.m. that 498,951 early ballots had been received. That exceeds the 497,085 ballots received by secretary of state in the 2018 midterms reported Nov. 5, 2018. Iowa Capital Dispatch staff…
WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of Americans have already cast a ballot in the 2026 midterm elections that will determine control of Congress and shape President Donald Trump’s remaining policy agenda. As of Monday, more than 57 million Americans had cast a vote, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab…
As broad affordability concerns define elections across the country, voters in several states on Tuesday will have a say on their future utility bills. State utility regulators, who are facing heightened levels of attention and scrutiny amid high prices, are on the ballot in nine states: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia…
After a competitive and expensive election cycle, it’s finally Election Day in Iowa. Voters in Iowa will get to cast their ballots Tuesday for statewide and federal offices, as well as having the chance to weigh in on a proposed amendment to the state constitution and whether to retain certain judges. Iowa is expected…
The ACLU of Iowa has won a preliminary injunction that clears the way for The Satanic Temple to stage a holiday event next month in the Iowa Capitol rotunda. In August, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the state in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa over the state’s repeated refusal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, mere hours before Election Day in the midterms that will determine control of Congress, denied the Trump administration’s final attempt to force California to set aside the ballots of 20,000 people it suspects are noncitizens. The decision marked a significant blow to President Donald…
More Americans are confident in the integrity of vote counts for the midterm elections than in past election cycles, according to a poll authored by Grinnell College students and faculty. The Grinnell College Poll, delivered every two years since 2018, was administered by YouGov through a web survey in mid-October and…
WASHINGTON — One day before his party is forecast to lose control of the U.S. House, and possibly the Senate, President Donald Trump gathered guests and press at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to tout the “magnificent” renovation of the monument — a monthslong project plagued by algae, reclosure and false…
When approaching another election, I am reminded of a song from “Show Boat,” a play on Broadway in 1927 about the Mississippi River. The lyrics that caught my attention went like this: “I’m tired of living and scared of dying, but ol’ man river, he just keeps rollin’ along.” From one election to another, we,
An Iowa man criminally charged with running an unlicensed hospital in a rural area of Appanoose County is alleging in court that as “a living man” he is not under the jurisdiction of the state’s licensing boards. In August 2026, Centerville’s Old Cabin Retreat, which had allegedly been operating as a hospital or…
American democracy faces one of its biggest stress tests of the modern era, as President Donald Trump’s sprawling campaign for power over elections encounters a firewall of judges, state election workers and voting rights leaders heading into Election Day. A cascade of courtroom losses over the weekend dealt a major…
Funding a trust to support Iowa’s natural resources and water has come up repeatedly on the campaign trail ahead of Tuesday’s elections, but some counties have successfully initiated bond referendums to support projects locally. On Tuesday, Dubuque County voters will be asked to approve an $18 million dollar bond to…
Des Moines University is expanding its partnership with another health sciences institution to provide a path to further education to students pursuing a healthcare career. The Des Moines private university announced in a news release it has opened its Master of Science in Anatomy degree to the partnership it holds…
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to require California to set aside the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters in a last-ditch appeal by the Trump administration to exert control over the state’s vote counting. The request came on the eve of Election Day and as more than 5 million…
As concerns rise about the potential for federal influence over the results of Tuesday’s midterm elections, many voting experts and advocates remain confident that the nation’s highly localized systems of administering and counting votes will persevere. Facing sinking approval ratings over high prices, the White House…
Rob Sand, Democratic candidate for Iowa governor, said Sunday night that whatever his supporters have going on over the next 48 hours leading up to Election Day, it’s “probably less important” than encouraging people to vote. Sand spoke with supporters at an event in Des Moines alongside Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and…
DUBUQUE — President Donald Trump urged Iowans to vote for Republicans in the midterms during a Dubuque rally Sunday, telling voters Democratic majorities would reverse work done by his administration to lower costs and would usher in “socialism.” “On election night, Iowa is going to prove that America does not belong…
WASHINGTON — When the polls close Tuesday night, the 2026 U.S. election will go down as one of history’s most expensive and extraordinarily ugly midterms — galvanizing record-breaking early voter turnout among a deeply divided electorate. Voters on Saturday crossed the high-water mark of 52.7 million early votes cast…
Downstream Missouri River states have worried for decades about receiving an insufficient flow of water from upstream dams. Now they’re worried their share of water could be further diminished by potential pipelines for dry Western states. The concern is the basis of a dispute about the U.S. House version of the…
ANKENY — Iowa labor leaders and union members urged voters at a “get out the vote” event Saturday to elect Democratic candidates in the midterms Tuesday to protect workers’ rights and Social Security. U.S. Senate candidate Josh Turek, governor candidate Rob Sand and Sarah Trone Garriott, running for the 3rd…
Iowa Down Ballot 10/31/26 by Iowa Writers Collaborative We’re days away from the election so our all-star team of Kathie Obradovich, Laura Belin, and Eric Woolson give you the lay of the land in all the major races the final stretch. Read on Substack The view from the Friday morning before Election Day: President…
The Trump administration cut naturalization sharply over the past year, leading to accusations it’s holding back hundreds of thousands of people who might have voted in the midterms. It’s hard to say how those people might have voted had they become U.S. citizens. Naturalized citizens voted Democratic for president by…
A nonprofit organization that helps refugees and immigrants in Iowa is being sued for allegedly discriminating against clients who are African, Muslim or disabled. Alaa Elqatary-Reelitz is suing the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The committee is a…
A federal appeals court on Friday denied a Trump administration demand that California set aside and not count the ballots of 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters, setting the stage for a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a U.S…
Iowa Farmers Union has not endorsed federal candidates for at least 14 years, but is urging farmers to vote for Josh Turek in the race for U.S. Senate, and the rest of the Democrats running to represent Iowa in Congress. Aaron Lehman, Iowa Farmers Union president said Friday “the time demands it” as farmers look
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is rounding out his midterm travel blitz in the final sprint leading up to Election Day on Nov. 3. With just four days to go, the Republican Party is aiming to keep its narrow majority in the U.S. House and control of the Senate. But elections forecasters see a bleak
Two Walgreens pharmacies in Iowa have been sanctioned by the state for negligence with regard to temporary closures and customer service. The Iowa Board of Pharmacy recently charged a Walgreens store in Burlington and a Walgreens store in Fort Madison with negligence in the practice of the profession and failure to…
The Iowa Supreme Court has suspended the law license of a northern Iowa attorney who was the subject of five separate disciplinary complaints. Court records indicate that between October 2024 and September 2025, the Iowa Supreme Court’s Attorney Disciplinary Board initiated an investigation into five complaints…
As the Trump administration waged a public legal fight with California over the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters in mid-October, behind the scenes a federal grand jury in Santa Ana issued a series of subpoenas to election officials in Los Angeles County at federal prosecutors’ urging. The subpoenas demanded a…
WASHINGTON — As of early Friday, more than 46 million Americans had cast ballots ahead of Election Day, eclipsing the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. In the 2022 midterm elections, 45.9 million Americans voted early, according to the UF Election Lab…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s rallies in Kansas and Iowa this weekend are back on after initial cancellations, States Newsroom confirmed Friday. The Midwest rallies mark the final sprint to Election Day on Nov. 3 — now just four days away — where the GOP is itching to maintain its narrow majority in the U.S.
Costs are soaring for people who care for their older parents and other family members, according to a new study. Out-of-pocket expenses are nearly 60% higher than they were just five years ago for family caregivers, who now spend an average of $11,508 a year on caregiving, according to a report released this week by
It was another financial institution’s commercial that motivated me to create something different. Two busy white, apparently nondisabled, suburban parents were standing on their carefully manicured lawn talking about how they needed to go to the bank to plan for the future of their adult son with Down syndrome. They…
GRINNELL — With five days left until Election Day, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Josh Turek visited a farm Thursday to discuss his plans to support Iowa farmers if elected to Congress — a plan he said will not include the “Save Our Bacon” act proposed by his opponent, Republican Ashley Hinson. Farmers Lance and…
The Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to combat noncitizen voting and assert authority over elections came under intense scrutiny in courtrooms across the country on Thursday, as Democrats and voting rights groups alleged federal election interference. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the U.S…
Four Iowa nursing homes have been cited recently for alleged resident injuries or abuse, with one of the cases resulting in a resident’s death, state records show. According to state inspection reports, a resident of the Laurens Care Center was in the dining room on Oct. 6, 2026, and was heard making “sneezing noises”…
State lawmakers are once again calling upon the Iowa Board of Regents to tighten its restrictions on diversity, equity and inclusion content in required courses after a University of Iowa official was secretly recorded discussing the topic. Rep. Taylor Collins, chair of the Iowa House Committee on Higher Education…
Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Thursday a temporary suspension of regulations on the number of hours that drivers carrying fuel, diesel and biofuels within the state of Iowa can operate. The proclamation comes in the midst of record high diesel prices across the country and fuel supply shortages in Iowa as farmers work…
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a physician and former state senator who sued two Iowa licensing boards after an alleged investigation into his treatment of COVID-19 patients. Dr. David Hartsuch, an emergency medicine physician and former Republican state senator, sued both the Iowa Board of…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s rally in Salina, Kansas, on Saturday is canceled, the Kansas Republican Party confirmed to States Newsroom. An appearance scheduled for Sunday in Dubuque, Iowa, was also canceled, the Republican National Committee said in a late Thursday press release. In-person rallies packed…
Students attending St. Luke’s College in Sioux City next fall will not see their tuition increase, its overseeing university has announced. Morningside University, also in Sioux City, stated in a news release Wednesday tuition for the health sciences college will not increase for the 2027-2028 academic year. According…
WASHINGTON — Communities throughout the country have been inundated with television ads and outside spending as politicians try to spur voter turnout in the most competitive U.S. House races in Tuesday’s midterm elections. The focus on a short list of campaigns highlights how much power voters in a small number of…
Finalized recommendations from the Iowa Medicaid Fraud Elimination Task force include suggested legislative changes to increase penalties for Medicaid fraud, give investigators more authority and add anti-kickback and civil penalty laws. The task force, which was initiated by Gov. Kim Reynolds over the summer…
A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a commercial turkey flock of approximately 44,400 birds in Sac County, according to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. While the HPAI H5N1 outbreak has been ongoing since February 2022, Iowa has not reported an outbreak of the bird…
Federal regulators are cracking down on the nonprofits responsible for coordinating organ donations, aiming to begin shutting down substandard groups by early next year. New criteria will score the organizations on donation and transplantation rates and will decertify the bottom tier, meaning their contracts with the…
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a U.S. Department of Justice request that would have forced California to not count the ballots of 20,000 voters the Trump administration alleges are likely noncitizens. The decision sets the case on a course to possibly reach the U.S. Supreme Court within days. In a scathing…
Iowa Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn emphasized his opposition to the COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday at his “Make America Healthy Again” rally with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Lahn has long highlighted his support for the MAHA movement spearheaded by Kennedy at the federal…
Election monitors for the U.S. Department of Justice will be deployed to some Iowa polling locations on Election Day, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate confirmed Wednesday. The Justice Department regularly deploys monitors to election sites nationwide. Under President Joe Biden, monitors were sent to 64 jurisdictions…
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday he supports finding new ways to provide federal funding for faith-based recovery programs. The secretary visited Sheepgate, a Christian recovery and treatment program located in Colfax, to speak about the Great American Recovery Initiative…
Alliant Energy Corporation has closed a $5.1 billion loan package with the U.S. Department of Energy to fund power generation and energy storage projects in Wisconsin and Iowa. A news release from the DOE said the loan would help to “strengthen grid reliability in Iowa and Wisconsin” by adding more than 2.6 gigawatts…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is unlawfully scrutinizing naturalized U.S. citizens and placing them at risk of disenfranchisement, civil rights groups alleged in a lawsuit Wednesday, less than a week before Election Day. The lawsuit, filed in California, came as Homeland Security asked for an emergency…
The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a Dordt University student’s claim of religious discrimination that stemmed from a request for a COVID-19 vaccination exception. Andrew Perry, a former nursing student at the Sioux Center private university, sued Dordt for religious discrimination in 2022…
A leak in a liquid fertilizer tank in Lee County has led to an unknown amount of the fertilizer, mixed with rainwater, to enter a drainage ditch leading to a tributary of the Mississippi River, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. DNR staff responded to the incident and are investigating the spill…
State regulators have revoked the license of a Dubuque pharmacy employee for the suspected theft of hundreds of pills. The Iowa Board of Pharmacy recently charged pharmacist technician trainee Akasha Brown with obtaining or attempting to unlawfully obtain prescription drugs; stealing prescription drugs from a pharmacy…
Less than a week before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s unprecedented drive for power over elections has set the stage for a series of courtroom fights that could quickly lead to a high-stakes showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over the limits of federal authority. Democrats and voting rights advocates have…
Most of the nation returns to standard time Sunday morning, and Congress could decide as early as next month whether it will be the last time people have to change their clocks. President Donald Trump wants year-round daylight saving time. The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly in July for the change. Lots of Democrats…
In the first three years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in June 2022, more than 900 women faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnancies, according to a new report. Most state laws that prohibit or regulate abortion seek to penalize those who provide…
Meeting for the sole debate in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn and state Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott responded Tuesday to attacks from their opponent on issues like the Epstein files and transgender athletes and students. The debate, hosted by KCCI in Des Moines, was aired just a week before…
Both Democrat Rob Sand and Republican Zach Lahn said Tuesday in their final gubernatorial candidate debate that more work was needed to address mental healthcare and the impact of Medicaid privatization on healthcare providers, but the candidates offered different solutions to improving Iowa’s health system. Tuesday’s…
Iowa’s Medicaid Fraud Elimination Task Force is sending a draft of recommendations to Gov. Kim Reynolds that suggests the state more than double the fraud investigation and civil enforcement unit to hold fraudsters accountable. The task force, which was initiated by Reynolds in July, met for the final time Tuesday and…
The U.S. Department of Justice in a federal court hearing Tuesday warned California election officials could be prosecuted if they count ballots cast by noncitizen voters, in a case brought by the Trump administration demanding that the state set aside the ballots of 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters. The remark by a…
A former Davenport elementary school teacher is contesting the state’s efforts to suspend his teaching license due to allegations of inappropriate contact with a former student. Julian Lira is taking the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners to court and seeking judicial review of the board’s recent decision to suspend…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand, speaking Tuesday at a business forum, said he was in favor of more “traditional” procurement practices rather than securing state work contracts without competitive bidding. The forum, hosted by the Greater Des Moines Partnership, fell one week before Election Day. Sand…
Chris Jones, the Democrat running for Iowa secretary of agriculture, said Tuesday that his campaign, which has largely focused on water quality, has shown a “different way” of running for office. Jones spoke at the Greater Des Moines Partnership candidate forum Tuesday morning and said he knows he is a “peculiar”…
WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of Americans have already made their way to the ballot box as early voting is underway in a midterm election that will determine control of the House and the Senate, possibly flipping one or both from Republicans to Democrats. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 34 million people have…
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to send election monitors to every state ahead of Election Day, expanding a long-standing practice that’s spurred concern this year among Democrats and voting rights advocates because of President Donald Trump’s push to influence elections. The Justice Department for decades has…
As American politicians and industries look to bring manufacturing to U.S. soil, Iowa State University researchers and their partners are working to scale a method of carbon fiber development using cheap, readily available materials. ISU mechanical engineering professor and Bioeconomy Institute associate director…
Josh Turek, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, is facing criticism from both LGBTQ+ advocates and Republicans for a recent ad in which he said he opposed allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports, and supported blocking Medicaid funding going to gender-affirming care for transgender Iowans. Turek…
Soybean harvest across Iowa has picked up after a slow start to harvest season and is now 6 percentage points behind the five-year average harvest, according to the latest crop progress and condition report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Seventy-eight percent of soybeans have been harvested and slightly less…
Seventy-five of Iowa’s 393 nursing facilities are now subject to a reduced form of government inspection, a new analysis of federal data shows. The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, a nonprofit advocacy group, has analyzed, on a state-by-state basis, the federal government’s new, shorter inspection…
The Iowa Food System Coalition is embarking on a 12-month project studying pasture-based livestock systems in Iowa to examine the community and economic benefits of the practices. The coalition received a $40,000 grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA, to support the study…
Iowa regulators have reinstated the license of a nurse previously sanctioned for alleged drug thefts in four different states. State records indicate the Iowa Board of Nursing first licensed Krystal Bauer of Omaha as a registered nurse in 1993. Board records indicate that in 2003, Bauer was working at an unspecified…
President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour campaign to intervene in California’s vote counting encountered its first resistance from federal courts on Monday, with appellate judges ruling against the effort. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against a U.S. Department of Justice request for a…
A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats. Across the 46 states with legislative seats on the ballot, a total of 3,824 women are running — up from 2022’s previous record of 3,621 women candidates, according to the Center for American…
Iowa Down Ballot 10/25/26 by Iowa Writers Collaborative Kathie Obradovich and Laura Belin are joined by Shane Vander Hart to discuss two Trump visits, three close house races, and early voting. Read on Substack Kathie Obradovich, Laura Belin and Shane Vander Hart discuss the first of two Iowa visits by President…
PORTLAND, Ore. — The latest cosponsor of a U.S. House bill to provide single-payer health insurance defeated a Republican incumbent in a suburban and rural Oregon district by fewer than 10,000 votes two years ago. U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum, a Democrat now seeking her second term, doesn’t have the far-left profile of…
WASHINGTON — Fewer than 5% of U.S. House races are seen by a top political analysis as truly competitive heading into November’s midterm elections, giving relatively few voters the ability to determine which party controls the chamber for the next two years. The other 414 of 435 House districts are viewed by the…
In the race for Iowa governor, Democrat Rob Sand and Republican Zach Lahn agree addressing high cancer rates and making life more affordable for Iowans are their top priorities if elected Nov. 3, 2026 — but the candidates shared different opinions on how to tackle these problems. For the first time since 2006, Iowa has
SPRINGDALE, Pa. — Residents in a small southwestern Pennsylvania town are facing the prospect of a 47-acre data center facility on their doorstep. “Right here behind this fence is where they want to put up the data center, and as you can see, there’s houses right across the street, roughly 100 feet,” said lifelong…
College Republican and Democratic party leaders at Drake University said Friday they want to see people bring an open mind and an interest in learning to the political conversations they participate in, both before and after ballots are cast in the upcoming elections. Drake University hosted a teach-in event Oct. 23…
A Carlisle couple is suing the federal government over delays in processing the immigration papers for people married to American citizens. Jordan Sarae Pastrana Bates and her husband, Olman Javie Pastrana Linarez, are suing U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and…
A Venezuelan citizen held by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement in the Muscatine County Jail for almost six months is taking the federal government to court over the matter. Albin Jose Nunez Romero has filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against Muscatine County Sheriff…
The U.S. Department of Justice is stepping up its legal campaign over the midterm elections, suing Alaska over its U.S. Senate election and appealing a lawsuit against suspected noncitizen voters in California. Election law experts have cast doubt on the strength of the cases, criticizing them as performative. The…