Articles Tagged: Brenna Bird

The Iowa Supreme Court, in a split decision, has ordered a new trial for a West Des Moines doctor, convicted of sexually abusing a child under the age of 10, over the use of one-way video testimony.

Iowa Methodist Medical Center-UnityPoint, in Des Moines, will receive the Medicare funding to support 2.92 additional positions

Iowa’s congressional delegation has introduced resolutions in the U.S. House and Senate honoring two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend terrorist attack in Syria.

Members of Iowa’s congressional delegation will travel to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday alongside President Donald Trump to attend the dignified transfer of the two Iowa National Guard soldiers who were killed in an attack in Syria.

An Iowa-led coalition is urging a federal court to halt an IRS rule requiring nonprofits to submit donor lists, citing privacy risks and past data breaches. Plus: USDA unveils updates to crop insurance, Iowans are asked to weigh in on lake restoration plans and Iowa’s public pension system’s funded ratio topped 92 percent.

Iowa's auditor can be represented by his office's attorneys in a lawsuit over access to records concerning Davenport's nearly $2 million in settlements with three former employees, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in a decision released Friday.

National women’s PACs are jumping into Iowa’s 2026 races, with EMILYs List backing Dubuque Democrat Lindsay James and conservative PACs lining up behind Peosta Republican Shannon Lundgren in the race for northeast Iowa’s U.S. House seat.

States will have access to federal immigration information for the purposes of determining voters’ citizenship, and the federal government will have access to those states’ driver’s license information under a settlement reached in a lawsuit brought by Iowa.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is rolling out new victim assistance tools and has joined a multi-state push to scrutinize a major rail merger. Plus, Iowa lands $82 million for cleaner transit vehicles, and state economic officials approve new business aid and community projects.

Republican Iowa AG Brenna Bird on Wednesday celebrated that a California climate reporting law was paused by a U.S. appeals court after she filed a brief alongside 24 other GOP-led states urging the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a stay on the law.

Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird touts her support for law enforcement and former President Trump, while Democrat Nate Willems says the office should focus less on political lawsuits and more on wage theft, consumer protection and ordinary Iowans.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is calling for a federal investigation into refineries she says may be exploiting renewable fuel exemptions, while thousands of Iowa seniors are being urged to review their Medicare coverage amid plan cancellations and new drug pricing rules taking effect next year.

Republican Iowa U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks has introduced legislation to fund federal food assistance that is scheduled to dry up next month if the government shutdown continues.

At a rally of Iowa GOP women in Iowa City, U.S. Reps. Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks lauded the release of Israeli hostages under a Trump-brokered ceasefire and denounced Democrats over the ongoing government shutdown.

Eight weeks after the University of Iowa placed on paid administrative leave two employees seen in undercover videos discussing the campus’ compliance with state DEI laws — including one who said the university was “finding ways to operate around it” — the investigation continues.