Wall Street shuddered, and a level of shock unseen since COVID’s outbreak tore through financial markets worldwide Thursday on worries about the damage President Donald Trump’s newest set of tariffs could do to economies across continents, including his own.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday responded to a federal justice department letter that expressed concern with a right of first refusal provision in her state energy policy proposal.
President Donald Trump, during a ceremony Wednesday, held up a chart while speaking, showing the United States would charge a 34 percent tax on imports from China, a 20 percent tax on imports from the European Union, 25 percent on South Korea, 24 percent on Japan and 32 percent on Taiwan.
The Senate confirmed Iowa native Matt Whitaker late Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to NATO, a crucial emissary to the Western alliance at a time of growing concern about the American commitment abroad.
Republican Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is leading a legal brief in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order to redefine birthright citizenship. Also in the Notebook, Iowans rally in opposition to a bill shielding pesticide companies from lawsuits over cancer risks.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposed energy legislation includes a right of first refusal to incumbent energy companies to build new transmission projects
In her first visit to Iowa, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Monday said the administration may provide emergency aid to farmers — as it did during Trump’s first term — to offset losses from retaliatory tariffs on agriculture exports imposed by America’s trading partners.
In an emergency appeal filed Monday, the Republican administration argued the ruling should be put on hold because the judge didn’t have the authority to order some 16,000 probationary employees be hired back.
A couple hundred people gathered Saturday on the downtown Pedestrian Mall to protest terminations of federal workers who serve Iowa veterans, seniors and farmers, and called on the district’s congresswoman, Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, to stand up for them.
The man accused of causing the 2016 drunk driving crash that killed Council Bluffs resident Sarah Root was extradited to the United States on Friday.
Iowa's governor this week praised President Donald Trump's plan to dismantle the Department of Education, while some other state politicians and education leaders warned of dire potential impacts for schools and students.
Iowans’ anger over funding cuts and mass firings of federal employees led by billionaire Elon Musk as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash the federal government boiled over during a raucous town hall Friday hosted by Republican Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution and blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts to the agency.
“They were ready to serve the agenda of the next president of the United States and the party in charge. They didn’t have that opportunity because that administration, the Republicans, took a chain saw to them. And that, to me, is unbelievably shocking.”
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