Lori Chavez-DeRemer tours Western Iowa Community College in Council Bluffs and Union Pacific dispatch center in Omaha.
By Scott Stewart, - Council Bluffs Nonpareil Business News Jan. 15, 2026 7:33 am31d ago
Lori Chavez-DeRemer tours Western Iowa Community College in Council Bluffs and Union Pacific dispatch center in Omaha.
Tom Barton Federal Government Jan. 15, 2026 7:43 am31d ago
Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is overstating the need for U.S. control of Greenland, while emphasizing the importance of diplomacy and reaffirming his long-standing support for the independence of the Federal Reserve amid a Justice Department inquiry into Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
Washington Post
Federal Government Jan. 14, 2026 8:55 am32d ago
President Donald Trump said his administration would push Silicon Valley companies to ensure their massive computer farms do not drive up people’s electricity bills.
Federal Government Jan. 9, 2026 7:44 am37d ago
Iowa’s all-Republican U.S. House delegation split as the House voted to extend expired health care subsidies. U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn joined Democrats and a small group of Republicans to pass the bill, while Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Ashley Hinson and Randy Feenstra opposed the measure, which now heads to the Senate.
Nation and World Jan. 9, 2026 9:36 am37d ago
“Minnesota is a microcosm of a lot of the tensions we have in our society,” a political scientist at Hamline University in St. Paul says.
State Government Jan. 7, 2026 5:44 pm39d ago
The state agency described the proposed bill as ‘first-of-its-kind, comprehensive legislative package designed to support Iowa farmers’
Maya Marchel Hoff, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau
K-12 Education Jan. 8, 2026 7:27 am38d ago
Iowa is the first state in the country to receive the green light for a federal waiver approval that will allow it to circumvent some reporting and compliance requirements and have more discretion over the spending of federal education funds.
By JONEL ALECCIA - AP Health Writer
Federal Government Jan. 7, 2026 11:11 am39d ago
Americans should eat more whole foods and protein, fewer highly processed foods and less added sugar, according to the latest edition of federal nutrition advice released Wednesday by the Trump administration.
Government & Politics Jan. 6, 2026 6:21 pm40d ago
The U.S. military seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro drew strong support from Iowa’s Republican delegation — and sharp criticism from Democrats who say the operation bypassed Congress and could pull the nation into another foreign war.
State Government Jan. 6, 2026 7:57 am40d ago
Also in the notebook, Gov. Kim Reynolds establishes a task force on nuclear energy in Iowa
By REGINA GARCIA CANO and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN - Associated Press
Nation and World Jan. 6, 2026 9:37 am40d ago
The United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country in an extraordinary military operation early Saturday that plucked a sitting leader from office.
By ALI SWENSON - Associated Press
Health Care and Medicine Jan. 2, 2026 3:47 pm44d ago
Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired this week, cementing higher health costs for millions of Americans at the start of the new year.
Starting Thursday, Americans in five states — including Iowa — who get government help paying for groceries will see new restrictions on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits.
Federal Government Dec. 30, 2025 7:18 am47d ago
Four years after escaping Afghanistan during the chaotic Kabul airlift, Afghans living in Iowa say they now fear deportation as U.S. immigration policies shift.
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