Federal Government

Hinson did not directly say if she supports prosecuting other individuals who assist a person who is receiving an abortion, but her staff says she opposes it.

Both of Iowa’s Republican U.S. Senators say abortion regulations should be decided by individual states

The rally was organized by a broad coalition of Iowa-based civil rights and reproductive rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa and the Great Plains Action Society.

A terminal upgrade project has now received nearly $49 million in federal funding this year.

President Joe Biden has proposed a three-month suspension of the 18-cent federal gas tax and called on states to enact their own.

Federal health officials Thursday ordered Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the U.S. market, the latest blow to the embattled company widely blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping.

In their decision, the justices struck down a New York law requiring people to demonstrate a particular need for carrying a gun in order to get a license to carry one in public. The justices said the requirement violates the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”

During a roundtable discussion with a federal commerce official, stakeholders said the funding must be deployed effectively and efficiently to meet rural Iowans’ needs.

Gov. Kim Reynolds established the bureau in 2020, but state lawmakers have not funded it; the funding will provide resources to school districts for gun violence safety and prevention measures

Grassley, who is up for re-election this fall, said he was “encouraged” to see the bipartisan group of senators produce a proposal.

The compromise would make the juvenile records of gun buyers under age 21 available when they undergo background checks. The suspects who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo and 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde were both 18, and many of the attackers who have committed mass shootings in recent years have been young.

State and federal officials called the funding from the federal infrastructure package ‘unprecedented’