An antiviral pill that people could take at home to reduce their symptoms and speed recovery could prove groundbreaking, easing the crushing caseload on U.S. hospitals and helping to curb outbreaks in poorer countries with weak health care systems.
She was one of 7 members of Congress who failed to disclose transactions, a watchdog agency charged
Sioux City Republican Jim Carlin is hinting he may step down from the state Senate before the new legislative session begins in January to concentrate full time on his U.S. Senate campaign.
“Today we are in the midst of a gathering storm against democracy,” Krause said, charging Republicans are setting the stage for a slow-motion legal coup in 2022 and 2024.
Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst, a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault, has proposed federal legislation calling for the deportation of individuals seeking to enter the United States who have been convicted of violent sexual crimes.
“This is just simply immoral and unethical that they will set up an environment that hurts kids,” the Iowa Republican said.
There could be some political danger in opposing the package, Grassley said, “but I'm not going to judge whether they should vote for it or not. That's up to them.”
Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been pushing a package of criminal justice reform measures that could reduce the sentencing difference, now 18 to 1, “but I don’t think one to one can pass.”
Four years after Jeff Dettbarn raised concerns about veterans’ diagnostic exams being canceled without doctors’ orders at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City and two years after he testified about it before Congress, the VA ordered him back to the same unit with the same bosses and no protections as a whistleblower.
The Iowa 3rd District congresswoman’s failure to disclose some financial transactions was an unintentional error that will be remedied soon, her office said, while Iowa partisans traded jabs over the matter Thursday.
Ahead of public hearings, those commenting say congressional, legislative maps meet standards for population equality, keeping political subdivisions intact, contiguity and compactness.
The U.S. is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico in a massive show of force that signals the beginning of what could be one of America’s swiftest, large-scale expulsions of migrants or refugees in decades.
Pfizer said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11 and that it will seek U.S. authorization for this age group soon — a key step toward beginning vaccinations for youngsters.
Advocates for reform say harsher penalties for crack than powder disproportionately affect people of color.
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