Tom Barton

Iowa U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson are pressing multiple federal agencies to protect Jewish Americans from discrimination, their offices said Thursday.

Senator sends letter to Justice, FBI seeking records

Opponents to new law ‘blowing it out of proportion,’ she says,

A ‘deep conviction’ drives evangelicals to participate in caucuses.

The local demonstration came against a backdrop of several Republican candidates, campaigning in Iowa and elsewhere, calling for banning pro-Palestine protests and accusing pro-Palestinian demonstrators of being antisemitic.

Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks held her third annual Triple MMM Tailgate on Friday evening in Iowa City. The event featured seven candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

Cedar Rapids center sees growing need for support and safe spaces for LGBTQ youth in the wake of new Iowa laws banning gender-affirming care for minors and restricting LGBTQ education in schools.

Corkery, a first-time candidate and two-time breast cancer survivor, said she is running to expand access to affordable health care, lower prescription drug costs, strengthen gun safety laws and help farmers modernize their business.

Frances Haugen, in a keynote address at The Gazette’s Iowa Ideas conference, said Big Tech is failing in its obligations to society.

Congresswoman also says her staff working to bring Iowans stuck in Israel home.

In a new poll from Iowa State University and Civiqs, 55 percent of likely Iowa Republican caucus participants chose Trump as their first choice to be the party’s nominee for president next year.

Miller-Meeks and Grassley also move to freeze Iranian assets.

Iowa Republican said the Hamas terrorist organization ‘needs to be destroyed.'

Both in Cedar Rapids campaign stops cite a $6 billion transfer of frozen assets to Iran as part of a prisoner swap deal.

Donald Trump campaigned Saturday before a crowd of more than 2,000 in downtown Cedar Rapids, touting his trade and farm policies, protecting American jobs and undoing Democratic President Joe Biden’s immigration policies and electric vehicle incentives.