Iowa’s four congressional representatives voted for a continuing resolution to fund the federal government, as Republicans look to cut nearly $2 trillion from the federal budget to enact sweeping $4.5 billion tax cuts. Iowa’s Republican U.S. Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks,...
President Donald Trump touted the policies enacted during the first six weeks of second term in an address to Congress as Iowa politicians sang his praises and criticized his sweeping actions Tuesday night. Trump boosted his overhaul of the federal government and expansive...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders made the second stop in his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in Iowa City Saturday morning, filling the Englert Theater and addressing an overflow crowd of 1,175 people at Bread Garden afterwards. Sanders spoke about issues of wealth consolidation,...
Cathy Ketton, of Waterloo, Iowa, found a lump in her breast in February 2022. She had just been released from the hospital after complications from contracting COVID-19 and had read the virus can cause lumps in your breasts in rare cases. She brought her concerns to her...
Iowa Senate lawmakers unanimously approved Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' bill to ban cellphones during instructional time in the state’s public school districts on Monday. The bill would require Iowa school districts to adopt a policy prohibiting cellphone use during instructional...
Iowa House lawmakers continued their efforts to bring comprehensive reform to the state’s higher education system with lawmakers honing their aim on diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in a spate of bills passed Tuesday. Lawmakers passed a number of bills focused...
In December 2023 in Cairo, Mazahir Salih saw suffering. There to find her mother who had just fled Sudan, Salih witnessed the lines of tired and hungry Sudanese refugees outside of the U.N. location in Sudan, all of them with the same hope — safety. The Sudanese refugees...
With former President Donald Trump on his way back to the White House after beating out Vice President Kamala Harris, University of Iowa campus political organizations are mixed about the results of the election. Campus conservatives are ecstatic about Trump’s rise...
A handful of University of Iowa students were among hundreds of poll workers who helped run dozens of election precincts in Johnson County on Election Day. The students, however, were getting class credit. The class focused on election administration and gave students hands-on...