Former President Donald Trump will travel to Iowa over the next week, visiting Ankeny, Cedar Rapids, and Coralville in the next two weeks.
Trump will speak at a campaign event at Kirkwood Community...
David Pautsch, a Republican from Davenport, has joined Iowa’s 1st Congressional District primary race against incumbent Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa.
Pautsch said one of the big reasons...
Liam Halawith, Senior News and Politics Editor
• November 28, 2023
Iowa City K-12 student Puck Carlson was named as one of seven plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit brought by civil rights advocacy groups to permanently block an Iowa law that prohibits schools from talking...
Grace Katzer, Politics Reporter
• November 28, 2023
Mariam ‘Mimi’ Daoud grew up hearing about friends and family dying at the hands of the Israeli
Defense Forces.
Daoud, a 22-year-old Muslim American living in Cedar Rapids, said her family told...
Liam Halawith, Senior News and Politics Editor
• November 21, 2023
Bob Vander Plaats, an influential leader among Iowa evangelicals — one of Iowa’s most influential voting blocks — endorsed presidential hopeful Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, just days...
Liam Halawith, Senior News and Politics Editor
• November 17, 2023
DES MOINES, Iowa — GOP presidential hopefuls Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Nikki Haley shared personal stories and thoughts on abortion policy Friday at an evangelical presidential forum in...
Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis, participated in a round table discussion at the 2023 Thanksgiving FAMiLY Forum hosted by The FAMiLY Leader at the Marriott...
Liam Halawith, Senior News and Politics Editor
• November 16, 2023
Melissa Vine, the director of the Des Moines nonprofit The Beacon, announced her candidacy for Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District seat on Thursday.
Vine will face a primary challenge against Lanon...
A crowd of around 150 University of Iowa students gathered at the IMU on Tuesday to hear North Korean defector and author Yeonmi Park.
Park, invited by the UI conservative student group Young...
Members of the University of Iowa's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom hosted a lecture and Q&A with conservative activist Yeonmi Park in the Iowa Memorial Union’s Main Lounge on Tuesday.
Park...
Grace Katzer, Politics Reporter
• November 14, 2023
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, joined thousands of demonstrators at the March for Israel in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Ernst joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers who support the Israeli Defense...
Liam Halawith, Senior News and Politics Editor
• November 14, 2023
Iowa Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird, along with 18 other Republican state attorney generals, filed an amicus brief with the Washington, D.C., appeals court asking the court to strike the gag...