Iowa Senate Republicans have a solution for the state's ongoing workforce shortage: Child labor. In a 32-17 vote just before 5 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Senate advanced SF 542, which relaxes Iowa’s child labor laws and allows teenagers to work in more hazardous job...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose a 2014 real estate deal between himself and Republican mega donor Harlan Crow, according to a new report from ProPublica. The deal involved the sale of three properties owned by Thomas and his relatives in...
Despite objections from working-class and low-income Iowans, food banks, and more than 200 Iowa religious leaders, Iowa House Republicans advanced a bill on Thursday to cut food and health-care benefits for thousands of Iowans. After a marathon debate, the Iowa...
UPDATE: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily delayed Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling which sought to suspend the FDA’s approval for the abortion medication mifepristone. Alito’s ruling means mifepristone remains available according to...
Iowa House Republicans voted on Wednesday to make it easier to bring guns on the campuses of Iowa schools, community colleges, and universities and to require public schools to implement K-12 gun safety curriculum that was developed by the National Rifle...
Rep. Bobby Kaufmann (R-Wilton), son of Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann, is attempting to stop Iowa Democrats' plan for a modified caucus that relies on mailed presidential preference cards. The younger Kaufmann introduced a committee bill on Monday that prevents...
An Iowa House committee advanced a law on Monday to give parents something they can already control: Oversight of their child’s social media accounts. But the bill might instead lead parents to give up more of their own personal information to large social media...
Two judges—one in Texas, and one in Washington—issued competing rulings on the fate of the abortion medication mifepristone on Friday, throwing the future of access to the pill into question. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, ordered a hold...
Despite both of her parents being college graduates, Esther Hurston said her family struggled financially for most of her childhood and those scars stick with her. “As a little girl, I never knew if we were going to have a home to live in, if I was going to have...
Former president Donald Trump decided to turn his arrest and 34 felony charges related to hush money payments to an adult film star into a money-making opportunity, and has reportedly raised $7 million for his 2024 campaign since official news of his indictment...
