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Katie Britt calls Biden a 'diminished leader' in GOP response to the State of the Union

Mar. 08, 2024 02:11 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sitting at her kitchen table in Alabama, Sen. Katie Britt called President Joe Biden a “dithering and diminished leader” and warned of a bleak American future under his presidency in the Republican rebuttal to his State of the Union address Thursday evening. ...

Iowa House OKs bill to criminalize death of an "unborn person" despite IVF concerns

Mar. 07, 2024 18:59 PM EST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in Iowa's House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person” — over Democrats’ concerns about how it might apply to in vitro fertilization, after an Alabama court found frozen embryos can be...

Iowa poised to end gender parity rule for governing bodies as diversity policies targeted nationwide

Mar. 07, 2024 13:34 PM EST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa has been the only state in the U.S. to explicitly mandate that state, county and local decision-making bodies are balanced by gender. That will end when Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a bill that aligns with a broader abrogation of gender- and race-conscious policies...

Federal court dismisses case against Iowa governor's ban on school mask mandates

Feb. 27, 2024 22:09 PM EST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal court on Tuesday dismissed a legal challenge to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ policy prohibiting schools from instituting mask requirements, which was brought by families of students with disabilities during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The...

Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied

Feb. 27, 2024 13:54 PM EST

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Mack Allen, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas, braces for sideways glances, questioning looks and snide comments whenever he has to hand over his driver's license, which still identifies him as female. They've come from a police officer responding...

Editorial Roundup: Iowa

Feb. 26, 2024 07:28 AM EST

Daily Nonpareil. February 24, 2024. Editorial: Press pause on AEA bills this session Legislation can be tricky business, and lawmakers led by Gov. Kim Reynolds have kicked the hornets’ nest by proposing disruption to Iowa’s educational services for students with...

Editorial Roundup: Iowa

Feb. 19, 2024 15:14 PM EST

Des Moines Register. February 18, 2024. Editorial: Hands off the AEAs. We aren’t seeing proof of an Iowa special education crisis. No solution can be usefully tailored if the problem is ill-defined. Iowa needs to be sure it’s asked the right questions before it...

Man accused of destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol is now charged with hate crime

Jan. 31, 2024 10:17 AM EST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa's state Capitol is now being charged with a hate crime. The statue was brought to the Capitol by the Satanic Temple of Iowa under state rules allowing religious displays in the building...

Iowa promised $75 million for school safety. Two shootings later, the money is largely unspent

Jan. 26, 2024 20:11 PM EST

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The June 2022 announcement was addressed to parents horrified by the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas: Iowa would spend $75 million in federal pandemic relief funds to improve school building security. Citing an urgent need to act after...

Editorial Roundup: Iowa

Jan. 22, 2024 07:15 AM EST

Daily Nonpareil. January 20, 2024. Editorial: Basic income scary to pair of state reps Iowa Reps. Steve Holt, R-Denison, and Skyler Wheeler, R-Hull, sound scared. Fearful, weepy-eyed schoolchildren couldn’t lash out like they did this week to the idea...