President Donald Trump signed the first nine executive orders, memorandums, and letters of his presidency, including a ...

Joni Ernst announced this week she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as the nation’s next secretary of defense, it underlined ...

Readers are talking about Jimmy Carter, the Art Center, DOGE and legislative headlines in letters published Jan. 13-20, 2025.

The Phillie Phanatic, the big green dress-up mascot for Philadelphia’s pro baseball team, is world famous. D.C. has its racing presidents. But did the Border Patrol really need its own dress-up mascot ...

The SBA’s disaster relief program ran out of money in October and more businesses than ever are defaulting on their loans from the agency.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) hit back at her fellow Armed Services Committee colleague, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), after Ernst backed down from her opposition to Pentagon chief nominee Pete Hegseth, ...

The names of mascots on the hit list are “Champa Boom,” a kind of bear at the Department of Defense, “Sammy Soil,” at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, “Vin Vasive,” an insect at the ...

Legislation named after an Iowan killed in a drunk driving crash by an immigrant who was not legally authorized to be in the ...

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) hit back at her fellow Armed Services Committee colleague, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), after Ernst ...

Donald Trump's pick for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is facing stiff criticism from Democrats—but most Republicans back ...

When U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst announced this week she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as the nation’s next secretary of defense, it underlined President-elect Donald Trump’s immense sway over ...

The Iowans’ push stems from the 2016 death of Sarah Root, a Council Bluffs resident who was killed by an undocumented ...