Iowa Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott criticized Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice for not taking action to investigate the crimes of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and related parties as she visited a “reading room” traveling exhibit on the “Epstein files.” The exhibition, hosted at The Loft DSM, is an event staged by The Institute

The University of Northern Iowa has taken the top spot in the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of public regional universities in the Midwest, joined by other public and private Iowa institutions that saw their rankings in the 2027 report climb. The Cedar Falls university attributed its graduation rates and “graduation rate performance” to

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats believe they could pick up as many as six seats following this November’s midterm elections, despite Republicans having better fundraising numbers and break-even polling in several states.  Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Kirsten Gillibrand said during a sit-down interview Tuesday that the president’s low approval ratings and the ongoing war

Federal officials charged a Utah letter carrier Tuesday with throwing 300 primary ballots in a church parking lot dumpster, an incident that a top U.S. Justice Department official said made the case for stricter regulations of voting. The prosecution of Damon Matai Seei, of Payson, Utah, showed “voting fraud is real,” acting Deputy Attorney General

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship confirmed a case of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in Boone County, marking the state’s seventh detection of the bird flu in 2026.  The outbreak occurred in a backyard, mixed species flock of 138 birds, according to IDALS. Iowa has not reported a case of the H5N1