August 7, 2020 ACLU launches push to free 50,000 inmates from US prisons in response to 'systemic injustice' The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is launching a multi-year effort to win the release of tens of thousands of prisoners by lobbying governors to grant mass clemency as a remedy to "systemic injustice."
August 5, 2020 Iowa Gov ends state's place as only remaining state to deny voting rights to felons Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds issued an executive order on Wednesday allowing convicted felons the right to vote, so long as they have completed their prison sentences, parole, or probation.
August 5, 2020 Ari Fleischer warns states risk 'bitter acrimony' in November with new balloting procedures A dozen states that are overhauling their balloting and voting procedures for the 2020 election should reconsider doing so, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer argued Wednesday.
July 22, 2020 Sen. Ernst urges feds to block taxpayer funds for states, cities allowing 'anarchy' Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and more than two dozen Republican lawmakers are urging the Office of Management and Budget to prevent taxpayer funding from going to any autonomous zones or anarchist areas that seek to circumvent governmental authority.
July 21, 2020 Law firms offer teachers living wills before returning to school amid rising coronavirus concerns Law firms in Florida and Iowa are offering free living wills to teachers in those states who must return to classrooms amid the coronavirus pandemic.
July 21, 2020 Iowa teachers sending own obituaries to Gov. Reynolds in protest of school reopening proclamation Teachers in Iowa are penning their own obituaries and sending them to Gov. Kim Reynolds after she announced last week that schools must reopen for in-person learning amid the coronavirus pandemic.
July 17, 2020 Iowa meth kingpin Dustin Honken executed, third federal execution this week A drug kingpin from Iowa was executed on Friday afternoon, after he was convicted of murdering two young women and three adults, marking the third time this week that a federal inmate has been put to death after a 17-year capital punishment hiatus.
July 17, 2020 Iowa drug kingpin who killed 5 set for execution Friday A meth kingpin from Iowa who killed five people, including two young girls, is scheduled Friday to become the third federal inmate to be executed this week, following a 17-year pause in federal executions.
July 16, 2020 'Magic School Bus' author Joanna Cole dies at age 75 Author Joanna Cole, whose “Magic School Bus” books transported millions of young people on extraordinary and educational adventures, has died at age 75.
July 7, 2020 Iowa Black Lives Matter activists face rare leak charge, allegedly showed confidential police document on TV Prosecutors in Iowa have filed a rarely used leak charge against Black Lives Matter protesters accused of stealing a confidential police document and displaying it during a television news broadcast.