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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — The Trump administration suspended around 870,000 people who are tied to nearly $39 billion in government loan fraud, officials announced on Monday.
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Reporting from Just the News
The decision by the RNC’s Presidential Nominating Process Committee, which was approved unanimously, was led by Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing announced a $1.9 billion loan Friday to NextEra Energy to fund the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear plant decommissioned in 2020 near Cedar Rapids, Iowa that would primarily power a Google data center.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Attorneys general from two Republican-led states have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out an antitrust lawsuit seeking to block Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Reporting from The Center Square
This November, Iowans will be asked to vote on a simple constitutional amendment that would make it more difficult for the legislature to increase income taxes. Specifically, the amendment would require a two-thirds majority vote of both houses of the legislature to increase income tax rates.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – One of the nation’s most closely watched races for Congress will occur in Iowa, as political parties vie for control of the chamber and affordability proposals differ from each candidate.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - In Iowa, the candidates vying for an open U.S. Senate seat said affordability and taxation are key to their campaigns, but they have both similarities and differences in their planned approaches.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Twenty-two state attorneys general are questioning taxpayer funding of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine amid what the AGs call the group’s “sham”-like “independent review” of its much debated reference manual’s climate science chapter that was removed due to public concerns of political bias.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The National Rifle Association launched its first national bus tour Thursday as the group tries to get gun owners to vote in the 2026 midterm elections.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Sixteen state attorneys general are calling on the “Big Four Accounting Firms” by letter for accountability over their actions that prioritize Environmental, Social, Governance investment strategies and climate goals, which will prove to be detrimental to consumers, the officials say.
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