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Reporting from Just the News
Trump is hoping to garner support for several conservative candidates in the state, including Rep. Ashley Hinson, who is running to replace Republican Sen. Joni Ernst in the upper chamber. Hinson is running against Democrat Josh Turek.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Voters in Iowa will decide on a constitutional amendment that could make it harder for the state legislature to raise the income tax rate.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Candidates in Iowa’s first congressional district race sparred over tax policies, rising energy prices and agricultural policies during a Tuesday night debate.
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Reporting from Just the News
In the weeks before the midterms, the president is on the hustings, announcing tens of billions of dollars in investments that could reshape jobs, energy, and defense manufacturing.
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Reporting from The Center Square
Taxes take money from private individuals who generally know best how to spend it and put that money in the hands of politicians, who are less equipped to spend it wisely. So, raising taxes even further should require a strong consensus that it is absolutely necessary.
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(The Center Square) – Despite several federal farm and agriculture assistance programs having stopped in the middle of harvest season, Congress likely won’t reauthorize funding until after the midterm elections.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Candidates for U.S. Senate in Iowa debated plans to alleviate concerns over gas prices, the U.S. military conflict in Iran and tariffs, as partisan control of the upper chamber in Congress hangs in the balance.
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Reporting from Just the News
The two companies that manufactured the cameras, Hikvision and Dahua, are on a list of foreign entities that pose a national security risk to the United States, and Bird alleged that no documentation on the cameras warned Iowans of the security issues.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The states of Nebraska, Montana, Iowa and Florida each individually sued TP-Link – a tech company that provides networking devices – accusing it of deceiving consumers about its ties to Chin a, thereby putting millions of Americans’ privacy at risk and endangering national security.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Red states lead in national education integrity ratings based on issues like parental rights, DEI, gender and sexuality policies and more, while blue states generally rank toward the bottom, a new report from Defending Education shows.
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