Live updates: Students in Iowa City, University of Iowa lead protests supporting Palestinians This week, protestors at a rally at Iowa State University on May 1 demanded the school cut financial ties with companies that profit from the Israel-Hamas war.In the lead-up to the 2020 election, all ... 05/3/2024 - 3:56 pm | View Link
Pro-Palestine protest underway on U of Iowa campus IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - A planned 3-day pro-Palestine protest is underway at the University of Iowa Campus. 05/3/2024 - 12:57 pm | View Link
Campus safety, politicians respond to protests at the University of Iowa this weekend A protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza begins at the University of Iowa Friday and will continue through Sunday.Students and community members plan on gathe ... 05/2/2024 - 5:50 am | View Link
Governor signs $1 billion cut in Iowa income taxes Governor Kim Reynolds has approved the plan that will shrink Iowa’s individual income tax to a single rate of 3.8% next year. Lawmakers say it will amount to a billion dollar cut in state income taxes ... 05/1/2024 - 9:22 am | View Link
Trump launches his fall push in Iowa to lock in lead Never Back Down, the super PAC supporting DeSantis, which is handling most of his organizing, says it has collected more than 13,000 signed cards from Iowa residents pledging to caucus for DeSantis .. 04/30/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Ukraine estimates that over half of all Russian casualties are due to small, cheap FPV drones are just modified consumer items. Last year, Russian radio jammers often brought them down, to the point that Ukraine was losing upwards of 10,000 a month. Since then, the technology has advanced and their jammers don't work anymore.
Rumours have been swirling about Cuellar for over two years, ever since the FBI raided his home in January 2022.
Cuellar maintains his and his wife's innocence and vows to fight the charges. Since he had no challengers, Cuellar will be on the ballot in November for the Democrats in TX-28.
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Rudy Giuliani was not only respected, but revered as "America's Mayor." The hero of 9/11 (which he'd tell you every other sentence). He never deserved any of it, of course.
He was always a nasty piece of work, a philanderer, racist and, frankly, an asshole who couldn't get along with anyone.
Progressive policy experts took aim at corporate greed and profiteering during a Thursday U. S. Senate hearing on "shrinkflation," the process of reducing the size or quantity of a product while selling it at the same price.
At the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
hearing—entitled "Higher Prices: How Shrinkflation and Technology Can Impact Consumers' Finances"—Chair Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) began by acknowledging that "prices today are far too high, and families are having a harder time finding a fair price, seeing more of their paycheck vanish into thin air."
"All of this is happening while corporate profits hit record highs," the senator continued.
MSNBC's Katy Tur and Axios' Jim VandeHei managed to have a very long conversation about the effects of right wing propaganda without ever mentioning the words right wing propaganda. I guess I should quit being astounded by stuff like this, but it continues to amaze me how people in our corporate news media dance around naming just who exactly is responsible for turning most Republicans' brains into mush.
Here's the transcript of the beginning of their exchange from her show this Thursday, and notice the words that aren't used here.
Donald Trump's TIME interview will shock you. It is a long piece, but every American needs to read it. This country must wake up and realize what we face in the 2024 election: it's all hands on deck. TIME reporter Eric Cortellessa explains:read more