Iowa governor signs another round of income tax cuts into law Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a nearly $1 billion tax cut into law Wednesday that will lower the state’s personal income tax to a flat rate of 3.8% in 2025. 05/2/2024 - 3:50 am | View Link
Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a new Iowa income tax cut into law. What that means for you: Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a law lowering Iowa's income tax to a 3.8% flat rate next year, speeding up a series of planned cuts. 05/2/2024 - 2:55 am | View Link
Police deployed on US campuses as protest unrest simmers Police deployed a heavy presence on US university campuses Wednesday after forcibly clearing away some weeks-long protests against Israel's war with Hamas. 05/1/2024 - 9:43 am | View Link
Iowa completes a pro-taxpayer legislative session: Over $1 billion in tax relief Opinion: Kim Reynolds and legislators returning overcollections to Iowans and seeking long-term protections, write Chris Hagenow and Grover Norquist. 04/29/2024 - 12:04 am | View Link
On Iowa Politics Podcast: What bills will come back in 2025? On this week's episode we take one last look in the rearview mirror at the 2024 legislative session. We'll talk about traffic cameras in the Quad Cities. Congresswoman Ashley Hinson discusses aid to ... 04/26/2024 - 3:56 am | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.