Iowa out of drought for first time in 4 years thanks to a torrential May For the first time in four years, the drought has broken in Iowa. With the release of the most recent U.S. Drought Monitor report, just over 75% of the state is no longer in drought, with the ... 05/31/2024 - 10:03 am | View Link
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Iowa’s state primaries WASHINGTON (AP) — With the drama surrounding the state’s presidential caucuses far in the rearview mirror, Iowa voters now turn to primaries on Tuesday for the narrowly divided U.S. House as well as ... 05/31/2024 - 1:04 am | View Link
Addressing smoke shops in Cedar Rapids makes sense “Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em,” was an invitation back in the day to take a break. As the Cedar Rapids City Council sees it, the city’s got too many smokes, and alcohol, sold in small retail stores ... 05/30/2024 - 9:46 pm | View Link
Study links state ESA program to spike in Iowa K-12 private school tuition A study published by Brown and Princeton universities shows that kindergarten tuition at Iowa private schools went up by between 21 percent and 24 percent since the implementation of the state’s ... 05/30/2024 - 11:15 am | View Link
Phone and internet outages plague central and eastern Iowa Phone and internet outages were reported across Iowa after a water line break flooded a key telecommunications company building in downtown Des Moines. The outage began Thursday morning and continued ... 05/30/2024 - 8:30 am | View Link
Sanjay Leela Bhansali‘s global hit magnum opus debut series “Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar” has been renewed for a second season by Netflix. Within the first week of its May 1 launch, the series danced its way up the Netflix’s worldwide non-English TV chart in 43 countries, becoming the most-viewed Indian series for the streamer globally.
Two foreign-made animation movies opened on top of the mainland China box office over the latest weekend. Japanese film, “Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s Earth Symphony” landed in first place, ahead of “The Garfield Movie,” though the match-up was not like-for-like. According to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway, “Doraemon” earned $12.6 million (RMB89.5 million) over the […]
Megan Thee Stallion revealed her third studio album will arrive later this June during one of the rescheduled dates of her Atlanta tour stops on Sunday night. The self-titled record will be released under her own Hot Girl Productions and is slated for June 28. After the May 31 and June 1 dates of her Atlanta […]
Angelina Jolie and ex Brad Pitt's daughter Shiloh took matters into her own hands when she filed to change her last name.
On May 27, her 18th birthday, the fourth-eldest of the former couple's six
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” maintained a narrow win at the South Korea weekend box office in its second week of release. The highest new release was local crime drama “The Plot.” Total weekend revenues in Korean cinemas were a modest $8.91 million. That figure keeps a post-COVID recovery on course, but progress is slow […]
Katy Perry released a heavily edited version of Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker’s controversial commencement speech on Sunday. In Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College in May, he condemned abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia and the LGBTQ community. He also denounced the “diabolical lies” being told to women about their place in society, later stating […]