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“He remains in a state of limbo.” — Attorneys for Haider Raza, a citizen and national of Pakistan, in a federal lawsuit over delays in processing his visa-related application that have kept him stranded in Canada for a year and unable to return to his job in Iowa.
Black students and those with disabilities are much more likely to be arrested or referred to law enforcement by school resource officers than other students, an ACLU of Iowa report shows. (Photo by Don Tavo/iStock / Getty Images Plus)
Black students and those with disabilities are much more likely to be arrested or referred to law enforcement than other students in Iowa schools with school resource officers, an American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa report published Thursday found.
Iowa students with disabilities are referred to law enforcement or arrested at 2.3 times the rate of a student without disability, and Black students are arrested or referred at nearly four times the rate of students who are not Black, according to the report.
A potential class-action lawsuit against Intoxalock, which makes ignition interlock devices, has been paused while the company completes an investigation into a cyberattack that triggered the litigation. (Stock photo by BanksPhoto/iStock/ Getty Images Plus)
A potential class-action lawsuit against an Iowa company that makes ignition interlock devices for people with drunken-driving convictions has been paused while the company completes an investigation into a cyberattack that triggered the litigation.
The lawsuits allege the company, doing business as Intoxalock, failed to properly secure its information technology network and implement reasonable cybersecurity measures. The lawsuits assert those alleged failures allowed unauthorized third parties to hack the company’s system in March 2026 and disable the ignition interlock devices, leaving users stranded wherever their cars happened to be parked at that moment.
Escucha Mi Voz Iowa, an immigrant-led advocacy group, is calling for more transparency after the U.S. Marshals Service carried out enforcement operations across Iowa from July 21-24.
A central Iowa caregiver accused of kicking and punching an autistic teenager is now facing criminal charges of dependent adult abuse, Clark Kauffman reports.
Mercy College of Health Sciences has partnered with a medical center that was also created by the Sisters of Mercy to develop a new method of providing clinical training to nursing students.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not planning an aggressive campaign at voting sites during the upcoming midterm elections, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday in response to a States Newsroom inquiry about a letter from U.S. Senate Democrats voicing concerns about armed federal agents at polling places.
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to pull acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to lead the Justice Department until two Republican holdouts, Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas, leave office.
President Donald Trump announced an initiative Thursday for veterans to quickly obtain commercial driver’s licenses, as the administration attempts to fill vacancies in the industry after pausing license renewals for foreign-born truck drivers.
Dr. Erica Schwartz got a step closer in her bid to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a key U.S. Senate panel propelled her nomination to the Senate floor Thursday.
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Labor breezed through a key U.S. Senate committee vote Thursday to advance his nomination.
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