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Mutasim Ibrahim Abdoulrahman Nour, a citizen of Sudan, has been in federal custody for 23 months, during which time he has never been afforded a hearing at which he could argue for his temporary release on bond. (Stock photo by Caspar Benson/Getty Images; logo courtesy U.S. Department of Homeland Security)
A judge has ordered the federal government to state why it has jailed, for almost two years, an immigration detainee now being held in the Muscatine County Jail.
A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa by Mutasim Ibrahim Abdoulrahman Nour, a citizen of Sudan, against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Muscatine County sheriff seeks Nour’s immediate release as well as a court order preventing him from being transferred to a detention facility outside of Iowa while the case is pending.
Voting at the Portland Expo in Maine’s June 9, 2026 primary election. (Photo by Jim Neuger/Maine Morning Star)
The Trump administration illegally overhauled a U.S. Department of Homeland Security computer program in its hunt for noncitizen voters, a judge ruled Monday in a stinging decision that laid into federal officials for violating the privacy of millions of Americans.
The ruling struck at the core of President Donald Trump’s project to assert authority over state-run elections ahead of the November midterms. Under Trump’s control, the executive branch has spent the past year attempting to obtain state voter rolls to feed into the computer program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE.
As the country nears the one-year anniversary of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Josh Turek said Monday he plans to show Iowans how his Republican opponent Ashley Hinson’s vote for the 2025 tax and spending law and other GOP-backed measures have hurt Iowans.
Farmers upstream of the Des Moines region are eligible for cover crop incentives as part of state legislation to improve water quality in central Iowa.
Corn and soybean growth in Iowa is slightly behind pace compared to last year and the five-year average, according to the latest crop progress and condition report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Iowa Western Community College will use close to $1 million in federal funding to expand its skilled trades training at multiple locations.
The Iowa Board of Nursing has refused to issue a license to a Sioux City man convicted of child endangerment.
The Iowa Board of Behavioral Health Professionals has now disclosed disciplinary charges it filed last summer against a mental health counselor.
American teens are driving less than in previous decades, prompting civic advocates to warn that fewer young people may register to vote.
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