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“This is accelerating the economic and mental stress farmers are feeling. We are asking for your assistance in lowering the cost of a key input, diesel, that every combine, tractor and semi utilizes during the culmination of the growing season.” — Steve Kuiper, Iowa Corn Growers Association president, in a letter calling on Iowa’s congressional delegation to help lower the cost of diesel fuel.
The University of Iowa has launched a new website and project support program through its artificial intelligence strategy. (Photo illustration by Surasak Suwanmake/Getty Images)
The University of Iowa is crafting a new artificial intelligence framework in order to better understand the technology’s impacts, good and bad, and identify opportunities for innovation across all areas of campus, university leaders say.
The university has launched a new website and project support program through its artificial intelligence strategy.
A bipartisan bill would reverse a presidential decision to allow more foreign beef into the U.S. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA)
U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn is calling for the suspension of President Donald Trump’s initiative allowing more foreign beef into the U.S. and for congressional oversight of future beef import decisions from the executive branch.
Nunn announced a bipartisan bill Wednesday, with Democratic Rep. Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico, aimed at increasing domestic beef and lowering consumer prices of the protein.
An Iowa district court judge on Wednesday dismissed the lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump against the Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer for the 2024 Iowa Poll published shortly before the election.
As Iowa farmers begin harvesting their crops, corn growers in the state are asking Iowa congressional delegates to help lower the cost of diesel fuel, which has risen sharply with trade disruptions from the war in Iran.
The cities of Johnston and Grimes are joining Des Moines and dozens of other municipalities in suing the some of the nation’s biggest providers of fire trucks over alleged parasitic pricing.
An Iowa man is suing the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office, alleging excessive force was used against him by one of its officers.
A vast and growing network of artificial intelligence-driven Flock cameras could violate constitutional privacy rights, U.S. senators on a Judiciary Committee subcommittee said during a Wednesday hearing.
Women giving birth in rural communities were more likely than peers in urban areas to receive oral opioid prescriptions for pain upon leaving the hospital after a cesarean section, according to a new analysis of data from half a million C-sections, Stateline reports.
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly indicated during a Wednesday hearing he may order the Trump administration to reinstate White House press passes for reporters from three news organizations who had their credentials revoked this weekend.
Republicans on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee used a hearing Wednesday to continue voicing opposition to transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, which the top Democrat on the panel called a distraction from cost-of-living issues voters are more concerned about.
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