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“People are sick and tired of having to change their clocks twice a year.” — President Donald Trump in a social media post calling for Republican senators to move ahead with legislation to make daylight saving time permanent nationwide.
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A physician who worked 18 months at Iowa City’s Veterans Administration Medical Center has been denied a license to practice medicine in Iowa.
Under federal regulations, doctors who aren’t licensed in a particular state can still work as physicians at federally operated care facilities, such as those run by the VA, within those same states.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds spoke with a nurse as she donated blood at the LifeServe Blood Center in Johnston Aug. 5, 2026. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch)
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds called for Iowans to donate blood amid a national shortage this summer — and said she would “lead by example” with a donation Wednesday at LifeServe Blood Center.
In late July, the American Red Cross declared a “national blood supply crisis” in the U.S. after blood donations fell to a four-year summer low. It’s the second time in history the organization has declared a national blood crisis, the first happening in January 2022.
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services reported a case of West Nile virus in an eastern Iowa adult Wednesday, marking the state’s first reported case in 2026.
State regulators have suspended, without explanation, a nursing home administrator’s license to practice in Iowa.
Grinnell College will use grant funding to connect its areas of arts education with emerging technologies through new campus space, programming and more.
President Donald Trump is urging Republican senators to “release their holds” and pass a measure making daylight saving time permanent nationwide.
The deployment of National Guard troops hailing from all across the country to Washington, D.C. is expected to cost taxpayers more than $1.4 billion in additional funds through 2029.
Three states this year became the first ones to enact laws restricting companies from using personal data such as browsing history or shopping habits to set individualized prices on goods and services, a practice known as surveillance pricing, Stateline reports.
Dr. Erica Schwartz will be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination Wednesday.
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to award a $150 million contract to a small Texas firm — with no specialty in immigration law and run by a former Trump official — to provide legal services to tens of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children, according to a Wednesday pre-published notice in the Federal Register.
A federal judge lifted a stay Wednesday on the termination of temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in order to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for the Trump administration to remove their legal status and open them up for deportations.
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