Activists across the nation are organizing rallies to protest the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrant families detained by federal agents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Iowa City will be participating in the Keep Families Together protest with a rally on the University of Iowa Pentacrest at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 30.
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Trump administration: Immigrants fleeing ‘private violence’ like domestic abuse shouldn’t be granted asylum
On Monday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session took the extraordinary step of overturning a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) of the Justice Department that granted asylum to A.B., a Salvadorian woman who fled to the United States to escape from domestic violence. “Generally, claims by aliens pertaining to domestic violence or gang […]
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CBS 2 and Fox 28 featured in viral video of local news anchors reciting pro-Trump talking points
Local TV news anchors Jeneé Ryan and Mitch Fick appear in a video that has gone viral, but neither one is likely to be happy about it.
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Iowa City’s annual Darwin Day starts Friday
Iowa City is 900 miles from Washington D.C., but some weeks the distance between the two cities seems even greater. This is one of those weeks.
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Bernie Sanders will speak in Cedar Rapids on Friday
Sen. Bernie Sanders will be speaking at a rally in Cedar Rapids on Friday. The rally is being put on Not One Cent, a progressive group that opposes President Trump’s tax policies.
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Russians indicted in Trump probe paid for a Hillary-in-a-cage float, but Iowans got there first
On Friday, 13 Russians and three companies—described by The Washington Post as “a notorious Russian group of Internet trolls”—were indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Tucked away in the indictment is a strange detail that calls to mind a 2016 incident in western Iowa’s Carroll County.
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Trump’s parade dreams, Nixon’s new uniforms and the strange Iowa connection
Trump isn’t the first president who wanted to give his administration a militaristic sheen, and an embarrassing example of this from an earlier president has a strange Iowa connection.
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Iowans disapprove of Trump, but Iowa Republicans in Congress keep voting for his policies
A majority of Iowans disapproved of President Trump’s actions during his first year in office, according to a new analysis by Gallup. But that didn’t stop any of the Republicans who represent the state in Congress from voting with Trump more than 90 percent of the time.
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Sen. Joni Ernst unintentionally makes Iowans laugh by claiming Trump is a well-respected world leader
Laughter isn’t something that’s usually heard at Sen. Joni Ernst’s town hall meetings, but Ernst’s attempt to portray Donald Trump as a respected international leader caused the audience to burst into laughter at the senator’s town hall in Red Oak on Sunday.
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‘Too foul for public consumption’: Steve King doesn’t like bad language, but thinks Trump’s ‘shithole’ comment is great
Like a lot of people on Twitter on Friday morning, Iowa’s Steve King was upset about a public figure’s language. But unlike most, King was upset about a comedian saying “fuck,” not the President of the United States saying, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” while discussing immigration from Africa and Latin America on Thursday.
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Grassley tweets: He’s upset by a Senate snub, but loves what Trump is doing
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley was up early Thursday morning, and judging by Twitter, he wasn’t happy. At 5:23 a.m., Iowa’s senior senator vented to fellow early-morning tweeter President Donald Trump about not being appointed to the conference committee that will reconcile the tax bill passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. On Wednesday evening, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appointed eight Republicans to the committee.
