2+ hour, 21+ min ago   (147+ words) One way to approach Iowa’s constitutional amendment question is to ask yourself serious questions. Mike Owen is a former Statehouse reporter and recently retired from over 20 years in nonpartisan policy analysis and advocacy at the Iowa Policy Project and Common…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (136+ words) CHICAGO — The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution announced Tuesday that he will retire after months of accusations from the Trump administration that the national museums he’s led portrayed a skewed and divisive version of the United States. The Trump administration…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (148+ words) The Quad-City Times Javascript is required to use this website. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said work is expected to begin soon at Memorial Circle on Columbia Island, near Arlington National Cemetery. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration removed language that…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (380+ words) US President Donald Trump has vowed to pay every American adult a $5,000 “Trump dividend” if Republicans retain control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. The president made the pledge during a speech at the Republican Party’s first-ever…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (144+ words) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration resumed processing immigrant visa applications from Hungary and Poland last week while maintaining a temporary pause on immigrant visa appointments elsewhere, four people familiar with the matter said. The State Department is moving to revoke…...

4+ day, 21+ min ago   (155+ words) PARIS — U.S. President Donald Trump has a talent for finding political landmines like a pig sniffs out truffles. Then promptly blowing himself up with them. Repeatedly. He keeps picking fights with Canada that inadvertently create more leverage against himself. On…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (145+ words) The Quad-City Times Javascript is required to use this website. Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed speaks Aug. 7 during a Democratic unity rally in Detroit, Mich. Authorities release names of drivers in Tuesday crash near Pleasant Valley High School Update:…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (770+ words) Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is "working day and night" to reopen the shuttered Tyson plant in Joslin, he told Democrats at the Rock Island County Democrats' Salute to Labor picnic Monday. Tyson announced Aug. 13 that it would end operations at…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (129+ words) The Quad-City Times Javascript is required to use this website. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomes U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Sunday in Kyiv. Authorities release names of drivers in Tuesday crash near Pleasant…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (107+ words) The time has come to stop doing everything for the rich and have them start paying their fair share. I have found Dr. Wagle to be a person who lives what he speaks. So, for all the ‘It’ll be just…...