Month: April 2025
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Lawsuit: Casey’s exploits employees with tobacco-use surcharge
Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch Casey’s General Store is being sued for allegedly exploiting its workers through the discriminatory practice of imposing a tobacco-use surcharge for health insurance coverage. The surcharge, which is alleged to [Read More…]
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Israeli operation in Gaza expanding to seize ‘large areas,’ defense minister says
Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LONDON) — Israel’s renewed military operation in the Gaza Strip “is expanding to crush and cleanse the area of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure and seize large areas that will be [Read More…]
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Once-in-a-generation extreme weather event to begin Wednesday with tornadoes, flooding
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK) — A once-in-a-generation extreme weather event is expected to begin Wednesday, starting with a tornado outbreak and continuing into the weekend with the possibility of flooding in epic proportions — with all [Read More…]
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Meet 5 of the alleged gang members the Trump administration sent to an El Salvadoran mega-prison
Maiker Escalona was a barber in Venezuela. (Raida) (NEW YORK) — Over the last month, the Trump administration has sent over 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador to be detained in a notorious [Read More…]
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2 men face federal charges after woman, teen drown in alleged smuggling attempt
Department of Justice (DALLAS, TEXAS) — A woman and a teenager drowned during an alleged smuggling attempt after the driver of their vehicle drove into a canal while fleeing authorities following major flooding in Texas, [Read More…]
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Democrat Kamlager-Dove takes aim at DOGE ahead of potential State Department cuts
Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn (WASHINGTON) — As Democrats continue to express frustrations over Elon Musk’s outsized role in reshaping the federal bureaucracy, a new effort on Capitol Hill takes aim at the Department of [Read More…]
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Elizabeth Warren launches campaign to investigate Department of Education closure: ‘I will fight it with everything I’ve got’
Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is launching a “Save Our Schools” campaign on Wednesday against President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s attempt to dismantle the Department of [Read More…]
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Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ arrives as he gambles big on risky tariff policy
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday will unveil in the White House Rose Garden what are expected to be broad-based “reciprocal tariffs” on imports as part of his “America First” agenda. [Read More…]
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Over 1,900 researchers describe ‘assault’ on science by White House: ‘We see real danger’
Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nearly 2,000 scientists, engineers and researchers penned an open letter this week to President Donald Trump’s administration, calling for a stop to its “assault” on science. The letter was signed [Read More…]
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Cory Booker broke a record with his 25-hour Senate floor speech. How did he prepare to do it?
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After creating history by smashing the record for the longest Senate speech in history, Sen. Cory Booker told reporters as he walked off the floor that he was achy and [Read More…]
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Supreme Court takes up bid to defund Planned Parenthood
Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The battle over taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood takes center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday in a dispute over South Carolina’s exclusion of the group from [Read More…]
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Keanu Reeves to star in ‘John Wick: Chapter 5’
Lionsgate John Wick is coming back in a big way. The popular Keanu Reeves character will return in the upcoming film John Wick: Chapter 5, Lionsgate announced during CinemaCon 2025 on Tuesday. Entertainment Weekly reports [Read More…]
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A weather pattern change ahead to colder and drier throughout the Heartland
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures in southern Florida, the northern High Plains, and much of the West, while cooler-than-normal conditions will cover most areas east of [Read More…]
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Teens who allegedly failed to put out cigarettes accused of causing massive South Carolina wildfire
South Carolina Forestry Commission (TABLE ROCK, SC) — Three teenagers are accused of causing a massive fire that ignited in a South Carolina state park after failing to extinguish cigarettes while on a hiking trail, [Read More…]
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Civil rights groups sue Trump over executive order requiring citizenship proof in registering to vote
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Civil rights groups, including the NAACP, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump’s effort to overhaul the election system. The executive order, which Trump signed on March [Read More…]
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Suspect in officer involved shooting in custody following chase
Attorney General Marty Jackley says the Division of Criminal Investigation, at the request of the Sioux Falls Police Department and South Dakota Highway Patrol, is investigating two separate, but related, officer involved shootings with the [Read More…]
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Grant County fatal crash
One woman died and another was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash two miles east of Milbank, SD Tuesday morning. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety reported around 10:30 am, the 61 year old [Read More…]
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ to continue in new series with Ann Dowd and more
Hulu The Handmaid’s Tale will get a follow-up series after it concludes its sixth and final season. Hulu announced Tuesday that Margaret Atwood‘s 2019 novel, The Testaments, which is a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, [Read More…]
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Previewing Iowa’s turkey season with Joy Van Wyngarden
On this episode of Outdoor Adventures, Iowa hunter @joyofalltrades joins Brent Barnett for a conversation about Iowa’s upcoming spring turkey season. She also shares a cool story about a huge gobbler she took during the [Read More…]
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Fertilizer prices in an upswing, analyst says
A fertilizer market analyst says prices remain high heading into planting season. Josh Linville with StoneX Group says phosphate costs have been a concern. “The phosphate market started out high and it’s just gradually gotten [Read More…]