Raecker now serves as executive director of The Robert D. and Billie Ray Center at Drake University, the center formed in 1997 by Iowa’s former first couple to promote civility and good character.

The multi-trillion tax and spending cut package was narrowly approved, 218-214, and has elicited significant opposition. All ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Des Moines police have arrested a local man in connection to an overnight shooting on the city's east side that left one man dead. 31-year-old Tywone Morrow of Des Moines faces the ...

Timeline aside, Arizona groups that advocate for people with disabilities are bracing for Medicaid cuts to become law. The ...

Zaxbys, the Atlanta, Ga.-based chicken tender restaurant, is looking to the Des Moines metro for future expansion, the company’s director of franchise development said. Zaxbys, founded in 1990 in ...

JD Vance casts tie-breaking vote as Senate passes ‘big, beautiful’ bill - The Independent was on Capitol Hill overnight as ...

Both Democratic U.S. senators from Arizona, along with the rest of the chamber's Democrats, voted against the Trump-backed ...

The Trump administration slashed federal spending earlier this year through the Department of Government Efficiency. The Arizona agency blamed its layoffs on the elimination of federal grants that ...

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