Iowa Capital Dispatch

WASHINGTON — Democrats during the midterm election campaign promised bold steps to make life more affordable if voters elected them to control Congress next year. They won, in a historic blue wave that’s already given them comfortable majorities in both the House and Senate. But Democrats likely will find that bringing down gasoline and other energy […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth struck a defiant tone Tuesday as he faces potential impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives this week, casting the effort as an attack on American service members. Hegseth during a rare news conference at the Pentagon called the impeachment effort a “farce” and flatly rejected the notion that he had […]

A federal prosecutor based in Cedar Rapids has been sanctioned for allegedly plagiarizing portions of his application to become a district court judge. The Attorney Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Iowa alleges that in May 2026, Michael S.A. Hudson, who works as a special assistant United States attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office […]

Clarke University is bringing a service-based partnership to Iowa to connect and support its students and community organizations. The Dubuque private university announced in a news release it is Iowa’s first institution of higher learning to partner with the Corella & Bertram F. Bonner Foundation for its Bonner Leaders Initiative, part of a program that […]

Federal officials on Monday announced $10 billion in awards across all 50 states in the second year of the Rural Health Transformation Fund, grants created by Congress to bolster rural health in response to concerns about Medicaid cuts. Texas received the largest grant for the 2027 fiscal year — almost $282 million — followed by […]