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10 takeaways from Trump's 'America 250' speech in Des Moines on Fourth Of July eve
With Sinatra swagger, Trump said he wants farmers empowered to vouch for undocumented immigrants to spare them deportation
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Immigrant rights urgent, protesters say, as raft of outrages animate 'No Kings' rally of thousands at Iowa State Capitol
DES MOINES, Iowa —
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Council Bluffs Democrat Turek still in mix for U.S. Senate, decision coming soon
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Why Josh Turek is Iowa Democrats' best candidate for U.S. Senate
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JD Vance's boyhood mistaken gay confession story smacks of head-spinning inflation
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Kentucky governor says JD Vance's Appalachian 'origin story' doesn't add up
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Iowans feel echoes of Harkin energy in early days of Sand's campaign
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The Place I Call Home No Longer Calls Me One of Its Own
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Lanon Baccam: 'I’m looking at Doug Burns right now, because his family looks like my family.'
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We'll all be dead by 2030, credentialed forecast on artificial intelligence predicts
'Earth-born civilization has a glorious future ahead of it — but not with us'
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What we are streaming. Memorial Day. Film update. Western Iowa University? — Nik and Doug's America, Episode 11
Iowa-California filmmaker Nik Heftman of “The Seven Times Produced by Nik Heftman” on Substack joins The Iowa Mercury for a full and robust Memorial Day…
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CelebrAsian in Des Moines
A recording from Douglas Burns's live video
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Competitive Senate, Iowa gubernatorial races demand full-state, rural-urban eyes, coverage
(The upfront ask: if you are not a paid subscriber consider graduating to the paid monthly plan through November 2026 so we can fulfill the mission of…
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Iowans feel echoes of Harkin energy in early days of Sand's campaign
Democratic gubernatorial candidate wants to decentralize state government so more jobs can be in rural Iowa
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Go big, Iowa governor candidates. Build a University of Western Iowa
In 2006, Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gregg Connell, then the mayor of Shenandoah and one of the more innovative and effective rural economic…
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50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, an Iowa immigrant's arrival: Nik and Doug's America: Episode 10
The Iowa Mercury and The Seven Times broadcast a special episode of “Nik and Doug’s America” today as we interviewed my sister, Jane Nguyen, who just…
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