WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Capitol Hill Report, 12-08-25 * Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report is available HERE. Topics include: farmer aid package, tariffs, Venezuela boat strikes, student loans and birthright citizenship. *** Original text here: https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/capitol-hill-report-12-08-25  more

BRISTOL, Connecticut, Dec. 8 [Category: BizMedia] -- ESPN, a sports media company, posted the following news release: * * * ESPN Events college basketball schedule continues this week with 2025 Jimmy V Men's & Women's Classics * * Men's Classic features an ESPN doubleheader at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 9 - Clemson vs. No. 10 BYU at 6:30 p.m. ET and No. 18 Florida vs. No. 5 UConn at 9 p.m. * Women's Classic features in-state rivals No. 11 Iowa vs. No. 10 Iowa State on Dec. 10 at 7 p.m  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Feenstra Thanks President Trump for Delivering Critical Relief for Iowa Farmers * HULL, IOWA Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) released the following statement thanking President Trump for delivering critical relief for Iowa farmers and producers. "President Trump is an incredible friend to Iowa farmers, and today's announcement of immediate farm relief is welcome news for Iowa agriculture. U  more

AMES, Iowa, Dec. 8 -- Iowa State University issued the following news release: * * * Startup develops new nanosensors to track chemical reactions in 'the age of enzymes' The website video shows a carbon nanotube - a lattice structure measured in billionths of a meter - floating in a solution and glowing red when hit by laser light. A long strand of a protein substrate, its atoms pictured in green, black and gray, winds around the tube. Floating in from the top is a swirling yellow, purple an  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news: * * * Nasty Attacks and an "Absent" Randy Feenstra: The Latest from Iowa's Clown Car GOP Primary * The On Iowa Politics podcast recently highlighted how Iowa's clown car GOP primary continues to get nastier with every passing day. Reporters from across the state discussed how the messy primary has reached "an inflection point" as "absent Randy Feenstra" faces sharp criticism from his Republican rivals aft  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- NextEra Energy Resources LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc., both of Juno Beach, Florida, and WPPI Energy, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, announced an agreement to continue supplying electricity from the Point Beach Nuclear Plant in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. WPPI Energy, a member-owned utility serving 51 locally owned utilities across Wisconsin, Iowa, and Michigan, will continue to purchase 168 megawatts (MW) of the plant's output well into the 2050s. The Point Beach facility   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Senate Judiciary Committee Plans Series of Arctic Frost Hearings for 2026 * WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is placing Arctic Frost at the top of the committee's oversight agenda in 2026. Under Grassley's leadership, the committee plans to hold a series of hearings examining the constitutional and legal implications of the weaponized election case against   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 8, 2025: * * * Senate Judiciary Committee Plans Series of Arctic Frost Hearings for 2026 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is placing Arctic Frost at the top of the committee's oversight agenda in 2026. Under Grassley's leadership, the committee plans to hold a series of hearings examining the constitutional and legal implicati  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: * * * Trump Administration Announces $12 Billion Farmer Bridge Payments for American Farmers Impacted by Unfair Market Disruptions * (Washington, D.C., December 8, 2025) - President Donald J. Trump alongside U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman (AR), Senator Deb Fischer (NE), Senator John Hoeve  more

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Dec. 9 -- The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences issued the following news: * * * PBS faculty member seeks to understand how memories evolve within the brain Isabel Muzzio, professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, wants to answer how memories are stored, whether they can modified, and what sustains them over time. By Bri Brands Inspired by the political atmosphere in Argentina while she was growing up, Isabel Muzzio, Ronnie Ketc  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa posted the following news release on Dec. 4, 2025: * * * Urbandale Man Charged with Making False Statements on Loan Applications and in Bankruptcy Proceedings On November 13, 2025, a federal grand jury in Des Moines returned a three-count indictment with offenses relating to false statements on two loan applications and during bankruptcy proceedings. As alleged in the Indictment, Henry J. Schappert,  more