President Donald Trump is offering federal employees the opportunity to accept a buyout and resign if they don't wish to return to in-person work.

It comes after Trump won the district by 21 points in November. In 2024, Trump flipped Scott County red after Joe Biden previously won by the county by 3 points in 2020, and Hillary Clinton by 2 points in 2016. Jackson and Clinton counties were won by Trump in the last three presidential elections.

Iowa Democrats scored an upset in a state Senate special election on Tuesday, months after being wiped out in the Hawkeye State in the presidential contest.

Arizona political figure Kari Lake's return to Iowa this week for a MAGA event has been postponed. The "Welcome Home Kari Lake" event was originally scheduled for Jan. 30 at the West Des Moines Marriott.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is calling on President Donald Trump to explain his decision to fire 18 inspectors general responsible for oversight at federal gove

Two Des Moines resettlement agencies say they will serve the 309 new arrivals they already welcomed to Iowa, despite a federal stop work order.

Democrat Mike Zimmer is the newest Iowa senator, flipping the Senate District 35 seat in Tuesday’s special election. Zimmer won with 52% of the vote to Republican Katie Whittington’s 48%, according to unofficial results published by the Iowa Secretary of State.

Good afternoon and Happy Friday, readers! As President Donald Trump left Washington, D.C., for his first presidential trip to North Carolina and California today, the nation’s capital gave a warm welcome to two giant pandas from China that made their debut at the Smithsonian National Zoo.

He’s also revived his call for blanket tariffs, threatened a trade war with Colombia, began the process to pull the US out of the World Health Organization, suspended foreign aid, unleashed Elon Musk on the federal workforce, pardoned Jan. 6, 2021 rioters and attempted to end birthright citizenship.

Nine years of struggle ended in triumph Wednesday at Iowa Senator Joni Ernst joined President Donald Trump at the White House for the signing of “Sarah’s Law.” The law honors Iowan Sarah Root, who was killed on January 31,

Democrats pulled off a shocking upset in Iowa, flipping a deep-red state Senate seat in a district that voted for Donald Trump by 21 points.