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The AAP said in the document filed with the court that their review of the research and the experiences of the front-line pediatric practitioners “prove beyond any doubt that universal mask policies in schools significantly reduce the spread of COVID-19 in school populations.” The group said the prevalence of pediatric COVID-19 has skyrocketed since the school year began, with 20 percent of all child cases since the beginning of the pandemic diagnosed between Aug. 13 and Sept. 16. -
Attorneys for conservative groups opposing abortion filed a brief with the court Monday on behalf of 22 senators and 38 House members, all Republicans. -
Census: Metro Populations Grew, Rural Areas Lost In Iowa -
An Iowa panel voted Monday to settle a lawsuit and pay five protesters who supported the Black Lives Matter movement and alleged constitutional rights violations when they were banned from the state Capitol grounds. -
Amid low vaccination rates and spread of the highly transmissible delta variant, health experts are becoming increasingly worried about Iowa’s biggest annual event. -
Iowa troopers are going to the border at 'no cost to Texas,’ agreements signed by the two states say. -
A Des Moines man, pictured prominently with a QAnon shirt ahead of a crowd of insurgents inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, asked a judge on Monday to release him from jail, saying “he feels deceived, recognizing that he bought into a pack of lies.” -
Republicans said the changes would enhance the security of voting, though have acknowledged that voting fraud is rare in Iowa and the last election had almost no problems. -
43 of Iowa’s 99 counties declined additional shipments of the vaccines, the state reported. Of the 43 counties, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified 12 as having a high rates of coronavirus transmission -
Gov. Kim Reynolds said she has rejected a federal request to accept migrant children into the state, saying the need to find homes for them “is the president’s problem.”
