The Trump administration’s wide-ranging One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes several changes to Medicaid eligibility requirements. One change that took effect on Oct. 1 bars anyone without a green card from being eligible for coverage.

Fatou Traore was granted humanitarian relief in the U.S. due to a high risk of violence against her in Ivory Coast. In September, she was pulled out of her car by unmarked immigration officers. Now, she's in Sierra Leone, where officials are likely to send her back to her birth country.

Democrat Lindsay James and Republican Joe Mitchell are in a tight race in the 2nd U.S. House District. They’re offering different approaches to a familiar problem: the high cost-of-living.

The John Deere Foundation's farm-to-plate initiative includes $17 million for Feeding America partner food banks and $1.5 million for The Farmlink Project, which rescues surplus produce from farms that would otherwise go to waste. Several food banks in Iowa plan to scale-up purchases from nearby farms with the additional funding.

More children from mixed-status families are being separated from their parents through detention or deportation. Researchers and advocates believe the trauma of being split up predisposes a generation to health, academic and economic consequences.

Iowans will see a constitutional amendment on their ballot this election. Amendment 1 asks voters if they want to raise the threshold for lawmakers to pass income or corporate taxes, or create a new income tax. Supporters say it will provide stronger protections against tax hikes, while opponents think it could lead to budget cuts and higher tax burden for low-income Iowans.