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Both candidates in Iowa’s new third congressional district say they support boosting U.S. energy production, but aired their differences over wind turbines and carbon pipelines.

A University of Iowa student has become the first in the country to receive a waiver to wear a turban and beard with his ROTC uniform.

Raja Chari, of Cedar Falls, and three other astronauts are scheduled for launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday at 1:21 a.m. from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Iowa Democratic Party Chair said he received multiple threats, including one of lynching, after The Des Moines Register published an editorial from Wilburn that was critical of former President Donald Trump.

Iowa State Patrol Sergeant Jim Smith, a 27-year veteran of the patrol, was shot to death Friday during an armed stand-off in Grundy Center.

President Joe Biden is unveiling a $2 trillion infrastructure proposal that the administration says will create jobs and build new roads and bridges, and improves broadband, water quality, schools, and more. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is traveling in Iowa during the Easter Recess, says he has read about only some of the basics of what’s being called the American Jobs Plan.

Federal officials recently extended the deadline for filing federal income taxes from April 15 to May 17, and now state officials are extending Iowa’s tax filing deadline by a month as well.

A boat with five members of ISU’s Crew Club capsized Sunday morning on Little Wall Lake. Three students were rescued, and a dive team recovered one body from the water later on Sunday. A search for a fifth student is ongoing, as of Monday morning.

The total increase in food stamp payments will be $3.5 billion. That boost in SNAP benefits is financed from the recently approved pandemic relief package.

A bill under consideration in the Iowa Senate calls for a tenfold increase in the state income tax credit for volunteer firefighters, EMTs and reserve law enforcement.