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The U.S. Supreme Court issued an ethics code this week, without stipulating how the rules will be enforced.

Student loan forgiveness, access to Mifepristone, and checks and balances over voting maps are among several cases awaiting decision by the U.S. Supreme Court this June.

First lady Jill Biden said Monday that she wants the defeated Iowa women’s basketball team to be invited to the White House in addition to the national title winner Louisiana State University.

In 1944, Tova Friedman and her family were taken to the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. She shares the story in her book The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope — and through TikTok, with the help of her grandson. Friedman visited Cedar Rapids and Mount Vernon in her first trip to Iowa.

A young author discusses his book about feline friends, and an Iowa mother discusses why she started a foundation to stand up to book challenges.

Charity Nebbe talks to Donald Lewis about insects, his career and retirement.

Listen back to Charity Nebbe's conversation with Mary Potter Kenyon about creativity and Gideon Kidd's social media journey from petting dogs to co-writing his own book.

Ben Kieffer and his guests dissect politics at the federal and state levels, including Iowa lawmakers' rejection of the first proposed map of the state's political boundaries in a special session Tuesday.

The country is deeply divided right now. In addition to the misinformation, and partly fueled by it, many social media feeds have become battlegrounds with angry and accusatory exchanges and a whole lot of blocking and unfriending. We talk about whether it’s okay to engage with someone with an opposing view, or who is sharing false information over social media.

With more than 800 million active users worldwide, TikTok is hugely popular and growing fast. This is particularly true among young people. Forty-one…