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An attack on 18-year-old Cuban-American and Parkland activist Emma Gonzlez for not speaking Spanish by an Iowa Republican congressman's campaign staff highlights the pressures U.S.-born Latinos face on language. "This is how you look when you claim Cuban heritage yet don't speak Spanish and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison camp, after removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defense," read a meme with Gonzalez's photo that was posted on Rep. Steve King's campaign Facebook page.
Ron Corbett says he's filing a legal challenge against an elections panel's ruling that booted him off the Republican primary ballot for governor. Corbett told reporters Wednesday in Hiawatha he wants a judge in Polk County district court to review his case.
A comment on an Iowa congressman's campaign Facebook page about one of the survivors of a Florida school shooting has prompted hundreds of comments, many met by mocking replies from the campaign. U.S. Rep. Steve King's campaign Facebook page on Sunday featured a picture of Emma Gonzalez as she gave a speech at Saturday's "March for Our Lives" rally in Washington.
Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King is facing heat after someone managing his campaign's Facebook page posted a meme on Sunday criticizing a Parkland student for donning a patch of the Cuban flag. "This is how you look when you claim Cuban heritage yet don't speak Spanish and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison camp, after removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defense," the meme said alongside an image of Cuban-American Emma Gonazlez, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, speaking at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington on Saturday.
On the morning after Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., broke a record for the longest filibuster in the history of the House of Representatives - an eight-hour defense of immigrants - a Baltimore amateur genealogist named Jennifer Mendelsohn sat in her home office and logged onto Ancestry.com to begin her own form of protest. "Let's see," she said, typing in the name of a Republican congressman whose anti-immigrant comments had been controversial.
Ted Cruz is holding up the confirmation of a key agriculture nominee to help oil refiners in his home state of Texas - infuriating some of the Iowans who fueled his rise in the 2016 presidential primary. Cruz is up for reelection this year in Texas, where oil and gas is king and employs hundreds of thousand of people.
The clearest sign that the House Republican memo criticizing the FBI's surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide won't be a blow to special prosecutor Robert Mueller is the reaction of Republicans in the Senate. While President Trump claimed that the memo "totally vindicates" him, no Republican senator has since come forward and joined him in that view.
The White House stands in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. Temporary government funding runs out at midnight Friday and there's still no agreement on a temporary extension.
Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations are pushing a conservative meme related to the investigation of Russian election interference, researchers say. The purported Russian activity involves the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo, a reference to a secret congressional report about President Donald Trump's allegations that he was wiretapped by the Obama administration.
It's been a jam-packed year of news since President Donald Trump moved into the White House, but it's also been a transformative -- if tumultuous -- year for each member of the first family. Trump and his extended nuclear family's first year in Washington saw new homes in cities, new roles, new books and even a new baby.
A group of Republican senators is working alongside Democrats to try to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from being deported in upcoming months, but the harsh lessons of a failed immigration reform push in 2013 loom large for a party barreling toward a midterm election. For the last several months, familiar players in the immigration debate - South Carolina's Sen. Lindsey Graham and Arizona's Sen. Jeff Flake - have re-emerged, committed to finding a narrower legislative solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, a program that shielded young immigrants who came to the US illegally as children from deportation.
Republican Congressman Steve King says census-takers in 2020 should ask if people living in the United States are citizens. King says if the Census is conducted as he proposes, Iowa would gain a congressional seat from a state like California.
The earthquake began when candidates backed by President Trump played strong anti-immigrant cards in Virginia's gubernatorial race and Alabama's Senate race - and both came up losers. Trump, who had begun pulling down the curtain on the Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals , is himself now talking a different game.
Not since the death of poll taxes and literacy tests in the 1960s has access to the ballot box been so under siege. And as the march toward Election Day 2018 begins, the forces that helped abolish those voting obstacles appear to be moving in the opposite direction.
It might have been a good idea for Akron locals to clear out after white nationalist sympathizer Rep. Steve King boasted in a tweet Saturday that he and Donald Trump Jr. were setting out on a "peasant hunt" in Iowa. It might have been a good idea for Akron locals to clear out after white nationalist sympathizer Rep. Steve King boasted in a tweet Saturday that he and Donald Trump Jr. were setting out on a "peasant hunt" in Iowa.
At a northwest Iowa hunting preserve more than 1,000 miles from Washington, a group of hunters clad in neon orange formed a line at the top of a hill, proceeding forward through a deep thicket of brush, kicking up pheasants. A bird spooked, was shot with precision, got picked up by a dog and promptly stuffed into the back of a hunter's vest.
Retiring Sen. Bob Corker's recent comments about the White House -- that it's an adult day care center and that President Donald Trump's temperament could set us "on the path to World War III" -- reveal a basic truth about what happens to you when you leave Congress: You get to tell the truth. Many of us who've left elected life feel a sense of liberation, as if our tongues are no longer strapped to the right or left sides of our mouths.
Massive wildfires continue to sweep through Northern California's wine region, forcing emergency evacuations and destroying more than 2,000 buildings. The fires began Sunday evening, though the initial cause is under investigation.
On Iowa Politics discussed possible gun control following the shooting in Las Vegas, whether anyone can dethrone Rep. Steve King, and the idea of creating competitive districts for elections.
The Winnebago Tribe is hoping to reclaim land in Iowa that was once part of its reservation in northeast Nebraska , but local hunters are concerned they might lose access. The Sioux City Journal reports the 1,643 acres of land is owned by the federal government and attracts hundreds of hunters each year.