Ten Iowa organizations are splitting just over $13 million in federal grants, to be distributed as loans to small businesses and entrepreneurs who’ve taken a financial hit during the pandemic. Rick Hunsaker is executive director […]
Courtesy of Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Nia Long is stepping into uncharted territory with her latest full-length feature Fatal Affair. In the new project, Long plays Ellie Warren, a wife and mother who finds herself the target of […]
iStock/ipopba(MOSCOW) — BY: PATRICK REEVELL The Russian hacking group accused on Thursday by the U.K., U.S. and Canada of seeking to steal information on potential COVID-19 vaccines is a familiar name to cybersecurity experts. APT-29, […]
Matthew Horwood/Getty ImagesBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC NEWS (LONDON) — A statue of a controversial 17th century British slave trader stood for more than 100 years in Bristol, U.K. Protesters toppled it last month, but the […]
North-central Iowa drug kingpin Dustin Honken is scheduled to be put to death tomorrow after the United States Supreme Court today turned down a last-minute request to stop his execution. The 52-year-old Honken of Britt […]
NBC/NBCU Photo Bank(LOS ANGELES) — The house that was home to Blanche, Dorothy, Rose, and Sophia can be yours, it you’ve got three million bucks. The Wall Street Journal reports home that served as the “exterior” […]
Gabriel Olsen/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced that the 2020 Emmy nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, July 28, 2020, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time. Due to COVID-19, the yearly nominations […]
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images(LONDON) — As movies and television shows rethink their past material, opting to edit out scenes or remove episodes that depict offensive content, actor Idris Elba made a case against that form of censorship. In […]
Iowa’s attorney general filed suit today in Polk County District Court against a Nebraska-based stem cell therapy center. Attorney General Tom Miller accuses Regenerative Medicine and Anti-Aging Institutes of Omaha of making deceptive, misleading claims […]
As a warm-weather treat, admission is free for all visitors to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art throughout July and August. Museum executive director Sean Ulmer says this marks the 11th straight summer all fees […]
Work is underway on a $4.2 million expansion of the Des Moines Area Community College campus in Carroll. Provost, Joel Lundstrom, says the expansion helps meet a need for more classes and space. “The project […]
The number of new and continuing unemployment claims both increased in the last week. Iowa Workforce Development says the first-time claims for unemployment hit 11,125 in the last week. That’s up by 1,195 and came […]
More severe weather rolled across central Iowa this week, bringing large hail and high winds that damaged countless vehicles and homes. Bao Vang, spokeswoman for the Better Business Bureau, is warning homeowners about storm chasers […]
The executive director of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art has been named to a board that oversees the collections of the U.S. Senate. Sean Ulmer says he will be part of a larger team […]
Scholastic/Annabelle Helms(NEW YORK) — Joanna Cole, former librarian who created the bestselling book-turned TV series The Magic School Bus, has died at 75. Her publisher, Scholastic, says the author succumbed to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Cole’s […]
JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) — Amber Heard’s former personal assistant testified at Johnny Depp’s libel trial against British tabloid The Sun that a story she told in confidence to the Aquaman actress regarding a violent sexual assault she endured […]
ABC News(LONDON) — BY: GUY DAVIES A “cyber espionage group” associated with the Russian intelligence services has attempted to hack into coronavirus vaccine research in the US, Britain and Canada, according to a report from […]
Michael Becker / FOX. © 2020 FOX MEDIA LLC(LOS ANGELES) — Fox announced on Wednesday that it is sticking with Nick Cannon as the host of its popular reality competition series The Masked Singer, following his apology on Facebook earlier […]
Gotham/GC Images(LOS ANGELES) — If you can’t see Chrissy Teigen’s tweets on your Twitter feed, that’s because, in a surprising move on Wednesday, she made her account private. The development came after the Bring the Funny host blocked […]
Lightguard/iStockBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — Shamima Begum, the British woman who joined ISIS as a teenager in 2015, is set to be allowed to return to the U.K. in order to challenge the […]
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