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 […]
DKart/iStockBy SOMAYEH MALEKIAN, ABC News(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iranians from a variety of political, economic and cultural backgrounds — lawyers, teachers, footballers, artists, students, activists — joined together in an unprecedented Twitter storm, sharing the hashtag […]
A species of birds with a loud, trumpeting call have chosen to nest in the Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge near Bancroft. “Last year, we had sandhill cranes nest on the refuge for the first […]
NBC/Photo Bank via Getty Images, Getty Images/Getty Images for EIF & XQ(LOS ANGELES) — What do Kim Kardashian, former President Barack Obama, Kanye West, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates all have in common? They were just a handful of the celebrities […]
A woman who’s been the Iowa Department of Public Health’s lead spokesperson for more than a decade has been forced out of the post. Polly Carver-Kimm said she believes she’s a casualty of the pressure […]
Amanda Edwards/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Nick Cannon is speaking up after he was fired from ViacomCBS over his alleged “anti-Semitic” and “hateful” speech on his YouTube podcast. On Wednesday, Cannon addressed the termination in a lengthy statement on his Facebook page, […]
iStock/LeoPatrizi(NEW YORK) — The COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench into movie and TV production all over the world. But as productions are starting to resume in places like Los Angeles and Atlanta — with new […]
ABC(LOS ANGELES) — Mad Men veteran John Hamm will be stretching his comedy chops once again, taking over Chevy Chase’s role in a reboot of the Fletch movie comedy. Based on Gregory McDonald’s series of novels, the 1985 original saw Chase playing the titular […]
Isa Foltin/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Justin Timberlake’s new movie, Palmer, is heading to Apple TV+. Apple announced Wednesday that the movie, directed by Fisher Stevens, will be joining its expanding lineup of original films. Palmer tells the story of […]
Going-out-of-business sales are underway at JCPenney stores in Carroll and Marshalltown and the company announced today it will shed a thousand jobs, mostly from its corporate office in Texas. JCPenney filed for bankruptcy in May […]
The number of Iowans hospitalized for treatment of COVID-19 has been on a steady uptick this month. As of 10 a.m. today, 190 Iowans are hospitalized, up 22% since July 1st. Governor Kim Reynolds said […]
Photo by Vestron/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey is teaming up with Lionsgate for a new dance movie, and Deadline reports “rumblings” that it could be a new film based on the 1987 classic. Lionsgate holds distribution rights […]
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