Iowa's construction employment has hit the highest level recorded in data going back more than 30 years. Released this week‚ the Iowa Workforce Development monthly report says the construction sector employed 85‚200 workers in January‚ up 600 from December and an increase of 2‚700 from January 2023. The rise has been even more dramatic ― 3‚200 workers ― since October‚ the report says. Though winter usually sees a decline in construction‚ Iowa has recorded its warmest winter on record‚ and work...

If you’re a conservative who doesn’t like murder‚ cares about the economy‚ and wants to see America remain unchallenged as global hegemon‚ you should help reelect President Joe Biden — at least‚ that’s what The New York Times’ resident pearl clutcher and conservative kapo David French seems to believe. 

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - In the struggle to keep mental health manageable‚ a new entry is showing promising results. It's an app that you can use and it uses science to give you an idea of how you are doing. You can tell someone how you are feeling and maybe they can try to put a shine on a dreary condition but now‚ there's an app that can hear it in your voice. A new entry into "there's an app for that" the folks at Pittsburgh's Cognitive Behavioral Institute have been...

Former President Donald Trump promised to provide a live “play by play” via Truth Social to “correct‚ in rapid response‚ any and all inaccurate Statements” made by President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address. But we found many of Trump’s alleged corrections were … factually incorrect. Under Biden‚ Trump claimed‚ “Migrant Violence is leading to the Worst Crime Wave in History!” But homicides and violent crime in general have been trending down the last two years and is...

After he spent much of the last year of his presidency trying to ban TikTok‚ Donald Trump’s abrupt effort to defend the Chinese-owned app late last week caught many in Washington by surprise. But for people who’ve been watching Trump’s TikTok policies closely‚ it was part of a pattern: Changing course when an interested billionaire donor was in the mix. “It’s a mirror image of 2020‚” said Nu Wexler‚ a former spokesperson for several top tech firms in the nation’s capital and an alumnus of...

Students can continue to anonymously report on one another and their professors in order to rectify ‘bias.’ In April 2019‚ two Arizona State University students in an undergraduate acting class began their final exam. The students‚ a male and a female‚ had rehearsed the scene they would be performing‚ but under the glare of the instructor‚ the male student decided to give his most intense performance to date. “His physicality was more aggressive and there was a weird look in his eyes...

There has been a surge in posts on the dark web concerning election interference in the first two months of the year‚ the "vast majority" of which reference the U.S. presidential election and were written in Russian‚ according to analysts at NordVPN. The virtual private network firm found that in 2022‚ there were 26 such discussions on the hidden forums‚ but it increased to 101 last year—a rise of nearly 400 percent. In January and February alone‚ the company traced 35 discussions. "The...

Something unusual is happening in America. Demand for electricity‚ which has stayed largely flat for two decades‚ has begun to surge. Over the past year‚ electric utilities have nearly doubled their forecasts of how much additional power they’ll need by 2028 as they confront an unexpected explosion in the number of data centers‚ an abrupt resurgence in manufacturing driven by new federal laws‚ and millions of electric vehicles being plugged in. Many power companies were already struggling...