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All Siouxland U.S. Senators vote in support of Big Beautiful budget bill & Transgender Iowans no longer have state civil rights protections

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All six Republican U.S. senators from Siouxland voted on Tuesday in support of President Donald Trump’s priority tax and spending bill; Transgender Iowans no longer have state civil rights protections; Noem connection to dark money

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 12: Activists participate in a protest to urge U.S. President Joe Biden to grant Native American activist Leonard Peltier clemency outside of the White House on September 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. Activists, who cite anti-Indigenous bias surrounding Peltier’s trial, want the President to give leniency to Peltier who is serving two life sentences for the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1975. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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Newscast 1.21.2025: Peltier sentence from Pine Ridge shootout commuted; Iowa lawmaker wants to buy 9 Minnesota counties; Herbert Hoover Museum in Iowa getting $20M improvements

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Republican U.S. Senator John Thune of South Dakota is shown in a n image from his official Senate website.

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Newscast 11.13.2024: South Dakota's Thune picked as new U.S. Senate Majority Leader; Group cites 3,700 books in Iowa have restricted access after new law; Hospital reopens in Iowa town impacted by spring tornado

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