Ukraine’s military will pull out of Vuhledar in the east after 2 years of intense fighting
Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from the front-line town of Vuhledar, perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern Ukraine, after more than two years of grinding ...
Vance and Walz keep it civil in a policy-heavy discussion: VP debate takeaways
Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Walz and JD Vance focused their criticism on the top of the ticket on Tuesday as they engaged ...
NASCAR Cup Series playoff drivers
Interviews with Tyler Reddick, Denny Hamlin, Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson. The Des Moines Community Orchestra will be hosting ...
Gonzaga set to join rebuilt Pac-12, while UTEP goes to Mountain West
Rebuilding the Pac-12 Conference centered around football. It’ll be a pretty good basketball conference, too, after landing one of the perennial hoops powers on the West Coast. Gonzaga will ...
Women’s role in Catholic Church tops agenda as Pope Francis opens second phase of big reform project
Pope Francis opened the second phase of his big Catholic reform project Wednesday, with widespread calls for women to take up more positions of responsibility in the church topping the ...
Two predawn explosions rock the area around the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen but no one is injured
Police in the Danish capital said two predawn explosions took place Wednesday in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in ...
Typhoon bringing heavy rain slowly heads toward Taiwan, where 4,000 have evacuated
A typhoon bringing strong winds and torrential rainfall slowly advanced Wednesday toward Taiwan, where thousands of people have been evacuated from vulnerable low-lying or ...
Mexico’s Sheinbaum will keep doing mañanera briefings, though her style is unlike her predecessor’s
Mexico’s new President, Claudia Sheinbaum, will start her day Wednesday much like her political mentor, ex-President Andrés ...
Palestinian officials say 32 killed in Israeli strikes on southern Gaza
Palestinian medical officials said Wednesday that at least 32 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in southern Gaza. The European Hospital in Khan Younis ...
Walz misleadingly claims to have been in Hong Kong during period tied to Tiananmen Square massacre
Multiple news reports indicate that Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz misleadingly claimed he was ...
11 workers at a Tennessee factory were swept away in Hurricane Helene flooding. Only 5 were rescued
As the rain from Hurricane Helene came down harder and harder, workers inside a plastics factory in rural Tennessee kept ...
Ingersoll shooting brings community together as investigation continues
The sound of gunshots echoed down Ingersoll Avenue in Des Moines on Friday night with security cameras catching the suspected gunman sprinting away. As of late Tuesday afternoon, the Des Moines ...