Carol Moseley Braun is a woman of many firsts. She was both the first Black woman and Black Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate, and the first female senator from Illinois. In her new memoir ...

Born July 21, 1872, in Matagorda County, Hortense Sparks Ward rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential women in Texas legal and political history. Raised in Edna, Ward ...

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A long-awaited scientific report commissioned by Polk County says farm pollution threatens the ability to drink clean water and to safely interact with central Iowa streams, Iowa Capital Dispatch has ...