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SEATTLE — Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, will step down as chief executive of the e-commerce giant, turning over the reins to the company’s longtime cloud-computing boss Andy Jassy.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives told the Senate that the nation “cannot simply ‘move on’” without an impeachment trial and conviction for Donald Trump’s incitement of an insurrection Jan.

CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar County man was convicted Tuesday in federal court of receiving child pornography involving a 14-year-old Minnesota girl, who he met online, and is accused in state court of sexually abusing the teen.

DES MOINES — The debate over mask-wearing continued at the Iowa Statehouse as lawmakers heard arguments against limiting the authority of colleges and universities to mandate facial coverings for students and employees when they are off-campus.

DES MOINES — A proposal to allow legislators to question Supreme Court justices and overturn their decisions found little support among lobbyists, subcommittee members and, perhaps, most importantly, the Judiciary Committee’s chairman.“It’s done,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Steve Holt, R-Denison, said Tuesday.

Leaders from all three of Iowa’s public universities on Tuesday apologized to lawmakers for “egregious” incidents on their campuses that suppressed First Amendment rights and quelled free speech — largely affecting conservative students — and committed to taking corrective action.

Superintendents from five school districts in Cedar Rapids and Marion sent a joint letter to Gov. Kim Reynolds Monday asking for more vaccines to be allocated to the state’s priority populations, which includes K-12 staff.

CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids man faces multiple counts of theft after authorities said he took money for multiple derecho repair jobs and never followed through with the repairs.

WASHINGTON — Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right Georgia Republican’s embrace of conspiracy theories and “loony lies” a “cancer for the Republican Party.”

Cedar Rapids police said Monday that investigators have seen a recent increase in the number of theft of motor vehicle parts or accessories and warned vehicle owners to be vigilant about protecting their vehicles.