Earlier this month, aging pop star Gloria Estefan revealed in a Telemundo interview that the CIA once offered her a job as a spy while she was an interpreter at Miami International Airport, before she...

What’s the result of a mixture of poetry with disaster, hope, and a deluge of life? For poet and Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Zach Savich, it’s a collection called Full Catastrophe Living, and...

Can there ever be too much Bach? The UI sure doesn’t think so. The semester of Bach continues tonight as his famous music make yet another appearance with the performance of the Brandenburg Concertos. Hancher...

There is a crisis occurring in Sudan, and many Americans are unaware of it. More than 300,000 Darfurians have died; up to 2.5 million have been displaced. The situation in the Darfur region of Sudan is...

Spartans, what is your profession? The day may have come when this question — posed by bethonged King Leonidas in the film 300 — has reached its ironic apex. At least if you’re familiar with a...

Are you a news junkie? Do you love finding out the latest breaking information as soon as it goes public? Or are you just interested in following a particularly obscure topic that doesn’t get mentioned...

The Iowa softball team (26-5) will travel to Bloomington, Ill., today for a 5 p.m. game against Illinois State (13-14). The team’s home game with William Penn on Tuesday was canceled because of poor...

Iowa baseball coach Jack Dahm knows winning games and worrying about outcomes don’t go hand in hand. That’s why at 4 p.m. today, when his team plays its fourth home game of the season at Banks Field,...

In a tournament that has seen as many first-round upsets as the previous two years combined — eight — the women’s basketball NCAA affair has provided reasons for the casual sports fan to start paying...

Oklahoma let Georgia Tech hang around in the first half, then put the Yellow Jackets away in the second. Danielle Robinson was perfect for the Sooners as the No. 1 seed in the Oklahoma City regional beat...

The Johnson County Board of Supervisors elected Tuesday to not take an official position on a proposed local-option sales tax. Johnson County Auditor Tom Slockett asked the supervisors to endorse the...

The fate of Roosevelt Elementary may be a bit clearer. Iowa City School District Superintendent Lane Plugge shared nine options with the School Board on Tuesday for how to handle the ongoing issue. In...