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There are several models, by now, for spinning a name and face into an empire, especially on this side of the pond. It started, of course, with the Kardashians, who built their American version of a fairy tale around large amount of media savvy and an even larger amount of shamelessness: A sex tape begets a TV series, which lead to spinoffs series and spinoff businesses. (It’s gotten so crazy and lucrative that Forbes magazine could, with no apparent irony, declare 21-year-old cosmetics magnate Kylie Jenner a “self-made billionaire.”) But you don’t need to be a Kardashian to make a…

In just one month, Iowans caucus in the first major test in the Democratic presidential primary. We check in with what’s happening on the ground.

Guests

Rachel Stassen-Berger, politics editor for the Des Moines Register. (@RachelSB)

James Lynch, covers politics and state government for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. (@jamesqlynch)

Rachel Paine Caufield, professor of political science at Drake University. (@DrakeUniversity)

From The Reading List

Cedar Rapids Gazette: “Joe Biden pushes public option as affordable, practical health care in Iowa visit” — “Joe Biden admits his health care plan, which…

But if moving the needle on social and racial advancement were life-affirming benefits of an influential business, protecting its widespread marketability and growing the pie no matter how it eventually was sliced was always the mission that came first for Stern.

“One-nothing,” Stern said when asked if there had been a hierarchal vote on the need to go nuclear, especially on Artest, who is now known as Metta World Peace and was suspended for more than 70 games.

While Stern seldom hid from debate or debacle, the litigator in him on occasion was obscured by the autocrat. Looking back on…

BOSTON (CBS) — A trade of David Price this winter is starting to look like an inevitability. With the Red Sox looking to cut some salary to get under the luxury tax, and with presumably some good years still left in Price’s left arm, the 34-year-old figures to draw some interest in that market.

According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, Price already has.

“The Boston Red Sox continue to pursue ways to shed salary, and multiple teams have targeted starter David Price,” Passan tweeted. “He is owed $96 million over the next three years. Red Sox could either attach player with value or…

As a farmer with a vested interest in ethanol, I’d like to express my appreciation to Congressman Jim Hagedorn for his fight on behalf of farmers and ethanol producers.

For the past several years, the EPA has failed to follow Congressional mandates in awarding refinery exemptions to ethanol fuel blending. The billions of gallons of lost ethanol production caused by these exemptions has created tremendous economic hardship for farmers and ethanol producers who built business plans based on those promises.

Congressman Hagedorn has used his seat on the Agriculture Committee to…

Two days till the most important election in generations.

In the Highlands, there has been media focus on the Ross, Skye and Lochaber seat. It has been held by the SNP’s Ian Blackford since 2015, when he unseated the late Charles Kennedy, taking a remarkable 48.1 % of the vote in a seven-cornered fight.

Two years later, in Theresa May’s “strong and stable” election, that dropped to 40.3% in a six-way fight. The Tory was second then, but the Liberal Democrats have made it a top target.

They will have their work cut out. Mr Blackford has proved an able SNP Westminster leader, while…

MURRIETA — A 50-year-old Riverside man who sexually assaulted a young girl at a home-based daycare facility was convicted Monday of multiple counts of child molestation.

A Murrieta jury deliberated less than two days before finding Hubert David Edgin guilty of two counts each of lewd acts on a minor and oral copulation of a child under 10 years old.

Riverside County Superior Court Judge John Davis scheduled a sentencing hearing for Jan. 24 at the Southwest Justice Center. Edgin, who is being held without bail at the Byrd Detention Center, is facing 30 years to life in state prison.

He…

MADRID (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – With children and young people increasingly at risk from extreme weather and out in the streets demanding faster action on global warming, efforts to respect and promote their rights in climate policy need to step up, U.N officials said on Monday.

On the sidelines of U.N. climate negotiations in Madrid, the U.N. children’s agency (UNICEF) and former Irish President Mary Robinson urged countries in the Paris Agreement on climate change to keep the rights of children and young people in mind as they put the accord into practice.

Theo Cullen-Mouze, a…

Well Hawkeye fans, bowl season is finally here, and your team is headed to sunny San Diego this year.

If the opportunity to leave the bitter cold and head to California for a few days is too good to pass up, you can join them a few different ways:

The No. 16 Hawkeyes (9-3) are in the Holiday Bowl this year facing No. 22 USC (8-4) on December 27.

On Google Flights, the cheapest round-trip from Des Moines to San Diego from the day before the game to the day after (December 26-28) is a little over $800.

You could get a pretty good price on hotels out there if you book soon,…