Chinese and US students pose for a group photo after learning table tennis skills at Shijiazhuang Foreign Language School on April 20. ZHANG YUNBI/CHINA DAILY Stronger together As a key promoter of the China tours, Sarah Lande is one of Xi's "old friends" from Iowa who hosted Xi in Muscatine when he first visited the US in 1985 as a …
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa would become the first state in the nation to require that gas stations have pumps selling fuel with at least 15% ethanol under a bill that received final legislative approval Tuesday. Kim Reynolds, who initially proposed the mandate, the measure would boost corn growers and the ethanol industry, which consumes roughly half the state’s corn …