The Waterloo City Council approved plans on Monday to change the current logo which appears on the officers’ badges and patrol cars because it looks like the Grand Dragon image, used on robes and other insignia to represent a high-ranking member of the KKK. The original design of a griffin—a mythical creature consisting of a mixture of a lion and an eagle—was adopted by the department in 1964. According to a resolution presented at Monday’s council meeting, the Waterloo Police Department’s current griffin logo “leaves many citizens and residents feeling uncomfortable and distrustful when dealing with the Waterloo Police Department [and] this discomfort and distrust can make the job of Waterloo law enforcement officers more difficult in carrying out their duties....

Try to follow along. With five minutes gone in the second half, White denied Michigan’s Ricky Doyle of a layup with a strong block. White decided to let Doyle know, and one of the referees assessed him a technical foul. Ttwo possessions later, White received a pass on the baseline and threw down a slam dunk, but decided to hang on the rim. White was assessed a technical foul on both plays, so he should have ejected from the contest, right?...

The pregame show is headed to Ames for the third week of the 2021 college football season to watch No. 9 ISU face off against No. 10 Iowa as the Cyclones are set to host the Hawkeyes at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Amid rumors that Kutcher—who attended the University of Iowa before dropping out to model—might be the celeb pick for the show’s prediction segment, ISU fans took to Twitter to complain about the possibility of a rival being invited onto the show for their home game....

Iowa State defensive back Evrett Edwards planted an Iowa state flag in the middle of the Oklahoma’s “OU” logo at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium after the shocking upset. MORE: How does OU loss affect CFP outlook? The move mimicked what Mayfield himself did at Ohio Stadium earlier this season when he planted an Oklahoma flag in the middle of the block “O” at midfield. That came directly after the Sooners beat then-No....

Shortly after Ahmadinejad announced the release of the 15 British sailors and Marines taken prisoner after Tehran claimed they had trespassed in Iranian waters, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, returned a long-delayed phone call to the European Union’s foreign-policy chief, Javier Solana. The two diplomats discussed sitting down for the first time since February, Solana’s spokeswoman, Cristina Gallach, told NEWSWEEK. “The Iranians were in a mood to talk today, which was not the case a few days before,” she said....

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saied Khatibzadeh reportedly denied that the discussions were suspended until the outcome of the November 3 presidential race. It comes as the countries move to finalize the so-called 25-year deal, which aims to facilitate cooperation in areas like energy, investment and security. This agreement has been widely viewed as a response to crippling U.S. sanctions on Iran. According to Iranian state news network Press TV, Khatibzadeh said: “I deny such an issue, these issues are raised by adversarial media and are untrue....

The Mizan news agency, which is run by Iran’s judiciary, reported on Thursday that Mohsen Shekari—who had been charged with moharebeh, or"waging war against God," for closing a street and injuring an officer with a knife during protests—was hanged early that morning. Shekari had been arrested on September 25 and was convicted by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, Mizan wrote. Activists and experts say the charge of moharebeh, which carries the death penalty, has been used by the authorities to quell protests since 2019....

The drills came as the neighboring Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict occasionally spills over Iran’s northwestern border, giving Iran an opportunity to flex its military muscle through impressive displays of firepower. The fiery exhibition provided an additional bonus for Tehran. With the lifting of a longstanding UN embargo against arms sales, the military exercises have allowed the country’s defense industry to showcase a variety of domestically produced weapons that they are now free to sell to other countries....

Raisi offered a far more outspoken assessment of U.S. foreign policy than former president Hassan Rouhani had in previous meetings of the U.N. General Assembly. A conservative cleric and former judiciary chief close to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Raisi said the perseverance of nations is stronger than the power of superpowers. He mocked political slogans used by former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. “Today, the world doesn’t care about ‘America First’ or ‘America is Back,’” Raisi said....

According the the report, the drone can carry up to 13 bombs over 1,200 miles and has a flight duration of 35 hours, the Associated Press reported. General Hossein Salami, chief of the Revolutionary Guard, said that “we called it Gaza so that God willing it can be an eternal honor for those who are resisting the Zionist invasion.” For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below. TV also said in addition to military surveillance, combat, reconnaissance missions, the Gaza drone can monitor forests, help rescue operations and providing assistance in natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes....

Zarif released a video on Wednesday marking the country’s national day, and claiming that America’s long-standing policy of trying to combat and contain Iran has failed. The video was released as United Nations inspectors confirmed that Tehran has been producing uranium metal that could be used in the core of a nuclear bomb, representing another violation of the terms of the JCPOA. International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi announced Wednesday that Iran had followed through on its intention to produce uranium metal, one of the measures passed by parliament following the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh....

Iranian Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi announced Thursday that his country was “ready to help America control the coronavirus,” advising that Washington reassess its handling of the COVID-19 crisis. “The American health care system is incapable of controlling the coronavirus pandemic,” he said, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency. “It’s not that we’re happy about America’s inability,” he added. “As a Muslim country, we are not happy about anyone’s illness....

Brigadier General Qader Rahimzadeh said Saturday that Iranian forces will keep monitoring American activity in the region and will be prepared to retaliate if necessary, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported. Iranian commanders regularly threaten such action as part of the tit-for-tat military posturing increasingly common in the Persian Gulf area since President Donald Trump withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal in 2018. Rahimzadeh, who is the deputy commander of the Khatam al-Anbia air defense base, said: “The country’s airspace is among our redlines and, as enemies have experienced in the past too, the smallest violation will be met with the air defense forces’ crushing and fiery response....

The list of suspects, which has yet to be made public, was announced Tuesday by Kazem Gharibabadi, who serves as the Iranian Judiciary’s vice president for international affairs and secretary-general of Iran’s Human Rights Headquarters. While those indicted hailed from several countries, including 17 from Iraq, where Soleimani was killed, and an unspecified number from Germany and the United Kingdom, Gharibabadi said that, “currently, the indictment focuses on American defendants,” according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency....

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif argued on Monday that the U.S. “sold $50 billion of weapons to this region” last year, pointing out that “some of the countries in the region with less than a third of our population spend $87 billion on just military procurement.” Highlighting the disparity, he noted that his own country “spent last year $16 billion on all its military with almost one million people in the army....

Polygraph.info, a fact-checking site, reported that Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi posted the tweet with text that translates as “Space suit #brightfuture,” shortly before Iran attempted to launch a satellite to celebrate the 41st anniversary of the Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Social media users in the country quickly began mocking Jahromi and pointing out where the outfit came from, with several creating images using the costume through Photoshop. One placed the shiny suit on the astronauts from the Apollo 11 mission, while another compared the material to glittery sneakers....

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) shared a brief video on Twitter, originally posted by another account with the handle @Iranworkers, showing demonstrators and bystanders who had gathered outside the mosque where Iranian security forces were purportedly stationed inside. The PMOI describes itself as “the largest and longest-standing Iranian opposition group with a five-decade history of struggling for freedom and democracy in Iran.” Any gunfire was not fully discernible in the few seconds of footage and none of the protesters appear to be struck with bullets....

The political side to Trump’s “Vision for Peace, Prosperity and a Brighter Future” that was introduced Tuesday envisages giving Israel control over internationally-unrecognized Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem along with the Jordan Valley eastern border region in exchange for some new Palestinian desert territories in the southwest and a tunnel linking the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinians would also be given a path to potential statehood with a prospective capital in East Jerusalem, but—particularly controversially—on the outskirts of the holy city, almost all of which would remain under Israeli control....

A senior administration official suggested that the 2000 election may have played a role in the Security Council deal. While a deputy to U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke led the talks, an administration source says national-security adviser Sandy Berger was quietly calling the shots. The theory: that the White House wanted to get on record against Saddam before the campaign year heats up. Berger vehemently denied that politics played any part in the resolution, telling NEWSWEEK the White House was not driving the process and that the suggestion of political positioning “is personally offensive and wrong… I’ve watched Saddam slaughter and starve his people for seven years....

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali al-Hakim said Thursday at a press conference alongside his Turkish counterpart that “it was very necessary that all foreign troops need to leave from our territory,” something he said “could take place through diplomacy and dialogue based on the respect for sovereignty and mutual interests.” Hakim’s remarks came two days after Iran launched missiles at Iraqi military positions housing U.S. and allied troops in response to last week’s U....