IOWA

It’s slightly younger, with a few more millennials and a lot more women. Welcome, everyone, to Iowa’s 88th General Assembly. Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier 

A review of how well the University of Iowa Athletics Department implements its employment policies — coming up on two years since the institution lost millions in a pair of discrimination lawsuits — has uncovered no “inequitable treatment of applicants or employees on the basis of protected class.” Cedar Rapids Gazette 

Kirsten Gillibrand’s presidential exploratory committee has hired two senior Iowa staffers as the New York senator continues to build out a campaign infrastructure ahead of Iowa’s 2020 caucuses. Des Moines Register 

NATION

For the first time in military history, the Navy is deploying a ceremonial flyover with only female jet pilots to honor the death of retired Capt. Rosemary Mariner, the Navy’s first woman to fly a tactical fighter jet. HuffPost Women