Midwest

A sign protesting the installation of a Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline stands on a farm in Lake County, S.D., on Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri)

A female periodical cicada makes slits in a tender branch with the egg-laying appendage called an ovipositor at Morton Arboretum on Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Lisle, Ill. The slits are to create egg nests that serve as the nursery for the cicada's developing eggs. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Construction is underway on a piling of the Red Bridge pedestrian bridge over the Des Moines River in Des Moines, Iowa., March 28, 2017 A little more than a decade after it was restored, crews went back to the site with a crane to hoist the span more than 4 feet higher, at a cost of $3 million, after experts concluded that the river's flooding risk was double the previous estimates. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

President Donald Trump is sworn in during a live broadcast of the inauguration as Denny Riebe, from right, Doug Dickman, Scott Reilly, and Bill Winter, play cards at the Sawmill Saloon in Prairie du Chien, Wis., Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. The men who meet here for cards every morning and call themselves the Corner of Superior Knowledge are made up democrats, Trump supporters and another described as agnostic. The campaign vitriol that has cleaved apart the country has not left the same scars here, a place where talking politics is considered impolite, where wives reported not knowing how their own husbands voted and husbands said they never asked their wives. (AP Photo/David Goldman)