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Good Morning! Today is Thursday, September 18th, the 261st day of 2025. There are 104 days left in the year.

Join us at the National Cattle Congress Fair in Waterloo TODAY AND TOMORROW afternoons for the annual “KXEL Candidate Cattle Call” sponsored by Rabe Hardware! KXEL’s Jeff Stein will be in our booth in Estel Hall from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. each day interviewing elected officials and candidates live—come by and say hello and watch the conversations…and go to rabehardware.com for information on geothermal, solar, fireplaces, and more!

Today on KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein … we are live from the National Cattle Congress Fair in Waterloo for the tenth annual KXEL Celebrity Cow Milking Contest at 11 a.m. …plus conversations with U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst… Congressman Zach Nunn… and Dustin Hoffmann of the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network with an RFD1540 conversation.

On yesterday’s KXEL Live & Local with Jeff Stein … a live conversation with Bill O’Reilly, author of “Confronting Evil”… Pastor Lucas Miles joins us live to talk about his new book “Pagan Threat,” with foreword by Charlie Kirk…  we talk live with Justin Keener, president of “Americans for Public Safety”… and the new edition of “Weathered Questions” with meteorologists Kaj O’Mara and Jan Ryherd.

Don’t forget…the KXEL Morning News with Tim Harwood  is on weekdays from 6-8 a.m.

“Go To The Source”  is the topic for today’s Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein.

Here’s today’s KXEL Poll Question of the Day:  “Should ABC have suspended Jimmy Kimmel for his comments about the Charlie Kirk assassin?” Weigh in at kxel.com/poll.

Scroll down for today’s KXEL Morning News summary…and as always, contact us via email (kxel@kxel.com) or text (319-235-1540).

Make the most of your day!