Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A plan by Republican lawmakers in Iowa to pass a bill that would cut most collective bargaining rights for public workers could also tame a political force that often supports their opponents. The proposed changes to Iowa’s collective bargaining law would drastically change how public sector unions are able to negotiate on behalf of roughly 180,000 people in the state. Academics say it would weaken unions who usually support Democrats.

NEVADA, Iowa (AP) — Police in central Iowa have arrested a man they say left messages at a high school threatening to kill a transgender student there. The Nevada Public Safety Department says police arrested 65-year-old Mondell Olson, of Ames, on Wednesday after an investigation into that threat and another harassing voicemail left for a Nevada High School teacher. Olson has been charged with three counts of harassment and remained Wednesday in the Story County Jail.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The longtime No. 2 administrator at the University of Iowa is leaving to become president of a Florida college that focuses on aerospace education. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University says UI Provost P. Barry Butler would start next month as the school’s president. Butler, a former engineering dean and professor, had been at Iowa since 1984.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley says Russia’s alleged attempts to meddle in November’s presidential election shouldn’t be a surprise given the United States worked to discredit the Italian Communist Party in Italy’s 1948 election. The U.S. was engaged in the Cold War with the Soviet Union at the time, and the CIA later acknowledged spending $1 million to try to sway the election away from communists. Grassley said Wednesday that the U.S. “doesn’t come to this table hands-free.”