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

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of an Iowa kosher meatpacking executive who received 27 years behind bars for money laundering. The commutation is Trump’s first in office and comes following the encouragement of members of Congress and other high-ranking officials who argued the sentence was too harsh. Sholom Rubashkin ran the Iowa headquarters of a family business that was the country’s largest kosher meat-processing company.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Citizens may be allowed to carry guns in some public areas of county courthouses after the Iowa Supreme Court revised an earlier order banning weapons from the public buildings. Chief Justice Mark Cady issued an order Tuesday revising the edict he’d written in June that banned guns from all courthouses in Iowa.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The husband of Iowa’s first female governor has unveiled a doll of himself at the state Capitol, adding a twist to a popular _ and some would say quirky_ tradition honoring the state’s first ladies. Kevin Reynolds, husband of Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, was on hand Wednesday as a doll with his likeness became the newest addition to a permanent display case at the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines. The case holds a doll of most Iowa first ladies in history, dating back to territorial governors.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — New U.S. Census Bureau data show Iowa and Nebraska’s populations grew slower than the national average. Iowa’s population increased to 3,145,711 as of July 1, up from 3,130,869 at the same time in 2016. That’s a growth rate of 0.47 percent. Nebraska’s population grew to 1,920,076 during that same window, compared to 1,907,603 the previous year. That’s an increase of 0.65 percent. The United States’ population increased by 0.71 percent, to 325,719,178.