Iowa

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

AP FACT CHECK: Trump on McCain; Biden’s stretch on virus

7:15 pm September 5, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump said he never called John McCain a loser — he did — and denigrated the record of the late Republican senator on veterans affairs despite routinely appropriating one of McCain’s crowning achievements on that front as his own. Trump distorted events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the past week and his own hand in them before a furor […]

Trump slams media for 'blocking' alleged graft cases against Biden

Trump becomes Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee

10:24 am March 18, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump has become the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee after his home state of Florida awarded him with enough numbers to cross the pledged delegate threshold. As per the national delegate count, Trump on Tuesday had 1,330 pledged delegates in his kitty. Corona outbreak: UP extends ‘shutdown’ till April 2 A […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

US Democrats trade barbs as New Hampshire vote nears

11:01 am February 10, 2020

Manchester: Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg locked horns in their fight for the US Democratic presidential nomination Sunday as they scrambled for votes with just two days to go before New Hampshire’s closely-watched primary. The 78-year-old Vermont senator and the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana came top of the first contest in Iowa […]

Democrats swarm industrial Iowa to prove they can beat Donald Trump

Democrats swarm industrial Iowa to prove they can beat Trump

9:03 pm January 22, 2020

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa: Since their surprise loss to Donald Trump in 2016, Democrats have struggled with how to regain territory that long supported the party before suddenly flipping to Republicans. Their answer could lie with voters like Martie Boyd. The 71-year-old retired insurance worker is a lifelong Republican who supported Trump for president in 2016 […]

Weekend gun violence in Chicago leaves 10 dead, 43 injured

Winter storm brings heavy snow, ice to Midwest, Northeast

9:09 pm January 18, 2020

Chicago: A winter storm that has already caused trouble at airports in Chicago and Kansas City was expected to bring blizzard conditions to the Plains and Midwest on Saturday and could dump up to a foot of snow in parts of the Northeast on Sunday. National Weather Service forecasters issued winter weather advisories affecting much […]