Content found for
Iowa
Articles
MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Emergency workers pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital...
(Reuters) - A single winning ticket for a record Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, orga...
(Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-siz...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutio...
DOVER, Delaware (Reuters) - Delaware legalized gay marriage on Tuesday, making it the 11th U.S. state to extend marriage righ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's campaign to curb gun violence after the Newtown school massacre was dealt...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers appeared on Tuesday to be short of th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jack Lew as President Barack Obama's new Treasury secretary...
(Reuters) - For the first time in decades, the United States is making steady gains in the number of high school students ear...
MIAMI (Reuters) - A newly married South Florida man who opted to take his wife's last name is fighting the state's De...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The first major winter storm of the year hit the U.S. Midwest on Thursday, bringing a blizzard to the Pla...
By Edith HonanNEW YORK (Reuters) - Voters in Maryland, Maine and Washington state approved same-sex marriage on Tuesday, mark...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House on Tuesday, overcoming deep doubts among v...
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - An Idaho scientist shrugging off skeptical fellow scholars in his quest for evidence of Bigfoot has...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney make a frenetic dash to a series of cruci...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy blew the U.S. presidential race off course on Sunday even before it came ashore, forci...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won the endorsement of retired General Colin Powell, a moderate Republican, on Thu...
(Reuters) - Alex Karras, a hulking giant with a puckish personality who starred on the football field for the Detroit Lions a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The presidential race had seemed on the verge of slipping from Republican Mitt Romney's grasp a we...
DENVER (Reuters) - A day after a muted performance in a presidential debate, U.S. President Barack Obama fought back against ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has a growing lead in polls and an easier path to the White House than challeng...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobs growth slowed sharply in August, setting the stage for the Federal Reserve to pu...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When U.S. gymnasts Gabby Douglas and Jordyn Wieber captured gold at the London Olympics, each achieved a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has become one of the first modern day U.S. presidents known for enjoying a col...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican Paul Ryan got a taste of the rough side of a presidential campaign on Monday when pro...
WAUKESHA, Wisc. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan home ...
By Bob BurgdorferCHICAGO (Reuters) - Alarm grew over the unrelenting Midwest drought on Tuesday, as one of the top corporate ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Silver SpongeBob SquarePants coins minted by a private company in New Zealand were among the assets seize...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Oppressive heat and a worsening drought in the Midwest pushed grain prices near or past record...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Corn and soybeans in the U.S. Midwest baked in an unrelenting heat wave on Monday with fears rising of bi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is carving out a clear lead in swing states that are key to the November 6 pres...
By Lisa Lambert(Reuters) - Jobless rates in 49 out of the 50 U.S. states dropped in May from a year earlier, the Labor Depart...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Joe Burklund of Des Moines, Iowa, lost his job at the depths of recession in 2009 after 30 years ...
RICHMOND, California (Reuters) - The battleship USS Iowa, which served the United States through victory and tragedy during s...
CHICAGO/DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - After weeks of painting Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney as a job-slashing ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For President Barack Obama's re-election team, it's sort of like threading a needle.While tryi...
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina voters on Tuesday approved a state constitutional amendment that bans same...
ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich ended his tumultuous run for U.S. president on Wednesday after dazzling in tele...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Clean-up efforts were underway across the Midwest on Sunday after dozens of tornadoes ripped across...
(Reuters) - Current TV said on Friday it fired star news anchor Keith Olbermann after one year with the progressive public af...
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb (Reuters) - A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as "pink slime" on Thursday al...
McGruder Guides K-State Past Southern Miss(Pittsburgh, PA) -- Rodney McGruder scored 30 points on 11-of-16 shooting to power ...
By Alice PopoviciANNAPOLIS, Maryland (Reuters) - Maryland became the eighth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's narrow win in Michigan is unlikely to ease lingering doubts about his candidacy or h...
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (Reuters) - Their encampments are largely gone, but the U.S. Occupy movement is far from dead, with organiz...
By Matt Spetalnick and Chris BuckleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping o...
By Matt Spetalnick and Chris BuckleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will ...
By Nicole NerouliasOLYMPIA, Wash (Reuters) - Washington state became the seventh in the nation to put a law on its books reco...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five big U.S. banks accused of abusive mortgage practices have agreed to a $25 billion government ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many U.S. Republicans may have growing concerns about their presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, but...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday found California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional in a case ...
DENVER (Reuters) - Republican candidate Rick Santorum is gunning for a victory in at least one of the three states holding pr...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado (Reuters) - Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Monday focused his campaign's fir...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Businessman and reality TV personality Donald Trump is endorsing Mitt Romney in the race for the 2012 ...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's victory in Florida's Republican presidential primary has made him the man to...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House hopeful Mitt Romney's lead over rival Newt Gingrich has stretched to 15 percentage poi...
HIALEAH, Florida (Reuters) - Republican Newt Gingrich struggled to halt surging rival Mitt Romney's momentum on Sunday, a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union speech before the November election to paint h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will pitch new initiatives on jobs, taxes and housing in an election-year State...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Humbled by a stunning loss in South Carolina, Mitt Romney said on Sunday he would releas...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich jolted the Republican presidential race on Saturday with a convincing come...
GILBERT, South Carolina (Reuters) - With the crucial Republican presidential primary in South Carolina just hours away, front...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates tore into each other on Thursday and Newt Gingrich ...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich angrily defended himself on Thursday a...
DES MOINES (Reuters) - Former Senator Rick Santorum won the January 3 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses by a razor-thin m...
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney acknowledged Tuesday that his income tax rate is "probab...
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls attacked Mitt Romney's record in business and gover...
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Jon Huntsman suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday,...
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman will drop out of the White House race o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Caro...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass (Reuters) - Wind, rain and snow blanketed much of the Midwest and Northeast on Thursday, ushering in a more t...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential contenders brought buckets of cash and sharp rhetoric to South C...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney offered the starkest choice yet between himself and President Ba...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - One day after a solid victory in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Mitt ...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Mitt Romney is poised to take a big step toward the Republican U.S. presidential nomina...
CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates stepped up their attacks on rival Mitt Romney in a tele...
DES MOINES, Iowa/MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Michele Bachmann was out, Rick Perry was back and Rick Santorum was up...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Representative Michele Bachmann ended her campaign to become the 2012 Republican presidential no...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - After a dramatic, confusing night of suspense in the Republican Party's Iowa caucuses, the big w...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney squeaked out a victory in Iowa's first-in-the-nati...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Iowa Republicans cast the first votes of the 2012 White House campaign on Tuesday, with Mitt Rom...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's crowds are larger now.And with the Iowa caucuses looming on Tuesday, it seems inev...
AMES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign has a hint of a swagger about it as a good sh...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Iowa's moderate Republicans are a small and dispirited bunch, but they could provide a vital boo...
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress approved a two-month payroll tax cut extension on Frida...
By Mark Hosenball and Samuel P. JacobsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A direct-mail solicitation for Ron Paul's political and investme...
By Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush backs Mitt Romney for president, the Housto...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates pounced on front-runner Newt Gingrich on Thursday to try to b...
DES MOINES (Reuters) - Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich, buffeted by attacks, gets his chance to fight back on Thursday ...
DES MOINES (Reuters) - Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich, buffeted by attacks, gets his chance to fight back on Thursday ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich holds a 10-point lead in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, but he wo...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Surging frontrunner Newt Gingrich fought off heavy attacks in a presidential debate in Iowa on S...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Is it time for Mitt Romney to come up with a new plan?For months, the initial frontrunner in the race ...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, battling allegations of infidelity, said o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Herman Cain told aides on Tuesday he would reassess the viability of...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney opened fire on surging rival Newt Gingrich on Tuesday,...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday of having a 13-year affair wit...
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich finally reached front-runner status this week after a long climb and may now ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican presidential hopefuls meet on Tuesday for their second foreign policy debate in 10 days...
Ashton Kutcher has relaunched his Twitter account and handed over control of his profile to his management team after sparkin...
GREENVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry vowed to press on with his campaign Thurs...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Controversial ballot measures aimed at banning abortion in Mississippi and reducing public sector ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder will go before a Senate committee on Tuesday where he will likely be aske...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder will go before a Senate committee on Tuesday where he will likely be aske...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The longer the Republican presidential hopefuls battle over sexual harassment claims against Herman Ca...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman who accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment Thursday offere...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain's struggles could open the door in Iowa for rival Ri...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A crisis facing U.S. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain threatened to escalate on Tuesday e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Herman Cain denounced sexual harassment accusations from the 1990s as a "witch hunt&qu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two women employees complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Republican presidential contender He...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two women employees complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Republican presidential contender He...
(Reuters) - Like a lot of companies, Veridian Credit Union wants its employees to be healthier. In January, the Waterloo, Iow...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, who admits he is not the "slickest" debater, m...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Herman Cain tout their real-world business experience...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads his campaign rivals in the four states that kick off t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A campaign video showing Republican presidential front-runner Herman Cain's chief of staff blowing smo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Another week, another Republican presidential debate.The candidates competing for the Republican nomin...
DENISON, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, who is touting her work as a "federal tax ...
MOULTONBOROUGH, N.H (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann, beset by falling poll numbers, staff departu...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided he will not run for president in 2012, a Republican sourc...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided he will not run for president in 2012, a Republican sourc...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Chris Christie is to decide within days whether to launch a late run for president and appe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Herman Cain is on a roll, the latest hot commodity in a constantly shifting 2012 Republican presidenti...
LYNCHBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, struggling to reverse a slide in opinion po...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry ramped up his criticism of presidential rival Mitt Romney on Friday, descr...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann drew a rousing reception from Republicans at their California...
DES MOINES (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Rick Perry said Republican rival Mitt Romney would not provide a stark enough c...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said on Tuesday Washington lawmakers need the equivalent of a 1...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Michele Bachmann won a new lease on life for her fizzling presidential campaign by aggressively target...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry came under heavy fire on Social Security, jobs and his Texas record in a hea...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Republicans not to play "political games" with his jobs pla...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was set Monday to step up his campaign to win support for a $447 billion jo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty endorsed ex-rival Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential n...
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry will be the man in the spotlight when Republican presidential c...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann's campaign manager, Ed Rollins, and his deputy are le...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, under rising pressure from rival Rick Perry, has been for...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday agreed to unveil new jobs proposals in an address to Congress on S...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday agreed to unveil new jobs proposals in an address to Congress on S...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann insisted on Monday she was joking when she said a hurricane...
NAPA, California (Reuters) - With the Republican campaign for the White House taking shape, hundreds of Tea Party activists k...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry on Thursday described Washington as "a seedy place&q...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's strategy for dealing with rival contender Rick Pe...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett will boost President Barack Obama's re-election bi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rick Perry has taken a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential nomination ra...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Tuesday shot down speculation that she is close to deciding whet...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful Rick Perry has at least some supporters in the Democratic stronghold of Ch...
ATKINSON, Ill (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's three-day bus tour along the back roads of the Midwest was billed as a cha...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Prices for farmland in the heart of the U.S. grain belt were up 17 percent in the second quarter compared...
PEOSTA, Iowa (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought to turn voter anger over the economy toward Republicans in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry has only been a presidential candidate since Saturday, but the Republican ho...
DECORAH, Iowa (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will on Tuesday announce fresh steps to boost rural hiring on the second day...
WATERLOO, Iowa (Reuters) - Two of the leading Republican candidates for president avoided confrontation on Sunday as they att...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama heads out on Monday on a bus tour of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois in the U.S. M...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty became the first major casualty in the marathon presidential ca...
AMES, Iowa (Reuters) - No one will accuse Republican Tim Pawlenty of being too nice anymore.Two days before an Iowa straw pol...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Stephen Colbert is putting his political action committee cash to work with advertisements t...
MINNEAPOLIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As his campaign for U.S. president fails to take flight, some donors to Republican hopeful...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry, a staunch conservative with a Washington outsider's resume, will seek the 2012...
AMES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republicans Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty clashed repeatedly over their records during a president...
PELLA, Iowa (Reuters) - Mitt Romney, on a rare visit to Iowa on Wednesday, said Americans were "fearful, but not panicke...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rick Perry has been widely touted as a Republican presidential candidate who could appeal Tea Party vote...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rick Perry will signal plans to seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination at an event in South ...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Oppressive heat and record temperatures baked the southern Central Plains on Wednesday with the mer...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tea Party conservatives scored their biggest political triumph with a debt-ceiling deal that cuts fede...
