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After a long year of campaigning, Republican and Democratic presidential candidates face voters for the first time, battling in Iowa Monday for a boost toward the White House — or in many cases, simply a reason to stay in the race.
The first votes in the 2016 presidential election will be cast Monday night in Iowa and candidates are making their final push for support.
In Iowa Sunday night, it's the final frenzy of presidential candidates criss-crossing the state to seal the deal. They're begging backers to caucus on Monday night.
After a weekend of above average temperatures and slushy sidewalks, a storm threatens to dump up to 10 inches of snow Tuesday on southern Minnesota and perhaps enough for residents in the Twin Cities to get out the shovels.
For Donald Trump, Iowa is more than just a race for delegates. It's a test of whether the celebrity businessman and political newcomer will be able to transform his record crowds into caucus-goers willing to brave the cold on Monday night to cast their votes.
Seeking victory in Iowa, Hillary Clinton has begun channeling the economic indignation of her rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose unapologetically liberal campaign has tightened the race ahead of Monday's caucuses and given him a lead in the New Hampshire contest that follows.
Democrat Bernie Sanders says he's ready to stun the political world if his supporters turn out for Monday's presidential caucuses in Iowa. Donald Trump says he doesn't have to capture the first contest on the 2016 election calendar, but gives himself a good chance and sees a solid path ahead to the Republican nomination.
Bernie Sanders says he's ready to turn the political world upside down in Iowa.
The 9th-through-12th graders will be observing and volunteering at the caucuses. They'll knock on doors in Des Moines neighborhoods, work at campaign headquarters and get a chance to interact with the candidates.
After a warm weekend in which highs on Saturday might climb near 40, a significant snowstorm may be in store for early next week.
On Monday, voters in Iowa will gather in libraries, schools and churches to start the process of choosing the next president. The following week, the people of New Hampshire will cast their votes for the party nominees at the polls. So why do Iowa and New Hampshire vote first? Good Question.
The Iowa caucus is one week from Monday, along with the official kick-off to actual voting in the 2016 presidential election.
Iowa egg farms are bouncing back from last year's bird flu outbreak but rebuilding flocks with millions of new egg layers is taking time as the industry predicted.
Only a week remains before the Iowa caucuses, the first contest in a tumultuous presidential campaign that has challenged long-held political assumptions.
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Recall this 2008 storyline: Hillary Clinton enters the presidential campaign as the Democratic front-runner, runs into an inspirational candidate who generates big crowds and enthusiasm. And she winds up in a dogfight in Iowa.
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders will be taking his campaign to Minnesota. Sanders is set to hold rallies in Duluth and St. Paul next week, and will be talking about many of the issues that have formed the core of his campaign.
Authorities say three people in a car were killed when it collided with a semitrailer in northeast Iowa's Chickasaw County. The accident was reported about 6:20 p.m. Tuesday, about two miles south of New Hampton on U.S. Highway 63.
Bernie Sanders was halfway through his opening statement — a stern, 45-minute lecture on domestic policy leavened with a dash of political pep talk — when he realized the crowd had missed one of his rare attempts at humor.
It's the No. 1 question headed into the primary season: Does Donald Trump merely have fans, or does the national front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination have voters who will mobilize come caucus day?
After months of predicting a comeback for their preferred candidates, Republican establishment leaders now concede the first two contests of the presidential race, in Iowa and New Hampshire early next month, are Donald Trump's and Ted Cruz's to lose.
The Republicans running for president have filled their debates with plenty of drama and biting one-liners. It could be time for Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to do the same.
Challenged anew by Bernie Sanders, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is reverting to some of the same themes — even strikingly similar attack lines — from her 2008 primary loss to Barack Obama.
Bernie Sanders has been putting up major advertising cash to seize momentum heading into the Democratic presidential primaries — outspending his rival Hillary Clinton just as voters are beginning to pay attention to the race.
Three weeks before Iowa kicks off the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are generating overwhelming enthusiasm among Republican voters in the state, along with concern, though not panic, among the party professionals who believe both are unelectable in November against the Democratic nominee.
