Iowa and Illinois federal lawmakers from both sides of the aisle expressed willingness to extend an olive branch and "rise above the partisan …
Biden’s inauguration looming, Iowa Republicans address Trump’s election claims, U.S. Capitol attacks
DES MOINES — Republican President Donald Trump’s term in office officially ends Wednesday, exactly two weeks after he sparked a siege on the U…
DES MOINES — Cindy Axne, the lone Democrat in Iowa’s Congressional delegation, cast the lone vote from the state in favor of impeaching Republ…
Iowa's Senate and Congressional delegation were sheltering in place Wednesday afternoon as the U.S. Capitol went on lock down after Trump sup…
A slate of GOP lawmakers who downplayed different concerns about the coronavirus pandemic or ignored public health advice are now facing a wave of backlash for being among the first to receive a vaccine.
Iowa's Republican U.S. senators and newly elected members of the state's congressional delegation sent a letter Tuesday urging U.S. House lead…
Monday morning in a ceremony attended by his wife, Kathy, daughters, Jenni, Molly, Annie and Mackenzie, sons-in-laws and 13 grandchildren, Waterloo native Dan Gable received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Two turkeys from a Walcott farm's "presidential flock" made their national debut Monday in Washington, D.C., at the ritzy Willard InterContine…
At the same time they were voting to re-elect President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and expand the state’s GOP legislative majority,…
DES MOINES — Republican Joni Ernst, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in Iowa, on Tuesday became the first woman re-elected to that f…
“I said enough is enough and I got into this fight to put Iowa first, put hardworking families first and they’re not going to have to worry about who I represent.”
That makes it the most expensive campaign in Iowa history, and the second-most expensive U.S. Senate race ever.
Iowa U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst told a crowd of about 40 cheering people inside Dahl Old Car Home Davenport on Saturday that she has "a target on my back."
DES MOINES — Mike Pence and Joni Ernst stood on stage together and waved to the adoring crowd, two elected officials who find their respective…
The candidates in Iowa’s crucial and competitive U.S. Senate race were on the move Tuesday as they kicked off the final-week sprint to the Nov…
DES MOINES — Six years ago in Iowa, Joni Ernst was in a competitive, open-seat U.S. Senate race in which she surged late to defeat her opponent.
Back from China, former longtime Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said he looks forward to semi-retirement after a contentious Nov. 3 election.
The committee is scheduled to begin confirmation hearings on President Donald Trump’s nominee, federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett, on Oct. 12.
Greenfield's campaign defended the commercial
Terry Branstad, former longtime Iowa governor and departing U.S. ambassador to China, will headline this year's Scott County Republican Party …
JOHNSTON — The intensity regularly matched the stakes during the first debate for Iowa’s competitive U.S. Senate race.
President Donald Trump and the GOP Senate majority are “not plowing new ground” in moving forward to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by th…
DES MOINES — Perhaps Iowa is clinging to its politically purple status after all.
A core message of U.S. Senate Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield has been that Republican incumbent Sen. Joni Ernst can’t be trusted.