Former Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum has cancelled two scheduled stops in Des Moines today. The former Pennsylvania senator was hospitalized this weekend for a gastrointestinal illness and dehydration. Santorum won the Iowa Caucus in 2012, and has hinted at running as a candidate in the 2016 presidential election. Santorum was scheduled to attend a [...]

The Iowa Senate Ethics Committee voted not to reprimand a state senator accused of skirting Senate ethics rules while he worked for Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign, or even to appoint an investigator to look into the allegations. The committee voted to dismiss one allegation against Sen. Kent Sorenson, R-Milo, and hold off on two others [...]

A former aide to Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has filed an ethics complaint with the Iowa Senate, alleging that during her presidential campaign, Bachmann made improper payments to a state senator. Peter Waldron says in the written complaint filed Jan. 28 that Bachmann for President tried to conceal paying Republican state Sen. Kent Sorenson [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring “our journey is not complete,” President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term before a crowd of hundreds of thousands Monday, urging the nation to set an unwavering course toward prosperity and freedom for all its citizens and protect the social safety net that has sheltered [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stepping into his second term, President Barack Obama took the oath of office Sunday in an intimate swearing-in ceremony at the White House, the leader of a nation no longer in the throes of the recession he inherited four years ago, but still deeply divided. The president, surrounded by family in the [...]

ALTOONA — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., offered soothing words last night to Iowa Republicans still smarting from a tough election outcome, assuring them that limited government conservatism is still the best hope for the nation’s economic and social future. “We are ready to move on and move forward,” Rubio told about 700 people who turned [...]

After more than a century of being reliably Republican red, Iowa is emerging as a true blue Democratic state in presidential elections. Between the Civil War and the late 1980s, Iowans supported Republican presidential candidate in all but five elections. However, in six of the last seven races, Iowans voted for the Democratic presidential nominee. [...]

Republicans will need to examine their strategy moving forward, political analysts said, as Iowa concurred with the rest of the nation in voting for a second term for President Obama. Iowa State University political science professor Steffen Schmidt pointed to the gridlock in Congress as an example of a game plan that didn’t work and [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Joni Scotter and Glen Salisbury know who they want to be the next president and they hope to get the opportunity to cast their vote – in 41 days. Scotter and Salisbury are the Republican and Democratic presidential electors, respectively, for Iowa’s 1st District. Iowa’s six electors will meet in Des Moines [...]

DES MOINES — President Barack Obama and GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan punctuated their 2012 campaigns with high-energy rallies Monday they each hope will deliver the final push that will propel them across the finish line in Iowa today. Thousands of Obama supporters filled the downtown streets last night around an East Village building [...]